Following our recent expansion, we are keen to attract an experienced and driven Head of Fundraising with a great track record and background in both grants/statutory and community engagement.

You will direct and manage a small team of 2 PT grants officers and 2 PT and 1 FT Community Engagement Officers.  

Your time will be broadly split 40-60 across Grants and Community and you will have specific personal responsibility for Community Engagement in Hertfordshire and N London, with others of your team covering other areas. You will also be working to leveraging grant and statutory funding yourself as well as further developing team performance. We will be wanting to play to your strengths, expertise and contacts. During 2021, we will be working to add further to your community team in new areas. 

The Community work will be across corporates, challenges, events, donor acquisition, promotion of our collection box and lottery programme etc. Developing local support groups in each area will be a key part of delivery.

Working directly to the CEO, you will have great work ethic and an excellent track record of effective income generation and supporter acquisition across both grants and community streams.

You are organised, strategic, personable, outgoing and good at developing relationships and partnerships as well as leading your growing high quality team. You will be well supported by an excellent team, with personal support from the CEO.

You will be excited by the opportunities in this role and growing charity and determined to achieve excellent results to provide even more and better services.

Are you a resourceful, organised and proactive team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills? We are looking for someone to build on our Marketing and Fundraising activities, from management of administrative tasks to creative projects such as community fundraising and events, in order to support Refugee Resource at an exciting time in the charity’s development.

You will need to juggle multiple tasks with drive and enthusiasm, able to work with minimum supervision and show good judgement and initiative. Whilst previous experience with a fundraising CRM system is not essential, it is highly desirable, and you will need to learn new tools and systems quickly. Previous experience in a fundraising/marketing/events management role is also desirable, and we will look for transferrable skills that can support this work.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: Friday 7th May at midnight

Interview date: Wednesday 26th May (TBC)

We are seeking a passionate, innovative, flexible, and dedicated fundraiser to join us as our charity starts to grow. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their skills in fundraising and communications as we expand our reach as a charity. We are looking to employ a Fundraising Officer who will be committed to supporting Reedham Children’s Trust at a key development phase.

Reedham Children’s Trust provides support for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and has done so for 175 years. We believe every child deserves the chance to thrive and to look forward to a healthy, happy, and fulfilling adult life. We adapt our services as social needs change, always seeking the most innovative and effective ways to help. Collaborating with grassroots organisations and schools we offer practical, emotional, and inspirational support, helping to raise aspirations and transform the lives of vulnerable children.

We're looking for an exceptional fundraiser to join our dynamic award-winning team. 

The successful candidate will play a significant part in a high-performing relationship fundraising team by taking ownership of fundraising activity across the South of England. You will have a direct and tangible impact on our ability to help and support bone cancer patients and their families.

Candidates must live, or plan to live within the South of England to be considered for this role.

About us…

The Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) is the leading charity dedicated to fighting primary bone cancer. Our mission is to save lives and improve outcomes through research, information, awareness and support. In July 2019 we were awarded 'National Healthcare & Medical Reseach Charity of the Year' at the national Charity Awards and earlier in the year the Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Fundraising awarded our Fundraising & Communications Team with 'Fundraising Team of the Year'. We are a small but incredibly passionate and driven organisation that is proud and supportive of our people - together we make the biggest impact for our community.

The Role

The Community & Special Funds Fundraising Officers are the face of BCRT within the community and are passionate about raising money through building long lasting relationships with our supporters. They contribute to the overall fundraising strategy by raising income from three key income streams: special funds, community and regional corporate fundraising.

You will be the primary contact managing & nurturing a number of Special Fund relationships, as well as providing individuals and corporate supporters with the very best supporter experience. You will also respond to and manage emerging community fundraising opportunities as they arise.

About You

The ideal candidate will bring a mature attitude and the ability to effectively and empathetically connect with a range of supporters including patients and their families. You will be proactive with a positive and can-do approach – instinctively following opportunities across your area. With at least 2 years’ fundraising experience, you can sense what the next step should be to build and maximise those opportunities.

With a true passion for exceptional supporter care and above all, an ability to naturally build rapport to quickly establish long lasting relationships, your impressive track record of raising money will speak for itself.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Candidates must live, or plan to live within the South of England to be considered for this role. Please note travel to the charity office in Leeds will be required approximately once a month.

Application Process

1. Application Form & CV submission closing date: Monday 10th May 
2. Telephone interviews: 13th & 14th May
3. Face to face interviews: W/C 17th May

For more details please see the full Job Description. 

