Associate Manager (Student Societies & Schools)

Who We Are

Human Appeal is a global non-profit humanitarian and development organisation. We deliver life-saving emergency assistance such as food, medical aid, and disaster relief. At the same time, we run sustainable, community-led programmes in healthcare, education, and livelihoods to build resilience and self-reliance. Our experienced local teams work in vulnerable, hard-to-reach areas. Guided by a vision of a just, caring, and sustainable world, our mission is to save lives, alleviate poverty, and empower communities in line with the core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Position Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Manager (Student Societies & Schools) position within the Fundraising department. The Associate Manager (Student Societies & Schools) will support the development and execution of fundraising strategies to secure financial resources that advance the organisation’s mission. Working closely with the Fundraising Manager and wider team, this role helps cultivate donor relationships, coordinate fundraising campaigns and events in universities and student societies, and manages communications. The Associate Manager (Student Societies & Schools) plays a key role in ensuring fundraising targets are met through effective planning, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision-making.

Main Responsibilities:

The Associate Manager (Student Societies & Schools) will be responsible to:

• Promote and wholly adhere to the fundraising code of conduct and best practice by understanding its ruling and conducting FR events within its parameters in order to safeguard HA, maintain high professional standards and maintain HA’s public image.
• Develop, nurture and maintain relationships with current/potential donors, charity partners, organizations and businesses nationally, via community networking (face to face and social media) and creating a regular presence within respected regions across the UK, in order to establish trust, help secure donations and promote awareness across a wide range of target markets.
• Establish clear lines of communications both regionally and nationally by being the main point of contact between local organisations and HA. This will involve negotiating agreements, generating leads, coordinating events, providing assistance/HA branding materials and liaising centrally with the Head Office Fundraising Department, in order to improve interdepartmental efficiency, maximize fundraising potential, and ensure value for money.
• Manage various engaging fundraising projects/activities by arranging dinners, concerts, speaker tours and conferences to capture and maintain the public eye throughout the year and raise income with a return on investment.
• Manage and nurture a network of national volunteers in line with the volunteer recruitment strategy by collaborating with the volunteers coordinator, hosting recruitment events, providing training and HA materials, developing FR ambassadors and providing formal feedback to the Volunteers Coordinator. To help develop volunteer recruitment process, provide a mutually beneficial volunteers program, and support HA to gain loyal organizational man power.
• Provide support to FR colleagues when necessary by attending and contributing positively to FR regional/national meetings, understanding support needs and providing this to colleagues especially during peak periods (e.g Ramadan). To help promote information sharing, generation of leads and innovative ideas, help distribute manpower and ensure smooth running of FR operations and good working relations.
• Help identify, develop and manage new/innovative national fundraising opportunities and emergency campaigns (events, exhibitions, conferences, partnerships) by adopting a timely and strategic approach (S.W.O.T analysis) to wider global events and local community events/trends (maintaining an up to date awareness). To ensure the charity is responsive and adapting to a changing environment locally and internationally so that fundraising activities are appropriate and informed correctly.
• Maintain internal procedures/administration such as donor management system, account management system, and cash counting protocols by ensuring secure information input in a timely fashion to help maintain internal control and mitigation of risk.
• Contribute towards the development, maintenance and delivery of HA’s (annual) national fundraising plan in various regions by maintaining budgets and expenditure, monitoring and report on income generation in line with projects, reporting on variance and taking responsibility for achieving and exceeding income targets. All to deliver efficiency, value and FR targets.
• Take on board other duties in line with FR strategy as per the request of the Head of FR in order to ensure HA’s adaptability to change and maintain growth.
• Motivate and manage a team within fundraising when required and develop a strong fundraising portfolio to effectively lead and support in house FR teams during events.
• Adhere to the charities policies and procedures, e.g. fundraising code of conduct, Health & Safety at Work, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection Act 1998, Equal Opportunities, Company Handbook, Quality Management System, Investor in People etc. at all times in order to maintain high professional standards and maintaining HA public image.
• Demonstrate on-going professional development through reflective practice and participation in internal and external development opportunities as evidenced in a Continuing Professional Development plan, taking a proactive role in own learning and development activities (e.g. private study, e-learning) to benefit self and charity for the future.

NB: Employee duties are not limited only to the above-mentioned responsibilities; they may perform other duties as assigned

Candidate essential criteria:

• Minimum GCSE Mathematics, English. Ideally educated to degree level.
• Minimum of 2 years in similar post, proven track record of project and events management with a minimum of 2 years’ experience.
• Computer literate and competent with Microsoft Office, Social Media, Donor Management systems
• English Language

Candidate desirable criteria:

• Additional language skills e.g. Spanish, French, Arabic, Urdu

How to apply

We are keen to appoint the right person for this position as soon as possible and will be considering applications as they are received. To maximise your opportunity, please submit your CV by clicking the link provided to apply. We look forward to receiving your application and hearing from you.

If you have any questions about the position, please do contact Human Appeal on recruitment@humanappeal.org.uk.

Please note that we will only be contacting the shortlisted candidates. Applying candidates must have the legal authorisation or right to work in the designated work location/duty station.

Disclaimer: Human Appeal is committed to diversity, social inclusion, and gender equality/balance, and strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. The organisation maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEA/SH), with all staff required to comply with Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEA/SH) standards and safe recruitment procedures.