Overview
Community Fundraiser – St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne
About us:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.
We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.
We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.
The Role:
Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.
As a registered charity our services are provided free of charge, with 70% of our funding provided by voluntary donations, gifts and wider activities where our Fundraising and Retail teams have strong connections and participation with the local community.
The Community Fundraiser is part of the Community Fundraising Team within the Development Department, reporting to the Community Fundraising Manager.
The purpose of this role is to:
- Implement a successful programme of fundraising from the local community to an agreed annual target
- Develop new community relationships
- Maintain and develop existing community relationships
Benefits included:
- We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Employee assistance programmes
- Additional training opportunities
- Supportive working environment
- We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; part time hours and working between the office and home.
- 10% discount in the hospice Street Café.
If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on 01323 434209 or email recruitment@stwhospice.org
If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Sarah Marsh, Head of Community Fundraising on Sarah.Marsh@stwhospice.org.
Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
