We are recruiting a Fundraising Officer to join Held In Our Hearts, where you will play a vital role in helping to raise funds that directly support families impacted by pregnancy, baby and infant loss.

This is a meaningful and varied role focused on building strong relationships with local communities, individuals, volunteers, and grassroots groups across Scotland. You will support colleagues to develop creative, accessible, and engaging fundraising activities that empower supporters and ensure sustainable income for our services.

We are seeking someone with warmth, empathy, initiative, and energy – someone who thrives on connecting with people, meeting targets, and inspiring communities to make a difference. This is a unique opportunity to be the local face of our work, fostering support and compassion in every interaction.

This role requires travel across Scotland to attend events and engagement opportunities, this will also result in some weekend and evening work, for which time off in lieu will be given.

You will play an important role within our fundraising team, helping to build relationships, and increase income, in a pivotal year for the charity, as we enter our 30th anniversary year! The role will offer significant scope for development, giving you the opportunity to grow your skillset in a supportive, ambitious, and high-performing team.

This is a meaningful and varied role focused on building strong relationships with local communities, individuals, volunteers, and corporations across Scotland. You will work with members of the fundraising team to create and deliver a gold-standard stewardship experience for donors and fundraisers who support Held In Our Hearts, being actively involved across the cycle of a relationship before, during and after a gift or activity.

You will work with fundraising colleagues to develop and lead on creative, impactful, and engaging fundraising activities that empower supporters and ensure sustainable income for our services.

We are seeking someone with warmth, empathy, initiative, and energy – someone who thrives on connecting with people, meeting targets, and inspiring individuals and communities to make a difference.

This role requires travel across Scotland, including to our Craiglockhart Office, and to attend events and engagement

opportunities, this will also result in some weekend and evening work, for which time off in lieu will be given.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how Waverley Care engages supporters online while playing a central role in growing our fundraising impact. You’ll lead on creating innovative, engaging, and data driven digital campaigns that inspire people to support our mission and ensure more people across Scotland can access the help they need.

Part of the Marketing & Communications Team, you’ll work closely with Fundraising colleagues to design and deliver campaigns that build awareness, generate income, and strengthen supporter relationships.

This role is ideal for someone who combines creativity with analytical thinking, a natural storyteller who can bring our cause to life online, while also using data and insights to refine and improve performance. As part of our small but ambitious team, you’ll have the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, shape how we connect with audiences, and directly contribute to achieving zero new HIV transmission in Scotland by 2030.

Responsibilities include:

Collaborate with the Fundraising Team to design and deliver digital marketing strategies that drive lead generation, event sign-ups, and supporter engagement.

Produce engaging, high-quality content for websites, blogs, social media, and email campaigns that highlight Waverley Care’s impact and motivates supporters to take action.

Work closely with colleagues across fundraising and the Health Improvement Team to source powerful stories and ensure messaging is authentic, accurate, and impact-driven.

Attend fundraising challenges and events (which may take place outside normal office hours) to capture, create, and share compelling digital content in real time.

Manage and grow Waverley Care’s digital presence across multiple platforms, ensuring campaigns reach the right audiences and achieve fundraising and engagement goals.

Foster online relationships with donors, supporters, and partners, including donor acknowledgements and interactive engagement on social media.

Work with the Individual Giving Manager, Marketing & Communications Team, and external agencies to plan and execute individual giving campaigns that deliver measurable results.

Implement effective SEO strategies to increase visibility of fundraising initiatives and manage Google Grants campaigns to optimise reach.

Use analytics tools to monitor website and campaign performance, track user behaviour, and provide actionable insights to improve digital fundraising outcomes.

Explore and test new digital platforms, tools, and approaches to maximise supporter reach and fundraising opportunities.

Ensure all digital activity complies with fundraising regulations, GDPR, and digital marketing best practices. Ensure all digital content is consistent with Waverley Care’s brand, tone of voice, and values - helping to challenge stigma, promote inclusivity, and share positive stories.

About you

You’re a confident communicator and creative thinker with a passion for digital engagement and storytelling that motivates people to take action. Organised and detail-oriented, you thrive in a busy environment and enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues across marketing & communications, fundraising and service delivery.

You’ll bring hands-on experience in setting up, managing, and reviewing digital campaigns, with skills spanning website CMS (ideally WordPress), email marketing/CRM platforms, social media management, and SEO/analytics. You’re comfortable using data to inform decisions and are always looking for opportunities to test, learn, and optimise performance. Above all, you’re proactive, adaptable, and motivated by impact.

You can balance competing deadlines without losing sight of the bigger picture: using digital marketing to grow Waverley Care’s fundraising and help ensure that anyone affected by HIV or hepatitis C can access the support they need.

Circle is a registered charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. We work with families facing multiple disadvantages because of structural inequality, poverty, drug and alcohol use, imprisonment, physical or mental health, trauma, abuse and loss. We believe that every child, no matter their background or circumstances, should have the support they need to live a happy and healthy life.

Circle is seeking a skilled and relationship-driven Fundraising Officer with experience working with trusts and foundations and a talent for turning real stories into compelling funding applications. You’ll work closely with colleagues across our projects — spending time in services, gathering insight, and grounding every application in lived experience. Strong analytical skills, excellent written communication, and confidence using content management systems and digital tools are essential.

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, organised, and committed to equality and inclusion. You’ll be a creative storyteller, an effective collaborator, and someone who thrives on building relationships. If you’re passionate about making a difference for children and families — and you prefer to be out meeting people rather than writing in isolation — we’d love to hear from you.