Fundraising and Communications Assistant

We are looking to recruit a Fundraising and Communications Assistant to support our fundraising and communications activities and be part of our expanding and dedicated team. It’s a great time to join the charity as we invest in our fundraising and communications team to maximise our income and realise our ambitions.  

This is an exciting opportunity if you are looking to take your first step into the charity sector, at a vibrant and growing organisation, working for a vital cause where you can have a huge impact. 

This role offers you an excellent opportunity to gain a broad understanding of fundraising and communications practice, and varied experience working across all income streams (major donors, trusts, corporate, community, individual giving, and challenge events) and digital communications media, as well as interaction with senior level volunteers such as trustees.   

About this job: 

In this varied and interesting role, you will: 

• Manage the receipt, recording and acknowledgement of donations received by the London centre and national fundraising activities, working with other centre staff on the development of administration procedures.  

• Ensure the CRM database is kept up to date and support the fundraising team to produce high quality reports.  

• Support the Events Manger in the delivery of fundraising and engagement events across the organisation. 

• Support the Fundraising Managers in arranging meetings and visits with donors and prospective donors. 

• Use digital media strategy tools to generate relevant and varied digital content across chosen channels. 

• Create regular communications, reports and updates for fundraisers to tailor for their individual donors. 

About James’ Place  

James’ Place works to save the lives of men in suicidal crisis. We are a charity offering free, life-saving therapy to suicidal men at our centres in Liverpool, London and Newcastle. 

James’ Place was set up by Clare Milford Haven and Nick Wentworth-Stanley in 2008 after their twenty-one-year-old son, James, died by suicide ten days after a minor operation. James had no history of mental illness or depression and had sought urgent help for anxiety and suicidal thoughts, but didn’t find it.    
  
James' Place was set up to make the experience of finding help as easy as possible. We offer men who are experiencing a suicidal crisis a brief, intensive, therapeutic intervention in a safe environment. Men who walk through the door at James’ Place will be in a space where they feel valued and respected.  We provide a calm and peaceful environment both inside the centres and in our outside spaces, accessible to men who visit us as well as their friends and families.  The first James’ Place opened in June 2018 in Liverpool, the first of its kind in the UK. In 2022 we opened a new centre in London and in early in 2023 we launched an appeal to raise over £10m to fund three more centres across the country. Our third centre opened in Newcastle at the beginning of 2024, and we are currently raising funds to open a James’ Place in Birmingham.  We have treated over 2,800 men in suicidal crisis to date. 

About you: 

You will be a self-starter with a desire to make an impact and a connection to James’ Place, you will bring your passion, previous administrative experience and a proactive approach, to enable our fundraising team to be as efficient as possible.  Using your knowledge and understanding of a range of social media platforms and your keen interest in learning about new digital innovations, you will support us in creating digital content across our chosen channels. You will work with our CRM software, Salesforce, to ensure our records are up to date, accurate and provide useful reports.  

About the team: 

We are a growing team with big ambitions. The team comprises a Head of Fundraising and Communications, two Fundraising Managers, a Senior Communications Manager and a Senior Outreach Officer and this Fundraising and Communications Assistant role. We are also recruiting two new roles to the team: a Fundraising Executive who will have a more direct fundraising role, and a Philanthropy Lead.   

For further information about the role, please take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification and get in touch if you have any questions.