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SalaryPartnerships Fundraiser
Salary: £28,000-£34,500 FTE (depending on experience)
Hours: 30 hours per week with flexibility
Location: Wakefield Hospice, with the opportunity for some home working
Excellent Benefits including 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Wakefield Hospice provides high quality care and support to people with life-limiting conditions, and their families, championing quality care across the Wakefield district, and has been doing so for over 30 years. If you are looking for a rewarding, impactful fundraising role working as part of a collaborative team, this could be for you.
About the Role
As Partnerships Fundraiser you'll have a varied and busy role where you'll be working across corporate, events and community fundraising. You'll identify and develop a pipeline of new and existing supporters, increasing the number of organisations raising money by increasing awareness within the community. This will include businesses, schools, community groups and community event organisers. Wakefield Hospice has a volunteer led approach to fundraising and as part of this role you'll be providing the tools, expert advice and inspiration to promote the hospice and generate income through supporters' own networks. This will be for both sponsored externally organised events, as well as hosting their own social events (supporting and working with the Events Fundraiser). This will be anything from runs and walks to skydives! This is a lovely creative role where you'll develop specific proposals for fundraising initiatives with local community organisations e.g. charity of the year, and for local events alongside the Head of Fundraising and wider team.
About You
As Partnerships Fundraiser, you will be a brilliant relationship developer and networker. With a track record in community, corporate or events fundraising, you'll be an excellent communicator with a collaborative approach.
Wakefield Hospice has a fantastic culture and really looks after it's people. The fundraising team is well established with excellent, strong leadership. This really is an amazing opportunity to develop your fundraising career.
To find out more please get in touch with your CV to Ellen Drummond at Charity People in the first instance.
Deadline: 9am 27th March
Interviews: 8th & 9th April
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
