Fundraising Officer (Community and Events)

As the dedicated charity for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the Imperial Health Charity helps hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising. The charity supports five hospitals—Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s, and the Western Eye Hospital.

You’ll join a team of three, including Fundraising Manager (line manager), Senior Fundraising Manager and a Fundraising Officer. Supporting with the delivery of the fundraising portfolio, you will provide excellent supporter care to people taking part in events or organising their own activities, as well as managing fundraising products. You will also lead on specific event activities, such as gaming fundraising.

This role is ideal for someone with experience in the charity sector, particularly in community or events fundraising, where you’ve supported or assisted a team with fundraising efforts. Excellent professional development opportunities are on offer and you’ll work on exciting projects.

As Fundraising Officer, you will:

• Provide excellent supporter care to fundraisers taking part in events or organising their own fundraising activity by providing support, guidance and fundraising materials
• Be responsible for managing the fundraising database, including receiving and accurately inputting donations onto the database
• Achieve your own income targets and objectives through proactively seeking out opportunities to promote fundraising among patients and NHS staff across hospital sites and in the local community by utilising existing contacts and developing new ones
• Proactively seek opportunities to grow community and events fundraising income, working in partnership with hospital departments and the wider community
• Promote events and campaigns to the local community, including businesses, schools, patients and NHS staff

Ideal skills and experience:

• Previous experience in a fundraising role in the charity sector, ideally events and/or community fundraising
• Experience of sporting and challenge events fundraising
• Experience working with a wide variety of people and delivering excellent customer service
• Familiarity with fundraising codes of conduct and best practice

Don’t meet every single requirement? The Imperial Health Charity are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

We recognise that some of your experience may be from unpaid roles as well as paid employment – please include any voluntary work if it helps to show why you are the right candidate for the job.

Employee benefits include: 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing by one day a year up to a maximum of 33 days), plus an extra day’s holiday to be taken one week either side of your birthday
• Generous employer pension contribution of 10% of annual salary
• Staff Arts Club providing free entry to London galleries and discounts to music, cinema and theatre events
• Enhanced Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Enhanced Sick leave and Compassionate leave
• Support towards healthcare costs, including eye tests and dental, and support with mental health through counselling; additional access to gym discounts
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• High street discounts via Blue Light Card
• £1,000 individual training allowance per year