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Salary: £23,566 - £29,994 per annum
Contract: 12 month fixed term contract
Location: Barnwell Road, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4YF with hybrid working
Reporting to: Supporter Marketing Manager

Award-winning Magpas Air Ambulance is an emergency medical charity saving lives in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and across the East of England 24/7. Responding via a state-of-the-art air ambulance or rapid response vehicle, the medical team provide treatments and surgical procedures when a patients’ life hangs in the balance. From cardiac arrests to road traffic collisions our crew are called out on average four times a day.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual giving officer to join our fantastic Fundraising and Marketing team, to support our rapidly growing individual giving & lottery programmes. With a broad remit across recruitment and retention, you will lead in project managing engaging and compelling digital and direct marketing activity; support the management of our lottery partner, produce our bi-annual supporter newsletter, create and execute inspiring appeals and use data, analysis and reporting to grow our regular giving and raffle.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive and passionate team and an organisation focused on growth & development. So if you think you can help us to continue providing creative, data driven, targeted communications that meet income targets please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

Role Summary:

Project Management

• Working alongside our lottery partner, support all aspects of the Magpas Air Ambulance Lottery programme
• Work with internal colleagues and external suppliers, agencies and fulfilment houses, establishing and maintaining effective working relationships
• Manage individual giving fundraising campaigns including raffle and seasonal appeals
• Manage and develop supporter communications including welcome, newsletter and post appeal communications
• Develop and execute regular giving products and appeals
• Produce and execute legacy and in memoriam marketing plans
• Ensure all individual giving activity complies with the appropriate regulation and legislation and delivers an excellent experience for supporters

Strategy & Planning

• Work alongside the Supporter Marketing Manager and Director of Fundraising to produce and execute an effective and sustainable individual giving plan, contributing to £5.5m yearly income from new and existing donors
• Create and implement effective donor journeys in order to maximise the engagement and retention of individual supporters
• Identify potential new individual giving audiences and implement acquisition strategies in order to grow the individual giving donor base
• Work across the organisation to champion and promote individual giving and to implement excellent supporter care
• Budget management, forecasting and tracking, making sure costs remain low for maximum return on investment

Data Management & Reporting

• Manage the selection and segmentation of individual giving data for campaign purposes
• Oversee the timely importing and exporting of donor data to ensure that supporter records are up to date
• Use campaign data to track and report on effectiveness of activity, attrition and inform decision making and future planning
• Identify and develop the systems and processes necessary to deliver effective individual giving activity including the website, social media and email, fundraising database, data analysis tools and social media
• Use campaign data to track and report on effectiveness of activity, attrition and inform decision making and future planning
• Identify and develop the systems and processes necessary to deliver effective individual giving activity including the website, social media and email, fundraising database, data analysis tools and social media

About you:

• Proven experience of managing individual giving activity including appeals, recruitment campaigns and retention communications to achieve income targets across mail, phone, email, social media and through face-to-face fundraising
• Experience of producing compelling supporter creative and fundraising messages
• Experience of data selection and segmentation and the effective use of supporter data for campaign purposes
• Good knowledge and experience of using a fundraising database for comprehensive reporting and analysis
• Proven ability to manage relationships with third party suppliers including creative agencies, printers and fulfilment house
• Proven ability to work closely with internal teams including Communications, Supporter Care and Finance department
• Self-sufficient and confident to make decisions within the boundaries of the role

Supporting documents: 
Role Description - Individual Giving Officer
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form IGO01

This role is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

If you are looking for a new opportunity within a supportive and exciting environment, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role and what you think you could contribute, to hr@magpas.org.uk by close of business on 24th November 2023.

Closing date: 24.11.2023
Interview date: From 04.12.23

We operate a hybrid working policy, giving flexibility to work from home and the office while meeting the needs of the Charity, following COVID -19 safe working practices. Please make sure that any application clearly demonstrates that you live or will be living within a commutable distance of the main place of work.

We offer a range of benefits including an employee Assistance Programme, generous holiday entitlement, staff survey, access to occupational health services, flexible working, learning and development opportunities, long service awards, social events, supportive working culture and staff car parking.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to providing equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all current and prospective staff, volunteers and Trustees. We aim to create an environment where everyone can be the best they can be, where they feel welcome and are free from bias and discrimination. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to the Armed Forces Covenant and as such welcome's members of the Armed Forces to apply.

If you do not hear from us in two weeks from the closing date, unfortunately this means you have not been shortlisted to the next stage of the selection process.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

No agencies please.

