SUPPORTER ENGAGEMENT MANAGER

Location: London - Hybrid (2 days office attendance)
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: Circa £40,000 PA + Benefits.

The Role:
As our Supporter Engagement Manager, you will work to ensure that SPANA provides its supporters and external stakeholders with the best-possible experience of the charity. While line-managing the Supporter Engagement team, your work will range from ensuring SPANA donations and post are compliantly processed, to
co-ordinating responses to enquiries, comments and complaints via post, phone and online. You will also manage the development and delivery of SPANA’s community fundraising programme.

This role will suit a dynamic, agile individual who recognises the importance of customer care and has the ambition to build SPANA’s position as a centre of excellence in supporter engagement.

Supporter Engagement

- Ensure all donations and enquiries are acknowledged appropriately, professionally and within agreed timeframes/our service level agreement, in order to maximise supporter and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Manage the operation of SPANA’s PO Box and London mailing points, ensuring all post is compliantly processed, recorded and scanned.
- Manage the SPANA FAQs, standard enquiry responses and thank you letters to be used by the team.
- Personally handle complaints and any sensitive matters, working with the Head of Supporter Engagement and Database, and the Director of Global Fundraising, Marketing and Communications, as necessary.
- Create and maintain Supporter Engagement process documents and training guides.
- Ensure all Supporter Engagement team interactions with stakeholders are captured on Raiser’s Edge.
- Ensure all donors, supporters and stakeholders have the best-possible experience in every interaction with SPANA.

Community fundraising

- Manage the development and delivery of SPANA’s community fundraising programme, including our current products World Tea Party and Big Knit.
- Ensure the charity meets or exceeds its annual community fundraising income target, whilst managing relevant expenditure.
- Manage the development of community fundraising marketing materials, working with external suppliers and internal stakeholders as necessary.

Management

- Manage the Supporter Engagement team, motivating and developing team members to deliver on objectives and targets.
- Report regularly on the performance of the Supporter Engagement team, compiling key performance figures (e.g. complaints log).
- Manage the workflow of the Supporter Engagement team, ensuring all daily tasks are covered at all times and all team members have a manageable workload.
- Establish good working relationships with our external suppliers, data handlers and agencies, and resolve queries and complaints involving them as necessary.

It should be noted that this job specification and remit may develop over time. The postholder should be happy to adapt and take on new and different tasks within the scope of the role.

Knowledge, Training & Qualifications:

- Knowledge of supporter engagement and customer care policies, process, procedures and programmes.
- Knowledge of community fundraising and supporter events.
- Knowledge of charity fundraising regulations, GDPR and data practices.
- Knowledge of the requirements and expectations of working in the charity sector.
- Knowledge of the animal welfare charity sector (desirable).

Experience

- Experience of working in a supporter engagement role or equivalent, with a track record of developing and maintaining strong and effective relationships with donors, supporters and stakeholders.
- Experience of establishing and development processes and procedures that optimise performance

Skills and Attributes

- Ability to diffuse situations with patience and diplomacy, to be a problem solver and to show sensitivity when required – e.g. when dealing with the bereaved in relation to in-memory gifts.
- Excellent computer skills, including ability to use Microsoft Office 365 suite, including strong Excel and Word skills.
- Database skills, preferably of Raiser’s Edge.
- French speaking (desirable).

For the Full Details and Attributes, please download the full job pack attached to this role.

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