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Charity Fundraising Executive
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A remote full-time Charity Fundraising Executive role at Hindawi Foundation, focused on raising funds to expand the reach of Booktime, its free illustrated digital children's books initiative. The role involves donor research, writing proposals and applications, and building relationships with donors and stakeholders.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
- Pay
- GBP 30,000 – 36,000 / year
What you'll do
- Be a strong storyteller able to communicate passionately and persuasively in writing, verbally, via reports, and presentations
- Be comfortable talking about donations and handling sensitive information and situations with discretion
- Aid in creating and maintaining lists and databases of the profiles and fundraising activity of potential private donors, major donors, trusts, philanthropic institutions, and funds
- Write fundraising proposals and applications
- Building relationships with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
What we're looking for
- Must have fundraising experience in the children's digital publishing sector
- Record of identifying donors and raising money, including new business, restricted, and unrestricted funding
- Experience working with both individual and institutional/organisational fundraising
- Up-to-date knowledge of fundraising legislation
- Quality-oriented while meeting deadlines
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong creative and critical thinking skills
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility and willingness to learn
- Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
- Highly capable communicator with excellent relationship-building skills
- Comfortable working cross-culturally
- Passion for books and the power of literature to change lives
Your team
Booktime
One of the Foundation's main initiatives, creating highly illustrated digital children's books and distributing them for free
Benefits
- 28 days of leave, exclusive of bank holidays
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About Hindawi Foundation
An established UK charity. Booktime is one of the Foundation's main initiatives, creating highly illustrated digital children's books distributed for free; its books are read by millions of people every year.
Mission
To inspire a love of reading and enable access to knowledge
Key facts
- Charity
- Established UK charity
- Booktime is one of the Foundation's main initiatives
- Books are read by millions of people every year