Development Assistant

Fixed Term, May 2024, (maternity cover, 13 months) Full Time

Location: Oxford (hybrid working)

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Development Assistant to join the Rhodes Trust. This role is a key role in the Global Engagement team providing administrative support.

We are looking for the successful candidate to start with us in May 2024.

About the Rhodes Trust

The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which offers Rhodes Scholarships to exceptional students from around the world to come and study at the University of Oxford. Our mission is to build a better world through global fellowship programmes that develop and connect compassionate, innovative, and public-spirited people committed to solving humanity’s challenges.

The role

The role will also be responsible for tasks within gift registry and stewardship areas and will also include assisting team members based overseas. 

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in, or wishing to develop a career in, fundraising within the Higher Education sector.

The role will be responsible for;

• Supporting the Donor Relations Manager in administering the Rhodes Trust Gift Registry;
• Administration of donation data, research, cleansing, extraction and analysis to support the Global Engagement team
• Provide administrative support to the Global Engagement team
• Monitor various email inboxes, schedule meetings, organise meeting materials and transcribe action items and minutes when necessary
• Occasional assistance for events – which may involve working on site at evenings or weekends
• Support ad hoc departmental projects

Essential skills, experience and qualifications:

• Relevant and proven administrative experience;
• Ability to build strong working relationship with immediate colleagues, as well as with external stakeholders;
• Team player with a positive approach to new challenges, quick to learn, and willingness to find / adopt new approaches to complete tasks in the interests of efficiency or as a result of changing requirements;
• Proactive, focused and organised, with consistent attention to detail;
• Experience of data entry and/or record maintenance;
• An undergraduate degree is desirable

Benefits of working here

We are a global organisation and we use our deep connections across the world to bring together people of different backgrounds and viewpoints. We encourage our staff to challenge each other’s thinking and generate new ideas.

• 30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus 8 bank holidays
• Competitive pension scheme
• Generous family leave schemes
• Private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Personal development opportunities
• Additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme

If you would like to find out more, please click the ‘Apply’ button above to view the full job description and to find the link to apply. Please send us your CV and a covering letter. Please note, this advert will close on Sunday 7 April at 17:00 BST. Please also note that interviews will take place the week commencing 15th April.

The Rhodes Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We warmly welcome applications from talented people of diverse backgrounds and appoint without regard to age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, parental status, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality, religion or belief.