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Community Fundraising Officer

Job details
Posting date: 22 August 2025
Salary: £26,761.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 September 2025
Location: Gravesend, Kent
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: ellenor
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 250806

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Summary

Salary: £26,761 (pro rata)
Location: ellenor, DA11 7HQ
Hours: Between 30 and 37.5 hours per week, flexible working available, some evenings, and weekends as necessary with time off in lieu.

Want to make a difference? 
Love meeting new people? 
Able to influence and inspire? 
Got something different to bring to our table? 

Community Fundraising isn’t your average desk job. You’ll be supporting some truly inspirational people and making a real difference to our local community.

Building great relationships within our local area, our Community Fundraising Officer will guide and encourage members of the public, staff and volunteers who choose to support us. You’ll plan campaigns that delight and inspire and lead a team of volunteers to increase our reach to both raise awareness of our mission and increase income to fund our care.

If you’re reading this, and think it’s right up your street, then now is the time to act. Apply now and join the team making amazing things happen every day.

ellenor is a hospice charity in Gravesend providing palliative and end-of-life care within the local community. At ellenor, we value inclusivity and focus on providing high-quality services with compassion and care.
We offer professional development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package, including a pension scheme (with the option for NHS Pension Scheme members to transfer their pension), an employee assistance program, discount schemes, a generous annual leave allowance, and much more.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:
• Motivate and inspire our local community to fundraise in aid of ellenor
• Build long lasting sustainable relationships
• Develop and deliver Community Fundraising campaigns like Christmas Tree Recycling
• Run our Glorious Gardens programme

Essential requirements of the role include:
• Experience of Relationship Management or Customer Services
• Excellent IT skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Full UK drivers Licence and access to the use of a vehicle

This post is subject to Standard DBS clearance.

UK Immigration:
ellenor is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

How to apply:
By application form either online or downloadable from our website or by submitting a CV and cover letter to hr@ellenor.org, CV’s without a cover letter will not be considered.

For informal enquiries please contact Lisa Crossland by email to arrange a call – lisa.crossland@ellenor.org

Application deadline: 17 September 2025
Interviews will be conducted on 23 September 2025

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Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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