Charity Communications and Development Officer

Are you eager to make a positive impact in healthcare and the local community?

As the Charity Communications and Development Officer at Hertfordshire Community Trust (HCT), you’ll play a crucial role in enhancing the Trust’s charitable initiatives and driving engagement with staff, patients, and stakeholders.

In this role, you will lead projects to enhance HCT’s charity presence, including redesigning the charity’s website, developing donation tools, and establishing strong branding. Working with the Communications, Digital, and Finance teams, you’ll engage stakeholders and create compelling content to promote charitable giving. You’ll also coordinate and support internal and external charity events, driving involvement from staff, patients, and the broader community.

Your ability to build relationships and deliver key messages will help ensure that our charity initiatives thrive. You will foster a culture of giving by engaging with high-value donors, collaborating with NHS Charities Together, and supporting fundraising campaigns that make a real difference.

We’re seeking an excellent communicator with strong organisational skills and a genuine passion for charitable work. If you are creative, can manage multiple priorities, and love connecting with people to inspire action, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Join our Communications and Engagement team and contribute to projects that have a direct impact on improving lives. Your work will help expand the reach and influence of HCT’s charity, providing vital support to patients, families, and healthcare staff in our community.

• Develop Charity’s web presence, communications and branding to support charity growth through effective market research, communications strategy and engagement with external stakeholders, suppliers and internal teams.
• Create charitable funds pages on Trust intranet and website and put in place sustainable mechanisms for updating them as required, supported by Communications team.
• Establish effective communications mechanisms to communicate key information effectively across the organisation.
• Work effectively with External and Internal Audit on charitable funds activity and development, explain working papers, processes and evidence these accordingly, supported by Communications and Finance teams.
• Provide advice to budget holders and staff, and externally around accessing charitable funds, supported by Trust’s Finance Team.
• Work with colleagues responsible for automation to help identify, document and agree processes for automation in charitable giving and fundraising, supported by Finance team.
• Plan, organise, and manage own workload and keep to deadlines, in an environment where priorities frequently change.
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective systems and processes for general administrative support, maximising use of technology.
• Manage and co-ordinate initiatives and events, ensuring all elements are covered and deadlines achieved, supported by Communications team.
• Engage with staff at all levels, responding to questions about charitable funds activity.
  
  

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gurvinder Sidhu-Bissessur Job title: Head of Communications Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07979 375 898