Vacancies

About LIVES

At LIVES we save lives in Lincolnshire. When someone calls 999 with a medical emergency a LIVES responder may be dispatched carrying the skills, experience, and equipment to make a difference for that patient that might just be the difference between life and death. In a large rural county like Lincolnshire that’s important, and it’s why we’ve been responding for over 50 years.

We are a charity, and our reach and impact has grown significantly over the last few years as we’ve developed new models and services for supporting the communities of our county. We’ve got an army of volunteers, both laypeople and healthcare professionals, and a small, employed team of both administrative and clinical people. We’re based in Horncastle, but we operate right across the county of Lincolnshire, including the North and Northeast.

Every member of the LIVES team is vital to delivering the best outcome for patients, from the volunteer Community First Responder (CFR) and Medical First Responders (MFR)s attending a cardiac arrest, to experienced health care professionals bringing advanced treatments into the community. To enable all this to happen, LIVES is supported by a team of dedicated people across various departments, all united in the mission to save lives and improve patient outcomes across Lincolnshire. This role is part of that team.

Employment Details

Job Title: Fundraising Officer

Location: Hybrid

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours a week

Salary: £26-28k

Responsible to: Fundraising Manager

Responsibilities of the Role

The Fundraising Officer is an integral role within our small fundraising team with responsibility for looking after our supporters and donors. You will be responsible for ensuring our current supporters are engaged, retained, and uplifted through using relevant and segmented approaches across all channels. You will be responsible for supporter journeys across all individual giving streams including growing the database and increasing regular giving income. You will work with the Marketing Manager to ensure that campaigns are executed professionally and are underpinned by appropriate messaging. At its heart you’ll provide the highest level of stewardship to our supporters.

Main Duties

• Engaging, stewarding, and motivating key stakeholders including event committees and high value volunteers to drive forward and succeed in event fundraising.
• Delivering a schedule of planned fundraising direct marketing activities including appeals and supporter newsletters.
• Developing and growing regular giving income via Direct Debit, payroll giving and lottery.
• Working with the marketing team to develop end-to-end campaign processes, including brief development, design, copy, data selections, print, production, postage, and digital components as part of integrated campaigns.
• Oversee donor stewardship event planning to ensure they meet fundraising, cultivation, and stewardship goals.
• Working with the Fundraising Manager, develop a detailed data brief for each campaign that is fully informed by developing supporter insight.
• Analysing campaign results and produce reports to support, develop and inform future decision making.
• Undertaking supporter care roles as required, including dealing with telephone, post and email enquiries, donation processing, merchandise, and event attendance.
• Ensure due diligence research of all types (including donor identification, gift declarations, ethical checks, and audit requirements) is completed.
• Ensure that best practice is followed with respect to GDPR and safeguarding in relation to prospect & donor information storage, processing, and communication.

*This job description should be regarded as a guide to the current duties required of the postholder, and is not definitive or restrictive in anyway. The duties of this post may vary in response to changing circumstances and according to training and operational need.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/02/2025
Expected start date: 01/04/2025

Closing Date: 28th February 2025

Grants & Trusts Fundraiser

About LIVES

At LIVES we literally save lives in Lincolnshire. When someone calls 999 with a medical emergency a LIVES responder may be dispatched carrying the skills, experience and equipment to make a difference for that patient that might just be the difference between life and death. In a large rural county like Lincolnshire that’s important, and it’s why we’ve been responding for over 50 years.

We are a charity, and our reach and impact has grown significantly over the last few years as we’ve developed new models and services for supporting the communities of our county. We’ve got an army of volunteers, both laypeople and healthcare professionals, and a small employed team of both administrative and clinical people. We’re based in Horncastle, but we operate right across the county of Lincolnshire, including the North and North East.

Every member of the LIVES team is vital to delivering the best outcome for patients, from the volunteer Community First Responder (CFR) and Medical First Responders (MFR)s attending a cardiac arrest, to experienced health care professionals bringing advanced treatments into the community. To enable all this to happen, LIVES is supported by a teams of dedicated people across various departments, all united in the mission to save lives and improve patient outcomes across Lincolnshire. This role is part of that team.

Employment Details

Job Title: Grants & Trusts Fundraiser

Location: Office/Hybrid/Remote

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours (part time also considered)

Salary: £30-34k (pro rata if part time)

Responsible to: Fundraising Manager

Purpose:

As the Grants & Trusts Fundraiser you will work closely with the Fundraising and Operations teams and be responsible for the successful grants and fundraising activity for core and project-based work, as well as developing new income generation opportunities, to support the long-term sustainability of the organisation.

You will identify, research and manage a portfolio of funding opportunities, as well as preparing and submitting high quality, tailored applications. You will manage the relationship with our funders and will provide timely, accurate and engaging reports that keep funders informed and engaged with the value of our work and the difference that we make.

This is an exciting new post where you be working alongside small Fundraising and Marketing teams to generate income for both core and programme funding.

You will need:

• Experience in a fundraising role for a charity, with the ability to demonstrate your capacity to achieve (or exceed) financial targets through successful applications to Trusts, Foundations and Grants.
• The ability to develop and manage relationships, both internally and externally.
• To work on your own initiative, managing your own time and performance.
• To have strong communication skills – both written and verbal.
• To be an excellent collaborator, engaging proactively with operations teams to understand project needs and develop meaningful fundraising bids that align with their plans and goals.

