Dec
Contract: Fixed Term – 1 year (extension expected but subject to funding)
Hours 10-15 Hours per week
Salary £24,785 (pro-rata)
Location: Edinburgh or Highlands
Reporting to the Head of Fundraising
Held In Our Hearts is a Scottish charity with over 40 years of experience providing baby loss counselling and support to families in the community. Our mission is to ensure that no one is alone after the loss of a pregnancy, baby or infant. We do so by providing free, specialist, trauma-informed, early-intervention Hospital to Home support, specialist counselling and long-term peer support.
Baby loss is an incredibly isolating experience; families often feel overwhelmed and alone in their grief, and struggle to find others who understand. Our trained peer supporters are all bereaved parents themselves, so they can support families from a place of shared experience, understanding and true empathy.
With Held In Our Hearts’ support, families can build resilience and adjust to life after loss, so much so that they can begin to socialise again, communicate openly about their grief and return to daily routines. From the earliest days of loss to the months and years that follow, we walk alongside families with empathy, connection, and love.
Our mission is to ensure no one in Scotland faces baby loss alone. Our work is rooted in our values of empathy, connection and love. If you share these values and believe in our mission, this could be a role where you make a meaningful difference every day.
What You’ll Do:
You will assist in the planning, coordinating, and delivering of a wide range of community fundraising initiatives to engage and inspire people to support Held
In Our Hearts.
This includes (but is not limited to):
- Local events and campaigns
- Sponsored challenges
- In-memory fundraising
- YPI & Youth Groups
- Individual giving and
- community-based appeals
Key responsibilities:
- Support in the delivery of a calendar of local and regional community fundraising
- events and activities
- Build relationships with community members, families, local groups, and volunteers
- to grow supporter engagement.
- Provide guidance and encouragement to individuals and groups fundraising on
- our behalf
- Promote fundraising campaigns via social media, newsletters, talks, and local
- networking
- Collaborate with the fundraising team on national campaigns and bespoke
- initiatives
- Maintain accurate records on our CRM system and ensure GDPR compliance
- Represent Held In Our Hearts at community events, talks, and presentations
- Help research and identify new opportunities for Held In Our Hearts’ fundraising
- to achieve agreed income targets and appeal to a wide range of audiences
- across the fundraising portfolio; Individual Giving, Community, Corporate and
- events fundraising primarily.
What You’ll Bring:
Essential Criteria:
- Experience in community fundraising or a similar role in engagement, events, or volunteering
- Proven ability to build trusting relationships with individuals and community groups
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication, including public speaking and writing for supporters
- Confidence using social media and digital tools to promote campaigns
- Experience using databases or CRM systems
- Understanding of and sensitivity to the
- experiences of bereaved families
- Ability to work independently, with initiative, and flexibility (some
- evening/weekend work)
- Full UK driving license and access to car.
Desirable Criteria:
- Knowledge of the Scottish charity or third sector landscape
- Fundraising qualifications or relevant training
- Understanding of bereavement services or trauma-informed work
What you’ll gain
- Immediate entry to the company’s group life assurance benefit scheme of 4 x your basic annual salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Following 3 months’ service, you will (subject to eligibility) be entitled to opt into the company pension scheme. The company will pay a contribution of 3% of your salary. You may be required to make a personal contribution, as required under auto-enrolment legislation, which will be deducted from your salary.
- Flexible working available.
- Public holidays not given, but extended holidays gifted over Christmas and New Year
- 35 days of annual leave pro rata
GDPR & Equal Access Information
- If you apply for this role, we would like to keep this data until our open role is filled. We cannot estimate the exact time period, but we will consider this period over when a candidate accepts our job offer for the position for which we are considering you. When that period is over, we will either delete your data or inform you that we will keep it in our database for future roles.
- Here’s a link to our privacy policy – https://heldinourhearts.org.uk/privacy-policy/ In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with GDPR. You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data.
- You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data, and you can contact us on info@heldinourhearts.org.uk or on 0131 622 6263 for more information or concerns.
- Alternatively, you can make contact with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is the independent regulatory authority who exist to uphold information rights in the UK. For more information, visit their website or call their helpline on 0303 123 1113.
To apply, please send you CV and Cover Letter to ourHead of Fundraising, Christina Laird:
christina@heldinourhearts.org.uk
Closing Date: Monday 19th January 2026, 12.00noon
Interviews: Week Commencing 26th January 2026