Pan Intercultural Arts is looking for a Fundraising Manager!

Job Title: Fundraising Manager

Rate of Pay: £31,200.00 FTE

(Pro-Rata 4 days per week - £24,960)

About Pan

Pan Intercultural Arts is a leading force in delivering arts for social change through workshop programmes with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, young refugees, survivors of trafficking and young people at risk of entering crime. Pan works mainly in London but also seeds projects in other towns and cities through its exPansion programme and has founded several Theatre for Development projects overseas.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Pan. The role would be working closely with Pan’s Artistic Director, Company Manager, Communications and Administration Officer and Pan’s project staff. This is a key role within the organisation, working closely with the Pan team to manage, develop and secure the funds to deliver our projects.

The Fundraising Manager is responsible for the fundraising strategy, securing new sources of funding and leading on funding applications, and managing the relationships with our existing funders including regular communications and grant reporting. In conjunction with the Artistic Director, Company Manager, Project Directors/Managers, the Fundraising Manager is responsible for securing funding for all projects and core costs for the organisation.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout our projects and our workplace. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We welcome your application regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, and sexual orientation. We aim to make the application process as accessible as possible.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from people of colour or people with lived experience of migration, who are currently underrepresented within our office team.

We are looking for a passionate fundraiser who is excited by the work we do. Even if you do not fit all the criteria but do have relevant fundraising experience that could make you a great candidate, we encourage you to apply. We welcome applications from people with a range of experiences and skills and we are happy to provide training in areas that are needed.

The deadline to apply is Thursday 22nd April, 12pm.

We’re recruiting for an exciting maternity fixed-term contract role in our highly-skilled Fundraising & Communications department. Supporting the Director of Fundraising & Communications, the role will work with colleagues to develop strategy, deliver effective operations and achieve department-wide objectives. The post also line manages one team member. CBM UK places emphasis on professional development and training for our employees.

CBM is the largest charity focussed on transforming the lives of people with or at risk of disability in the world’s poorest places, reaching over 30 million people globally each year. Working through local partners and based on Christian values, CBM UK raises £9m annually to tackle poverty, prevent blindness, improve health and support people with disabilities.

Key responsibilities

Working within our Fundraising & Communications department of 19 staff, the role ultimately helps to create extraordinary and wonderful moments in our 45,000 supporters’ lives, with responsibility for:

• Helping to further develop, monitor and evaluate fundraising & communications strategy
• Coordinating integrated campaigns, including two campaigns in Winter 2021 and Spring 2022
• Improving our supporters’ experiences with CBM.
• Coordinating CBM award applications and funding applications
• Managing 1 talented staff member.

For full detais please download the Recruitement Pack

You are an ambitious fundraiser with an interest in developing your community fundraising career. You can motivate yourself to meet challenges and you’d love the chance to make a massive difference at an amazing charity.

A spinal cord injury can be life-changing. Around 50,000 people in the UK are affected, and you can give them hope by working for a charity that’s determined to find effective treatments.

Spinal Research is here to give hope to everyone living with paralysis as a result of a spinal cord injury. Our focus is to find an effective treatment that not only improves sensation and movement for people living with paralysis but brings us closer to a day when we finally conquer it. Our pioneering work has led to recent clinical trials, but our world-class research relies on dynamic fundraising. That’s where you come in.

The Community Fundraising Manager is key in nurturing and building relationships with new and existing supporters. Spinal Research are looking for a fundraiser who is extremely passionate and driven and will lead the development and management of our community fundraising programmes. What is important to us is that we find someone who can work collaboratively in a small team and get stuck into a role that has lots of potential to develop.

Imagine how proud you’ll feel, knowing you’re making such a difference.

Benefits: 25 days leave, 8% non-contributory pension

Applicants should submit a letter of application (please keep it brief, no more than 2 page) stating why they would be a suitable candidate for the post and how they fit the person specification, enclosing a CV, by clicking on apply 

The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 19th April and we will be holding interviews during the following week.

We expect a large number of applications. Unfortunately, we cannot reply to unsuccessful applicants. If you have not heard from us within a week of the closing date, you may assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

WR Fundraising Recruitment has a great opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to take on a role as Fundraising Manager with a regional charity; supporting families and children across Berkshire. There is a lot of scope for the right candidate to build on the current programme, particularly in the area of individual giving, so experience of this would be desirable alongside skills in Raiser’s Edge or similar.

