Fundraising Officer, Centre for Alternative Technology

Closing deadline for applications 15th May 2023.

This is an opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work in our fantastic, skilled Fundraising Team on exciting and ambitious campaigns. The role offers many opportunities to develop fundraising skills and experience.

CAT’s Fundraising Team is responsible for raising vital funds for CAT’s core and project work from individuals, trusts and foundations, statutory bodies and companies. This is essential for CAT to fulfill its charitable mission – to inform, inspire and enable people to take action for a sustainable future. The post-holder will play an essential role within this team, helping to steward, inspire and engage current and potential supporters and members.

Supporter care and fundraising co-ordination: The post-holder will be accountable for establishing stronger and more effective relationships with supporters and leads. They will help maintain and increase levels of engagement through consistent, outstanding supporter care (customer service) and efficient coordination of communications (including outbound mail, email and phone).

Working with data: The post-holder will also play a crucial administrative role, including regularly collecting, processing and recording income for the team and thanking supporters. They will complete various important business controls and processes on a regular basis, so that financial and supporter data can be accurately and appropriately tracked. These aspects of the role provide the postholder with valuable opportunities to develop their skills and experience with using MS Excel and databases, with CAT supporting them to achieve relevant CPD training as required.

Gaining other fundraising/marketing experience: An important and exciting aspect of the role is to support the team’s income generation activities in a variety of ways. The nature of this work may be tailored, to some extent, to the abilities and interests of the post-holder. For instance, there will be plenty of opportunities to develop their skills in copywriting, writing applications for funding from charitable trusts, managing creative design work, data analysis, community fundraising, digital fundraising, major donor and legacy fundraising, events fundraising, and corporate partnerships.

The post-holder is likely to work closely and share many of the below responsibilities with another Fundraising Officer as well as other colleagues.

Full details on the role and how to apply can be found here.