Who We Are

Human Appeal is a global non-profit humanitarian and development organisation. We deliver life-saving emergency assistance such as food, medical aid, and disaster relief. At the same time, we run sustainable, community-led programmes in healthcare, education, and livelihoods to build resilience and self-reliance. Our experienced local teams work in vulnerable, hard-to-reach areas. Guided by a vision of a just, caring, and sustainable world, our mission is to save lives, alleviate poverty, and empower communities in line with the core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Position Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Officer (North) position within the Fundraising department based at our office in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. As Fundraising Officer, you will be identifying, planning, and managing a range of regional fundraising campaigns and meet annual income targets by ensuring regional fundraising activities are undertaken at agreed levels of return on investment. Also exploring new innovative fundraising opportunities, as well as more traditional events, exhibitions, conferences and dinner. All in order to build awareness of Human Appeal (HA) projects and donor relationships. Increase income generation/donations year on year, to contribute towards the fundraising (FR) strategy and growth, for HA beneficiaries.

Main Responsibilities

• Promote and wholly adhere to the fundraising code of conduct and best practice by understanding its ruling and conducting FR events within its parameters in order to safeguard HA, maintain high professional standards and maintaining HA public image.
• Develop, nurture and maintain relationships with current/potential donors, charity partners, organizations and businesses in the region, via networking (face to face and social media) and creating a regular presence within respected regions, in order to establish trust, help secure donations and promote awareness across a wide range of target markets.
• Establish clear lines of communications in the region by being the main point of contact between local organisations and HA. This will involve negotiating agreements, generating leads, managing events, providing assistance/HA branding materials and liaising centrally with the Head Office Fundraising Department, in order to improve interdepartmental efficiency, maximize fundraising potential, and ensure value for money.
• Manage various engaging fundraising projects/activities by arranging dinners, concerts, speaker tours and conferences to capture and maintain the public eye throughout the year and raise income with a return on investment.
• Manage and nurture a network of regional volunteers in line with the volunteer recruitment strategy by collaborating with the Volunteers team, hosting recruitment events, providing training and HA materials, and providing formal feedback to the Volunteers team. To help develop volunteer recruitment process, provide a mutually beneficial volunteers program and support HA to gain loyal organizational manpower.
• Providing support to FR colleagues when necessary by attending and contributing positively to FR regional/national meetings, understanding support needs and providing this to colleagues especially during peak periods (e.g Ramadan). To help support a positive working environment, help distribute manpower and ensure smooth running of FR operations.
• Help identify, develop and manage new/innovative regional fundraising opportunities and emergency campaigns (events, exhibitions, conferences, partnerships) by adopting a responsive, opportunistic, strategic and timely approach (S.W.O.T analysis) to wider global events and local community events/trends. To ensure HA is responsive and adapting to a changing environment locally and internationally and to demonstrate breadth to our donors.
• Maintain internal procedures/administration such as donor management system, account management system, and cash counting protocols by ensuring information input securely in a timely fashion to help maintain internal control and mitigation of risk.
• Secure all income logs by ensuring they are filed correctly and that cash is bagged, sealed, tagged and banked in line with protocol to create and maintain HA funds, create an audit trail and maintain a failsafe for HA.
• Broadly assist in and contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HA’s fundraising plan in the region to help create an achievable fundraising plan.
• Adhere to the charities policies and procedures, e.g. fundraising code of conduct, Health & Safety at Work, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection Act 1998, Equal Opportunities, Company Handbook, Quality Management System, Investor in People, etc. at all times in order to maintain high professional standards and maintain HA’s public image.
• Demonstrate on-going professional development through reflective practice and participation in internal and external development opportunities as evidenced in a Continuing Professional Development plan, taking a proactive role in own learning and development activities (e.g. private study, e-learning) to benefit self and HA for the future.
• Manage a team within fundraising when required and develop a strong fundraising portfolio to effectively lead and support in house FR team during events.
• Contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HA’s (annual) fundraising plan by overseeing budgets and expenditure, monitoring and reporting on income generation in line with projects, reporting on variance and taking responsibility for achieving and exceeding income targets. All to deliver efficiency, value and FR targets.
• Take on board other duties in line with FR strategy as per the request of the Head of FR in order to ensure HA’s adaptability to change and maintain growth.