Volunteer opportunites

Fawcett is always on the look out for keen and passionate people who would be willing to help out at the Fawcett office. Any time you can spare would be much appreciated.

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Volunteer Database Manager

The Fawcett Society seeks an experienced database manager to maximise the existing fundraising database for best management of our supporter base.

The Fawcett Society

The Fawcett Society is the UK campaign for equality between women and men. We trace our roots to 1866 when Millicent Garrett Fawcett took up the peaceful campaign for women’s vote. Today we campaign on a range of issues including women’s political representation, the gender pay gap, and rape.

With a modest team of nine staff and 4 interns, Fawcett is a small but powerful campaign group. We have a supporter base of in excess of 12,000 people across the UK, 3,000 of which are members, making a monthly regular gift to enable the Fawcett Society to continue its vital work promoting and protecting UK women’s rights. Fawcett also benefits from the support of a number of charitable trusts, which help us to maintain our position as the UK’s leading gender equality campaign.

We use Donor Strategy to manage our contacts, and we seek a volunteer with experience of managing charity databases (ideally Donor Strategy) to help us to perform data selections and run reports for fundraising campaigns; and to shape the database to maximise the software’s potential for better management of our supporter base. Day-to-day data entry is performed by a Fundraising Intern.

For the Volunteer Database Manager position we require an experienced individual who is able to:

·  get up-to-speed with the data;

· perform data selections and run reports for Gift Aid claims, cash appeal mailings, and events invitations;

· perform a review of how data is held, with recommendations for the consistent and practical management of Fawcett contacts;

· put these recommendations into practice by shaping the contacts management system for the consistent and practical management of Fawcett contacts.

Person Specifications

Essential:

· experience of managing access-based database software for charities, including performing queries/filters and reports;

· understanding of the requirements for managing fundraising constituents, including segmentation and data protection requirements;

·  experience of reviewing the management of charity databases;

·  experience of implementing practical changes to database systems for improved contacts management.

 Desirable:

·  experience of handling data for direct marketing;

· experience of Donor Strategy software.

Requirements

On appointment this role would require a regular commitment, dependent on the availability of the candidate. Thereafter, the role could be continued on an ad hoc basis.

Fawcett will cover travel expenses within zones 1-6, and lunch expenses of up to £4 per day.

If you are interested in this role, please call Sally Campbell on 020 7253 2598 for an informal chat about the role.