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Jewish Child’s Day – National Community Fundraising Coordinator

Mon-Thurs/30 hours

Salary £28K-£32K FTE – commensurate on experience + travel/fuel costs

Job Summary

If you are committed to improving the lives of children and are passionate about the welfare and wellbeing of children and young people, then we want to hear from you!

Jewish Child’s Day is looking for a motivated, organised, and proactive individual with experience of working in the Jewish community setting to help us develop a new outreach strategy throughout the UK.

This is an exciting time to join our unique charity, as we seek to expand and grow our programmes, creating meaningful engagement projects with external organisations around the UK to enable Jewish Child’s Day to find the next generation of supporters. 

Candidate Profile

This is an innovative and new role within the JCD family primarily looking at creating strong and active relationships across the Jewish communities within the UK.  Therefore, the successful candidate should be able to travel at times to main centres of Jewish population in the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is forward thinking and proactive in canvassing exciting new relationships both within the communal and corporate sectors to increase growth and loyal support of Jewish Child’s Day’s key objectives. 

We aim to strengthen our brand by connecting with the regions to identify how best to reach the various demographics.

The successful candidate will be required to create, develop, and engage with communities nationally, launching fresh initiatives and developing new fundraising streams. You will act as an Ambassador for JCD, be warm, friendly and confident in public speaking, have strong organisational skills to grow this area and excellent communication skills to liaise with all cross communal communities, both young and old. 

Your responsibilities will include working alongside the fundraising team and connect with youth, schools, synagogues, communities, students, and young professionals to increase awareness and scope out fundraising opportunities within these areas, including developing a young patron’s programme.

One of the primary responsibilities of this role is to create and introduce a new programme for JCD with the objective of launching an annual national fundraising campaign in December 2023. Working alongside the fundraising & marketing team, you will play a pivotal role in driving fundraising efforts, working collaboratively with your colleagues to achieve our shared goals. Specifically, you will be responsible for spearheading some of the key fundraising initiatives.

Job Description: Key responsibilities and specifications

Key Responsibilities

Recruitment process 

• Closing date for applications Monday 17th July 2023
• Working days based at NW London Office: Mon-Thurs – flexible hybrid working pattern will be considered.
• Salary £28K-£32K FTE – commensurate on experience + travel expenses.

(Holiday entitlement: 20 days plus bank holidays and Jewish holidays)

How to apply 

• Refer to JCD’s website for information.
• Your CV: We advise that a CV should consist of no more than 1 side of A4 – this should also contain key achievements relevant to this role.
• Personal Statement: We ask for a personal statement addressing the person specification to support your application. This should also include your interest in the role and how you and your experience would add value to JCD.
• You should submit your application to natalie.kustow@jcd.uk.com
• You will receive an acknowledgement, normally within 3 working days.
• For further information or if you have any questions, please contact: natalie.kustow@jcd.uk.com