Community Fundraising Officer

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford

GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Job description

We're looking for a Community Fundraising Officer to join our team at Oxford Health Charity (OHC) to play a key role in increasing support for our charity, which funds projects that enhance the experience of patients, carers, and staff beyond the NHS budget. OHC provides funding for a number of projects beyond the Trust’s NHS budget, from inviting green spaces to funding artists to work with patients, improving staff rest areas, and providing non-essential medical equipment to make patients more comfortable.

Working closely with the Head of Charity, you'll maximise fundraising income through creative and sustainable strategies, ensuring excellent stewardship of fundraisers and supporters. You'll manage community fundraising events, explore new sponsorship opportunities, and build strong relationships with local groups and organisations across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Wiltshire.

You'll maintain accurate donor records using the Donorfy database and contribute to the smooth running of fundraising activities, ensuring compliance and cost-effectiveness. This role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. A background in fundraising or customer care, along with strong IT skills, is essential.

If you are passionate about making a difference and growing support for a vital NHS charity, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Working with the Head of Charity to maximise existing fundraising income streams to grow sustainable annual income.
Manage, develop and provide stewardship with community fundraisers ensuring all queries are dealt with promptly and appropriately.
Plan, deliver and maximise income from existing community fundraising events and seek new opportunities, including sponsorship deals and event marketing.
Ensure all external community fundraising activities are correctly planned and managed to ensure cost-effectiveness and pose no reputational risk to the charity or Trust.
Build key relationships within the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Wiltshire communities, including but not limited to educational establishments, sports clubs, youth groups, and women’s institute.
Help to maintain the Donorfy database to ensure communication with donors and fundraisers is recorded and opportunities logged.
Identifying opportunities to raise awareness of the charity across the Trust, including giving talks, attending local events, and networking events.
Represent the charity at external events, which may include occasional evenings and weekends, including fundraising events, attending cheque presentations, and arranging photographs with key donors.
Promote a collaborative approach to fundraising and work to ensure all staff are up to date with fundraising news and events.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work. To showcase your best self when making an application, please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team.”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent.”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression.
Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development.
27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service.
NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers.
Competitive pension scheme.
Lease car scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Mental Health First Aiders.
Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply).
Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification, and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

IT Skills

Essential criteria

Including Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and fundraising databases.

Desirable criteria

Understanding of Donorfy or other CRM system experience.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to A-level standard or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

Chartered Institute of Fundraising Membership/Qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

Fundraising experience.
Experience of working with a wide range of people.
Excellent customer care.

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of working for a charity.
Previous NHS experience.

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Ability to be a persuasive, flexible, enthusiastic, and well-organised team player who is happy working as part of a small team.
Confident in inspiring, motivating, engaging, and enthusing colleagues and multiple stakeholders.

Desirable criteria

Ability to work under own initiative.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just, and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring, and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.