Community Fundraiser
Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you bring energy, positivity and a can-do attitude to everything you do? Prospect Hospice is looking for a Community Fundraiser to join our friendly and supportive team. This is your chance to use your empathy, enthusiasm and ability to inspire others to help local families facing life-limiting illness, making a genuine difference every single day.
As a Community Fundraiser, you ll represent a charity that takes a person-centred approach to care, ensuring every interaction reflects our commitment to the people we support. By building strong relationships with community groups, businesses, and supporters, you ll help secure vital funds that enable us to deliver compassionate, specialist care.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (part time hours would be considered).
The Role:
As a Community Fundraiser, you will:
* Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong connections with individuals, supporter and community groups, in-aid of fundraisers, clubs and associations, volunteers, and local businesses, attending events and inspiring supporters to achieve their fundraising goals.
* Fundraising Coordination: Plan, manage, and promote a calendar of community activities, collaborating with the team to meet targets and ensure effective stewardship of supporters.
* Manage and deliver key challenge events: (London Landmarks, Swindon Half, Cycle Challenge, Bath Half and others), overseeing budgets, suppliers and marketing to ensure value for money and meet net income targets.
* Lead the annual Christmas Tree Collection: securing sponsorship, coordinating volunteers and logistics, managing the budget, and achieving the event s income goals.
* Representation and Advocacy: Act as a passionate ambassador for Prospect Hospice, representing the charity at events, cheque presentations, and meetings while championing its mission.
* Compliance and Promotion: Work with the communications team to promote events, ensuring all activities adhere to fundraising regulations, health and safety standards, and safeguarding policies.
* Flexible and Impact-Driven: Balance a flexible work schedule, including occasional evenings and weekends, to drive impactful fundraising efforts and exceed targets, supporting care for patients and families.
About you:
* Experience building relationships with diverse groups and individuals.
* Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied workload.
* Excellent communication and public speaking skills.
* A proactive and innovative approach to fundraising and supporter engagement.
* Flexibility, as some evening and weekend work will be required to attend events and meetings.
* Full UK driving licence and the access to a vehicle.
We offer a great range of benefits, including:
* 27 days holiday FTE plus bank holidays (rising with length of service).
* Generous contributory pension scheme and life assurance.
* Discounts with local retailers, gyms and service providers including Blue Light Discount Card.
* Supportive induction, training and development.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Free parking on-site.
Enter the exciting world of professional fundraising with ample opportunities for growth and development. If you are passionate about making a difference and have the skills and experience to inspire community support, we would love to hear from you.
Equality & Diversity
Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business and the communities we serve.
We are committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are provided with equality of opportunity in employment and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we support. As part of our SAFER recruitment processes, offers of employment will be subject to thorough checks, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references, online and social media checks and verification of qualifications. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to adhere to our safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We will review applications as they come in and therefore we may close the vacancy before the closing date. Candidates are therefore advised to apply early.