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Corporate Fundraising Assistant £18,000 Holborn, central London

This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in Corporate fundraising. We’re looking for a professional, self-motivated and enthusiastic Fundraising Assistant who is passionate about providing excellent customer service. Excellent communication, research and writing skills and a flexible approach to work are essential for this role.

Are you…  a first class administrator and do you have a good eye for detail?  good at using your initiative and able to solve problems?  a people person, able to build and foster professional relationships?  an enthusiastic communicator who can be passionate about Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

Please note you must also be a committed non-smoker.

Please apply with a cover letter that explains how you meet the Person Specification requirements, and an appropriate CV.

Closing date: Wednesday 22 September 2010

Monica Whitefield HR Manager [email protected] www.beatbloodcancers.org 020 7405 0101 39 Eagle Street, London WC1 4TH

1 JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Corporate Fundraising Assistant Responsible to: Corporate Relationships Manager (CRM)

The purpose of your job is to help beat blood cancers by: helping the Corporate Fundraising Team to secure and retain lucrative corporate partnerships by delivering first class customer service and fostering warm and lasting relationships.

To do this well you must: 1. Existing partners: 1Contribute to new fundraising ideas to engage our partners and their staff 2Create fundraising and promotional materials e.g. posters and flyers, to encourage corporate participation 3Be the point of contact for small accounts or one-off small events, managing them warmly and efficiently but at the same time ensuring that expectations are realistically managed 4Process donations and ensure thank you letters are sent out in a professional and timely manner 5Send out packages and information to partners in a timely manner 6Source appealing and cost effective merchandising materials 7Create inspiring presentations for the team to present updates to existing partners 8Assist at corporate and other fundraising events which will require some evening and weekend work 2. New business: 1 Assist with identifying, researching, prioritising by value and where delegated, make the initial approach to corporate partners. 2 Keep the calendar of approaches updated, ensuring that the information is of good quality and timescales are met 3 Approach companies for gifts in kind. 3. Assist with the production of other corporate promotional materials, including newsletters ,e-newsletters. Use social media and our website to promote our corporate activities.

In addition, you must:  Support the CRM at all times  Work within approved budgets and plans  Attend and assist at Annual Conference, London Marathon, London Bikeathon, Christmas Carols with the Stars and other events and activities as required. NB this involves evening and weekend work.  Be fully familiar with data input/operation of the fundraising database and assisting with opening of post/administration of donations when required  Make sure that you and volunteers working with you follow LLR practices with particular regard for health and safety  Co-operate and making every effort to work well with all staff to help the organisation run smoothly  Carry out other duties that may reasonably be required  Be an effective ambassador for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.

2 Person specification Attributes Essential Desirable

Qualifications Educated to A-Level standard or Degree or equivalent equivalent

Experience  Providing excellent customer  Working in a busy, dynamic company service  Experience of working in a customer-  Office administration focused environment

Knowledge &  Excellent verbal and written  Negotiation, persuasion Skills communication skills  Ability to make suggestions for  Ability to communicate positively, improvements and help implement sensitively and appropriately to processes and procedures a wide range of people across a variety of media  Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise own workload  Proficient user of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint  Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative

Personal  Excellent at and enjoys  Desire to achieve career progression qualities communicating with people through excellent performance  Happy to get stuck in to any task  Strong attention to detail  Physically able to collate and process mail outs  Problem solver  Committed non-smoker

INFORMATION & JOB CONTEXT Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research is the only UK charity solely dedicated to research into blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. We rely entirely on voluntary support to raise funds, as we receive no government funding.

Over 50 years we have built up unique expertise in blood cancer research. This means that we invest in only the best UK research to bring us closer to a cure for all blood cancers.

We are determined to beat blood cancers, however long it takes.

