Collaboration with other roles

• Work closely with other relevant roles to identify opportunities for integrating fundraising, events, and public awareness campaigns with policy advocacy efforts.
• Support the development and execution of communication strategies that promote fundraising initiatives and events.
• Collaborate on the creation of compelling narratives and messaging that resonate with donors, sponsors, and the wider community.

Person Specification

Skills, knowledge, and experience

• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant field such as nonprofit management, fundraising, event planning, or communications (Desired).
• Organisational: An alignment with Harmless CIC values, ethos, and standards, including a proven commitment to continuous improvement. (Essential)
• Quality: Proven track record in successful and ongoing fundraising and event coordination (Essential) within the not-for-profit sector (Desired).
• Resilience: An ability to identify and respond to an ever-changing external environment that puts us in the best possible position to achieve our fundraising aims and objectives, namely, financial growth and brand awareness (Essential).
• Forward thinking: An ability to identify and maximise opportunities and strengths to the benefit of our stakeholders both in the short term, medium term, and long-term. (Essential) And an ability to identify and respond to disruptions, challenges, and threats from an ever-changing, internal and external environment. (Essential).
• Building Relationships: A history of building effective relationships and maintaining key stakeholder engagement up to senior level and policy level. (Essential).
• Business knowledge: A thorough understanding of Harmless CIC including its commitment to the communities it serves. (Desirable)
• Specialism: Experience in an equivalent role (essential) and extensive knowledge of working in an SME setting or the third sector (Desirable)
• People skills: Working collaboratively across our organisation, operations, and teams, to empower, inform, motivate, and contain our workforce. (Essential).
• Data and insights focus: Ability to read and use available data and/or evidence to make informed decisions, measure success, and monitor performance in line with organisational priorities. (Essential). And an ability to present data and provide insight to help empower and inform the Senior Leadership Team to make responsible decisions. (Essential).
• Meeting targets: A track record of meeting and exceeding key performance indicators (KPIs) targets related to performance, stakeholder feedback, finance, and other key measurables. (Essential).

Benefits

Harmless CIC values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent and supporting colleagues to have great careers. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Four-day working week as standard for all full-time staff with an equivalent pro rata salary for part-time staff.
• 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro rata, on entry, increasing up to 28 days plus bank holidays, pro rata.
• Occupational sick pay up to 24 standard working days per annum
• Employer pension contribution up to 8%.
• Other staff reward and recognition initiatives that operate throughout the year.
• Access to Harmless’ CPD accredited specialist training.
• Access to Harmless’ annual CPD accredited national self harm and suicide prevention conferences.
• Other outstanding CPD opportunities including an opportunity to develop areas of special interest around self harm, suicide prevention, and suicide bereavement.

*These benefits are linked to our employee loyalty programme and gradually increase based on the number of years of continuous employment. More information is available on request.

About us

Harmless is a Community Interest Company – CIC for short. This is a company with social aims, so we operate like a charity but with a great dedication to sustainability.

That means that whilst we seek grant and charitable funding, we also operate a business (our Academy department) which generates income. All the money we raise then goes straight back into the operation to fund vital and life-saving services.

We have different pathways in our service, and different staff working across these pathways, and these also operate in different localities.

Harmless is the registered Company responsible for managing and overseeing a variety of projects and initiatives, including: The Tomorrow Project, The Academy at Harmless and Fearless.