ID: 1885 Fundraising Officer
Service: Corporate Partnerships (External Engagement)
Salary:
- starting at £28,884 FTE per annum, rising to £31,698 FTE per annum
- Grade 3, Point 20-23
- Additionally, £3,866 Inner London Weighting FTE per annum for Head Office based or
- £480 home-based allowance FTE per annum for Home-based

Location: Family Action Head Office or Homebased

For Head Office based roles, we typically work a minimum 2 days a week in the office. Our office space is wheelchair accessible and located in Hoxton, London, N1.

Note that this role requires travel to partner meetings and events, predominantly in central London (but also nationally). Applicants would need to be able to travel regularly, as required, to fulfil the needs of the role, even if home-based.

Hours: 37 hours per week (full time) - we offer flexible working arrangements, please see below for more details.

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities. We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

As Fundraising Officer, you will play an important role in helping us grow the income, engagement and support we generate through our corporate partnerships and wider fundraising activity. From building relationships with your own portfolio of prospects and partners to supporting volunteering, challenge events and fundraising campaigns, your work will help create meaningful opportunities for companies and individuals to support Family Action.

Working within the Corporate Partnerships team, you will help ensure our partners, volunteers and fundraisers have an excellent experience of supporting Family Action. You will also help us understand and demonstrate the impact of our work through high-quality data, reporting and financial insight, enabling the team to make informed decisions and develop stronger, more effective partnerships.

This is an exciting and varied role offering broad exposure to corporate fundraising and the opportunity to develop your skills and experience across relationship management, fundraising, events, communications, data and finance. Most importantly, your contribution will help grow the sustainable income and support that enables Family Action to continue making a difference to children, adults, families and communities across the UK.

Main Responsibilities:
• Support the development and delivery of corporate fundraising activity, including managing a small portfolio of prospects and partners, supporting prospect research and cultivation, corporate volunteering and contributing to the delivery of the Christmas Toy Appeal and other fundriaisng campaigns.
• Provide a high-quality experience for corporate partners, volunteers and fundraisers through effective communication, stewardship and relationship management. Coordinate supporter and challenge events, including the London Marathon, and develop engaging fundraising communications and materials.
• Maintain accurate and high-quality fundraising data and support the effective use of Salesforce and other fundraising platforms. Produce and maintain reports, dashboards and insight that enable the team to monitor activity, performance and partnership engagement.
• Support the effective financial and operational management of corporate fundraising, including donation processing, income coding and reconciliation, monitoring income and expenditure, and providing pipeline and financial analysis to support forecasting. Contribute to efficient processes and ways of working across the Corporate Partnerships team.

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days FTE, and after 1st April 2027 increases to 30 working days FTE plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

• Closing Date: Monday 12th October at 23:59

Interviews are scheduled to take place on Friday 23rd October 2026.

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: alyse.roberts@family-action.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.