To fund our life-saving research, our mainstreams of income are:

3 Corporate and Trusts We have a reputation for developing and launching inaugural charity of the year initiatives with companies such as Wickes and Pontins as well as maintaining and extending partnerships with companies like Bluefin and the Hook Norton Brewery. We also are involved with many corporate golf days and dinners and events. We now need to focus on accelerating the growth in new business applications and the partnerships that we win, in order to meet our ambitious targets. Community Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research began with one voluntary fundraising group or “Branch” in 1960 and one of our biggest income stream still comes from our 150 Branches and Fundraising Groups, who raise over £1.5 million each year. Community fundraising is absolutely key to our future success, but society is changing and with that our fundraising. Our communities of fundraisers today include individuals who have been affected by a blood cancer and those people who have set up Forget-Me-Not Funds in memory of a loved one, who want to support our work in specific ways, in their local area. Funding research in 50 hospitals and universities into leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma, we can show the difference we are making in communities UK-wide, and how we are helping patients touched by blood cancers. The challenge of the Community Fundraising Team is to raise the profile of what we do locally, and what we do for every type of blood cancer, with the aim of growing income, ensuring our existing supporters become friends for life and engaging new supporters. Sports Events We have worked hard to be the charity of choice for many sports events and have been creative in our strategy to grow business, utilising the support of our president, Sir Ian Botham and patrons such as Alastair Campbell to achieve our aims. As a result, we are the official charity for most triathlons of note in the UK including Blenheim and Windsor. We have a large running team led by Liz McColgan and sponsored by TV Times, we also partner the Run to the Beat half-marathon in London. To spread our risk and to maintain more control, we also organise our own sports events including our flagship London Bikeathon event with 6,500 riders, the largest of a series of Bikeathons throughout the UK. Special Events As our fundraising activities have grown we have found we need a dedicated team to maximise our income from Special Events. This team looks after our major events and donors, including our programme of events with our president, Sir Ian Botham and the Calendar Girls. We have key events in our calendar such as Christmas Carols at the Royal Albert Hall, Alternative Hair Shows and fundraising schemes, our Annual Conference, Open Days, and Disneyland trip for children with leukaemia. The team also work with the Director of Fundraising and CEO on special events with major donors. These streams of income are supplemented by legacy and investment income, as well as creative marketing campaigns such as our 'forget me not' funds.

We are proud to be amongst the most efficient charities in the country and operate with a tightly knit team of c70 staff from our HQ in Holborn, central London

4 The position fits into the organisation as follows:

Fundraising Legacy Director Officer

Asst to Fundraising Dir

Community Special Events Corporate Sports Events Botham Walk Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising Manager

Head of Head of Special Head of Corporate Head of Corporate Community Events Fundraising Sports Events Sponsorship Mgr

Special Events Trust Mgr Regional Fund Manager Community Fundraising Fundraiser Running & Triathlon Cycling Events Scotland Mgr Manager Mgr Special Events New Business Asst Devpt Mgr Events Coordinator Regaional Fundraiser Forget Me Not Running & Triathlons London Bikeathon North East Fund Assistant Coordinator Corporate Relations Mgr Sports Events Regional Fundraiser Community Assistant Bikeathon North Assistant Coordinator Corporate Regional Assistant Forget Me Not Walks Fundraiser Cycling Asst Scotland Manager Corporate Regional Fund Raiser Fundraising Asst South East

Regional Fundraiser London

Regional Fundraiser West

Regional Fundraiser Midlands

5 TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The salary is £18,000. The salary is fully inclusive and contracted hours are Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm but additional unsocial hours and many weekends will be inevitable to meet the demands of the job. There are no overtime payments but hours of work are, as far as is practicably possible, scheduled to make allowance for sustained extra hours worked.

The appointment is on our standard terms and conditions – 26 days per annum increasing to 27 days after 5 years’ service. Upon satisfactory completion of the initial probationary period (usually 6 months) you become eligible for sick pay, interest free season ticket loan and pension provision.

We operate a strict no smoking policy.