Director of Fundraising and Engagement

Location: Islington, London, EC1V. Due to coronavirus the role will be based at home until the London office reopens

Salary: £65,000-£75,000 depending on skills and experience

Closing date: Monday 8 February 2021 at 10am

Interview date: Wednesday 17 or Thursday 18 February 2021

There will be two stages of interviews. Successful candidates after the first round will be invited to a second interview which will take place week commencing Monday 22 February.

The Director of Fundraising and Engagement role at JDRF UK is an amazing internationally-focused opportunity for an ambitious and successful senior-level fundraiser with a proven track record of success. JDRF UK is a medical research charity that is part of a global network of partner charities. The funds we raise go towards our global research programme which funds world-class research to improve treatments and find cures for type 1 diabetes.

As the Director of Fundraising and Engagement, you will have the vision, determination and entrepreneurial flair to lead our award-winning fundraising team to deliver in excess of £8 million year on year, working towards the goal of £10 million voluntary income.

You will have a thorough understanding of a number of fundraising streams and have a track record of delivering income growth. You will be a leader who can motivate, drive and inspire a large fundraising team.

Not only is our research programme global, this role, unlike others, will provide you with the opportunity to work collaboratively with international colleagues and donors. The role and the organisation are international in every sense of the word.

You will need to be able to generate new ideas and ways of working that bring out the best in your people.

You will need to be a strategic thinker and have experience of delivering an income generation strategy. You will be a member of the Senior Management Team, supporting colleagues and working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver the best outcomes for JDRF.

You will be skilled at networking, building external relationships and have proven experience of nurturing and maintaining relationships with key donors, supporters and board directors. Most importantly, you will be a visionary leader, motivating the fundraising directorate to reach new heights in accordance with our organisation values.

You will find a supportive, collaborative and highly motivated team at JDRF, always striving to improve lives for people living with type 1. In 2020, we were voted as one of the top 10 Charities to Work For in Third Sector’s inaugural Best Charities to Work For list.

In return we offer flexible working, a generous annual leave entitlement rising with length of service, a salary sacrifice pension scheme, an interest-free season ticket/bike loan and an Employee Assistance Programme.

To apply for the role, please submit your CV and covering letter below.  Your application should clearly demonstrate how you meet the person specification with examples.

JDRF is the world’s leading charitable research funder into type 1 diabetes, improving lives until we find the cure. We are dedicated to our 400,000 strong type 1 community in the UK and work closely with our international affiliates across the world, including the US, Canada and Australia.

‘JDRF is an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age.’ 

We’re Anthony Nolan and we save the lives of people with blood cancer who need a stem cell transplant.

We’re unique. Thanks to the incredible donors on our register, our pioneering research and our passionate fundraisers, we give the chance of life to three people a day.

But we won’t stop there. We want to be there for everyone who needs a transplant; from finding a match, through every step of a patient’s transplant journey. And together we can reach the remarkable day when we can save the lives of everyone with blood cancer.

And now we want you to join our lifesaving team. We are looking for an experienced Health and Safety Manager to join our Property and Facilities Team as part of the Finance and Resources Division

Title:Health and Safety Manager

Salary: £25,000 per annum (inclusive London weighting)

Contract: Permanent/part-time

Hours: 21 hours per week

Location: Heathgate Office, London

Reporting to the Head of Property Services the primary role of the H&S Manager is to advise management and staff on all safety, health and welfare matters to ensure that Anthony Nolan complies with its statutory obligations. The role will be based in our London Head Office but will require occasional travel to other Anthony Nolan sites in London and Nottingham.

Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone a chance of life.

Anthony Nolan is an equal opportunities & living wage accredited employer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK

Please make sure to check out the job description, available on our website when you click to apply.

What’s in it for you?

Financial

• Pension (employer 5% when you contribute 3% or more),
• Travel Insurance
• Interest free Travel Loan
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Life Assurance (4x annual salary)

Wellbeing & Health

• 27 days annual leave in addition to normal public holidays
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Hotline
• Medical Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gymflex

Family Friendly

• Paid dependants leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
• Flexible start/finish times (role dependent)

And more! (full list of benefits available on website)

We are looking for a Relationship Manager to join our Collective Funds team in order to help manage various diverse and exciting accounts within Prism the Gift Fund. The successful candidate will be a fast learner with strong attention to detail, numeracy and administration skills, and the ability to successfully build and maintain relationships with clients. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to gain experience within a dynamic and constantly evolving charity.

