Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser (Acquisition)

We are looking for an exceptional and experienced individual to join our Fundraising team as the Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser. Supported by the Development Manager (Individual Giving) and Individual Giving Fundraiser, the Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser will be directly responsible for the delivery of Individual Giving activity through engagement of existing donors and recruitment of new supporters to the RNRMC. This includes appeals, regular giving, lottery, raffles, legacy marketing, and in-memory fundraising. You will deliver supporter acquisition activity as well as retention, reactivation, upgrade, and cross-sell. 

A key part of your role will be to apply your excellent project management and scheduling skills to work in collaboration with suppliers and key stakeholders to deliver activity on time, within budget and meet targets. 

Your role will involve helping to create fundraising propositions and developing/introducing fundraising products whilst also contributing to creating integrated marketing plans and then delivering these to a variety of different audiences by various on/offline methods. 

At all times you will create positive working relationships, provide excellent supporter care and stewardship. You will contribute to the gathering of supporter insight to improve our fundraising offerings as well as supporting development of IG fundraising strategy, budgets, and activity plans year to year. 

About the RNRMC 

RNRMC is the Navy’s principal charity which exists to support every sailor, marine and their families, for life. We do this by offering grants to and working with, other organisations to deliver programmes that meet the needs of our beneficiaries. We work hard, engaging with supporters to help raise awareness and funds to deliver the outcomes required for today and tomorrow.  

Experience and Background 

You will be an experienced fundraiser with at least 2 years’ experience of meeting and/or exceeding fundraising targets in a similar Individual Giving Fundraising role with demonstrable competence in delivering Individual Giving activity end-to-end across a variety of different online & offline direct marketing disciplines. You will possess excellent project management skills and have a history of delivering projects on time and within budget. You will work with a high level of attention to detail, be a real team player, proactive and be able to communicate in a clear and friendly way. 

You will also be adept in writing briefs (creative, data etc.) and copy/scripts, and reviewing, and feeding back on artwork/creative. You will also write and present results of fundraising activity and make recommendations to improve results in the future as well as suggesting future tests. You will be experienced in using CRM such as Raisers Edge for fundraising purposes and will write data briefs to ensure data selections will provide the best ROI. 

Please see the job description for full details on the duties and responsibilities. 

Hours of Work 

Hours of work are 35 hours per week, 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday. 

We have a friendly, supportive, and inclusive environment with a hybrid working approach of 60% in office and 40% home-working. 

Salary  

The full time equivalent annual salary range for the post is between £34,000 to £36,000 per annum.  

Benefits 

30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays 

Free on-site parking  

Cycle to Work Scheme  

Free Access to HMS Excellent Fitness Centre  

Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential support 24 hours a day 

Life Assurance (after one year’s qualifying service)  

Private Healthcare Scheme (after one year’s qualifying period)  

A generous non-contributory Pension Scheme (7% contribution after 3 months qualifying period)  

Enhanced Maternity Leave Package (after 2 year’s qualifying period)