Individual Giving Officer

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UKs fastest-growing movement for natures recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people. We are seeking an Individual Giving Officer to join our cause.This newly created position is a key investment for the Trust as we strive to raise the income required to fund natures recovery and create a wilder Hampshire and Isle of Wight. What youll be doing:Youll be joining a friendly, vibrant and high-performing fundraising team. You will play a central role in ensuring that supporting the Trust is a positive, fulfilling and impactful experience for our members, donors and supporters.Your skills, experience and creativity will help the Trust to drive income and supporter acquisition through effective appeals, mailings, storytelling and campaigns, tailored donor journeys and supporter engagement.Working closely with colleagues in the Marketing & Communications team and across our fundraising functions, you will help to develop targeted communications and journeys for a wide range of supporters and be a champion of first-class supporter care across the organisation.About you:Youll be an excellent copywriter with a passion for inspiring and engaging new and existing supporters. Were looking for somebody to champion a first-class supporter experience across the Trust, with strong technical writing skills, a results focus and the ability to bring our work to life through storytelling. Wild About Inclusion! As an inclusive employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.Disability Confident. We are proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. You can request adjustments including accessible formats of this vacancy by emailing recruitment @ hiwwt . org . uk. To be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme you must:Identify as being disabled which under the Equality Act 2010 means a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial

• , long term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities; or a long-term health condition; and;(Substantial is more than minor or trivial Long-term means 12 months or more)Set out how you meet all the minimum qualifying criteria set out in the person specification for the post at the application and testing stages. This is a requirement for all candidates, not just those applying under the scheme.
  
  This role will be based at our office in Curdridge, however, we are happy to accommodate a hybrid working routine, and discuss a pattern of work which mutually suits the candidate and the Trust. Traditionally, office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm with an hour lunch break. We value spending time working in-person to develop strong connections with each other and with our mission, so we although we offer hybrid working, we do not offer full home working within our roles.We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs), free parking at our sites and more.