Fundraising Marketing Executive

Guide Dogs - Be Part of Something Life‑Changing

Come and join us as a self‑motivated and purpose‑driven Fundraising Marketing Executive known as a Committed Giving Campaign Executive (Acquisition), and be part of something life‑changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Committed Giving Campaign Executive (Acquisition) at Guide Dogs, you'll support the delivery of multi-channel direct marketing acquisition campaigns that inspire people to support our mission. Working across a range of fundraising channels, you'll help deliver impactful campaigns on time and within budget, driving supporter growth, maximising response rates and delivering strong return on investment. The Committed Giving Campaign Executive will be highly organised, detail-oriented and skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Our Committed Giving Campaign Executives play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

This role is offered on a hybrid basis, one day per week working from our Reading office.

Key Responsibilities

• Support with the overall delivery of several acquisition direct marketing campaigns, delivering on time, to budget and maximising response and value, including (but not limited to) direct mail, print, broadcast (DRTV and Radio), email, paid social and digital, telemarketing and face to face.
• In co-creation with Marketing team, assist with writing marketing briefs for creative; including collaboration across copy, design and content. Work with the Acquisition Officer to produce product specific briefs for data selections and analysis, response handling and supporter care. Ensure the approval procedure is adhered to and all necessary stakeholders communicated with.
• Support the Acquisition Officer with day-to-day operations of the campaigns. Take ownership of raising purchase orders, circulating artwork, maintaining up to date and accurate files to enable historic performance tracking and liaising with suppliers and media agencies to ensure quality work is delivered within the defined schedule and at a competitive cost.
• Work with the Acquisition Officer to undertake post campaign analysis, produce detailed wrap up reports and make recommendations for future campaigns, including improving results and processes.
• Work with other Guide Dogs teams including (but not limited to) Customer Experience, Design, Digital, Fulfilment and Data to ensure the smooth delivery of Committed Giving acquisition activity, and to promote the team positively within the organisation.
• Keep on top of electronic filing and record management, including using a Customer Relation Management (CRM) database system.

You

You’ll have a detail-oriented and proactive approach to supporting campaign delivery. You’ll enjoy working in a busy, collaborative environment with a dedicated focus on supporter acquisition activity. You’ll be committed to quality, efficiency and making a positive difference. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• GCSE’s in Maths and English at grades A - C or equivalent (QCF level 2 / SQCF level 5).
• Proven experience of working in a busy environment with a successful track record of delivering against competing priorities.
• Previous exposure to working within Marketing and/or Administration.
• An understanding of administrative systems.
• Competent in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent organisation, communication and administration skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Strong creative and analytical skills.  
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.                                

Benefits

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave pro-rata
• Real Living Wage Employer
• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
• The option to buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cash-back scheme
• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
• And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

How to apply

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.  Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier.  We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately.  We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes!  You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

Safer recruitment

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.