Full Time Salary: £28,684.50 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, including some early morning, evening and weekend work
Locations: Hybrid - some hours at one of West Sussex Mind’s offices in Littlehampton, Worthing and / or Southwick combined with some hours remote, online from home.
West Sussex Mind Values: Excellence, Equitable, Open, Together, Curious and Unstoppable
Winner of National Mind Anti-Stigma Award 2021
Overview:
The main purpose of this role is to develop and deliver our approach to maintain and grow corporate fundraising income, to support our mission promoting good mental health through the provision of high quality services and through campaigning to improve services, raise awareness and understanding in West Sussex. You will join us at an exciting time, as we launch our new five-year strategy, and this role is pivotal in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions in the years ahead.
The role is to lead the corporate fundraising activities for West Sussex Mind. This will include maximising support through Charity of the Year relationships and participation in activities, events and challenges in aid of West Sussex Mind, and by securing one-off gifts in support of West Sussex Mind. You will research and build our corporate pipeline and support the delivery of our wider employer engagement which covers all aspects of employment engagement including fundraising, training and mental health employer service.
As part of the fundraising team you will support our community fundraising
This role will report to the Fundraising and Communications Manager.
The successful candidate will:
- Identify and engage potential corporate partners by planning and creating compelling proposals, presentations, and reports to secure support for West Sussex Mind
- Seek networking opportunities, attending as a representative of West Sussex Mind to promote our work and our offer
- Maintain and develop our existing business relationships, including providing excellent stewardship
- Secure and develop new corporate partnership opportunities, focusing on corporate donations, sponsorship opportunities, employee fundraising, charity of the year partnerships, payroll giving and gifts in kind
- Develop initiatives with partners to leverage their resources in support of West Sussex Mind’s vision.
- Plan and lead events and activities to engage corporate partners with West Sussex Mind’s strategy
- Track partnership performance against targets, maintaining records in the CRM system
How to apply:
Please find below an application form, guidance notes and job description and person specification.
If you would like to have an informal discussion prior to applying, please email Sue Smith on sue.smith@westsussexmind.org to arrange this.
These roles are being advertised as a rolling recruitment and therefore, we encourage applicants to apply early to avoid disappointment. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications.
Interview Dates: Successful applicants will be contacted by phone or email to arrange a suitable date and time
Please email completed applications to: recruitment@westsussexmind.org
Please note we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must therefore be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
This post is subject to an Basic DBS check.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications and encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
No agencies or CV's.
West Sussex Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Here is a link to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement - West Sussex Mind | Equality, diversity and inclusion statement