Held In Our Hearts’ Organisational Background:
We are a Scottish charity providing baby loss counselling and peer support to bereaved families, with over 40 years’ experience of offering compassionate bereavement care in the community.
Many of our staff are bereaved parents themselves, so through shared, lived experience, we provide compassion and support to each other and connect through our care for our families and each other. Our families are the heart of everything that we do. All our support is free, personal to each family and for as long as is needed. Our support includes counselling, one-to-one peer support, our new and expanding Hospital to Home service, group support and events.
We are in a period of growth, having expanded the team from 4 to 24 over the last 8 years and, most recently, extending our geographical reach from Edinburgh and the Lothians to Fife, Forth Valley and the Highlands.
About The Role:
We are recruiting for a Fundraiser to join Held In Our Hearts where you will play a full and active role in securing income to improve the lives of families impacted by Baby Loss.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Fundraiser to join our growing team. In this role, you will take an active lead in securing income to improve the lives of families impacted by baby loss. You will build meaningful relationships, drive fundraising initiatives, and develop strategic partnerships throughout Scotland to ensure we have the funds needed to deliver our specialist services for every family we support.
The perfect candidate will enjoy forging positive and robust relationships, including but not limited to, corporate partners and local small businesses across Scotland’s central belt and into surrounding areas, delivering vital income for our charity.
Working proactively to generate new business leads, the candidate will secure valuable partnerships for our charity, by undertaking research, creating compelling proposals for a range of audiences and pitching to companies to secure their support.
The Fundraiser will be joining a hard-working and growing fundraising team, working closely with our Head of Fundraising, our Philanthropy & Partnership Lead and our Highland’s Fundraiser, as well as the wider Held In Our Hearts team.
We are looking for an engaging, passionate and tenacious person who can deliver strong, cost effective and sustainable income growth for the charity, along with great copy writing, admin and organisational skills, experienced at developing relationships, and can manage a busy and varied workload.
We welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds including (but not limited to) account management, marketing, fundraising, event management or sales. Third sector experience is desirable but not essential. Experience working in challenge fundraising would be advantageous.
This role will require some weekend and evening working for which time off in lieu will be agreed, and travel will be required to meet with new and existing corporate partners.
In summary, the ideal candidate will:
If you are ready to hit the ground running and use your skills to drive positive change, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and help us continue our mission to ensure no one in Scotland is alone when their baby dies.
Closing date: Friday 14th 10am
Interviews will be held on 18th and 19th February 2025, applicants will be contacted by Friday 17.00 to if invited to interview.
To apply please email your CV and Covering Letter to christina@heldinourhearts.org.uk
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