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Fundraising Assistant – Wales

RSPB

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This is an exciting opportunity to join RSPB Cymru’s fundraising team as Fundraising Assistant.
This role provides essential support to the fundraising team, contributing to the
organisation’s purpose of saving nature.

This role is home based with travel into shared meeting locations and beyond as and when
required.

What’s the role about? 

This role provides administrative support to the fundraising team to ensure they are able to
deliver the team’s work programme and meet or exceed agreed key performance indicators. Key
result areas include;

  • Research and identify potential funding sources and match these to agreed priority work to
    maximise our impact against agreed planned priorities.
  • Plan and attend appropriate internal and external meetings and events that support the
    fundraising team to achieve agreed targets and KPIs.
  • Build and develop internal relationships to facilitate exchange of information particularly
    around financial systems and CRM.
  • Compile and submit timely claims to funding organisations to draw down (not secure funds)
    and ensure they are received promptly against budgeted spend. 
  • Produce regular reports to assess progress and action needed against KPIs to ensure agreed
    annual performance targets are met.
  • Monitor and ensure accurate administration of funding and CRM databases, in line with the
    team work programme and the RSPB’s project management framework so that governance and audit
    requirements are fully met.
  • Provide high quality customer service, ensuring funders, donors and supporters have an
    excellent supporter experience and safeguard the RSPB’s reputation and brand.

Essentials:

  • Good working knowledge of Excel and financial systems and information sources (e.g.
    budgets, annual report and accounts).
  • Competent user of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
  • Able to deliver a high level of customer service to a variety of audiences.
  • Able to work under own initiative and prioritise tasks effectively, with the confidence to
    ask for support and direction where needed.
  • Good written and verbal communicator.
  • Good organisational skills
  • Experience of collating, analysing and presenting complex financial information.
  • Experience of office or project administration. 
  • Sales and or/fundraising background. – Desirable
  • Understanding of charity sector and associated fundraising techniques.- Desirable
  • Knowledge of and/or passion for conservation and the natural world. – Desirable
  • Bilingual English/Welsh speaker. – Desirable

Additional Information

This is a Permanent role for 37.5 hours per week. 

We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from the 18th of September 2024 . For
further information please contact: [email protected]

As part of this application process you will be asked to complete an application form including
evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone
feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a
world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People
of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate,
sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled,
we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any
additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the
successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be
offered an employment contract.

We reserve the right to close this avert once sufficient applications have been received.

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