Job Title: Marketing & Business Development Executive
Reports to: Marketing & Communications Director
Hours and Location: Full Time Monday to Friday. 9.00am to 5.30pm. Home based with travel to central London as required,
Salary: £18,000 - £24,000 p.a dependent on experience.
Overview
If you are looking for a marketing and fundraising role where you can use your expertise to help to create significant positive changes in the world then this could be the role for you.
Ethical Goods is a consultancy with social purpose at its heart. We offer a range of services to help organisations develop innovative ideas that aim to change the world and we provide the people that can make these exciting initiatives happen. We help to find the funding and innovation for charities, social or planet focused enterprises. We also help organisations to get ready for philanthropic or commercial investment by investing our own team and funds to create world changing opportunities for people, planet and profit.
An example of one of our past innovations is VaccinAid in which we aimed to ‘Give the World a Shot’ by building a campaign around the concept of "vaccine gratitude" during the pandemic. We took our idea to one of our clients Crowdfunder and to a number of iNGOs as a potential partner. The world's largest vaccine delivery organisation, UNICEF jumped at the chance to be involved. This idea facilitated other partnerships including match funding from the Gates Foundation and growth from UNICEF UK to other parts of the UNICEF family. The creative agency Mother helped deliver an integrated creative campaign ensuring the appeal was visible in vaccine clinics across the UK, resulting in raising well over £10m. So if you like the idea of helping to create change on this scale, read on…
The Marketing and Fundraising Executive role will support across a wide variety of projects and activities. A fundamental part of the role will be to help with the marketing and communications of Ethical Goods, to generate awareness of our work and attract new business. The other part of the role will be working with our diverse client base on their own marketing, fundraising and partnerships activity.
This is an exciting first or second role for a person with some experience in marketing, communications, fundraising and / or account management, in either a voluntary or employee capacity. We are a small but dynamic team so you will be expected to get stuck in from day one, but you will also be given the opportunity to learn and develop your professional and personal skills, as well as be exposed to the huge network of remarkable people that we work with.
As the role is predominantly homebased you will need to be self-motivated and comfortable with conferencing technology such as Google Meet and Zoom for taking part in daily video meetings.
Travel to our shared workspace in London on a weekly basis is encouraged.
'Seedcorn' Impact Investing
Like many aid organisations, The Salvation Army confronts the challenge of long term poverty in a number of ways. As a charity and a church, they often deal with immediate human need in times of emergency, such as providing food, water, sanitation, medical help, trauma support, clothing and shelter. But it also recognises the need for longer term interventions to deal with the causes of poverty and injustice.
Alongside its campaigning work, welfare, pastoral and spiritual ministry, The Salvation Army has seen the value of supporting developing enterprise. This can be traced as far back as ‘safety match’ factories in Victorian England through to modern day charity shops. Since the early 90’s in developing countries, micro enterprise and micro lending have formed part of the tools used to help individuals and communities work their own way out of poverty.
The Ethical Good team were the innovators behind a new product called ‘Seedcorn’, an impact investing fund which enabled larger size enterprise initiatives to start up or grow.
The fund supported impact or mission-led businesses (enterprises that fulfilled The Salvation Army mission such as a hospital, school or food business), or it could be a for-profit business that was less mission aligned such as a wind or coffee farm.
The fund was one of the first of its kind in the third sector and especially in international development, playing a crucial role in helping previously ‘grant aided’ countries move to more independent financial decision making and self-reliance.