This role is predominantly home-based, with regular travel required within the Central Region at Guide Dogs. It will cover Warwickshire and may extend to support the surrounding and remote counties, as well as the option to work from your nearest Guide Dogs office. Travel will be ad hoc and dependant on business needs week by week. The role operates Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm, with some flexibility required to work outside of these core hours when necessary.
Come and join us as a collaborative and resourceful Community Fundraising Manager and be part of something life‑changing, helping people with sight loss live the life they choose. The Community Fundraising Manager ensures effective delivery of the Community Fundraising strategy to grow and diversify Community Fundraising income and engagement within their designated region. The role is responsible for increasing the supporter and volunteer base using a diverse range of fundraising products and activities.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop a sustainable volunteer management structure, supporting the management of fundraisers and fundraising activities across the region.
- Recruit, support and encourage a network of local speakers to promote our life changing work, our fundraising campaigns and to help motivate, inspire and thank our supporters.
- Play a key part and lead by example in developing and supporting the deployment of fundraising initiatives.
- Business Development.
About you:
You’ll bring a confident and collaborative approach to managing relationships with volunteers and peers, enjoying the opportunity to lead and support a diverse network of volunteers and develop successful fundraising groups. You’ll be an excellent communicator, with the ability to inspire and engage a wide range of supporters, volunteers, service users and community members to raise funds and awareness. You’ll also demonstrate strong, person‑centred relationship management skills, motivating and empowering volunteer fundraisers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.
- 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
- The option to buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cash-back scheme
- Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.