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Village Water, Remote
£30,000 - £33,000 per year
Join Village Water as a dynamic Communications & Trusts Fundraiser to drive our communications and diversify our trust income.
Posted 1 week ago Quick Apply
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Remote
£30,000 - £33,000 per year
Full-time
Permanent

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Job description

Make a big impact with a dynamic small charity transforming lives in Africa. Join us to help ensure we reach everyone with water, sanitation & hygiene, leaving no one behind.

Since 2004, Village Water has been dedicated to transforming lives in Africa by providing vital support in hygiene promotion, sanitation facilities, and safe water (WASH) in rural communities of Zambia and Mozambique. 

Working together with local partners, we strive to reach the most marginalised populations in rural villages, schools, and health centres, creating positive impacts on their health and empowering them with opportunities.

As a small yet dynamic team, we pride ourselves on our personal touch and can-do approach. We need a creative and industrious person with excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships with trusts, community groups and individual supporters.

Key information:  

Location: Remote working. (UK only) Must be able to attend a minimum of 5 mandatory meetings per year (includes overnight stay for 2-day meetings) at our office in Shrewsbury and occasional meetings elsewhere. 

Contract: Permanent.Full time 37.5 hours a week.  

Salary: Between £30,000 – £33,000 a year depending on experience. 

Benefits and entitlements:  Matched pension contributions - 7% of salary after probationary period, 5 weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays and discretionary Christmas shut down.  

Reporting to:  Head of Fundraising, Village Water.  

Job Purpose  

Working across fundraising and communications you will develop and manage your own portfolio of existing Trusts and Foundations, community and individual donors, and research and prioritise new opportunities ensuring high quality stewardship to secure ongoing support. This role will focus on producing high-quality applications and reports to funders and by providing excellent account management and cross-team collaboration.  You will play a vital role in communicating our work through compelling positive case studies, stories, impacts, and images, to raise our profile and motivate people to give via supporting digital campaigns, website and social media channels. Engaging new, existing donors and all stakeholders via all communication streams is key. 

Responsibilities  

Trust Fundraising  

  • Develop, manage, and maintain a trust and foundations fundraising portfolio with a clear, scheduled pipeline of funding applications, coordinating opportunities and team resources to meet targets.

  • Cultivate strong working relationships with current and new trust and foundations, proactively seeking meetings, ensuring excellent relationship management.

  • Collaborate with colleagues to create compelling proposals and reports.

  • Work with monitoring and finance colleagues to inform impact and budgetary needs, ensuring timely reporting to donors in line with their grant conditions.

  • Build resilient, long-term relationships with identified supporters, keeping them well-informed about events, campaigns, projects, and the charity itself, to foster a strong sense of belonging to Village Water, ensuring excellent stewardship.

  • Use multiple research methods and communication channels to build and manage a prospective donor pipeline.

  • Research and write applications to grant-making trusts, targeting an amount in line with Village Water's annual budget, with an emphasis on securing unrestricted funds where possible.

  • Ensure all information on your portfolio of donors is well stewarded, recorded, and actioned in Village Water's database.

  • Develop ad-hoc events and campaigns both in person and via Zoom, recruiting and managing volunteers where necessary.

  • Send personalised thank-you communications and updates to individual supporters, manage ongoing engagement with regular donors, and oversee the distribution of physical milestone cards to celebrate significant achievements.

Communications:

  • Create and curate a calendar of multimedia content to increase engagement and audience reach through digital and traditional marketing materials, social media posts, e-newsletters, and our website.

  • Support the development and management of Village Water’s website, ensuring content and architecture are up to date, consistent, and engagingly showcase our work, current campaigns, news stories and calls to action.

  • Lead on the development of paid for digital campaigns including budgeting, A/B testing, asset creation, copywriting, and reporting.

  • Create a range of digital graphics and assets, including animations, images, videos, banners, and infographics.

  • Design printed marketing items - such as reports, leaflets, flyers, banners, and signage.

  • Develop a timeline for the ‘comms hub’ remote capacity building for the local partners in Zambia and Mozambique to train in specific comms activities, gather material and share learning.

General 

  • Work collaboratively with staff, volunteers, external suppliers, and local partners to advance organisational goals. 

  • Attend networking events and build relationships that benefit Village Water. 

  • Participate in and report during weekly team meetings and, when necessary, at Trustee meetings. 

  • Provide assistance for other fundraising initiatives as needed, promoting a collaborative work environment and supporting the overall fundraising efforts of the organisation. 

  • Ensure compliance with the organisation's safeguarding policies by completing all required training. 

Skills and experience: 

  • Demonstrable success in securing grants, including awards between £20-£100k. 

  • Confident and effective communicator with excellent presentation skills, able to engage with a range of supporters in groups, individually, face-to-face, and remotely. 

  • Proven experience in writing compelling cases for support and supporter updates that inspire and persuade donors. 

  • Experience with Canva, Adobe, Salesforce desirable. 

  • Ability to develop, analyse, and interpret budgets and financial information. 

  • Strong database skills, including experience in fundraising performance analysis. 

Equality and Diversity 

Village Water is dedicated to promoting a workplace that embraces inclusivity, values diversity, and honours the unique contributions of its employees and partners. It ensures equal treatment for all individuals and encourages everyone to reach their full potential. 

Village Water is an advocate for disability inclusion, so if you require alternative application methods, please get in touch with us for further assistance. 

Application Instructions

Please only apply if you are legally entitled to work and currently live in the UK and can easily travel to Shrewsbury for in person meetings?

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Village Water View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 6 - 10

Better health, education and opportunity for everyone, through safe water, sanitation and hygiene.

Posted on: 24 October 2024
Closing date: 10 November 2024 at 23:30
Job ref: Communications & Trusts Fundraiser - 2024
Tags: Communications,Fundraising,Individual Giving,Trusts / Foundations

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