Dublin, Ireland
Description
Location: Dublin
Contract: Full Time, Permanent Contract
The purpose of this role is to support the Corporate Partnerships Team in achieving its annual fundraising target. This role requires support in the account management of some of Focus Ireland's largest corporate partners, delivering on key strategic goals, including the delivery of significant income growth from new and existing long-term corporate partnerships.
What you will do:
* Conduct donor research to create an informed view of current and potential donors.
* Contact prospective donors to schedule meetings with members of the Corporate Partnerships Team.
* Carefully administer relationships with your assigned donors to ensure a high level of donor experience.
* Help prepare funding proposals, impact reports, meeting briefings, meeting scripts, and personalised donor communications.
* Assist in the organising and implementation of in-person donor events, such as Focus Ireland's Women’s Philanthropy Circle events.
* Ensure information systems and databases are maintained and kept up to date.
* Drive informed decision-making through effective database analysis and reporting.
* Undertake any work as delegated by your manager.
* Participate in relevant training and development courses as agreed with your manager.
* Ensure confidentiality on all matters and information obtained during the course of employment.
* Present and act in a professional manner at all times.
What you will need:
* Relevant third-level qualification or alternative work experience with transferable skills.
* Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
* Energetic person with willingness to work to targets.
* High degree of initiative, flexibility, and creativity.
* Highly organized with ability to work under pressure, prioritize, and multitask.
* Proficient in MS Office (CRM-Dynamics, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word).
* Reasonable flexibility to work hours - work during weekends, evenings, and unsociable hours may on occasion be required.
* Experience in sales is desirable, but not mandatory.
Focus Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.
We are driven by the fundamental belief that homelessness is wrong. Wrong because it is a failure of society that creates victims out of ordinary people and robs them of their potential. Wrong because it can be prevented, it can be solved but is allowed to continue and in doing so, undermines society.
Focus Ireland currently employs 570 people in various capacities that include permanent, fixed term, full time, part time, and relief.
We aim to create continuous improvement and add value through partnership, integration, accessibility and empowerment of all employees.
What we offer:
* Top up Maternity Benefit up to 26 weeks
* Top up Paternity leave up to 8 days
* Education Policy - provision of financial support for upskilling/qualifications
* Paid expenses
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Annual Leave – 25 days
* Defined Contribution – 5% employee contribution and 7% employer contribution
* EAP – Employee assistance programme – staff counselling
* Death in Service benefit – 3 times salary
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