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About the Role
Elephant Family, part of the British Asian Trust, seeks a Fundraising Officer to support the delivery of the Animal Ball, a major fundraising gala. This role is crucial for engaging supporters, partners, and sponsors to raise funds for conservation programs. The position focuses on providing exceptional event experiences and managing key stakeholder relationships.
Responsibilities
- Support the successful delivery of the Animal Ball, including onboarding and stewarding guests, partners, and sponsors.
- Research potential partners and table hosts, and support outreach activities.
- Prepare and tailor pitch decks and partnership proposals for sponsors and fashion houses.
- Manage the guest list and guest communications, ensuring a high-touch, professional experience.
- Log all donor interactions accurately on the CRM.
- Raise invoices, track payments, chase reminders, and reconcile income with the Finance Team.
- Ensure contractual deliverables for corporate partners and sponsors are met.
- Support the development of event materials with the Comms team.
- Provide hands-on support during the event, including registration, stakeholder hosting, fundraising activations, and payment processing.
- Support the team with donor cultivation and donor management, including attending meetings and writing proposals.
- Systematically implement engagement plans and track progress against targets.
- Handle general enquiries related to fundraising.
- Maintain up-to-date records of all communications with donors/prospects in Salesforce.
- Carry out due diligence and prospect research on prospective supporters and partners.
- Ensure timely and high-quality stewardship of gifts, thanking, and reporting.
- Ensure timely processing of invoices and systematic payment monitoring.
- Provide reports on pipeline activity and budgets as required.
- Take the lead on financial processes, ensuring accurate financial information is shared with the Finance Team.
- Provide administrative support across the team, including scheduling meetings and supporting internal projects.
- Undertake other reasonable duties as necessary to meet the needs of the organisation.
Requirements
- Knowledge of and interest in wildlife conservation.
- Experience in a donor-facing or events role within a fundraising team, with an understanding of the expectations of high-net-worth individuals and senior corporate individuals, or related experience from a different sector.
- Experience of fundraising through events and working with key event stakeholders such as table hosts, sponsors, and partners, or related experience from a different sector.
- Exceptional relationship management and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information at the highest level both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to produce high-quality, creative, and compelling materials, including word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
- Strong skills in database management and problem-solving.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with a proven ability to prioritize and manage a varied workload, take initiative, and meet deadlines.
- The ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with others, both within and outside the organisation, demonstrating an understanding of effective team working and partnerships.
- Team player, highly motivated, tenacious, and results-driven with personal gravitas.
- Experience of working within an international development or conservation organisation or charity (Desirable).
- Experience working on a major fundraising gala event or similarly complex high-profile public campaign or project (Desirable).
- Experience of working with budgets (Desirable).
- Experience of working with Salesforce or a similar CRM (Desirable).
- Experience of conducting prospect research and due diligence (Desirable).
Skills
- Relationship management
- Communication
- Database management
- Problem-solving
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- Salesforce or similar CRM (Desirable)
Location
- Hybrid Working with minimum 2 days in the British Asian Trust Offices in West London
Work Type
- Fixed Term
- Hybrid Working
- Evening and weekend working will be required
Experience Level
- Experience of a donor facing or events role within a fundraising team
- Experience of fundraising through events and working with key event stakeholders
- Experience of working within an international development or conservation organisation or charity (Desirable)
- Experience working on a major fundraising gala event or similarly complex high-profile public campaign or project (Desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- GBP 28,000 to GBP 30,000 per annum or prorata
About the Company
- Elephant Family, part of the British Asian Trust, works to protect Asia’s magnificent wildlife in the most joyful and engaging way possible.
- Elephant Family engages its incredible network of supporters and partners through ambitious, unconventional and creative campaigns and events, while also building long-term funding relationships, to raise unrestricted funds for British Asian Trust’s conservation programme.
- The Animal Ball is Elephant Family’s flagship fundraising gala and London’s biggest celebration of the natural world.
- Taking place in summer 2027, it will once again unite art, fashion and philanthropy to safeguard the future of Asian wildlife.