The Organisation

Prism the Gift Fund (Prism) increases giving to charity by offering a personal service to those donating large sums of money. We are a registered charity working with high net worth individuals, foundations and groups of donors to administer their charitable giving. Our growing team is a talented team of exceptional colleagues who are professional, dynamic and hard working and we are proud to have been selected as one of the Best Charities to Work For in 2020 by the Best Companies Group! 

Responsibilities:

•Managing key collective fund clients for Prism the Gift Fund

•Administering clients’ finances, including but not limited to managing book-keeping, reconciliation, cashflow, banking, making payments, and providing donation summaries and statements.

•Day to day client liaison and management

•Ensuring prompt, clear, and compelling communications with clients

•Conducting due diligence to ensure all clients’ activities abide by the UK charitable law and the Charity Commission’s regulations

•Assisting in development of effective strategies to steward collective fund clients

•Vetting and recording of new payees, contractors and grant recipients

•Monitoring and recording donations into clients’ funds

•Working closely with the processing and compliance team to ensure a high level of service delivery

•Working with the rest of the team to develop and monitor processes and systems that will nurture effective client relationships

•Working with the rest of the team to help grow our collective fund client base

•Monitoring and assessing project reports from grantees and clients

•Maintaining relationships with important associates

•Dealing with any other third party service providers as and when is necessary

The Candidate

This is a fantastic opportunity for a detail-oriented person who has strong inter-personal and excellent administrative skills. We are looking for someone talented and engaging, with a positive attitude to work who can integrate quickly within the rest of the team and work closely with them in order to ensure that we are delivering the most efficient and high-quality service to our clients. You will be highly organised, conscientious and process driven, with the ability to work well within a changing regulatory framework to ensure client compliance with charitable law. This is a role for someone with strong numeracy and administrative skills who is passionate about gaining a thorough understanding of the charitable sector and making a difference.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Highly numerate
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability and confidence to communicate effectively at all levels and with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Comfortable working with confidential or sensitive data with knowledge of how to communicate and store information safely
• Focused with meticulous attention to detail
• Extremely organised with the ability to work under pressure, use initiative and manage multiple priorities to meet deadlines
• Previous administrative experience and comfortable handling administration for a number of diverse accounts
• Team player with the ability to work well with the rest of the team in order to develop, implement, and monitor effective processes for collective fund clients
• Excellent computer skills, being proficient in Microsoft Office and other software tools for managing a variety of internal processes
• Knowledge and understanding of the Charity Sector desirable
• Previous experience of Sage accounting system desirable but not essential
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Please provide evidence of your ability to match the criteria outlined in the role competencies and ensure your letter includes details of your latest salary and notice period.

*We're currently operating a 100% remote working arrangement and will provide the successful candidate with what they need to work from home successfully. We hope that we'll be able to work out of our office in the near future*

Charity People are thrilled to be working with the Society of Genealogists to find an experienced Fundraising and Grants Manager who has a fantastic track record in securing a variety of funds through Trusts and Statutory sources. We are looking for someone with the experience to build a portfolio from scratch, whilst having the ability to identify opportunities for the organisation.

Job Title: Fundraising and Grants Manager
Organisation: Society of Genealogists
Salary: £37,000 - £40,000
Location: London
Contract: Full time/Permanent
Closing date: Friday 29th January 2020
Required: CV and Cover Letter

The Society of Genealogists is the premier organisation in Britain who look into and research family histories. The Society maintains a splendid genealogical library and education centre in Clerkenwell in London. It is their vision to see a world in which everyone has convenient, affordable access to records, finding aids, knowledge and skills necessary to conduct authoritative research into family history.

The Fundraising and Development Manager will focus on raising funds for the current transformation on the society, as well as producing funds for their library, educational centre and programmes. The current transformation's purpose is to move the society into a more modern setting, in which there will be a new office space, as well as a fresh approach to their current members and new members they hope to attract. The society want to attract more people outside of their current demographic who may have an interest or a passion for history, family trees and research. It is a very exciting move with a huge amount of opportunities.

We are looking for someone to come into this Fundraising and Development manager role with a solid background in Trusts and Statutory fundraising. The organisation don't have an established Trusts programme, so we need someone with the confidence and experience to come into this role and set out a plan, a pipeline and a have the self-drive to find and secure funding opportunities that are out there. This role is perfect for someone who wants build something from the ground up, rather than simply play a part in what is to be a very exciting transformative period.

