Regular Giving and Engagement Officer

Who are Habs?

We are a diverse community, and we nurture a global perspective and a deep sense of responsibility for the world in which our pupils will lead and succeed. Our broad curriculum and co-curricular provision prepare pupils for success wherever their passion may take them. Ambition, Curiosity, Courage and Community are the core beliefs that we stand for here at Habs.

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Role: Regular Giving and Engagement Officer

Lines of Reporting: Reporting to the Head of Supporter Engagement

Hours: 40 hours per week. This role is full time and year-round.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of Supporter Engagement, the Regular Giving and Engagement Officer will play a central role in delivering annual giving campaigns, including giving days, telephone campaigns and/or direct mail appeals.
• The postholder will also play a key role within the foundation team in expanding efforts to build a warm and mutually supportive ‘Habs community’ of alumni, parents, staff, students and friends at both schools. This will include working with the Head of Supporter Engagement to deliver a full and varied events programme, including the annual Old Haberdashers Day, and regular communications and publications through a variety of media.
• As with all staff at both schools, the postholder will be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of any children and young persons for whom they are responsible or with whom they come into contact.

The role will include but not be limited to the following principal duties:

Development

• Support the Head of Supporter Engagement in planning and delivering the annual Habs Giving Day and at least one other annual mass appeal (e.g., telephone campaign, direct mail) aimed at driving participation in giving from throughout the Habs community
• Cultivate and solicit low-to-midlevel gifts from a portfolio of prospective donors as time and aptitude allow
• Identify prospective major donors from within the annual giving donor pool
• Assist the Director of Development and the foundation team in implementing fundraising initiatives for bursaries & scholarships, building projects and other school priorities
• Assist with planning and delivering donor engagement, recognition and stewardship activities for alumni and parent donors/prospects
• Maintain warm professional relationships with donors by phone, email, post and in person
• Research prospects and donors using appropriate and GDPR-compliant channels
• Work with the parents’ guilds at both schools on fundraising and engagement activities as appropriate

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of central role in delivering successful annual fundraising appeals
• Demonstrable experience of working as part of a team to plan and deliver large-scale events with multiple constituencies
• Strong organisational and multi-tasking abilities
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to prioritise own schedule and work to strict deadlines
• Evidence of the effective use of a variety of social media channels to advance an institution’s mission (especially LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram)

Desirable

• Experience securing philanthropic gifts of four figures or more from individual donors
• Evidence of a successful track record in alumni relations, donor stewardship and/or volunteer engagement programmes
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Previous work in an academic environment
• Demonstrable experience of using a CRM database (ideally Raiser’s Edge)
• Evidence of delivering social media communications campaigns on a variety of platforms
• Experience maintaining an alumni networking/mentoring platform (ideally Graduway)

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Appreciation of and sympathy for the objectives of an independent school
• Willing to work outside normal working hours as required
• A warm, friendly and highly professional manner in interactions with alumni, students, parents, staff and external agencies
• Ability to work collaboratively and constructively within a small team in a demanding work environment
• Capable of assuming responsibility for a wide number of tasks with a minimum of direction and supervision
• Excellent organisational skills with an ability to plan, prioritise and meet deadlines
• A professional, flexible and proactive attitude

Desirable

• A familiarity with the Haberdashers’ family of schools is a plus.

What we are offering:

• A salary of up to £40,000, dependant on the successful candidate’s experience •
• A strong commitment to professional development, with a substantial budget for whole school training and individual courses
• Enrolment into the Schools’ pension scheme with up to a 12% employer contribution based on a 5% employee contribution.
• Generous holiday entitlement up to 40 days including bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles)
• Group Life Assurance (4 x salary)
• Free lunches, other meals and refreshments
• Free coach travel on the service provided by the School (subject to availability)
• Tax free bicycles for work through the Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free use of the state-of-the-art sports centres, including fitness suite, swimming pool and squash courts
• Annual flu vaccination
• Employee Assistance Programme

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools' is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.