28 Feb 2022
St Andrew’s Club is seeking a creative Fundraising & Communications Intern to join our small, friendly Fundraising & Marketing team.
Contract: Part-time, 3-5 days/week (6-month position with opportunity to extend)
Start date: Late March/Early April 2022
Salary: £11.05/hr (London Living Wage)
Location: St Andrew’s Club, Westminster, SW1P 2DG, with opportunity for flexible and remote working
Deadline: Closing date noon, 18 March 2022
Interviews: w/c 21 March 2022
This is an exciting opportunity for a junior Fundraiser/ Marketeer, who would like to further develop their career within the Charity sector. You will support us in creating engaging online content, managing our social media calendar and contributing to wider digital communications, as well as supporting the fundraising grants applications process and supporter events planning and management.
About St Andrew’s Club
St Andrew’s Club in Westminster, the world’s oldest youth club. Established more than 155 years ago, St Andrew’s Club is a registered charity. The Club is a vital resource for the local community, providing value for money opportunities in a safe, attractive environment. Each year we enrich young lives by providing a sense of belonging, fun and informal education to around 500 members, many of whom live locally in Westminster, and come from homes on very tight budgets. The Club is in action seven days a week: we have Senior Club programmes Monday – Friday evenings; we run Junior Club on Monday and Wednesday evenings; we rent out to a Karate Club on Friday and to a performing arts school on Saturday and we field football teams on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition to running programmes during school holidays through the day and into the evenings we have adapted quickly to delivering our services virtually and finding other practical ways to stay connected with our members and their families during Covid-19.
Key Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Fundraising & Communications Manager, we are looking for a self-motivated, creative. talented and ambitious Fundraising & Communications Intern, who will have the flexibility and autonomy to own and to run with projects, as well as work alongside the Digital Lead Youth Worker on member-led communications, principally:
- to raise the profile and awareness of our important youth provision and programmes to:
- young people, their parents and our community.
- high net worth individuals (HNWIs), corporate sponsors, local government and other funding partners.
- to support our diversified portfolio of fundraising programmes, which help us in our ambition to raise vital funds for growth and sustainability.
Specific Responsibilities
Fundraising:
- Work closely with the Fundraising & Communications Manager, to ensure all fundraising campaigns are integrated and digital channels are used effectively for retention and development of supporters;
- Help monitor and report on fundraising campaigns;
- Contribute to the development of high quality, compelling grant applications/ reports to small and medium sized funders;
- Proactively maintain excellent knowledge of digital fundraising practices and campaigns in the sector, including competitor analysis, to ensure the Club’s output is strengthened from best-practice experience and knowledge.
Communications:
- Work closely with the Fundraising & Communications Manager, to support the delivery of a compelling and inspired communications plan to encourage engagement and peer referral from members; stewardship and donations from supporters. This includes; social media channels, e-shots, The Chronicle Newsletter and press releases;
- Maintain and update the CRM database and develop ownership for mailings;
- Maintain and update the website;
- Monitor and report on performance across the Club’s social media channels and website;
- Work closely with colleagues across the organisation and with our close partners, such as the Young Westminster Foundation, to gather information to ensure relevant and engaging content.
Events Support:
- Support the Fundraising & Communications Manager by helping to plan and deliver our 3-4 annual cultivation receptions and the Fundraising Group’s exciting events programme;
- Help select and manage Third Party Challenge events;
- Help service requests for corporate engagement opportunities.
What we are looking for: The role is ideal for anybody interested in a career in charity fundraising and/ or communications, digital marketing or creative work, and offers flexibility to be shaped by the skillset and interests of the placeholder. It will include training opportunities and the chance to work alongside a diverse range of stakeholders, including other youth charities.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office;
- Strong experience in digital platforms;
- Strong digital creative skills including Canva, Photoshop/ Illustrator, Adobe Effects, WordPress, Final Cut Pro or similar;
- Excellent communication skills to include high level of writing skills;
- Confident numeracy skills;
- Highly organised with a good eye for detail;
- Hard-working, self-motivated professional with a can-do approach.
- A genuine enthusiasm for helping to create opportunities for young people, particularly those facing barriers;
Preferred:
- Educated to A-Level;
- Knowledge/ Experience of digital scheduling platforms, such as Hootsuite, Buffer;
- Knowledge/ Experience in analytics and reporting digital performance;
- Knowledge/ Experience of CRM databases and data management to prepare segmented mail merges;
- Knowledge/ Experience in events management;
- Knowledge/ Experience of the Voluntary sector.
Attributes:
- A willingness to learn and to share learning;
- Ability to concentrate in a busy, sometimes noisy, environment, as well as work comfortably from home with focus;
- Resilient, with ability to keep calm under pressure;
- A team player;
- Accurate, with good attention to detail;
- Results-driven focus;
- Willing to represent the Club at occasional external (evening) events.
Company Benefits:
- Scope to take real ownership in a small, ambitious team.
- 25 days annual leave – pro rata (plus all statutory holidays).
- A range of flexible working arrangements, including flexi-time, time off in lieu (TOIL) home or remote working.
- An auto-enrolment with pension scheme in line with Government guidance.
- Regular team meetings and occasional socials.
- Growth – you will be continually developing key skills and capabilities for your future.
- Diverse culture - working with driven colleagues who will support you at every stage of your learning journey with us.
- Supportive environment with our internal training designed to upskill, develop and enhance your learning.
- Working environment that encourages authenticity.
- Following successful 3-month probation, wellbeing benefits including Gym membership, a physical fitness consultation with training plan, with one of the Personal Trainers operating at the Club and 50% of the cost of 5 follow up sessions.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team with diverse voices and experiences. We are proud to be a diverse team, representing the community we serve.
Next steps:
If the above sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a cover letter to Callum at callum@standrewsclub.com explaining your interest in the position, including why you would be a great fit at St Andrew’s Club as Fundraising & Communications Intern.
Due to high application volumes, only short-listed applicants will be contacted for further process.
Process: There are four stages to the selection process:
- Application
- First stage interview – via phone/ Teams
- Second stage Interview – in person
- DBS Checks and Reference