For those who have the experience we are looking for, it would be great to hear from you. If you wish to apply or just find out more, please do get in contact.

Stuart Milliner - Charity People

We have created an exciting new Individual Giving Officer role to help us to give the best possible experience back to the amazing individuals who support our charity.

Building upon the success of our high-profile national campaigns and appeals such as the Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal, join us as our Individual Giving Officer and help us build income and lasting relationships with our individual donors.

Reporting to the Director of Fundraising and Communications, you’ll focus on building and retaining our pool of regular givers, developing creative appeals and managing our small legacy programme. You will also be involved in all aspects of legacy case management, integrated appeals and building impactful and meaningful retention communications. 

Alongside great attention to detail, you will have a successful track record of first-class customer care and be experienced in using donation platforms, payment gateways and databases to record and thank gifts. You will also be experienced using social media to communicate and develop relationships with donors and bring a warm and dedicated approach to ensure our amazing supporters have the best experience possible! 

We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of people with visible differences. Changing Faces is committed to achieving greater staff diversity. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community irrespective of race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief. In line with our commitments to race equity, we are particularly seeking applications from people of colour/ people from BAME backgrounds. We actively encourage people with a visible difference to apply. 

Contract: Full time (37 hours per work).

Location: London-based role / working from home initially

Salary range: £26,868.19 – £30,240.39 (Changing Faces’ policy is to offer all posts at the first point on this scale)

Closing date: Monday 1 February 2021, 9am

Interviews: TBC

We're recruiting on behalf a leading homeless charity to recruit a Fundraising Compliance Manager.

With charities under more scrutiny than ever, it's never been more essential to ensure policies and compliance around charitable donations are water tight.

As the focal point for compliance, you will provide expert guidance and advice to colleagues within the fundraising team and occasionally the wider organisation. You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and reviewing policies and procedures to ensure adherence to all regulations and legislation.

Working closely across six internal fundraising teams, you will need strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build strong relationships, win trust and influence on both policy and best practice.

You will have sound knowledge of GDPR, experience creating policies and procedures in line with regulation and compliance.

If you would like more details on this exciting opportunity, please forward your CV asap. Closing date for application forms is 27^th January with interviews taking place on w/c 1^st February.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

London needs Jesus!

One in three people don’t have a Christian friend to invite them to church, open a Bible with them, or tell them the good news of Jesus. Under 10% of the inhabitants of London’s poorest districts attend Christian churches. We want to see that change. We long to see the gospel taken to the least reached of London by working alongside churches. We have an ambitions five-year strategy to do this and we have recently restructured our mission to better enable this to happen.  

Our ambition for growth and change in mission must be matched by an ambition to raise the funds we need to support mission and to enable London City Mission to become financially sustainable. We have, therefore, recently completed a strategic review of our Fundraising and Supporter Partnerships team. As a result, we have a number of roles available to get involved in this gospel mission to London. It’s a crucial and exciting time in the history and further development of London City Mission, and through this role the successful candidates will be able to make a difference in London for the salvation of souls and to the glory of God. If that’s you then we want to hear from you.

Full details of the seven roles we have available, and the application process and closing dates, are available via the Christian Jobs website . All applications should be made to Christian Jobs who are handling these vacancies for LCM.

Here are the roles we are currently recruiting for in Fundraising and Supporter Partnerships 

Head of Major Gifts

Missionary Fundraising Support Manager

Database Manager

Partnerships Officer

New Supporter Engagement – Senior Officer

Trusts Fundraising Manager

Legacy Giving Manager

Please note, there is an occupational requirement that the people appointed be evangelical Christians.

National children's charity is looking for an experienced, and enthusiastic individual giving manager to join their team for 9 months to cover maternity leave. Reporting to the Associate Head, the successful candidate will be responsible for the management of several supporter development and engagement programmes and the team that delivers them. The Supporter Development programme is diverse and includes welcome and loyalty, through to Raffle, Upgrade and Legacy.

The Supporter Development team focuses on engaging existing supporters to build loyalty and maximise long term income. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with line management, developing strategies and delivering large direct and digital based programmes. They will also be confident in creating budgets and reforecasting, as well as monitoring campaign and programme effectiveness.

