# Good job there’s GoodJobs

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/16/good-job-theres-goodjobs/
- Published: 2020-01-16T21:47:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The process of recruiting fundraisers is about to be tweaked to help expand training
of fundraisers, improve the diversity and inclusion of fundraisers, and save the
charity sector substantial sums on recruitment advertising.**

GoodJobs is a new jobs board for fundraisers. There’s nothing new about jobs boards
of course – there are plenty to choose from for fundraisers, and have been for 20
years or so. GoodJobs, say its founders, is designed, of course, “to be different”.
This is not in terms of technology, although machine learning and AI is already 
transforming what can be done in recruitment. Instead, the site takes two approaches
that make it stand out from other providers.

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## Saving charities money

First, it avoids the model of paying a set fee per job advertisement. Instead, it
offers a set annual fee for an unlimited number of jobs. It does so at a very modest
rate, to ensure that it can be used by almost any sized charity. £120 a year for
unlimited jobs could make national recruitment a more realistic prospect for small
and very small charities, even if they use it just the once. The annual fee rises
to £600 for the largest charities, which are of course more likely to recruit more
than one fundraiser a year.
 

## Investing in fundraisers

Undercutting existing recruitment sector providers is hardly a novel or necessarily
sustainable business plan. There has to be something else for the service to stand
out and appeal. Which is where the GoodJobs Fund comes in.
GoodJobs has been established
as a social enterprise, and is committed to distributing 25% or more of its profits
for social good. Specifically, it will donate this sum via a grantmaking fund to
support the training of fundraisers. It’s no good recruiting fundraisers if the 
charities that recruit them don’t have sufficient training and development budgets.

They will distribute the fund regionally to try to reduce geographical bias. It 
will be distributed based on the income generated via each region.
 

## Finding even more fundraisers

The fund will also be directed at projects and services that are working to help
find and recruit fundraisers from a much wider section of society. This reflects
other moves at improving the diversity and inclusion of fundraisers from different
backgrounds in an effort to achieve equity of career opportunities.
 

## Who is behind it?

GoodJobs is a collaborative initiative from some individuals and organisations who
have extensive experience in the fundraising and charity sector. These include Howard
Lake, publisher of [UK Fundraising](https://fundraising.co.uk), and [Charity People](https://www.charitypeople.co.uk/about-us/how-we-give-back/goodjob),
the charity sector recruitment specialists.

GoodJobs launches in the next few weeks. The timing, we think, couldn’t be better.
Charities need even more opportunities to plan ahead and predict their expenditure.
The sector as a whole needs to reduce unnecessary costs where it can in order to
apply investment to activities that are most successful and impactful.

In addition GoodJobs aims to bring benefits to small and large charities by expanding
the range and skills of fundraisers that will drive charities’ resilience in generating
income over the coming challenging years.
 _Republished with permission from [Charity People](https://www.charitypeople.co.uk/blog/2020/01/good-job-theres-goodjobs)._

_Editor’s update_ (21_ July 2021)_

_GoodJobs is now [Utopy](http://utopy.co)._
 

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