About this role
Job summary
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity including Baby Beat currently has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Fundraising and Administration Assistant, based at Royal Preston Hospital. This is a full-time role that combines office-based work with time spent in the community, attending fundraising events and supporting our valued donors and volunteers. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary and become part of a passionate, high-achieving team.
Our charity raises almost £1m annually through a varied and dynamic portfolio of activities. We're looking for someone enthusiastic, hardworking, and flexible--ready to meet the challenge and play a key role in one of the region's most successful Hospital charity's.
If you want to make a real difference to the lives of local patients and are keen to begin or develop a career in the charity sector--whether or not you have previous fundraising experience--we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Support the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Charity team including Baby Beat to implement multi-year strategies to increase income andsupport for them across all areas of fundraising, ensuring donors and supporters receive appropriate stewardship, as well as providing retail administrative, charity administrative and finance support.
You will often be the first point of contact with donors, customers, volunteers, supporters, Trust staff and suppliers.
This post is predominately office-based working with the need to work in the community at fundraising events along with supporting and stewarding the charity's supporters and donors.
You'll need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and confident when working with the public, as you'll sometimes represent the charity at community events.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive and fast-paced charity environment, where your contribution will truly make a difference.
A car and driving license are essential for this post as the post holder will be required to drop of fundraising resources, meet with donors and fundraisers, support fundraising events and attend third party fundraising activities and functions across Lancashire.
About us
Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, we are dedicated to making a difference to the thousands of patients treated at our hospitals every year.
Our aim is to enhance the services already provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so that patients treated at our hospitals have access to the best possible care, in the very best facilities.
Our support helps us go above and beyond the scope of the NHS by making a difference in four key areas:
Funding projects such as patient services and comforts Funding specialist equipment Supporting patients needs and staff welfare Supporting the advancement of clinical research
We can fund those added extras that can make all the difference to our patients, when they need it the most.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:
Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed
Support the charity team to grow income through excellentstewardship and relationship support. This will includesupporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower valuefundraising initiatives
Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team(including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via thedonor databaseTo assist with general finance tasks and the counting and bankingof monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and evententry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking
Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.
Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to theprocessing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensuremaximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements
Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota iscoordinated to maximise opening hours
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience Essential
Experience of working to and achieving financial targets Working knowledge of a donor management system or equivalent Computer literate - Microsoft Office packages Experience of dealing with sensitive issues
Desirable
Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising Previous experience working within a charity, fundraising or related role (e.g. marketing / sales)
Qualifications & Education Essential
GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience Full UK Driving License
Desirable
Educated to AS and A level or equivalent experience Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Preston Hopsital
Sharoe Green Lane
Preston
PR2 9HT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)