Individual Giving Assistant

Do you want to start a career in fundraising and/or the environmental movement? Are you good at communicating, managing your time, and working in a team?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-starting person to join us as our new Individual Giving Assistant. You’ll support the rest of the Individual Giving Team with day-to-day tasks as well as have the opportunity to manage small projects yourself. You’ll help facilitate the team’s work across the rest of Friends of the Earth, building and maintaining relationships with colleagues in different teams and all the time learning how an environmental campaigning organisation operates.

This is a fixed term contract of 12 months and will act as a great springboard for a career in fundraising. The role can be based in any of our offices or from home.

You do NOT need a degree for this job, and we’re keen for this role to be an entry point into fundraising and the environment movement for people who do not tend to see themselves represented in these areas, in order to build an inclusive and stronger movement.

Key Skills and Attributes: 

You must be a good communicator, organised, proactive, and enjoy working with others.

You do not need experience of fundraising but you do need enthusiasm for learning about it and curiosity about people and their motivations for giving.

Are you committed to social and environmental justice?

Your interest in social and environmental justice will drive you forwards and mean that you’re engaged and aligned with Friends of the Earth’s values and breadth of work.

The team: 

The role is in the supportive, friendly, and high-performing Individual Giving (IG) team, which sits within the Income Generation directorate. This role will be the 12th member of the IG Team.

Our Individual Giving programme covers a diverse range of activities and includes recruiting new supporters, regular giving and cash giving, innovation, and legacy giving (when someone leaves a donation in their will). The programme has evolved hugely over the past few years, with a big increase in our digital activity and collaboration with teams across the organisation (including campaigns, marketing, creative and digital) to create compelling and integrated plans.

The IG Assistant will gain insight into all of these areas and be instrumental to the smooth-running and delivery of the IG programme.

Closing date: 4 September 2022

Location: Flexible across England, Wales and Northern Ireland 

Contract Type: 12 months fixed term contract

Hours: 35

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture. 

Our staff body is currently under-representative of People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ people and people with long term conditions or impairments: We are committed to eroding these historic barriers, to create a movement in which people from all walks of life see themselves in, and so we particularly encourage you to apply if you belong to one of these groups or sit at multiple intersections of disadvantage. We are committed to the Disability Confident standard and will guarantee an interview to any candidates who declare a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.