Community Fundraiser

British Hen Welfare Trust

Devon (Hybrid)

£23,000 - £25,000 per year

Full-time

Permanent

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Job description

Would you like to make a difference to hen welfare and join the flock as our new Community Fundraiser? At the British Hen Welfare Trust, every week we save thousands of hens from slaughter across the UK. With our millionth hen due to be rehomed this summer there has never been a more exciting time to join this fast-growing and unique charity.

About The British Hen Welfare Trust

Founded nearly 20 years ago by Jane Howorth MBE, the British Hen Welfare Trust is a national hen welfare charity which rehomes over 60,000 hens a year around the UK. Based in mid Devon, and affectionately referred to as Hen Central, the charity works collaboratively with the industry, public, and many national stakeholders to improve hen welfare and raise awareness of hens around the globe. In addition to rehoming hens, our work extends further to education, mental wellbeing, nutritional campaigns, and global veterinary initiatives. We are a friendly and supportive team of 15 and offer a flexible approach to work, the majority of the team are home-based with the option to work in Hen Central also.

About the role

This is a very exciting time to join the team, with the imminent rehoming of the millionth hen and the national coverage this presents, you will have the opportunity to make this role your own. You will be an enthusiastic, organised team-player who shares a passion for hen welfare and will have demonstrable community fundraising experience working in the charity sector.

The full-time role of Community Fundraiser is a new position in a recently restructured Fundraising team, working with the Head of Fundraising, Individual Giving Manager and Corporate and Trust Fundraising Manager. This is a home-based role with regular travel to Hen Central for meetings, events and ad hoc tasks so it would be ideal for someone who is South West based. You will be responsible for developing relationships with existing and new community fundraisers on supporter-led activity and engaging them in our fun and exciting fundraising income streams such as Egg Club, Bake! for Hens' Sake! and Sponsor a Hen to meet objectives and income targets.

What we can offer:

Hybrid role, (regular travel expected to Hen Central, at least twice a month)
Salary of £23,000 - £25,000 per annum (depending on skills, experience and knowledge)
Annual Leave: 29 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays and your birthday) rising to 34 days with length of service.
Company pension scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Great, supportive culture with development opportunities

Reports to: Head of Fundraising

Working with: Internal teams; Fundraising, Communications, Volunteer Management, Marketing and Rehoming teams. External; hen rehomers, volunteers, fundraising supporters, community groups and committees, influencers.

Hours: 37.5 a week

Role type: Full-time permanent role, following 6 month probation period. Hybrid/South West based, (expected to travel to Hen Central, in Devon on average twice a month)

Main Purpose of Job:

The purpose of this exciting new role is to raise community fundraising income by building and developing relationships with key community fundraisers, community groups, fundraising volunteers, schools and community stakeholders. As the main lead in the charity for community fundraising, you will encourage, motivate and promote the work of our dedicated and loyal community fundraisers on their varied and wide-ranging fundraising endeavours to maximise income and support of the BHWT.

You will also take responsibility for our established community fundraising streams unique to the charity; Bake for Hens’ Sake!, Egg Club and Sponsor a Hen, ensuring we spread our message far and wide and recruit new supporters to help hens.

Main responsibilities:

1. To grow and develop community fundraising income working with key fundraisers and community groups in the BHWT audience.

2. To provide a high standard of donor care, ensuring all donors are thanked and acknowledged appropriately on time and communicated with regularly with care, thought and attention to detail.

3. To project manage and develop our key community fundraising income streams; Bake for Hens’ Sake!, Egg Club and Sponsor a Hen working closely with Marketing and Communications colleagues to actively promote and share stories to thank and encourage new supporters to sign up.

4. To act as the charity’s main lead for all Community Fundraising related activities and respond to and/or direct all incoming Fundraising enquiries where appropriate.

5. To work with the Head of Fundraising to develop a calendar of supporter-led running events in 2025 and beyond, ensuring places are promoted and that prospective runners are well supported and managed in order to reach individual targets.

6. To work proactively with Marketing and Communications colleagues and provide compelling and engaging content for use in communication channels including the BHWT’s supporter magazine and social media channels to encourage supporters to fundraise for hens and thank/acknowledge.

7. To manage and facilitate communications effectively across key community fundraising streams to aid retention and secure future support e.g. the quarterly newsletter to Egg Club and regular updates to the Sponsor a Hen audiences.

8. To provide monthly reports to the Head of Fundraising in all areas of Community Fundraising.

9. To administer the various elements of the fundraising streams e.g. sending out fundraising packs and thank you letters.

10. To ensure compliance with all relevant legislation including GDPR and data protection.

11. To maintain accurate records on SharePoint and Salesforce.

12. To provide support to other areas of fundraising where appropriate and undertake ad hoc tasks from time to time as required within the charity.

13. To attend events on behalf of the charity from time to time.

Key qualifications, skills and experience

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience
Demonstrable experience fundraising for a national charity
Proven experience in managing and developing relationships with community fundraisers to raise funds
High level of project management experience including delivering projects on time and within budget
Experience of working remotely/working independently

Desirable

Event management
Understanding of other fundraising streams e.g. corporate, digital fundraising

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Essential

Excellent organisational skills.
Collaborative team-player
Ability to plan, balance and cope with competing priorities
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
High standard of computer competency and literacy
Experience of working with volunteers

Desirable

Working knowledge of Salesforce
Good knowledge of Gift Aid and Data Protection legislation

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential

Commitment to delivering a high quality service
A proactive approach to all areas of work
Strong team working orientation, with the ability and social skills to work collaboratively with staff at all levels.
Flexible and adaptable approach to work demands across the whole organisation
Able to maintain strong working relationships with key donors

OTHER

Essential

Willing and able to work occasional evenings and weekends to support fundraising events
Driving licence

This job description is not exhaustive. It merely acts as a guide and may be amended to meet the changing requirements of the charity at any time after discussion with the post holder.

**Note to Recruitment Agencies:** This position is not open to agency candidates. Please do not make contact with ourselves or forward any agency resumes. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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