Fundraising Officer

Here at Human Appeal, we have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Officer to join our team. You will join us on a full-time basis as part of an initial 1-year fixed term contract with a view to progressing into a permanent role. In return, you will receive a competitive salary in the range of $46,750 - $55,000 and benefits.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As the Finance Officer, you identify, plan and manage a range of regional fundraising campaigns and meet annual income targets by ensuring regional fundraising activities are undertaken at agreed levels of return on investment. Also exploring new innovative fundraising opportunities, as well as more traditional events, exhibitions, conferences and dinner. All in order to build awareness of Human Appeal (HA) projects and donor relationships. Increase income generation/donations year on year, to contribute towards the fundraising (FR) strategy and growth, for HA beneficiaries.

Key duties and responsibilities (but not limited to) of the Fundraising Officer:

• Undertake regular regional fundraising activities via innovative and traditional opportunities.
• Meet annual income targets.
• Increase donor interaction and acquisition e.g. social media engagement, and online donations post events.
• Achieve donation income growth and donor growth (Year-Over-Year) with satisfactory return on investment, in line with FR strategy.

• Deliver Quality Assurance in line with Health & Safety, customer satisfaction, complaints management, and Fundraising Regulators code of conduct.
• Promote and wholly adhere to the fundraising code of conduct and best practice by understanding its ruling and conducting FR events within its parameters in order to safeguard HA, maintain high professional standards and maintaining HA public image.
• Develop, nurture and maintain relationships with current/potential donors, charity partners, organizations and businesses in the region, via networking (face to face and social media) and creating a regular presence within respected regions, in order to establish trust, help secure donations and promote awareness across a wide range of target markets.
• Establish clear lines of communications in the region by being the main point of contact between local organizations and HA. This will involve negotiating agreements, generating leads, managing events, providing assistance/HA branding materials and liaising centrally with the Head Office Fundraising Department, in order to improve interdepartmental efficiency, maximize fundraising potential, and ensure value for money.
• Manage various engaging fundraising projects/activities by arranging dinners, concerts, speaker tours and conferences to capture and maintain the public eye throughout the year and raise income with a return on investment.
• Manage and nurture a network of regional volunteers in line with the volunteer recruitment strategy by collaborating with the Volunteers Coordinator, hosting recruitment events, providing training and HA materials, and providing formal feedback to the Volunteers Coordinator. To help develop volunteer recruitment process, provide a mutually beneficial volunteers program, and support HA to gain loyal organizational manpower.
• Providing support to FR colleagues, when necessary, by attending and contributing positively to FR regional/national meetings, understanding support needs and providing this to colleagues especially during peak periods (e.g Ramadan). To help support a positive working environment, help distribute manpower and ensure smooth running of FR operations.
• Help identify, develop and manage new/innovative regional fundraising opportunities and emergency campaigns (events, exhibitions, conferences, partnerships) by adopting a responsive, opportunistic, strategic and timely approach (S.W.O.T analysis) to wider global events and local community events/trends. To ensure HA is responsive and adapting to a changing environment locally and internationally and to demonstrate breadth to our donors.
• Maintain internal procedures/administration such as donor management system, account management system, and cash counting protocols by ensuring information input securely in a timely fashion to help maintain internal control and mitigation of risk.
• Secure all income logs by ensuring they are filed correctly and that cash is bagged, sealed, tagged and banked in line with protocol to create and maintain HA funds, create an audit trail and maintain a failsafe for HA.
• Broadly assist in and contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HAs fundraising plan in the region to help create an achievable fundraising plan.
• Adhere to the charities policies and procedures, e.g. fundraising code of conduct, Health & Safety at Work, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection Act 1998, Equal Opportunities, Company Handbook, Quality Management System, Investor in People, etc. at all times in order to maintain high professional standards and maintain HAs public image.
• Demonstrate on-going professional development through reflective practice and participation in internal and external development opportunities as evidenced in a Continuing Professional Development plan, taking a proactive role in own learning and development activities (e.g. private study, e-learning) to benefit self and HA for the future.
• Manage a team within fundraising when required and develop a strong fundraising portfolio to effectively lead and support in house FR team during events.
• Contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HAs (annual) fundraising plan by overseeing budgets and expenditure, monitoring and reporting on income generation in line with projects, reporting on variance and taking responsibility for achieving and exceeding income targets. All to deliver efficiency, value and FR targets.
• Take on board other duties in line with FR strategy as per the request of the Head of FR in order to ensure HAs adaptability to change and maintain growth.

What were looking for in our Fundraising Officer:

• Minimum College or University level education
• Minimum of 2 years in similar post, proven track record of project and events management.
• Computer literate and competent with Microsoft Office, Social Media, Donor Management systems
• English essential. Knowledge of additional languages such as Arabic/Urdu/Bengali/Gujarati/Hindi/Punjabi an advantage.

Computer Skills:

• Computer literate and competent with Microsoft Office, Social Media, Donor Management systems Accounts Systems

Competencies:

• Working with People

• Delivering Results and Meeting Stakeholders Needs
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Relating and Networking
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

Languages:

• English essential, additional languages are a bonus

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success, please click "apply" to become our Senior Finance Officer- we would love to hear from you!

Disclaimer: Please be aware that due to the anticipated quantity of response, we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted to interview stage. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that unfortunately you have been unsuccessful this time.

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A Little Bit About Human Appeal…

We have a high staff satisfaction rating of 4 out of 5 on Glassdoor! Heres why:

What our CEO Says:

We are faith-based but not faith-specific. We have faith in all of humanity and believe we can achieve great things when we work together. So, come and be part of a dynamic global charity where we celebrate our differences, as well as our common humanity

Dr Mohamed Ashmawey

What our Staff Say:

At Human Appeal, each one of us has the opportunity to influence others. If you are prepared to challenge yourself there are no limits, so come and make it happen!

Simon, Systems and Reporting Manager

I have been working at Human Appeal for many years! I believe in the cause we are working for. I believe in the charity sector and I believe in the reward we get for helping our fellow human beings in desperate need

Insaf, Finance Lead

Working as a fundraiser, every day is different. It can be challenging, but when youre working tirelessly and raising funds to help those in need, its an amazing feeling

Adnan, Fundraising Coordinator

I saw an opportunity to assist in helping people across the world with the excellent work Human Appeal carries out. I enjoy working with so many talented people in a fast-moving environment

Steve, Procurement Manager

Our Greatest Achievements Include:

• Safeguarding bright futures for more than 22,000 vulnerable orphans in 9 countries. Our one-to-one sponsorship program has a built-in school attendance requirement while covering the cost of food, housing, medical care, and learning materials.
• Pioneering technologically innovative infrastructure projects in Pakistan, like designing and building a 25-km embankment on the Chenab River in Pakistan. Protecting an entire community from being washed away, the embankment has held back the floods each year, including Pakistans worst flooding in a decade during its last monsoon season.
• Quenching the thirst for the 2 million residents of the Gaza Strip by working with UNOCHA to purify Gazas water network. And now, our newest project involves building a large-scale desalination plant to provide daily access to clean water for 60,000 people across Gaza.
• Recovering lost livelihoods for vulnerable farmers in Gaza by planting 80,000 olive trees since 1991. The farming project provides each farmer with 30-40 prime olive trees so they can establish a vibrant, sustainable crop that yields not just food but income for generations.

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