Marketing And Fundraising Manager in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £40,000 per year

Recruiter: Human Appeal

Job Hours: Full-time

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Marketing and Fundraising Manager

Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for Marketing and Fundraising Manager to join our team based in Birmingham. You will join us on a full-time basis as part of an initial 1-year fixed term contract with a view to progressing into a permanent role. In return, you will receive a £40,000 per annum depending on your experience.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As Marketing and Fundraising Manager, the successful candidate will play an integral role in aiding the International British Waqf. International British Waqf is a newly established organisation founded by Human Appeal. The aim of this organisation is to raise fund for investment, invest the raised fund in Shariah compliant investment projects and utilise the profit to further the charitable objectives of the International British Waqf. The Waqf Marketing Unit aims at marketing the Waqf products and services and raising funds for Waqf. The main function of the unit is to establishing and sustaining strong relationships with individual and institutional donors as well as to provide support to both HA Partners (including the Middle East and Emerging Markets) and field offices of Human Appeal. This is achieved through marketing of activities, issuing publications and all the relevant marketing collateral, online and offline, to empower Partners to promote and raise funds for the Waqf.

We are ideally looking to appoint somebody immediately to this role.

Benefits of joining us as our Marketing and Fundraising Manager include:
•35 days Annual Leave
•Matched pension contribution
•Employee discounts and memberships
•Prayer facilities
•Opportunity to really make a difference!

Key duties and responsibilities of the Marketing and Fundraising Manager:

Ensure developing marketing and fundraising strategic plan that include targeting institutions and individuals through various means, including (personal visits - via the website - social media – emails, and any other means)

· Increasing the rates of collecting funds from institutions and individuals on an annual basis (the fundraising target is approved by senior management)

· Increasing online conversion - increasing page values on the Internet - increasing our customer acquisition rate

· Ensuring the development of the fundraising department by appointing employees with relevant skill set in various fields to achieve the department’s goals

· Ensure maintaining good working relationships with Human Appeal’s partners through direct communication and visits to increase income for Waqf.

· Ensure maintaining good working relationships with all Human Appeal’s fundraising units related to raising funds and providing them with all relevant Waqf marketing materials and obtaining the necessary information.

· Ensure full coordination with the Waqf’s Programme department and exchanging information to develop marketing plans for investment projects · Ensure communication with donors and provide them with good satisfactory experience about Waqf.

· Taking responsibility for managing and expanding the current fundraising program to meet and exceed agreed fundraising goals, by achieving income growth, donor growth (year on year) and achieving annual income goals.

· Develop a strong fundraising portfolio to lead and support internal fundraising teams during events.

· Ensure Waqf’s national and international fundraising events are well supported, run effectively and delivered regularly, providing quality assurance in line with Health and Safety, Customer Satisfaction, Complaints Management and the Fundraising Organisers' Code of Conduct.

· Increase the number of volunteers and ambassadors for the organisation.

What we’re looking for in our Marketing and Fundraising Manager:

Must hold university degree (preferably in management, marketing, investment or any other relevant subjects)

Digital / Marketing related qualification

Relevant professional qualification CIM – desirable

Minimum 3 – 5 years experience in a similar marketing and fundraising role

Experience in managing relationships with, or working for, a digital / marketing agency.

Experience in using analytics and monitoring tools to report on complex qualitative and quantitative data, with the ability to analyse and present information, compile reports, and make informed recommendations

Minimum proven track record of project and events management with a minimum of 2 years’ experience.

MS Office Suite

Social media tools, including Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, and Sprout Social.

Experience of using Google Analytics, Adwords, Double Click, Facebook Business Manager, and Bing Ads.

Fluent written and spoken English is essential. Additional languages . Arabic and Urdu are desirable.

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success please click ‘apply’ today to become our Marketing and Fundraising Manager – we would love to hear from you.