Fundraising Officer & Marketing Officer

Surrey Wildlife Trust is the only local organisation dedicated to ensuring Surrey is a place where both abundant wildlife and people can live and thrive together. 

We are inviting you to bring your creativity and skills to help us connect nature in Surrey.

We are looking for 2 roles - a confident, proactive and creative fundraiser to seek out opportunities and build productive relationships using excellent communication skills and an experienced marketing campaigns professional who can lead on developing and implementing fundraising campaigns. 

Marketing Officer - You will have run multi-channel campaigns, targeting warm and cold prospects to generate fundraising income. You will be adept at managing campaigns for a variety of audiences including individuals and organisations and have the ability to test, learn and adapt new techniques to fundraising to optimise appeals and campaigns.

Working alongside a talented team of marketeers and fundraisers you will project manage campaigns including individual giving appeals, membership recruitment campaigns, public engagement campaigns, legacy development and Community fundraising campaigns.  

A wide range of channel marketing experience is key, including direct marketing, social media advertising, event fundraising, PR activity and digital marketing techniques.

Fundraising Officer - In this exciting and challenging new role you will be working with individuals and businesses, and contribute to building all of our income streams including Corporate partnerships, Major Donors, Membership and Legacies, to secure financial support for the Trust’s work to help the wildlife of Surrey.

Using existing leads plus building new relationships, your creative flair will generate compelling content and proposals tailored to different audiences and feed into press releases, newsletters, pitches and social media posts.  There are real opportunities to shine whilst promoting our essential aim to connect nature.

Travel across Surrey will be a necessary part of the role to visit our projects, sites, donors and other partners. 

About Surrey Wildlife Trust

Our head office is based in Pirbright, and our hybrid working policy aims to provide a good work/life balance which can incorporate partial home working whilst having an interesting working environment.  The salary offered to successful applicants will form part of a benefits package including: above minimum pension contributions, life assurance of 4 x salary, employee support scheme, 22 days holiday, flexible / hybrid working policy.

We are committed to having an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourage applications from backgrounds which may be underrepresented in our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. 

We aim to offer an interview to all candidates that meet the essential criteria for the post.  Please let us know if you require any adjustment to make our recruitment process more accessible.

Please look at the full job profile to see if you match our criteria and would enjoy working with motivated, passionate, wildlife friendly nature professionals and fundraising experts.

If this is the role for you, please send a completed application form, available at www.surreywildlifetrust.org or send a full CV and covering letter to Sadie Miller, Fundraising Manager  (sadie.miller@surreywt.org.uk).

The deadline for applications is midday Monday 12^th September 2022. 

Guided by a collaborative vision where we all play a part in connecting nature, we provide expert advice and guidance to landowners and managers, making sure the land we look after leads by example, while inspiring and educating people and organisations across the county on what they can do. By doing this we will create a Surrey that is full of diverse and abundant wildlife, where nature is at the heart of individual choices, corporate decisions, and local economic and policy making. One that helps tackle the ongoing climate emergency, while supporting the health and wellbeing of all who live here.