We are so glad you have landed on this page! We need you and people like you to help us continue to support children and young people in North Lincolnshire. If you are interested in joining a growing charity we would love to hear from you, please use the form at the bottom of this form and someone will be in touch with you soon to discuss volunteering opportunities! Thank you

VOLUNTEER POST:

Job Title

Volunteer Fundraiser

The Role

The role is pivotal to ensuring Jen’s Special Place can continue to support young people through the delivery of social evenings, bereavement resources and other developing services. The fundamental of the role is to generate a stream of income that will allow Jen’s Special Place to grow financially stronger and enable the organisation to not only meet demand but explore and offer new resources and outlets of support.

Key Responsibilities

Core Skills and Knowledge

·         Develop new and imaginative fundraising activities

·         Seek out new fundraising opportunities

·         Project manage fundraising events

·         Recruit and appoint supporters for key events

·         Attend network events to promote Jen’s Special Place

·         Record keeping of fundraising events and financial information

·         Keep in touch with supporters of Jen’s Special Place and past fundraisers

·         Assist in marketing tasks

·         Share plans and ideas with Jen’s Special Place Trustees and Volunteers

·         Engage with young people of Jen’s Special Place on fundraising events

·         Collaborate with other services and contact local businesses to generate financial support

·         Work alongside other volunteers and maintain good communication with the founder

The skill level for this role is Foundation

·   Strong communication skills

·   Work effectively and collaboratively as One Team

·   Value Diversity and Integrity

·   Have good knowledge of Jen’s Special Place and its strategy

·   An understanding of bereavement and specifically how this impacts young people.

·   Good knowledge of other services available to support mental and emotional wellbeing

·    Manage well within change and innovation as the Charity goes through a period of growth

Person Specification

Size and Scope

Desired

• Experience on fundraising strategies

• Knowledge of corporate fundraising techniques, sponsorships, donations, marketing.

• Knowledge of sources of potential income

• Ability to present and engage potential partners and sponsors

Essential

• Creative and an outside the box thinker

• Good organisational skills

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders

• Good communication skills

• A passion for fundraising

• Ability to work flexibly on your own and as part of a team

• Good use of initiative

• An understanding of GDPR and Data Protection

• Ability to manage and handle confidential information

• An understanding of safeguarding practices

• Willingness to be flexible, demand will vary over the year/seasons

• Remote working

Regulatory Requirements

Behaviours

·    Familiarisation with, and adherence to, Jen’s Special Place’s Safeguarding Policies and procedures is an essential requirement of all volunteers.

·   Key focus on delivering Jen’s Special Places aims for our beneficiaries.

·   Proudly working as One Team, treating each other as we would like to be treated.

Full training and support will be provided

Apply to Volunteer

If you would like to volunteer with us, please fill out the form below and one of our committee members will get back to you. Please note if you are applying for the above position please email your covering letter and CV to enquiries@jensspecialplace.co.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you.