Community Fundraising Lead

November 2024

Are you an active and dynamic fundraiser who would like to make a difference to the community where they live? Do you have excellent interpersonal skills? Are you detail orientated and highly organised with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively?

Hours: Part-time - 22.5 per week -   Flexible about pattern of work days. Some early morning / evening /weekend work will be required

Salary: Pro Rata £17,210.70 for 22.5 hours (FT equivalent £28,684.50)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid - some hours at one of West Sussex Mind’s offices in Littlehampton, Worthing and / or Southwick combined with some hours remote, online from home

West Sussex Mind Values:

Excellence, Equitable, Open, Together, Curious, Unstoppable

Winner of National Mind Anti -Stigma Award 2021

Overview:

The main purpose of this role is to develop and deliver our approach to maintain and grow community fundraising income, to support our mission promoting good mental health through the provision of high quality services and through campaigning to improve services, raise awareness and understanding in West Sussex. You will join us at an exciting time, as we launch our new five-year strategy, and this role is pivotal in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions in the years ahead.

The role is to lead the community fundraising activities for West Sussex Mind including our annual events Mental Elf and Wear it Blue. To also utilise your own new and original ideas to expand our events and fundraising.

As part of the fundraising team you will support our corporate fundraising

You could be an experienced charity community fundraiser looking for a change in role or an individual with strong transferable skills looking to build your experience in this area.

You will need to have excellent skills at working with a wide range of people and organisations and be creative and proactive around creating and taking community fundraising opportunities. Experience of working with and recruiting volunteers would be very helpful.

As we are a small organisation with a small fundraising and communications team, you will also need to be happy and able to both initiate and lead projects but also be involved in supporting day-to-day community fundraising work and activities.

For further information please see the below job description.

How to apply:

Please find below an application form, guidance notes and job description.

If you would like to have an informal discussion prior to applying, please contact Sue Smith on sue.smith@westsussexmind.org to arrange this.

These roles are being advertised as a rolling recruitment and therefore, we encourage applicants to apply early to avoid disappointment. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications.

Interview Dates: Successful applicants will be contacted by phone or email to arrange a suitable date and time

Please email completed applications to: recruitment@westsussexmind.org

Please note we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must therefore be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

This post is subject to a Basic DBS check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications and encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

No agencies or CVs.

West Sussex Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Here is a link to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement - West Sussex Mind | Equality, diversity and inclusion statement


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