Salary: £37K – £39K

Contract: Permanent, Full Time (36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday)

Location: Cambridge, St Edmund’s College

St  Edmund’s College, one of the 31 Colleges within the University of Cambridge, is seeking a highly organised and proactive Development Officer to work alongside the Development Team and be responsible for alumni engagement, the College’s regular giving programme and legacy fundraising.

Job responsibilities

Regular Giving & Fundraising Strategy

  • Lead on the implementation of the College’s regular giving strategy and associated annual plan to deliver an all-year-round programme of activity to support the College’s fundraising priorities, working with colleagues to achieve annual income targets.
  • Manage the College’s regular appeal cycle including telephone fundraising campaigns  and digital fundraising appeals like Giving Days or crowd funders.
  • Develop a pool of mid-level (£1k-10k) fundraising prospects and engage them through face-to-face solicitations in support of the College’s Vision.

Legacy Giving

  • Manage a portfolio of legacy pledgers and prospects, maintaining close relationships with each pledger and prospect.
  • Implement agreed legacy giving plans to build the pool of legacy pledgers, achieve annual income targets and long-term legacy income ambitions.
  • Develop effective and appropriate legacy cultivation and stewardship plans and deliver high quality communications to this group of supporters.
  • Project management of legacy marketing campaigns to promote legacy fundraising, including researching, writing and disseminating legacy marketing materials.

Donor Stewardship

  • Utilising the alumni database to ensure all interactions with alumni and donors are recorded, and using Excel to produce in-depth analysis of appeals, supporter behaviour and giving, to best deliver the supporter journey.
  • Manage and regularly review and refresh the donor stewardship process; provide a point of continuity between the point of giving, the immediate mailing of thanks and the ongoing process of donor reporting.
  • Be responsible for keeping a record of donor stewardship requirements and produce donor reports as required, liaising with internal stakeholders as needed.
  • Work closely with the Development Office and Events team on a programme of donor cultivation and stewardship, and alumni events in the UK and overseas.

Alumni Engagement

  • Work with the communications team to provide regular communications to alumni and donors, including generating content for relevant pages on the College website, contributing to College publications and social media sites.
  • Collaborate, where appropriate, with the University of Cambridge’s central Development and Alumni Relations offices, building strong working relationships within the larger collegiate university.
  • Attend Development and Alumni Office events in a networking and relationship-building capacity.

Person Specification

Experience

  • Experience within a similar role.
  • Ability to organise and manage a diverse range of assignments and projects with high efficiency with rigorous attention to detail in presentation.
  • Experience working as part of a team, and of co-operating with individual colleagues.
  • An articulate and confident manner, demonstrating sensitivity and diplomacy in order to develop good relationships.
  • Knowledge of donors’ and charitable giving trends in higher education. (desirable)
  • Proven track record of working in a results-oriented environment e.g. fundraising, sales (desirable)

Skills

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with experience of communicating with a wide variety of audiences including key stakeholders, both internal and external
  • Ability to be persuasive, with keen negotiating skills.
  • Ability to work independently and with little supervision.
  • Proven planning, organisational and prioritising capability.
  • A flexible problem solver, able to think on their feet in a variety of situations whilst interacting with key constituents and stakeholders.
  • Ability to work as a member of a team in a fast-paced environment, and be able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks effectively and efficiently, often with short deadlines.
  • Excellent IT skills, word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and social networking.

Further details of the role can be found in the job description.

As well as a great salary and friendly team you will also receive:

  • Working daily allowance for food and drinks*
  • Free car parking (where available)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
  • Generous pension contributions
  • Discounts at restaurants, shops & more
  • Outdoor gym
  • Death in service
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning & Business Disability Forum

About St Edmund’s College

St Edmund’s College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. Our vibrant student body is made up of around 420 post-graduates and 130 mature undergraduates. With over 260 senior members – academics working at the cutting edge of their field or eminent members of their profession – and around 100 staff, you will be joining a dynamic and growing College with an ambitious vision for our role in shaping the future of higher education and collaborative research.

The maturity of our community means that we have earned a reputation as the friendly college. Relaxed, non-hierarchical and diverse, we pride ourselves on being a place in Cambridge where people of all backgrounds are welcomed, will feel at home and can flourish. Therefore, we welcome all candidates regardless of their demographic characteristics such as gender, race, disability, neurodiversity, religion, age, sex & sexual identity to apply for our opportunities.

How to apply

To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to the HR team at hr@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk.

Closing date for completed applications: 5th May 

Interviews will be held the week commencing: 11th May

If you have informal enquiries about the post, please email the Development Director at kg386@cam.ac.uk.

In applying for this role, you will provide personal data which the College will process in accordance with its data protection obligations and its Data Protection Policy: http://www.stedmunds.cam.ac.uk/data-protection

Any offer of employment is subject to evidence of your right to work in the UK and the receipt of satisfactory references

Please note that this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship, as it does not meet the required criteria.

 

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