New occupational standards issued for fundraisers
Howard Lake | 18 April 2008 | News
The UK Workforce Hub and the Institute of Fundraising have revised the improved the fundraising National Occupational Standards (NOS) first issued in 2003.
The new NOS include units on grant fundraising, corporate fundraising, major gifts and direct marketing, making it more ‘task specific’ than the first version. They apply to anyone who fundraises as part of their work, and those that manage fundraising, whether in a voluntary or paid capacity.
They are funded by the Sector Skills Development Agency (now the UK Commission for Employment and Skills) and cover the skills and the knowledge that fundraisers need to be able to do their job at a nationally recognised level of competence.
They can be downloaded from www.ukworkforcehub.org.uk/fnos08
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.