Position: Community Fundraising Officer – Maternity Cover

Reporting to: Head of Fundraising

Type: 1-year fixed term contract – Maternity Cover

Overview

Make-A-Wish Ireland grants the wishes of children aged between 3 and 17 years living with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Since 1992, Make-A-Wish Ireland has granted wishes for more than 3,500 brave children across the country.

Make-A-Wish Ireland is hiring a community fundraising officer to join their team. This role will play a key contributor to our community fundraising programmes.

Salary depends on previous experience.

Key Responsibilities

As the Community Fundraising Officer, your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and executing community-driven fundraising campaigns aligned with Make-A-Wish Ireland’s fundraising strategy.

• Oversee and project manage selected mass participation, challenge and digital events.

• To assess and proactively steward registered participants as per their supporter journey. This could include undertaking welcome calls, sending supporter communications, providing ongoing fundraising support, following up non-payments, personalised thanking, and supporter surveys. This can be done across a range of channels including mail, email, and telephone, online and face to face.

• Creating compelling content strategies encompassing videos, social media posts, and communication materials to enhance engagement and drive fundraising efforts within the community.

• Ensuring proper data management, including CRM logging of fundraisers, efficient communication, and prompt acknowledgment of their contributions.

• Recruit and coordinate volunteers for events.

• To produce high quality analysis reports for activities, including recommendations to inform and improve future fundraising.

Experience/Skills:

Your qualifications and skills should include:

• 1+ years’ fundraising/marketing experience, preferably in community and digital fundraising for a charitable organization.

• Relevant fundraising or digital marketing qualifications.

• Proficiency in digital marketing tools and understanding of supporter journeys.

• Experience collaborating with external agencies and basic IT skills.

• Strong communication (written, verbal, and interpersonal), organizational, and administrative capabilities.

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, team-oriented, detail-oriented, and adaptable.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Robust, confident, ‘can-do’ attitude that thrives on challenges and remains calm under pressure.

• Comfortable working under pressure and to deadlines.

• Target driven & focused on results.