Community relationship fundraiser

Hours: Full-time, 36.25 hours per week, worked between the hours of 8am–6pm

Contract length: Permanent

Salary: £26,232–31,961

Team: Income generation

Reporting to: Fundraising manager and team lead

Staff responsible for: None

Place of work: Remote working with travel as required. Applicants must be based in the UK.

Application deadline: Monday 5 May 2025 (we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications)

Interviews to be conducted: early May (interviews conducted remotely)

Start date: early June

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Create lasting change with Brake, the renowned road safety charity.

Who we are

Brake is the national, acclaimed road safety charity which provides the National Road Victim ServiceBrake has been supporting victims of road carnage since 1995. We also campaign for positive change to prevent future collisions and save lives.

Our values are:

• Professionalism
• Collaboration
• Integrity
• Compassion
• Inclusion
• Courage

Job purpose

Reporting to the Fundraising manager & team lead and in the Income Generation team, you will support and guide individuals who raise funds for Brake in our communities, helping them reach their goals and, in turn, raise essential funds for our cause. The Community Relationship Fundraiser plays a key role in developing and growing our community fundraising programme. You will be responsible for inspiring and supporting individuals and groups who undertake community fundraising on behalf of Brake.

You will be supporting the work of Brake by increasing income generated from community fundraisers, including individuals, community groups, clubs and associations. This role is critical in expanding our supporter base, increasing engagement, and maximising fundraising income. Working together with teams across the organisation, you will contribute to a culture of innovation and collaboration to maximise the overall fundraising objectives.

What we offer

• A generous 35 days of annual leave (including bank holidays and 3-day shutdown period between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday day off
• Enhanced sick pay and compassionate leave
• Death in service benefit
• Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working
• A rewarding role with purpose
• Be part of a skilled, friendly team with an engaged Board of Trustees

Who you are

We're searching for a compassionate, and energised, self-starter with competent IT skills to work remotely and outstanding communication skills.

Specifically, we are seeking candidates with:

Essential

• Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing learning and development and to participate in any training relevant to the role and to advance your competencies

• Previous experience of working successfully within a fundraising role & good knowledge of the charity sector
• Proven experience of working to and achieving financial targets
• Strong ability to innovate and drive income growth across different fundraising channels
• Excellent attention to detail, experience of managing a busy workload, showing resilience, self-motivation, adaptability, working to tight deadlines and meeting your objectives successfully both as an individual and as part of a team
• A good communicator, with the ability to converse sensitively and empathetically with members of the public, who may be going through current or recent emotional and challenging experiences
• Good interpersonal and verbal communication skills, professional telephone manner.
• Flexible, embraces change and development, and can work occasional evenings and weekends when necessary.
• Proven strong experience of using IT software such as Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), Outlook, Teams and databases to enhance and improve the delivery of your duties
• Ability to work proactively and independently.

Desirable

• Ability to analyse data to identify trends and report on findings to support decision making processes
• Experience of using a CRM database
• Knowledge and understanding of fundraising rules and regulations.

Join our mission: This role is critical in expanding our supporter base, increasing engagement, and maximising fundraising income, ultimately enabling the charity to achieve more.

About the team and how we work

Brake is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We particularly welcome applications from those who are part of the global majority, the LGBTQIA+ community or disabled. We are proud to be a disability confident employer. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. So, if you have a passion for making a difference and share in our vision for a world where no one is killed on our roads, we would love to hear from you.

If you're up for a new challenge and have the skills, apply now.

Submit your CV and a covering letter which clearly demonstrate you have what it takes to perform this challenging and rewarding role to recruitment@brake.org.uk.

We want to get to know you and we welcome cover letters in alternative formats, for example you could send a short video cover letter instead of a traditional written one.

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Due to the nature of our work we can't accept applications from traffic offenders. Candidates will be asked to disclose whether they have any unspent points on their licence at interview.