Are you passionate about supporting people to be a force for good through their charitable giving? Are you a creative and caring communicator, who will put the needs of the donor at the heart of everything you do? If so, you could help your local NHS Charity achieve its ambition to deliver outstanding care throughout the full healthcare journey to more local families.

If you are a fundraiser who excels at building trusting relationships and can adapt your style to suit your audience, this could be the next step in your fundraising career. If you’re up for the challenge of building on your skills to become knowledgeable in the principles of individual giving, legacy, and in-memory fundraising, we’d love to hear from you.

In return for your expertise, you’ll become part a high performing team and benefit from a trusting and supportive working culture.

The Planned Giving Fundraising Officer will work closely alongside the Planned Giving Manager to design and deliver a strategy for this area of fundraising. With the support of the Planned Giving Manager, this role will create and implement marketing plans for a lottery product, regular giving, and plans that link in-memory gifts to legacy fundraising and stewardship. The successful candidate will support the Planned Giving Manager to design and deliver a programme of appeals and campaigns to achieve growth from all our audience segments. Using a mix of fundraising channels, you will use your warm communication skills to build and retain relationships with individuals, regular donors, legators, and in-memory donors, to ensure the long-term success of the programme.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we invest in developing this key area of fundraising for the charity. This is a new position within our recently established engagement team.

The role will benefit from the support of an experienced team but will also provide ample opportunity for creative thinking and generating new ideas. You will be excited about the opportunity that gives to apply your experience, knowledge, and transferrable skills.

Reporting into: Planned Giving Manager

Sanku is an award-winning social enterprise based in Tanzania. Our mission is to end malnutrition through our innovative technology and business model. Our technology adds precise amounts of life-saving nutrients into maize flour as it is processed. Our business model lets small millers fortify their flour at no added cost to themselves or their customers while providing us with revenue to cover our costs, and eventually, our growth. We reach millions of people across East Africa every single day and are rapidly scaling, with the ambitious goal of reaching 25 million people by 2025.

This is an exciting time for an ambitious Development Manager to join Sanku. Over the past year, we have won several awards, launched a high-profile partnership with the World Food Programme, and received a grant from MacKenzie Scott. We would like to capitalize on these recent successes to grow our existing donor base, develop new funding streams and raise $20M+ by 2025. Reporting to the Director of Development (DoD) and working closely with the Programs team in East Africa, this role will be a critical addition to our dynamic and fast-growing team and is ideally suited to professionals who want to gain development experience while playing a lead role in a cutting-edge social enterprise. Individuals who are passionate about our vision for a world without malnutrition are encouraged to apply.

Previous experience within an International Setting / Organisation preferred

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Charity Coordinator for a well-known organisation, based in the centre of Edinburgh. You will work closely with colleagues in the Sponsorship & Events Team and will be proactive in developing strong networks across the organisation. You will thrive on getting stuck in and taking the initiative and be an exceptional team player who enjoys working with a high attention to detail, as well as being an excellent communicator. You will become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with.

Responsibilities

• Managing the CRM database.
• Financial reporting of sponsorship activities, running queries and generating reports on sponsorship activity.
• Taking ownership of relationships, through provision of updates and response to enquiries in a professional manner.
• Overseeing the schedule of annual reports and coordinate timely responses to sponsor queries.
• Safeguarding the data relating to sponsors and beneficiaries in line with the organisation’s policies and proactively consider enhancements to the database to ensure that it continues to meet stakeholder needs.

Essential Experience Required

• Experience of working (either voluntary or paid) with charities in communities, arts, health, education or social issues.
• Knowledge of Fundraising.
• Experience of managing CRM databases.
• Experience of relationship management & developing relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to manipulate complex information, interpret data and present it in a clear, logical, and relevant format.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, written and communication skills, including working with a variety of audiences.
• Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise, plan and compete workloads with tight deadlines.
• Ability to work using initiative.
• Excellent IT skills e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL.