Location: Knock Co. Mayo (with travel to events)
Contract Type: Full-time
Salary Range: Dependent on experience
Role Overview
The Fundraising Assistant will support the planning, administration, communication and delivery of fundraising events for the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, including our latest project, the Sunflower Children’s Hospice. You will work with community groups and companies from across the region to support and enable them on their fundraising efforts.
The purpose of this role is to help the fundraising team bring in donations, look after supporters, organise fundraising activities, and keep the administrative side of fundraising running efficiently.
If you like a fast-paced, varied role, that makes a meaningful difference, and thrive on working with others to support and inspire them – you sound like the perfect addition to our team!
Apply by sending your CV to admin@hospice.ie.
This will require evening and weekend work, due to the events-based nature of the role and a full driver’s licence.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with fundraising campaigns and appeals.
- Support the organisation of fundraising events, including venues, invitations, materials, registrations, and follow-up.
- Maintain accurate donor and supporter records in databases/CRM systems.
- Process donations and issue acknowledgements or thank-you messages.
- Communicate with donors, volunteers, corporate partners, and members of the public.
- Help prepare fundraising materials, newsletters, presentations, and social media content.
- Coordinating with colleagues across the charity to ensure fundraising activities run smoothly.
- Providing general administrative and organisational support to the fundraising team.
- Ensuring fundraising activities comply with relevant charity regulations, policies, and data-protection requirements.
Skills & Experience
Required
- Organised, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Confident communicating with different people and building relationships.
- Full drivers licence and means to travel to events.
- Creativity and enthusiasm for fundraising.
- A positive, proactive, and team-oriented approach.
- Basic IT and database/CRM skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to maintain accurate records and handle confidential donor information professionally.
- An understanding of, or willingness to learn about, the charity sector.
- Confident using social media platforms and basic digital tools.
Desirable
- Experience working or volunteering in fundraising, events, or communications.
- Experience supporting events or community activities.
Personal Attributes
- Creative and enthusiastic,
- Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to connect warmly with others,
- Flexible – willing to work evenings or weekends for events, as required,
- Passion for the organisation’s mission and values,
- Team player – doing what it takes to achieve the collective goal of the organisation,
- Not afraid to take responsibility and ownership of projects and tasks,
- Solution-focused, where you meet challenges with a problem-solving mentality!
- Self-awareness and open to learning, feedback and direction to develop and grow in the role.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to gain hands-on experience in fundraising and digital communications,
- A friendly and supportive team environment,
- A huge learning opportunity in a fast-paced, growing organisation with an inspiring mission and plenty of responsibility for the person who embraces it,
- Time in lieu for evening/weekend work,
- Pension, death in service, flexible working hours,
- Training and development support.
Apply by sending your CV to admin@hospice.ie.
About Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation
Founded in 1993, Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation funds, provides, develops, and supports palliative care services for people with life-limiting illnesses and their families across Mayo and Roscommon. Having built and funded two state-of-the-art hospices that provide a seven-day palliative care service in both counties through entirely fundraised income, the foundation is on an exciting path to develop a hospice for Children in the west of Ireland – The Sunflower Children’s Hospice.
We also operate 12 Mayo Roscommon Hospice charity shops which are integral to the operation of our foundation.
You will join at an exciting time, following the launch of the Sunflower Children’s Hospice project in November 2025. This will be the first children’s hospice outside Dublin and the second only in the state, providing paediatric palliative care that is vital for support children and young adults with life-limiting conditions. The service will be transformative for the families affected, as it will provide care that’s closer to home, and extend support to the parents and siblings involved.
Our work is driven by our values of Equality, Compassion, and Excellence, and sustained entirely through the generosity of our donors, fundraisers, and community.
