A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the National Animal Welfare Trust’s team at our Essex Centre as a Fundraising Officer.
You will be working for a charity that never stops caring for its animals and people. We believe every pet deserves a chance to thrive in a loving home. Across our five rescue and rehoming centres across the south of England, we care for homeless and unwanted cats, dogs, rabbits, and guinea pigs - helping them find the families they’ve been waiting for. Our five shops raise valuable funds to support our cause.
Location: NAWT Essex, The Street, Little Clacton, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, CO16 9LG
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, with some weekends, especially when events are being held. Flexible working/part time hours will be considered for the right candidate experience
Salary: £24,180 per annum
Term: Permanent
Closing Date: 7th July 2025
About the role:
As a Fundraising Officer, you’ll play a vital role at NAWT’s Essex Centre. Your role will be to work with the Centre Manager and NAWT’s central fundraising department, taking responsibility for developing, implementing and managing income generation activities, building local individual and corporate relationships to retain existing supporters and attract new ones, developing and growing a supporter database whilst promoting the centre and its work within the local community.
You will play a big part in creating and planning initiatives for the Centre. You will be part of a small friendly team who are all committed to improving the lives of pets in the area.
Your main responsibilities will involve:
- Developing, implementing and promoting fundraising activities.
- Building a network of volunteer fundraising supporters.
- Identifying sources of external funding such as grants and writing appropriate applications.
- Building relationships with donors and local businesses.
- Legacy marketing.
- Managing the sponsorship programme.
- Promoting the centre through local media contacts and social media.
About you:
The successful candidate will be an outstanding communicator with a high level of interpersonal skills. You will be able to work cooperatively with a range of colleagues and be able to offer a proactive and creative approach to fundraising opportunities and supporter relations.
You will have an organised approach to your work, with good attention to detail and excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will be able to use your own initiative and work unsupervised and have an empathy for the aims of NAWT.
You will have experience of the following:
- Relationship building with lots of different groups of people.
- Developing and prioritising your own workload and an ability to work to deadlines
- The ability to be flexible and work as part of a team.
- Managing and maintaining supporter databases
- Delivering presentations and talks.
Although not essential, experience or knowledge of fundraising, the local area and media/public relations would be beneficial for this role.
As part of our commitment to making NAWT a great place to work, we offer access to the following employee benefits:
- 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays, rising to 38 days after 5 years’ service (pro-rated for part time staff).
- Contributory pension.
- Group Life Assurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to Wellbeing Resources.
We are an inclusive organisation and are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from the communities we work in. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit.
If you feel you have the right skills to be a successful Fundraising Officer, please send your CV with your cover letter to l.reffell@nawt.org.uk Centre Manager at NAWT Essex. Please note, we will only consider applications from candidates that have provided a cover letter.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis and may close the recruitment process for this role prior to the deadline, so early applications are encouraged.