Fundraising Officer

Through this new role, you will proactively create and grow fundraising opportunities with individuals, businesses, grant giving trusts and foundations. You will be at the heart of our local community, bringing our cause to life and building lasting donor relationships.

Through your experience, you will have a proven track record of building relationships to achieve and exceed annual income targets and key performance indicators. You will have the capacity to create and craft proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters. You will be supported by fundraising team at Trussell.

Key Responsibilities:

Research, identify and prioritise a pipeline of potential Trusts and Foundations funders for Foyle Network Foundation and, work with 

• colleagues to develop authentic, compelling, creative and winning funding bids that can successfully engage new and existing Trusts and Foundations funders.  Support available from Trussell fundraising team to identify likely funders.
• Establish a fundraising pipeline that can be tracked and that will enable informed projections regarding future income.
• Through the design and delivery of excellent, engaging and regular stewardship communications and fundraising appeals, grow our income and pool of individual supporters making one off or monthly donations. Explore and implement ways of promoting Foyle Network Foundation across the community to successfully attract an ever-greater number of individual donors.
• Engage with local community groups, associations, events, schools and businesses to grow Foyle Network Foundation community fundraising reach and income. Increase cash and gift-in-kind income.
• Conduct effective annual planning and budgeting in close collaboration with colleagues.
• Forge strong relationships with colleagues across the Trussell network, sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network. You will proactively take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development opportunities and engage with any joint fundraising opportunities.

Skills

• Experience of fundraising and a proven track record of securing funding from businesses, trusts, donors and others.
• Experience of individual giving and community fundraising  
• Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills, you will inspire and motivate existing and prospective supporters, providing excellent stewardship and crafting compelling and winning funding proposals and appeals.

• Other

• To strictly observe the policy and principle of confidentiality.
• To create and maintain good working relations with staff, volunteers, board of trustees, Trussell and stakeholders.
• To take part and access relevant ongoing training.
• To carry out any other reasonable duties required by the Director.