Supporter Care Officer inUnited Kingdom inUnited Kingdom PUBLISHED 27 APR 2024

Join our award-winning team and make a life-saving difference to people and animals.

Working as part of the Development team, this new role will play an integral part in driving our fundraising efforts and therefore accelerating the transition from using animals to using human-specific technologies in medical research.

Job Purpose

• Provide first-class supporter care to Animal Free Research UK’s supporters

• Steward the charity’s cohort of community fundraising ambassadors and challenge event participants

• Efficiently and effectively maintain the donor database

• Promote best practice in data processes

Deliverables

Provide first-class supporter care to Animal Free Research UK’s supporters

• Be the first point of contact for supporter enquiries and comments across all communications channels, including social media, and provide an exceptional supporter care service

• Ensure that all supporter communications are responded to, and gifts are thanked, within agreed internal service level agreements and according to policies and procedures

• Draft and maintain a suite of approved on-brand standard supporter care responses

• Maintain an up-to-date library of standard operating procedures for supporter care processes

Efficiently and effectively maintain the donor database

• Ensure a complete, accurate, and timely record of all donor, supporter and advocate communication and gift activity in the donor and advocacy CRM databases

• Liaise with the Finance team to ensure gifts are appropriately coded and any issues related to gifts are promptly addressed

• Process cheque, card, cash and CAF donations received through offline channels

• Ensure Gift Aid is claimed and validated against Gift Aid declarations

• Proactively ensure the integrity of the CRM is maintained to a suitably high standard

• Work with colleagues to understand their requirements and perform the selection and segmentation of data for appeals, communications and reporting

• Work with colleagues to continually improve the quality, accuracy, and usability of the donor and advocacy databases

Provide assistance to the Development team

• Assist with the production of the quarterly supporter newsletter; making data selections, writing/proofing copy, and liaising with suppliers

• Steward the charity’s cohort of community fundraising ambassadors and challenge event participants, supporting them to achieve their fundraising targets

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the fundraising and marketing strategies, and the development of new products and campaigns

• Carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required

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