Community and Events Fundraiser - Cork
Permanent role
Full Time
Core Purpose of the Role
This exciting opportunity is available for a highly enthusiastic, proactive, and creative individual to join our team. The successful candidate will drive and implement our community fundraising through meaningful activities, building strong community relationships, online and offline in the region and at a national level.
The successful candidate will be confident and capable of working on their own initiative and working towards set fundraising targets. They will have a passion for our cause and for fundraising, coming up with new and creative ways to engage regional and national donors. This role offers someone with a creative mind a fantastic opportunity to build events from the ground up, to work on tried and tested events and to look at innovative ways to fundraise within communities both in person and online.
Role Specification:
- Promote fundraising activity within the Munster region (through your own hosted events and outreach to clubs, societies, schools, colleges, creches, etc to host their own fundraising activities).
- Proactively secure community fundraising in the area and nationally through schools and colleges and community groups.
- Create design packages for campaigns and community events (email signatures, social posts, event posters, website creative (banners etc), certificates, etc) Using basic design such as Canva.
- Email marketing. Writing content and contacting warm and cold lists via email, Mailchimp and mail merge.
- Writing and sending onboarding emails for campaigns (to keep engagement high with fundraisers).
- Attending 8-14 concerts during the summer months. Managing fundraising volunteers on the day, selling ponchos and managing the event in a professional manner.
- Leading on schools fundraising nationwide particularly on our schools' initiatives (Lap and Chat, Conga Line for Childline). Recruiting, designing creative, promoting, tracking sign ups/fundraising, providing school talks and completing admin.
- Recruiting and promoting Christmas fundraisers in Munster and nationally for our campaigns such as: School Holly pin sales, Christmas choirs and Christmas Jumper Day.
- Development of pitches and talks to secure fundraising opportunities with local events, sports clubs, colleges and other fundraising opportunities
- Championing ISPCC throughout the community ensuring all individuals wishing to fundraise in the community, receive excellent supporter care, ensuring a high level of stewardship to maximise engagement and income.
- Focus on recruiting and managing fundraising volunteers for the calendar of events, in particular during our busy summer concert series.
- Ability to create fundraising materials and resources for use regionally or nationally, as required.
- Support in the creation and implementation of community fundraising supporter journeys in collaboration with other departments.
- Focusing on key accounts in the region, manage the collection of cash within fundraising events in line with the Fundraising and Cash Handling procedures as part of the overall community work.
- Work closely with regional colleagues as well as the overall fundraising team to build relationships with supporters and support with fundraising activities as required.
- Work closely with the overall fundraising team as well as interdepartmentally and contribute to the achievement of the overall fundraising strategy.
- Attend fundraising and other events as required, potentially in a wide range of locations requiring travel. This may involve some weekend and evening work.