Candidates for the position should have experience:
- Managing direct response marketing campaigns and relationship building programmes
- Of donor/customer recruitment and/or retention / cross-sell experience, insight and knowledge
- Researching, developing, forecasting and reporting on substantial income and expenditure budgets
- Project management
- Managing a team, a range of agency relationships and multiple projects simultaneously

We are currently working with a social welfare charity to recruit an Individual Giving Officer . you will be contributing to growing a fundraising program , they are looking for experience in direct mail, inserts and digital .

The Role
Work with the Individual Giving Manager to plan, develop and implement new campaigns to recruit individual supporters and develop income through direct marketing activity, considering audiences, products, propositions and channels
Work with the Individual Giving Manager to produce the budgets and written plans for the following year
Co-ordinate the retention appeals (Spring & Christmas) from concept through to fulfilment & campaign analysis
Produce end of campaign reports, review results and make recommendations for future activity to the Individual Giving Manager.
schedules, researching relevant media, data and financial information; sourcing, individual stories and images, briefing internal and external teams and writing copy
where necessary.
Brief and liaise with external creative teams to produce fundraising materials, reviewing and arranging approval from key staff and proofreading copy and design work ready for print.
Oversee the design, print and production of direct marketing activity, negotiating on bought services and ensuring invoices are in accordance with quotes.
Track and monitor income and expenditure for campaigns to ensure all commissioned activity is carried out on time, within budgets and to agreed standards
Monitor campaign performance seeking continuous improvement of campaigns through research, testing and evaluation

The Candidate
Prior experience of project managing a range of direct marketing activities including direct mail, inserts and digital.
Good experience of achieving fundraising targets.
Prior experience of using a fundraising database to segment and select data, produce reports and information analysis.
Experience of gathering case studies to feature in fundraising materials.
Significant experience of working with external agencies, creative teams and suppliers.
Experience of basic copywriting to produce fundraising letters and to enable supervision of external creative teams.
Excellent interpersonal, networking and relationship building skills, including the ability to represent the charity to supporters and internal and external stakeholders

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. Place2Be provides mental health support and training for over 600 primary and secondary schools, reaching a total school population of over 350,000 pupils.

About The Role

10-11Months Maternity Cover
Hours: 35hrs p/w
Days: Monday-Friday
Location: London, EC1V 4LW
 

The role of Corporate Partnerships Officer is fundamentally to help grow our corporate fundraising portfolio. You are part of a small but dynamic team consisting of a Head of Corporate Partnerships, two Corporate Partnerships Managers and another Corporate Partnerships Officer. We have achieved significant growth in the past few years, securing a number of high-value partnerships such as Citibank, Bank of America and Standard Life. The team has a 20/21 target of £2.5 million which we are expecting to exceed even following the extraordinary impacts of the pandemic in 2020.

The role will be split between new business - researching, prospecting and developing new opportunities - and account management; you will have your own portfolio of partnerships and will support the team to deliver larger partnerships. You will manage engagement activity with our corporate partners including events with schools and mental health lunch and learn seminars.

The role is primarily based at our Core office on St John’s Street, London for five days a week, though due to current restrictions caused by COVID-19, employees are able to work remotely from home whilst the office is closed.

What will I be responsible for in my new role?
 

You will:

• with the support of the Corporate Partnerships Manager, deliver on areas of new business research including identifying and researching prospects, managing a pipeline and developing tailored propositions and applications
• with the support of the Corporate Partnerships Manager, manage a portfolio of corporate partnerships,
  delivering first class stewardship to increase engagement, value and longevity of support
• provide support to the Corporate Partnerships Managers and the Head of Corporate Partnerships for high value corporate partnerships including through Charity of the Year, cause-related marketing and sponsorship
• act as a database (ThankQ) "Champion" working to ensure that all information is up to date and all team members are confident and competent users
• provide support on delivering corporate engagement activities for corporate partners
• work with the Head of Corporate Partnerships to forecast and provide regular financial updates

The successful candidate will have:

• proven track record managing or supporting the management of corporate partnerships, or relevant experience/transferable skills
• excellent writing skills with a good ability to write compelling and persuasive copy (such as for thank you letters, applications and reports) as well as formal and professional emails/communications to internal and external stakeholders
• strong organisational and administrative skills to support a team with daily tasks and processes such as diary management, arranging and booking meetings, overseeing the upkeep of frequently used documents and spreadsheets
• effective stewarding relationships with donors and external stakeholders
• experience organising events and engagement activities for external stakeholders to a high standard, including overseeing communications between several parties (e.g. internal employees, a corporate partner and a school)

Interview Date: Monday 08th/ Tuesday 09th February 2021 ZOOM Video Interview

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

To APPLY or view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification please visit our website for further details.

