Fundraising Officer

Here at **Human Appeal,** we have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Officer**to join our team.**You will join us on a full-time basis as part of an initial 1-year fixed term contract with a view to progressing into a permanent role. In return, you will receive a competitive salary in the range of $46,750 - $55,000 and benefits.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As the Finance Officer, you identify, plan and manage a range of regional fundraising campaigns and meet annual income targets by ensuring regional fundraising activities are undertaken at agreed levels of return on investment. Also exploring new innovative fundraising opportunities, as well as more traditional events, exhibitions, conferences and dinner. All in order to build awareness of Human Appeal (HA) projects and donor relationships. Increase income generation/donations year on year, to contribute towards the fundraising (FR) strategy and growth, for HA beneficiaries.

**Key duties and responsibilities (but not limited to) of the Fundraising Officer**:

- Undertake regular regional fundraising activities via innovative and traditional opportunities.
- Meet annual income targets.
- Increase donor interaction and acquisition e.g. social media engagement, and online donations post events.
- Achieve donation income growth and donor growth (Year-Over-Year) with satisfactory return on investment, in line with FR strategy.
- Deliver Quality Assurance in line with Health & Safety, customer satisfaction, complaints management, and Fundraising Regulators code of conduct.
- Promote and wholly adhere to the fundraising code of conduct and best practice by understanding its ruling and conducting FR events within its parameters in order to safeguard HA, maintain high professional standards and maintaining HA public image.
- Develop, nurture and maintain relationships with current/potential donors, charity partners, organizations and businesses in the region, via networking (face to face and social media) and creating a regular presence within respected regions, in order to establish trust, help secure donations and promote awareness across a wide range of target markets.
- Establish clear lines of communications in the region by being the main point of contact between local organizations and HA. This will involve negotiating agreements, generating leads, managing events, providing assistance/HA branding materials and liaising centrally with the Head Office Fundraising Department, in order to improve interdepartmental efficiency, maximize fundraising potential, and ensure value for money.
- Manage various engaging fundraising projects/activities by arranging dinners, concerts, speaker tours and conferences to capture and maintain the public eye throughout the year and raise income with a return on investment.
- Manage and nurture a network of regional volunteers in line with the volunteer recruitment strategy by collaborating with the Volunteers Coordinator, hosting recruitment events, providing training and HA materials, and providing formal feedback to the Volunteers Coordinator. To help develop volunteer recruitment process, provide a mutually beneficial volunteers program, and support HA to gain loyal organizational manpower.
- Providing support to FR colleagues, when necessary, by attending and contributing positively to FR regional/national meetings, understanding support needs and providing this to colleagues especially during peak periods (e.g Ramadan). To help support a positive working environment, help distribute manpower and ensure smooth running of FR operations.
- Help identify, develop and manage new/innovative regional fundraising opportunities and emergency campaigns (events, exhibitions, conferences, partnerships) by adopting a responsive, opportunistic, strategic and timely approach (S.W.O.T analysis) to wider global events and local community events/trends. To ensure HA is responsive and adapting to a changing environment locally and internationally and to demonstrate breadth to our donors.
- Maintain internal procedures/administration such as donor management system, account management system, and cash counting protocols by ensuring information input securely in a timely fashion to help maintain internal control and mitigation of risk.
- Secure all income logs by ensuring they are filed correctly and that cash is bagged, sealed, tagged and banked in line with protocol to create and maintain HA funds, create an audit trail and maintain a failsafe for HA.
- Broadly assist in and contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HAs fundraising plan in the region to help create an achievable fundraising plan.
- Adhere to the charities policies and procedures, e.g. fundraising code of conduct, Health & Safety at Work, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection