Fundraising Manager (Maternity Cover)

The Ecological Land Cooperative (ELC) is a social enterprise primarily based in Bristol. We exist
to widen inexpensive entry to land for sustainable land-based makes use of. We’ve got six farm websites with
the potential for 18 low influence, residential, small farm companies.

We at present make use of 9 part-time employees, and strategic route is led by ELC’s Board of
Administrators, which at present has 9 members who’re elected on the Cooperative’s AGM. There are
at present 485 members of the Cooperative.

We imagine that ecological land-based livelihoods can assist resolve among the most
urgent environmental and social issues of our time, and we search to marry ecological
ideas with sound enterprise apply to assist extra individuals reside and work on the land. This
sort of small-scale ecological manufacturing delivers an a variety of benefits together with defending
the setting, constructing vibrant rural communities, offering employment, and coaching, and
supporting wholesome diets by inexpensive, native produce.

Past this, our imaginative and prescient is one the place land is valued and used as a method to reinforce our
collective good. At current, land within the UK is the goal of monetary hypothesis, in
distinction, our mannequin champions a collective, ecological, and cooperative imaginative and prescient of land
possession and land use.

Job Description and Particular person Specification

The Fundraising Supervisor is chargeable for securing donations, grants, and
philanthropic mortgage funding for all points of the work of the Ecological Land Cooperative, and
our sister charity the Ecological Land Belief, supported by and reporting to the
Coordinator. 

Hours and Remuneration

3 days (22.5 hours) per week. The publish is predicted to be dwelling primarily based with the
alternative to work versatile hours and common visits to Bristol to fulfill with
colleagues.

£31,317 each year* professional rata, precise wage for 3 days (22.5 hours) per week £18,790 per
annum (£16.06 per hour) plus as much as 4% matched pension contribution.

This can be a 12-month fastened time period maternity cowl contract. There will likely be an intensive handover from the employees member on go away.

* the ELC has a flat cost construction, with all employees paid on the similar fee. As quickly
as our organisational productiveness exceeds our marketing strategy targets, we’d like to extend the
stage of pay throughout the organisation.

Job Description

The Fundraising Supervisor’s tasks embody: 

Revenue Technology

• Researching and figuring out applicable potential sources of funds for the ELC,
  together with grants, philanthropic loans, donations, legacies, crowdfunding, fundraising
  occasions, and some other type of fundraising that may generate revenue.
• Writing funding bids, each narrative and monetary budgets, along side
  different members of the ELC workforce, and stewarding the bid course of by to
  completion.
• Constructing a pipeline of potential funders for ELC, inspiring new supporters to boost
  cash, whereas sustaining and creating relationships with present supporters

Technique

• Assessing the funding wants of the ELC’s strategic plan and creating the
  Fundraising Technique and work plan to fulfill these wants along side the
  Coordinator.
• Contemplate how finest to work with our members to boost funds for ELC’s work.
• Working with the Finance and Administration Supervisor to have an excellent general
  understanding of all income streams.

Administration

• Conserving updated data utilizing the CiviCRM contact administration database to incorporate
  all types of contact made with funders.
• Be certain that any reviews and different monitoring necessities for funders are diarised
  and delivered on time, along side different members of the ELC workforce.
• Making ready common progress updates for the Coordinator, the Fundraising
  Sub-Committee and ELC Board.
• Sustaining good administration and submitting utilizing Google Drive.

Common

• Keep abreast of fundraising good apply and laws, guaranteeing compliance with
  the Charities Act, the Institute of Fundraising and the FRSB codes of apply.
• Supporting the work of fundraising volunteers as vital.
• Contributing to the work of the ELC as a part of the employees workforce, together with workforce
  conferences, strategic planning, and away-days, and team-building or social occasions. 
• Representing the ELC at conferences, conferences, and occasions the place funders could also be
  current.
• Every other side of fundraising work thought of affordable.

Particular person Specification

Important Expertise and Expertise

• Demonstrated capability to boost funds from quite a lot of sources. 
• Demonstrated expertise of profitable fundraising from Trusts and Foundations
  (maternity cowl specification)
• Demonstrated capability to develop and keep skilled networks.
• Glorious written English and the flexibility to adapt written supplies to totally different
  audiences.
• Glorious interpersonal and communication abilities
• Expertise of utilizing and sustaining a fundraising database.
• Glorious ICT abilities.
• A dedication to working cooperatively.
• Dedication to the goals and aims of the ELC.

Fascinating Expertise and Expertise

• Expertise of working throughout the environmental motion, the coop motion or the
  third sector.
• Expertise of engaged on neighborhood share gives and/or membership
  improvement.
• Expertise of creating profitable crowd-funding fundraising campaigns.
• Expertise of the low-impact motion or agro-ecological farming.
• Familiarity with on-line instruments reminiscent of Google Drive, Slack and CiviCRM.
• Expertise of cooperative administration and inclusive resolution making.
• Expertise or an understanding of the challenges of working remotely.
• Expertise of working as a part of a small and various workforce.

Apply

Apply by sending a CV and masking letter describing the way you meet the particular person specification
to [email protected] by
midnight Sunday fifth November. Interviews are anticipated to happen within the week
commencing thirteenth November.

Please make sure that your CV and Masking Letter are not than 2 sides of A4 every.

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