Job summary
- Main area
- Coroporate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 435-C046-25
- Employer
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Blackburn Hospital
- Town
- Blackburn
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/06/2025
Employer heading
Fundraising Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
This is a key post in helping to ensure that we meet ambitious fundraising targets for our hospital Trust, developing our existing fundraising activity and creating new opportunities to raise income to enhance patient and staff experience.
The post holder must have experience in a fundraising role, including planning and delivering fundraisers to achieve targets and the motivation to research/implement new and existing activity that encourage donors to support ELHT&Me.
The post holder will work closely with teams across the charity and our Trust to ensure that our activities encourage and attract growing support.
The ideal candidate will bring not only the gravitas and innovation to deliver exceptional results but also the creativity and ambition to see the charity's support increase across East Lancashire.
Main duties of the job
In collaboration with the Fundraising Team, develop and deliver the Fundraising Strategy to raise awareness, engage support, drive fundraising and increase charitable income.
Be responsible for increasing our key stakeholders, as well as expanding our charitable engagement activities in the areas of events and fundraising. Build and deliver branded campaigns mixing traditional and online, ensuring key messages are consistently delivered.
Responsible for growing relationships with organisations, identifying and exploiting positive opportunities to ensure ELHT&Me is selected as their chosen charity.
Act as the Charity’s representative with donors and supporters, delivering talks and information to engage, inform and develop support.
Responsible for capturing relevant content at events and fundraising activities for the charity’s social media activity. This may also include live reporting at events.
Deliver profit and loss planning documents for fundraising activities to ensure planned and managed working. This includes volunteer planning and maximising opportunities with sourcing any required tombola, raffle and fundraising items.
Ensure online and offline fundraising campaigns are integrated and digital channels are used effectively for retention and development of supporters.
Working for our organisation
The approximately 10,000 members of staff that makeup ELHT are at the heart of our trust, and look after us throughout all of our lives. ELHT&Me supports the patient journey in many different ways and being part of that small team is hugely rewarding.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Nurture relationships with hospital staff to encourage creation of and participation in fundraising activities and events and lifting the profile of the charity internally
To build relationships internally, especially with senior clinicians and with external prospects for cultivation that will also strengthen the wider (charity) community
To build relationships with nursing staff and management, to encourage a clear and sensitive understanding of the importance of In Memory, tribute funds and legacies
Support fundraising volunteers, ensuring that their activities comply with best fundraising practice and legal frameworks, whilst building a micro-volunteering bank to support fundraising activities.
Develop and train key volunteers capable of taking a more active role in assisting in event management or other fundraising or administrative activities
Support team to recruit fundraising Ambassadors within our Care Organisations and across the communities of East Lancashire.
Administrative Duties
Effectively deal with internal and external enquiries, either in person, on the telephone or via email using initiative to redirect queries as appropriate.
Be responsible for the development and maintenance of a Charity events calendar.
Be aware and ensure compliance of relevant charity legislation, policies and procedures, Fundraising Regulator’s Codes of Practice and the latest GDPR regulations.
Miscellaneous
To ensure that a positive image of the hospital and the Charity is projected at all times
To hold a flexible approach to working hours (the role will require the post holder to work evenings and weekends as necessary).
To hold a flexible approach to work when asked to take on other fundraising or admin duties when the team needs to cover holidays, or at times of workload pressure.
To adopt a supportive and collegiate approach when working with the fundraising team and other colleagues within the hospital
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or significant equivalent experience within a professional fundraising role.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of effective fundraising including pro-active events and campaigns and reactive reputation management
- Experience of planning and executing targeted fundraising
- Experience in developing online fundraising activities that both promote the charity and generate the income needed to meet the charity’s annual income target
- Experience in creating new fundraising events
- Ability to deliver clear and promotive verbal communication
- Experience of managing online campaigns
- Experience of working with clubs and groups to deliver fundraising or awareness activity
- Strong understanding of database systems
- Experience of working in the professional charity sector in the fundraising environment
- Experience of working with donors and fundraisers to generate income
- Dealing with challenging situations where tact and sensitivity is required
Desirable criteria
- Worked within a professional charity/fundraising environment
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Experience in project documentation
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to remain efficient under pressure.
- Skills in developing and executing an events calendar
- Knowledge of fundraising/charity legislation and GDPR regulations
- Demonstrative skills in online platforms JustGiving / Eventbrite and In Memory Giving
- Advanced keyboard skills for the creation of platform appeals and fundraisers
- Ability to travel throughout the East Lancashire area to meet the needs of the post.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of healthcare sector
- Creative skills for designing publications and presentations and working knowledge of design packages
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Team player able to engage with others in own team and colleagues in the organisation
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Creative thinking and positive attitude
- Strong interpersonal stills and relationship building
Other
Essential criteria
- A team player with a flexible approach. Available to work out of hours if required
- Access to a vehicle/transport for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denise Barrett-Wilson
- Job title
- Head of Charity
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01254 732140
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