Salary: £34,011 per annum
Contract: Full time; permanent
Location: Barnwell Road, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, PE28 4YF
Reporting to: Business Support Manager

Award-winning Magpas Air Ambulance is an emergency medical charity saving lives in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and across the East of England 24/7. Responding via a state-of-the-art helicopter or rapid response vehicle,the medical team are able to provide treatments and surgical procedures when a patients’ life hangs in the balance. From cardiac arrests to road traffic collisions, our crew are called out on average four times a day.

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Officer to join us at our brand-new state-of-the-art airbase and HQ in Alconbury Weald—just opened in September 2023, this new facility signifies an exciting time in the charity’s history, providing opportunities to work alongside our incredible clinical and aviation teams, as well as benefit from modern new office and wellbeing facilities.

Reporting into the Business Support Manager and working closely with the Finance Officer, the successful candidate will support the CEO and executives in all aspects of finance activity. This will include day to day responsibility for keeping up to date accounts and financial records,together with leading the analysis of monthly and quarterly numbers and presenting findings to executives and the board of trustees.

The candidate will join a friendly, supportive, and passionate team at a growing charity, and help to uphold all financial aspects to ensure financial controls and processes are maintained, supporting a team who save lives every day. If you think that could be you, please do get in touch.

Responsibilities:

Financial Oversight and Duties

• Preparation of the Magpas annual budget, liaising with and guiding non-financial departmental heads through the budget setting process
• Maintain accurate financial records for the Charity, ensuring sound financial controls and processes are maintained and developed
• Control the payroll and pension processes on behalf of the charity
• Monitor and control the working capital of the charity, including cash flow
• Produce accurate and timely monthly consolidated management information. This will include a highlights commentary, variance analysis and KPI reporting, trend analysis
• Provide information required by government and other statutory bodies (Charity Commission/Gambling Commission etc)
• Preparation of the quarterly VAT return
• Oversight of Gift Aid reclaims process
• Administration and oversight of Charity invoicing and income generating trading activities
• Responsible for legacy income, ensuring all allocated funds from legacies are received in a timely manner
• Monitor and keep up to date bank mandates, approval limits, powers of delegation framework
• Produce regular and ad hoc financial commentaries as required by trustees and senior management Attendance and participation at the Charity Executive Leadership Team (ELT) meetings and Trustee Audit Committee meetings

Finance Systems

• Control and reconcile the various bank accounts
• Ensure up to date fixed asset register, ensuring acquisitions and disposals have the correct authorisation and paperwork
• Maintain a register of contracts and agreements including those where gifts in kind and discounted rates/terms have been applied
• Ensure depreciation is correctly calculated and applied by FO to fixed asset register, ensure postings are correctly made within the accounting system
• Manage credit card issuing and individual adherence to limits

Finance Compliance and reporting

• Administer the year-end audit process including the preparation of the year end statutory accounts
• Assist the CEO with year end accounts preparation and annual audit
• Develop and integrate automated systems to account for financial transactions
• Monitoring, policing and refining financial policies and procedures
• Responsible for preparing and filing VAT returns and maintaining VAT compliance
• Ensure all financial records and information are compliant with Fundraising Regulator and ICO regulations
• Responsible for all PAYE and NI reporting requirements and payments of any related liabilities
• Remain aware of developments in statutory reporting and charity accounting

The responsibilities of this role will normally include all duties described in this Role Description and any additional or different duties, as may be required from time to time.

About you:

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Produced budgets
• Experience running annual audit
• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Very high attention to detail and degree of accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience of presentations and public speaking
• A strong and persuasive negotiator and networker with high level relationship skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with Trustees and key stakeholders
• Ability to think creatively and deliver pragmatic solutions
• Analytical approach to decision making, while including relevant stakeholders to achieve the best outcome
• Ability to take on challenging situations whilst maintaining a systematic approach to solving problems
• Ability to make sound financial and strategic decisions while considering the broader future in the best interests of the Charity, its growth strategies and financial targets
• Resilient and supportive of others
• Responsibility and accountability for project progress, overall activities and requirement, including timescales and costing
• Able to adopt a proactive approach to working with operational teams in order to provide timely and appropriate financial advice
• Ability to work in an organised manner and to be discreet their dealings and hold a high degree of integrity
• A proven ability to deliver multiple projects to agreed timescales
• Patience, flexibility and the ability to work with tact, diplomacy and integrity

