Senior Fundraising Officer (Retention)

About the role

We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect. We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Permanent – Full Time – 35 Hours

We have big goals over the next few years.

We’re going to be fighting for mental health in a way we never have before.

Together we’ll be working to make sure everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets the support and respect they deserve.

Will you join us?

The Individual Giving & Legacies team are looking a Senior Fundraising Officer to join our Retention Team. As a Senior Fundraising Officer, you will deliver retention campaigns to diversify our channel mix, engage with our warm audiences and identify opportunities to grow our active donor base.

You will play a pivotal role in the Individual Giving & Legacies Fundraising team reaching and exceeding their target of circa £8.5 million NET income by 2025.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• be a strong communicator who is able to convey your campaign objectives, targets and vision to team members and stakeholders

• be a confident campaign manager, who can oversee and coordinate tasks as well as motivate and encourage colleagues and direct reports by creating a defined roadmap to success

• possess strong organisational skills and have the ability to prioritise tasks and document ways of working for easy access and future reference

• be comfortable in creating project timelines and holding others to account in meeting deadlines

• be open to innovating, adopting a test and learn approach to launch and improve the performance of assigned activity.

Interviews to be held in the new year (2022)

This position will initially, in line with current and potentially future guidance, be based from home. Post lockdown this role will retain some flexibility but post holders will be expected to be in the office a minimum of two days thereafter (or more, depending on the arrangements of your team)

Equality & Diversity

We value the power of diversity. We embrace the different perspectives that each of us bring. We are creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is appreciated for being authentic and bringing their whole selves to work regardless of race, gender, age, religion, identity and experience.

We are committed to becoming truly anti-racist in everything we do and ensuring that all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all.

Our strategy has becoming an anti-racist organisation right at the centre of our work. For more information please visit click on the button below.

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More details and how to apply

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If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, please contact our HR team [email protected] who will be happy to support you.

Job Description

A little more about Mind

Our goals:

• Supporting people likely to develop mental health problems, to stay well
• Empowering people who experience a mental health problem to make informed choices about how they live and recover
• Ensuring people get the right services and support at the right time to help their recovery and enable them to live with their mental health problem
• Opening the doors to people with experience of mental health problems participating fully in society
• Gaining equality of treatment for people who experience both mental health and other forms of discrimination

Our values underpin everything we do. They are:

• Open: We reach out to anyone who needs us.
• Together: We're stronger in partnership.
• Responsive: We listen, we act.
• Independent: We speak out fearlessly.
• Unstoppable: We never give up.

To get to know us a little better and more information on working at Mind, including our benefits,  please click the button below

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