Birthrights is the UK charity that champions respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth by protecting human rights. We provide advice and information on your legal rights, train doctors and midwives, and campaign to change maternity policy and systems. We are excited to be growing our small team in 2021. Application deadline: 12pm on 8 February 2021.

We need a creative, inspiring communicator and leader to be our first ever Engagement Director. You will head up a new engagement team, working alongside the Programmes Director who leads our advice, training and influencing. We have big ambitions to reach even more people who need us, improve the accessibility and inclusivity of our services, facilitate meaningful participation of women/birthing people across our work, and deepen relationships with existing supporters, campaigners, donors and volunteers.

You will line manage the Participation Officer (already recruited) and a new Communications and Fundraising Coordinator (via the Kickstart scheme), with scope to grow the team further, subject to funding. You will create and deliver a new, audience-led approach to media relations, digital communications and supporter journeys.

Your first priority will be getting our communications in top-notch shape. You'll also lead recruitment and stewardship of individual supporters, whether one off donors, regular givers or events fundraisers (the CEO leads trusts and corporate fundraising and the Programmes Director leads on training income). As part of the senior team, you'll jointly lead a small but growing organisation, ensuring staff are supported and able to thrive.

It's an exciting time to join us. In 2021, we will continue to champion human rights in response to Covid-19 restrictions in maternity care, launch a new national inquiry on racial injustice, grow our advice and training, and shape a new strategic plan.

Birthrights is a small but mighty charity, so you need to be both strategic and hands-on. You'll have the mandate to shape our engagement function, achieve change at pace, and design new ways to reach and involve people in our vital mission. Covid-19 has shown human rights in childbirth are more important than ever.

Please note, this is a Home-based role (UK within reasonable commuting distance of London and able to travel to regular team meetings and events in London, once the Covid-19 situation allows). There's also access to a co-work space near London Fields in Hackney.

Birthrights is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our organisation and our external work. We want to increase the diversity of our team, especially at senior level. We particularly welcome applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people, who are currently under-represented in our staff team. We will use positive action under the Equality Act 2010 to appoint from these under-represented groups if two candidates are equally qualified.

Please send your CV and a short covering statement (maximum two sides of A4) by noon on Monday 8 February. For more information on how to apply, please look at the full job pack.

Our Fundraising & Communications department is seeking to grow, and with a new strategic cycle beginning in 2021, we are looking for an experienced challenge event fundraiser and effective relationship manager to help us grow our income.

For 40 years, across nearly 50 countries, Action Against Hunger has led the global fight against hunger. We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and build prosperous communities

The successful candidate will manage and grow our established annual Ambassador Challenge. This project sees hospitality industry ambassadors raise funds by taking on a sporting challenge, such as a long-distance trek or cycle, in a country that Action Against Hunger works in, before visiting our programmes there. In addition, this role will support the growth of Action Against Hunger’s work with influencers and high-profile supporters, cultivating new relationships, developing new fundraising products and inspiring action.

This role will suit an experienced challenge event fundraiser, passionate about nurturing supporters through the highest standards of relationship building. You’ll need to be a creative, innovative and adaptable communicator, confident in your ability to build relationships and influence effectively. A personable, practical and highly organised multi-tasker who enjoys supporting individuals to achieve their fundraising goals.

This role will require international travel once a year to manage and participate in our Ambassador Challenge. In addition, the role will involve occasional UK travel to nurture key relationships or attend events, and the post-holder must therefore be able to work at occasional evening/weekend events.

Please read the following carefully before making your application:

• As a UK based position, candidates must have the right to work in the UK
• We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community
• You can only be considered for this role if you meet the essential criteria in the person specification. You should use the "cover letter" section of the online application to demonstrate this.
• Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, within one week of the closing date. Unfortunately we cannot provide individual feedback.
• If you experience any technical difficulties in submitting your application, please contact the charityjob helpdesk

Head of Fundraising

Are you passionate about the environment, wildlife and open spaces? Do you love the idea of helping make London a city alive with nature? Are you a strategic fundraiser with experience of managing at least six-figure income targets and motivating a team?

