Job title: Donor Development Officer

Location: Dublin

Reporting to: Fundraising Manager

Contract type: Permanent

Position summary:

Reporting to the Fundraising Manager, Jigsaw’s Donor Development Officer will be a central member of the fundraising team. You will join a dynamic, fast paced, innovative and award-winning team that share a passion for increasing awareness and funds for Jigsaw’s youth mental health services and supports.

This role will be responsible for leading on our donor relationship, acquisition, retention, and cultivation strategies to build our communities of support to increase income across our fundraising mix. You will be a people focused, relationship builder who will work with colleagues to develop clear, well thought out supporter recruitment strategies. You will be responsible for leading on our extensive donor communications program to inspire, recruit and retain our growing community of supporters.

Who we are:

Established (as Headstrong) in 2006, Jigsaw is Ireland’s leading youth mental charity and is committed to advancing young people’s mental health and to developing supportive communities by providing a range of early intervention primary care services and supports across the Republic of Ireland.

With the support of a range of public and private funders, we deliver free mental health services and supports for young people and adults including:

• Free therapy with young people (aged 12-25) in-person across 14 regional hubs and online via phone and video
• community-based programmes aimed at better informing, supporting, educating and empowering young people and those around them, in places where they live, learn, work and play
• pioneering research and robust evaluation leading to transformative evidence
• a wide range of online mental health supports, services and programmes through jigsaw.ie
• comprehensive schools programmes aimed at supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people by developing a shared responsibility for mental health across the whole school community

In Jigsaw, we intervene early to support young people’s mental health. We are the only mental health service in the country with an exclusive focus on 12-25 year olds and are ambitious and bold about changing the current paradigm in approaches to mental health.

We aim to continue to inspire change, and to be pioneering, disruptive, brave and determined in creating positive change across Ireland and remain committed to achieving our vision of an Ireland that better supports and values young people’s mental health.

Please see full Job Description attached below.

The closing date for applications is 4:30pm on Friday 5th July 2024 with first round interviews due to take place online on 11th July 2024.

Application is by online application form only & CVs will not be accepted. Please complete all fields of the application form. Incomplete application forms will not be considered.

Application form: https://jigsaw.ie/careers/

All Jigsaw staff members are required to obtain Garda clearance as a condition of their initial and continued employment.

Jigsaw is an Equal Opportunities Employer.