This role will be a mix of working at home, in the office, and around the community. You’ll need to be confident wearing a range of 'different hats’ and dealing with a diverse group of stakeholders. You will be leading a team of 3 fundraisers around the region and providing support, insight, and leadership on all aspects of the organisation’s fundraising while being very hands on with individual giving management.

You will be a self-starter, happy to work independently, while also working to embed a positive fundraising culture within the organisation. This is a new role, so there is plenty of room to input in to the fundraising strategy, and to innovate around new forms of income development.

Fundraising Manager

Home based role with weekly working in Reading Office, Berkshire

Full Time, Permanent

£35,000 per annum

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Implement a new fundraising strategy in line with business objectives and with a focus on development of an individual giving programme
• Present on the charity’s work to a range of stakeholders and partners
• Research and create compelling fundraising proposals for a range of funders
• Lead a Community, Events and Corporate Fundraising team ensuring targets are developed and met
• Design a new individual giving offering, alongside the development of supporter journeys, including legacy giving
• Build new relationships with a wide range of partners, and effectively nurture existing relationships for sustainable growth
• Identify potential opportunities with local community groups, corporate partners, and trusts/foundations
• Demonstrate impact through quantitative and qualitative reporting

The ideal candidate for this role will:

• Be an enthusiastic fundraiser, passionate about delivering income for a community focused charity
• Have experience of delivering an individual giving programme and mapping the supporter journey
• Have experience in delivering an effective fundraising strategy
• Be a brilliant communicator, with exceptional written and spoken English
• Have line-management experience
• Be a driven self-starter, able to work independently and manage a varied and diverse project portfolio

To register your interest and for more information please send your CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Experienced Charity Fundraisers, Immediate start

Chester, Office based, Employed

OTE £24,000

Personal Fundraising Services (PFS) are looking for EXPERIENCED FUNDRAISERS to join our successful telephone fundraising team in Chester!

Multi Charity Telephone Fundraising

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (primarily Monday to Friday with rotating weekend work)

Pay: £18,000 per year plus incentives / bonus

Interviews taking place on a rolling basis for an immediate start.

Due to the continued success of our telephone fundraising team, PFS are looking to recruit EXPERIENCED FUNDRAISERS to join our thriving team in Chester. Looking for confident, sociable, and passionate individuals who have previous street, door to door, private site, or telephone fundraising experience.

This is a fantastic, innovative fundraising role which will see you working for a range of charities! Working from our office in Chester, you will be calling current, previous and new donors. Depending on the charity you are working on, you will either be re-engaging previous donors, activating new donors or increasing existing donations.

Package

• Full-time, Permanent contract working 37.5 hrs a week.
• 28 Days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• Basic pay £18K
• On track earnings (which can take your OTE to £24,000)
• Working on behalf of numerous large national charities
• Flexible working hrs
• On-going product and sales training
• Opportunities for progression.
• The full support from our experienced management team
• The chance to learn highly valued career skills that will last a lifetime.
• The undeniable joy of having contributed to something worthwhile.
• Fantastic experience within the charity sector

The ideal candidate:

• Has previous fundraising experience! This is essential for the role and could include street, door to door, private site/venue or telephone fundraising.
• Is adaptable and genuinely passionate about working in the charity sector
• Will be resilient and able to handle rejection
• Is passionate and enthusiastic

Personal Fundraising Services (PFS) founded in 2014 provides a vital service connecting charities with supporters. Due to unprecedented growth, we are increasing the services we offer our charity partners and need more people to join our existing fundraising team. Telesales fundraisers at PFS are responsible for representing a variety of leading charities working in areas such as conservation, health, animal protection and children’s charities. You will be making outbound calls to new and existing supporters with a view to inspiring them to donate.

Please apply online to work for PFS as a charity fundraiser

Video interviews taking place on a rolling basis immediately starts dates from 19th April.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £18,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

Corporate Fundraising Manager

Starting salary £31.5k-£34.2k depending on experience, plus civil service pension and other benefits

37 hours per week based in Edinburgh/remotely

Fixed-term – 7 year contract

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is one of the world’s top four botanic gardens based on the quality, breadth and depth of our science, plant collections, public engagement and education. We are at a hugely exciting time in our 350 year history as we look to deliver the Edinburgh Biomes project, a seven year capital build programme to restore our heritage glasshouses, create a stunning new public glasshouse, and build new research facilities.