Desirable

• Educated to degree level
• Success at creating and managing income generation projects and campaigns
• Experience of maintaining Finance Management Systems and/or databases Xero and Calcxa
• Experience of, or good exposure to, UK company and charity law around financial and statutory requirements for small UK charities

Supporting documents:
Role Description - Senior Finance Officer
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form SFO0923

This role is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

If you are looking for a newopportunity within a supportive and exciting environment, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role and what you think you could contribute, to hr@magpas.org.uk by close of business on:
Closing date: Monday, 16th October
Interview date: Ongoing as applications arrive; between Monday, 2nd and Monday, 16th October

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised closing date dependant on the level of response received. You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

We offer a range of benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, generous holiday entitlement, staff survey, access to occupational health services, flexible working, learning and development opportunities, long service awards, social events, supportive working culture and staff car parking.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to providing equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all current and prospective staff, volunteers and Trustees. We aim to create an environment where everyone can be the best they can be, where they feel welcome and are free from bias and discrimination. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to the Armed Forces Covenant and as such welcomes members of the Armed Forces to apply.

If you do not hear from us in 2 weeks from the closing date, unfortunately this means you have not been shortlisted to the next stage of the selection process.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

No agencies please.

Salary: £5,668 paying National Living wage
Contract: 10 hours per week – 2 hours per day, 16:00 to 18:00 hrs (no break)
Location: Magpas Air Ambulance, Barnwell Road, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4YF.
Reporting to: Business Support Manager

Magpas Air Ambulance is a lifesaving charity based in Alconbury Weald, operating 24/7 across the East of England. Having just moved to our new purpose-built headquarters, we now have an opportunity for an additional person to join us as a cleaner. Reporting directly into the Business Support Manager, the role will play a key part in ensuring our new headquarters remain pristine. We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working cleaner who is able to make a tangible difference to Magpas Air Ambulance and our facilities.

Role Summary:

• Responsible for ensuring the charity site is cleaned and maintained to a high standard

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be reliable and able to work early mornings or early evenings
• Take pride in your work
• Have the ability to work in an organised manner
• Have attention to detail
• Be friendly and approachable
• Driving licence required
• Experience of cleaning

Supporting documents:
Role Description - Cleaner
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form C1023

This role is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

If you are looking for a new opportunity within a supportive and exciting environment, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role and what you think you could contribute, to hr@magpas.org.uk by close of business on:
Closing date: 20th October 2023
Interview date: Ongoing as applications arrive; between the 9th and the 20th of October 2023

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised closing date dependant on the level of response received. You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

We offer a range of benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, generous holiday entitlement, staff survey, access to occupational health services, flexible working, learning and development opportunities, long service awards, social events, supportive working culture and staff car parking.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to providing equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all current and prospective staff, volunteers and Trustees. We aim to create an environment where everyone can be the best they can be, where they feel welcome and are free from bias and discrimination. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Magpas Air Ambulance is committed to the Armed Forces Covenant and as such welcomes members of the Armed Forces to apply.

If you do not hear from us in 2 weeks from the closing date, unfortunately this means you have not been shortlisted to the next stage of the selection process.

No agencies please.

Location: Cambs-Beds-Norfolk

We are looking for full- and part-time door canvassers to recruit players for our Magpas Air Ambulance lottery.

This £1 per week lottery is a popular, low cost and fun way to support the charity. If you are a great communicator and have sound people skills, this could be the change you are looking for. This is a chance to enjoy your work and know that you’re making a difference to a charity close to people’s hearts. In return, we offer an excellent package which includes good basic and commissions, self-employed also available.

This is not your average sales job—working for our lottery partner Lottery Fundraising Services (LFS), our people have real career prospects and great job satisfaction every day. Many have worked with us for years and have become team leaders and managers. Successful applicants will be offered the opportunity to make a difference, be a charity ambassador, earn well and work in an honest and ethical environment.

You must be a great communicator and have sound people skills and importantly, you must be honest, motivated and dedicated. The role would suit door-to-door sales professionals from utilities and other sales backgrounds, experienced fundraisers with face-to-face people skills. On-going training, the tools to be the best you can and continual personal development are at the heart of our culture. The use of a car is desirable due to the nature of the role as you will be required to drive to work within an operating location although those with good public transport links may be considered for some areas.

Make a great decision today and join our team.

To learn more, call our recruitment partner at Lottery Fundraising Services (LFS) on 0330 223 3464 or visit the LFS recruitment website.