Responsibilities will involve, but are not limited to:

Grants, Fundraising and Other Income Generation:

• Work with the Fundraising Manager, to identify, apply for and secure funding through appropriate and successful grant and tender applications.
• Undertake regular prospect research to identify potential funding streams and prioritise opportunities based around local, community, and organisational need.
• Produce engaging impact reports
• Maintain and strengthen relationships with current and future funders and supporters.
• Support Support the scoping of alternative / additional sources of funding, such as corporate sponsorship.
• Maintain and manage effective electronic records through Donorfy in support of all fundraising and grant application duties.
• Work with the wider LIVES team and beneficiaries, to write up appropriate case studies to support income generation.
• Assisting where required with charity events.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: £30,000.00-£34,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Horncastle LN9 6SB

Application deadline: 28/02/2025
Expected start date: 01/04/2025

Closing Date: 28th February 2025

Fundraising Manager

About LIVES

At LIVES we literally save lives in Lincolnshire. When someone calls 999 with a medical emergency a LIVES responder may be dispatched carrying the skills, experience, and equipment to make a difference for that patient that might just be the difference between life and death. In a large rural county like Lincolnshire that’s important, and it’s why we’ve been responding for over 50 years.

We are a charity, and our reach and impact has grown significantly over the last few years as we’ve developed new models and services for supporting the communities of our county. We’ve got an army of volunteers, both laypeople and healthcare professionals, and a small, employed team of both administrative and clinical people. We’re based in Horncastle, but we operate right across the county of Lincolnshire, including the North and Northeast.

Every member of the LIVES team is vital to delivering the best outcome for patients, from the volunteer Community First Responder (CFR) attending a cardiac arrest, to experienced health care professionals bringing advanced treatments into the community or an educator sharing their lifesaving skills with others in the community.

To enable all this to happen, LIVES is supported by a team of dedicated people across various departments, all united in the mission to save lives and improve patient outcomes across Lincolnshire. This role is part of that team.

Employment Details

Job Title: Fundraising Manager

Location: Hybrid/Remote

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours

Salary: £36 – 39k

Reports to: Chief Executive

Responsibilities of the Role

This role is a combination of :

• Managing and developing the fundraising team
• Developing and managing plans to deliver on agreed KPIs including income generation targets
• Delivering and individual fundraising income target in an agreed area of specialism

Team Development & Management:

• Line manage the Fundraising Team, providing leadership, guidance, and professional development to ensure the team achieves its targets and grows in capacity.
• Empower, support and train fundraising volunteers, ensuring they are confident ambassadors who deliver consistent messaging and outcomes.
• Foster a culture of collaboration across departments, ensuring the integration of fundraising efforts with marketing, volunteer engagement, and education teams.
• Lead volunteer fundraising committees, ensuring they are equipped and motivated to recruit and grow fundraising efforts at both community and HQ events.

Fundraising Income Generator

• Deliver against an individual income generation target in one or more of the following areas:

Supporter Engagement & Individual Giving:

• Oversee the development and execution of supporter journeys across all individual giving streams, ensuring donor retention and engagement through segmented communication strategies. This includes developing clear processes for these segmentations and regularly claiming Gift aid through the CRM.
• Lead the relaunch and growth of regular giving programmes ensuring that fundraising targets are met or exceeded.
• Work with Marketing to manage end-to-end campaign processes, including design, data selection, digital components, and reporting.
• Develop and implement a major donor and legacy giving strategy, focusing on building long-term relationships and securing significant unrestricted and restricted donations.
• Build trusted relationships with mid and high-level donors by creating and implementing tailored cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans.
• Lead the solicitation of significant and principal gifts, working directly with donors or through a peer-to-peer approach where appropriate.
• Oversee donor stewardship events, ensuring they meet cultivation, fundraising, and stewardship goals.
• Work with senior staff and trustees to engage them in peer-to-peer major donor programs and events, increasing donor engagement and contributions.
• Ensure that all donor identification, ethical checks, due diligence, and gift declarations are compliant with GDPR and safeguarding requirements.

OR

Trusts and Foundations:

• Research and identify trust and foundation opportunities, targeting small to medium grants.
• Prepare and submit well-researched applications that are aligned with the charity’s goals and meet the funders objectives.
• Ensure timely, accurate and engaging reporting to funders.

Data, Finance, and Reporting:

• Support and contribute to the annual planning process to set fundraising targets and forecasts.
• Develop, deliver, monitor and report on campaign performance, including delivering regular reports, and analyse results to inform future decision-making and strategy adjustments.
• Ensuring the data is current and actionable.
• Collaborate with the finance and marketing teams to ensure accurate data tracking, reporting, and compliance with GDPR across all fundraising activities.
• Complete timely gift aid claims and ensure all are compliant.

General:

• Be a subject matter expert on fundraising including innovative approaches, best practices and standards.
• Stay updated with sector trends and best practices, bringing innovative ideas and approaches to the fundraising strategy.
• Assist the fundraising team with supporter care as needed, including managing enquiries, processing donations, and event support.
• Participate actively in team meetings and planning sessions

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £36,000.00-£39,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/02/2025
Expected start date: 01/04/2025

Closing Date: 28th February 2025