As part of this we are looking to significantly expand our dynamic fundraising team, and have created an exciting new role of Corporate Fundraising Manager to lead and significantly ramp up our work in this area. Corporate fundraising will be vital in ensuring that we continue to cultivate corporate relationships for both core fundraising and the capital elements of Biomes. This role will be fully embedded in the campaign team, and be managed by our Head of Major Gifts. The role will also work closely with colleagues in our Enterprise commercial team on lead identification and sponsorship fulfilment.

It goes without saying that applicants will need to have previous experience of corporate fundraising and/or sponsorship, as well as a sound grasp of fundraising techniques, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Strong influencing and negotiating skills will also be vital, as will excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a keen attention to detail. Previous experience of negotiating sponsorship contracts will be useful.

More information on the role, including a full job description and person specification, can be found on our website Further information on the Edinburgh Biomes project can also be found on our website

Interested candidates should send a CV and covering letter outlining the skills and experience you could bring to the post  along with a completed equal opportunities questionnaire, by midday on Fri. 16th April.

If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume your application hasn’t been successful on this occasion.

No recruitment agencies please.

Job title: Fundraising Manager

Responsible to: Director of Business Development

Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

Introduction

Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a consultant who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising. 

Management & Leadership

•  To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.

•  Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.

•   Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met

•  Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.

•  Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.

Income generation

•  Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets

•   Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.

•  Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.

• Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.

•  Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.

•   Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas

Monitoring & Evaluation

•  Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.

•  Review grant agreements

•  Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.

•  Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.

•  Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.

•  Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved

• Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support. 

Compliance

• To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation.

Person Specification

• At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector 
• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
• Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well. 
• Experience of budget and financial management
• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
• Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

Great role for an experienced trusts fundraiser to join a small, community based organisation to support future income growth.

Following a difficult year for the sector this organisation are looking to stabilise trusts and foundations income this year (c.£400k) while planning for future growth and pipeline development.

Trusts and foundations are an important source of fundraising for the team, forming around 35% of the organisation’s overall income. You will be responsible for the trusts and foundations portfolio with a focus on five- and six-figure donations.

Job specification

As Trusts and Foundations Manager you will:

• Be responsible for income generation from trusts and foundations with a focus on large, multi year grants that support organisational development
• Support pipeline development, identifying new funding opportunities and potential areas for support
• Work collaboratively with the internal teams to identify funding needs and priorities to match against donor criteria
• Have responsibility for grant and relationship management of existing funders (some giving c.£100k pa)

Person specification

The role would best suit:

• An experienced trusts fundraiser with a demonstrable track record of securing high five-figure gifts
• Someone with grant management expertise who has an understanding of complex funders and multi year relationships to support long term organisational aims
• A collaborative fundraiser, happy to work as part of a small and effective team to support income generation

Interviews will take place on a rolling basis, please don’t hesitate to get in touch for further details.

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Naomi Carruthers at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

The Wales Fundraising Manager will work closely with the Wales National Manager to secure Sported’s future in Wales. The role will develop a broader, more diverse income portfolio and funding which fully supports our activity in the Nation.

The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, securing multi year relationships with funders across the spectrum of trusts, foundations, lottery and corporate partnerships.

Whilst the main focus of the role is to generate direct income for Sported, the role will also focus on securing funding for distribution via grants into the Wales Sported network, building capacity and capability to more readily access funding.

This role is funded through the THIRD SECTOR RESILIENCE FUND FOR WALES PHASE 2, administered by WCVA

We are recruiting for a Fundraising Manager within a small organisation who have been really stable during COVID. They have a well-established fundraising team with a large portion of their funding coming from trusts and foundations.

This role will oversee a team of three to deliver income across trusts, major gifts, individual giving, community and events, so they need someone with experience of working across at least two of these areas (experience of trust fundraising is key).

This role will lead on the strategy across these areas but will have a more hands-on approach with the major donor programme and individual giving whilst supporting the team to deliver in the other areas. You will report into the Director of Fundraising, who is excellent.

You will need:

• Strong experience of working across multiple income streams, ideally with some exposure to trusts and foundations and major gifts.
• Experience of managing people, ideally with two or more direct reports
• Experience of working with different teams and building strong relationships internally
• A clear, engaging and strategic approach to fundraising

Closing Date: 21^st April 2021
Salary: £38,000 - £42,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787or email [email protected]

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.