Fundraising Officer

To apply for this role please review the application instructions in the recruitment pack attached at the bottom of this listing. Incorrect applications will not be processed.

Why Get Further?

• 36 days of holidays per year (including bank holidays)
• ongoing learning and development opportunities
• flexible, hybrid and remote working
• quarterly ‘in-person’ team development days at our offices in London
• the joy of working in a progressive and socially conscious, growing organisation where we can have an outsized impact on its success and development.

At Get Further we aim to open doors to opportunity for work and education for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. The 50% of disadvantaged students who leave school each year without a grade 4 in English and maths are significantly more likely to be locked out of key opportunities in the world of work, apprenticeships and higher education. We support students to achieve these gateway qualifications second (third, or fourth) time around by matching them with highly qualified specialist English and maths tutors, who deliver our award winning, bespoke resit curriculum. Our programmes support students to achieve their qualifications, but also equip students with the knowledge, skills and confidence for learning beyond GCSEs. 

Over the last three years, Get Further has experienced a period of rapid growth, increasing the number of students and colleges we work with, and expanding our central team. We are seeking to recruit a Fundraising Officer to work closely with our CEO, Sarah to support the long term sustainability of the charity by identifying and building relationships with potential funders, and submitting funding bids to secure a significant proportion of our income to help more students get further.  

The Fundraising Officer will also collaborate with other members of the team to develop a supporter database, produce compelling and tailored funding applications, and contribute to performance analysis and report for our Board of Trustees.

For a full role description, please see the recruitment pack attached below.

Essential Criteria:

• Commitment to Get Further’s mission and values, including passionate about tackling educational inequality
• Motivated to achieve targets, to ensure the charity can reach more young people
• Exemplary communication skills, including creating written proposals and reports, networking, and a talent for expressing complex ideas in simple and effective language
• Ability to tailor communications effectively to varied audiences
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to assess, prioritise and manage a varied and demanding workload
• Desire to learn, develop and advance personal career prospects
• Good numeracy skills to underpin producing budgets for applications
• IT skills – experience of MS Office, particularly Word and Excel
• Excellent spoken communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate Get Further’s mission and work in conversation with potential funders