Community and events fundraiser

Location: Home based – Scotland (ideally based around Glasgow or Edinburgh)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Flexible, Full Time: (37.5 hours per week), Part Time (30 hours) considered
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 FTE depending on experience
Benefits: We want all our employees to feel valued and engaged and are committed to offering a positive working culture along with a good work-life balance. As well as ensuring they pay their employees fairly, they offer the following benefits: Flexible working, Generous annual leave, Pension Scheme, Sick Pay, Death in Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Bike Loan Scheme, Cycle2Work Scheme, Eyecare, Discount Portal, Social Activities.

Closing date: 4 February 2024. We may extend the closing date by up to a week, but please apply as soon as possible.

Telephone interview will be held w/c 5 February 2024

Formal interviews to be held w/c 12 February 2024

No agencies please

Be a part of an energetic and vibrant team who are driven by the desire to improve the lives of people living with kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease.

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? We’re looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and entrepreneurial individual to help develop and grow our networks of supporters in Scotland. Ideally, you will have experience of working in a relationship fundraising role, with experience of recruiting and engaging new supporters and cultivating existing relationships through events and community outreach activity. You will have genuine drive and innovative approach to fundraising engagement to deliver results and your exceptional communication skills will enable you to thrive in a busy, fast paced environment, whilst also being able to work autonomously to go that extra mile to make the difference.

Reporting into the community, events, and retail fundraising manager, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining valuable lifetime relationships with individuals and organisations, developing new opportunities and maximising engagement in existing products.

This is a great opportunity to play a key part in developing and delivering fundraising growth for an underrepresented charity with a compelling cause and strong ambitions to deliver more for kidney patients sooner.

In this role, you will utilise new and emerging technologies to communicate with both supporters and colleagues through various channels. The role will involve travel when necessary to events and to support individual fundraising activity, or to explore new opportunities and meet with your wider team. You must have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

If you are interested in the position, please complete the online application form and submit your CV, together with a supporting statement, outlining why you are interested and how you feel you meet the requirements.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and encourage applications from all sections of the community.

About Kidney Research UK:

Kidney Research UK are the largest charity dedicated to kidney research in the UK. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease.

We fund research into all aspects of kidney disease - from understanding the condition, to how we can prevent and treat it. We want to discover better, kinder treatments.

Research has given us life-saving kidney transplants, dialysis machines that filter the blood when the kidneys fail, and drugs to keep us going. But these treatments come at a cost. They can be gruelling, confining, relentless. A transplant is not a cure, they rarely last a lifetime.

Kidney disease still affects 3.5 million people in the UK. And 1 million of those don’t know they are at risk. That’s 3.5 million people who are someone’s parents, grandparents, children, friends.

And kidney failure is rising, as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes and obesity.

That’s why our work is more essential than ever.

Research is what we do. It is the only way to discover future preventions, treatments and cures. It is vital to keep our loved ones safe. Your support is crucial to make this happen.

We’re here to be heard, to make a difference, to change the future. Kidney disease ends here.

You may also have experience in the following: Community and Events Relationship Fundraising Manager, Donor Engagement Manager, Community Fundraising and Events Manager, Philanthropic Partnerships Manager, Fundraising and Outreach Coordinator, Special Events Coordinator, Partnership and Engagement Manager, Engagement and Giving Manager, Marketing, Events Management, Community Fundraiser, Events Fundraiser, Fundraising Manager, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, Charity, Charities, etc.

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