We are looking for a Head of Fundraising to lead a vibrant, supporter-focused and unified high performing team: driving growth in individual giving and membership and overseeing the continued success of our grants programmes and corporate partnerships in line with the Trust’s five year strategy, Your role will also involve: 

• Oversee the delivery, evaluation and updating of the Trust’s Fundraising Strategy 
• Lead the ongoing development and implementation of individual giving programmes, including appeals, direct mail and digital
• Lead the development and implementation of membership (regular giving) acquisition campaigns
• Oversee fundraising from grant funders and corporate partners
• Work closely with the Head of Marketing and Communications to  develop and maintain long-term relationships with existing and new supporters, and develop and enhance multi-channel supporter journeys

This is an exciting role and you will be joining London Wildlife Trust at a very significant time for the environment sector – the pandemic has brought into focus just how valuable local wild spaces are to our communities, and we know that people are more concerned about the natural world than ever before.

What’s in it for you?
Salary: £44,396 per annum 

Tenure: Permanent

• 25 days annual leave pro rata plus statutory holidays
• A host of wellbeing benefits including an Employee Assistance Scheme, free counselling and support service, and premium Headspace membership for all employees
• Supportive and inclusive policies including enhanced flexible working policy
• ‘Staff Day’ once a quarter where you can get involved in conversation work on one of our site
• Yearly residential trip

About us
 

We are London’s leading nature conservation charity and part of a national movement of 46 Wildlife Trusts. We’ve grown significantly in the past 5 years establishing new iconic nature reserves such as Walthamstow and Woodberry Wetlands and education centres like Camley Street Natural Park in Kings Cross. With c55 staff and over 1000 volunteers, we care for 36 nature reserves across London. As part of the national Wildlife Trusts we also campaign tirelessly to make London a more nature-rich place to live, sharing our expertise and educating the public, developers, local authorities, and policymakers about responsible land management. We work hard to make sure Londoners from all walks of life have better access to wildlife. Join us and help make a London alive with nature, where everyone values and takes action for wildlife.

Our Fundraising Team

The Trust’s Fundraising department raises around 60% of the Charity’s total income. Working with colleagues across the organisation, we provide members of the public and organisations with opportunities to engage with the Trust and to support our work. Through continued investment in fundraising and marketing over the past few years, we are growing our profile and increasing our supporter base., The fundraising team raised c£2.2m in 2020, and we plan to continue to grow our fundraising to make sure the Trust can support London’s nature now and in the future.

We are looking for a confident fundraising professional to lead our Fundraising Strategy and take our fundraising programmes to the next stage.

 

Our vision is a London alive with nature, where everyone can experience and enjoy wildlife. In order to achieve our goal of engaging everyone in protecting London’s wildlife for the future, we know that our staff team needs to better reflect and represent all of London’s communities. Therefore we particularly welcome applicants who identify as being from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, and disabled people, as these groups are currently under-represented at London Wildlife Trust.
 

Our efforts extend beyond recruitment. Our policies are designed to support our people including an enhanced Flexible Working policy and an inclusive Talent policy which includes our commitment to giving fair opportunities to ex-offenders.
 

 

Talitha Arts is seeking an experienced, results-driven fundraiser who has a proven track record in fundraising for charities and growing annual giving and income. Talitha Arts is in the midst of an exciting time - we are growing our practitioner base and external partnerships, both in the UK and abroad.  We are seeking a relational Head of Fundraising who can expand on the current established portfolio, help to enable our growing charity’s groundwork by steadily increasing our grant income annually, and increase our small but dedicated donor base.

At Talitha Arts, creativity is at the heart of everything we do, and therefore we are seeking someone who shares our belief in the transformative power of the creative arts and can reflect our creative ethos in their approach to development. The Head of Fundraising will be responsible for the overall fundraising and development of Talitha Arts as a charity, including: leading, developing, implementing and communicating all fundraising initiatives for Talitha Arts.

This role is home-based (with occasional meetings in Central London).

Who are we?

Talitha Arts is a therapeutic arts charity that believes in empowering individuals through the freedom of the creative arts. We deliver training, and offer therapeutic arts workshops to partner organisations who work with clients that have experienced trauma (in particular: women who have experienced domestic violence, women who have been trafficked, refugees, people experiencing homelessness, and people with dementia).

Through our one-of-kind, person centred approach, Talitha Arts exists to serve individuals and communities by bringing restoration, transformation, and freedom to their lives. We believe in the unique value and dignity of the individual and offer unconditional positive regard to all participants.