Individual Giving and Communications Manager
Join our team
For over 35 years ADD International has been supporting some of the world’s most remarkable disability activists working on the frontline of discrimination. We give them and their organisations the tools and resources to build powerful movements for change; and we make sure their voices are heard by global leaders and people with the power to make real change.
ADD International is looking for an Individual Giving and Communications Manager to help us to think strategically about the development of all areas of our Individual Giving and Communications work.
Key details
Salary: £33,500 to £37,500 per annum
Location: Home-Based initially – in the UK, Bangladesh, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan or Cambodia. If and when Covid-19 restrictions allow, we would consider the role being office-based in one of our offices in these countries. UK-based applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.
Reports to: Director of Funding, Communications and Transformative Partnerships
Contract: Full time, Permanent. We are open to considering part-time working and/or two people delivering the role in a job-share
Please apply by 10am GMT on Monday 14th February 2022.
Role Context
This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate, strategic and creative fundraiser with a passion for just and equitable communications and fundraising to join our Funding, Communications and Transformative Partnerships Team.
Our Trustees have recently committed to a clear path of transformation that commits to shifting resources and decision making to activists, our partners, offices and teams in the Global South. In this role you will ensure that the ways in which we raise funds from individuals and communicate about our work are aligned with that transformation and help us to resource our work in new ways as we move through a period of re-imagination and change.
You will grow unrestricted income from individuals recruiting both regular and one-off donors, manage all of our public appeals and develop new ideas for growth including exploring the potential for community fundraising. You will be the strategic lead for all of ADD’s external communications work, and ensure that ADD’s brand is upheld, and the website, social media channels and all other communications activities are delivered to the highest possible standard.
Amongst other things, the successful candidate will need to have:
- Experience of growing and managing successful fundraising campaigns including digital fundraising campaigns and events, direct mail, telephone and/or door to door fundraising
- Experience of leading and managing communications activities including online content, social media, e-news and other external tools
- An understanding of transformation, shifting power and locally led approaches in the INGO sector and how communications and individual giving campaigns can be more inclusive and equitable
- Proven project management and planning skills as well as excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
- Proven experience of a ‘test and learn’ approach to digital and DM campaigns as well as fundraising projects including knowledge of how to test segmentation and apply analytical techniques to developing acquisition channels
As a ‘disability confident employer’ ADD guarantees to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We want to see you at your best and so please let us know if there are any adjustments at all that we can make to the recruitment process to ensure that it works for you. We are also committed to ensuring that we continue to review and make adjustments throughout your employment with ADD.
For more information on the role and what is required please see the job description.
How to apply.
This vacancy does not meet the minimum requirements for work permit recruitment therefore we can only accept applications from people who are currently eligible to work in the country of residence. Interested applicants should send the following attachments by email (please include in the email subject 'Ref: Individual Giving and Communications Manager'):
- Their CV (max 3 pages)
- Letter of motivation (max 2 pages)
- Completed equal opportunities form
- The names, contact numbers and addresses of 2 referees (please state if you are not happy for them to be contacted at this stage)
Please send your application to: recruitment@add.org.uk by the closing date specified below.
- Application deadline: 10am GMT on Monday 14th February 2022
- Interviews will be held by video call (over Teams, Zoom, etc)
Incomplete applications will not be accepted. We are unfortunately only able to reply to those shortlisted.
