Digital Acquisition Officer Jobs in Edinburgh
Today, 12 children and young people will be diagnosed with cancer. We’ll stop at nothing to make sure they get the right care and support at the right time.
Change lives in a life-changing career
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, their whole world can feel like it’s falling apart. Independence is taken and confidence is stolen. Stability no longer exists. The future suddenly feels uncertain.
The impact of cancer on young lives is more than medical. That’s why we exist. Our specialist social workers help children and young people with cancer and their families navigate the emotional and practical impact of cancer. We remove barriers, solve problems and prioritise wellbeing. And we stop at nothing to make sure they get the right care and support at the right time.
We challenge the systems and policies that surround children and young people, we highlight gaps and campaign for change. Because we know what a better future could look like. And we know what we need to do to make that future a reality. We need to push harder, reach further and work smarter. And we need the right people on our team to help us get there. People like you.
About the role
We're looking for a Virtual Fundraising Officer with strong project management skills, a data-driven mindset, and a passion for innovation to join the Virtual Fundraising Team.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for planning, delivering, and growing our portfolio of virtual fundraising events, engaging thousands of supporters each year. As part of a small, dynamic team, you’ll need to excel in managing multiple priorities, bringing energy, creativity, and a drive for continuous improvement.
You’ll use data insights to analyse performance and optimise processes, ensuring our challenges are impactful and supporters are inspired to reach their fundraising goals. By designing exceptional supporter journeys, you’ll play a vital role in enhancing the supporter experience, building strong relationships, and maximising engagement.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is innovative and growth-oriented. You’ll need a hands-on approach to tackle challenges, work collaboratively across teams, and deliver results that drive both income and supporter experience.
Who we are and why this role matters
The role sits within the Mass Participation Team, who currently raise over £3.1 million annually from supporters who fundraise by doing a DIY fundraiser, sporting event or virtual challenge.
Be a Part of Something Big! Every year, we welcome around 19,000 new virtual fundraisers into the organisation. For many, this is their first interaction with Young Lives vs Cancer, showcasing the power of virtual fundraising as a fantastic acquisition tool.
Lead the Charge in a Fast-Paced Sector. The virtual fundraising landscape is new, ever evolving, and highly competitive. To thrive, we need to not only manage a large and passionate supporter base but also effectively coordinate with suppliers, leverage cutting-edge platforms, and streamline our processes.
Spot Opportunities and Drive Growth. We are constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and challenges in the virtual fundraising world. With a keen eye on our current portfolio, we aim to build solid foundations for substantial growth in this exciting revenue stream.
This role is subject to a criminal record check. In the event of a successful application, a standard criminal record check will be completed.
What will I be doing?
No two days are the same at Young Lives vs Cancer. So, summarising your ‘day to day’ isn’t easy. Here are some of the main things you’ll be doing, but you’ll find more details in the job description.
- Plan, execute, and optimise virtual fundraising events, ensuring they meet timelines and budget goals.
- Create and deliver innovative stewardship plans to engage and inspire supporters.
- Monitor and analyse performance metrics, identifying opportunities for growth and improvement.
- Work with suppliers and internal teams to ensure seamless project delivery.
- Stay ahead of trends in virtual fundraising and make recommendations for new initiatives.
What do I need?
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in virtual fundraising or a similar field
- Experience using a variety of digital platforms and tools, with a supporter-focused mindset to ensure every decision enhances the supporter journey and experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to use data to drive decisions.
- A focus on identifying opportunities for growth and delivering continuous improvements
- Strong project management skills and a proven ability to meet and exceed targets.
- A talent for building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, with an understanding of the barriers marginalised groups face.
Diverse perspectives and unique skill sets are at the heart of Young Lives vs Cancer. If you're passionate about making a positive impact and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet the criteria and person specification fully. Your potential is what matters most to us, and we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment to help you develop.
What will I gain?
For people to reach their full potential, they need the right environment. As a member of Team Young Lives, you’ll be made to feel supported, valued and appreciated. Here’s how we do it:
- Flexible working: we’re open to working hours outside of 9 - 5 and we can talk through your flexibility requirements at interview stage
- Wellbeing days: four days a year to do what works for you – from catching up on training to going for a walk
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Great family/caring leave entitlements
- Enhanced pension
- Access to our employee savings scheme
To find out more about our benefits package, have a look on our website.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their sex, ethnicity, class, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation – or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation. We don’t just accept difference, we value it, celebrate it, nurture it and we thrive because of it.
We’re on a journey to be reflective of the diverse children, young people and families we support. We know we aren’t there yet, and we’re passionately committed to taking actions and making changes to be a truly diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation. This includes taking anti-oppressive action and removing barriers in our recruitment practices. We particularly welcome applications from members of minoritised communities. Our Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging strategy will tell you more.
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. CVs can be uploaded, but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history sections of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
Accessibility
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always aim to be as accommodating as possible.Please let us know in your application form of any adjustments or access requirements we could make to help you with the application process and interview.
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About The Murray Parish Trust
Children with a serious illness are three times more likely to struggle with their mental health. Their childhoods are overshadowed by coming to terms with diagnosis, hospital stays, treatment, feeling different from friends or managing how their illness affects daily life. Many of them struggle with severe anxiety and depression, experiencing isolation and trauma during their journey. These children are at much higher risk of long-term mental health difficulties that are more complex and difficult to treat, on top of living with often complex medical needs.
Actors Jim Murray and Sarah Parish’s first daughter, Ella-Jayne, was born with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome in 2009 and spent half her short life in paediatric intensive care, Southampton Children’s Hospital. Ella-Jayne died, at home, just eight months old. After they recovered from the immediate horror, Jim and Sarah felt an overwhelming drive to help other children and families and founded The Murray Parish Trust in 2014. They were awarded MBE’s in the King’s New Years Honours 2025 for services to seriously ill children and their families.
Our charity delivers projects that support the mental health of seriously ill children and their families. We improve access to specialist, imaginative and empowering support, at the earliest possible moment, to prevent long-term mental health difficulties. We do this by delivering a vast range of projects in children’s hospitals, hospices and other health or community settings across the UK. These include drama, dance, art, nature and music therapy; bereavement and mortuary suites, distraction equipment that reduces anxiety, sanctuary and quiet rooms; sibling support; counselling and therapy rooms; and psychological support for children/family members.
The role - Head of Public Fundraising and Operations
This is an exciting new chapter for The Murray Parish Trust. Our new Head of Public Fundraising and Operations will work closely with the Board of Trustees and our Head of Philanthropy and Projects to scale our impact and expand reach nationwide. They will play a pivotal role in leading operations and shaping the charity’s future, as well as leading on growing income from community, corporate, individual fundraising, which have been identified as strategic fundraising priorities.
We anticipate time will be split roughly equally between leading public fundraising and operational management. There is some freelance support with marketing, corporate and community fundraising, and volunteer coordination, plus trustee support with events; there is scope to expand the team as income grows. This role will support their work as well as personally deliver public fundraising activity, taking sole responsibility for individual giving and legacies.
This is a job of variety, innovation and opportunity. We are looking for an experienced fundraiser, perhaps an aspiring charity CEO, who is looking to develop skills and knowledge in charity management and strategy. This is a job for someone who is ambitious, collaborative, proactive and who has a genuine passion for championing the mental health of seriously ill children and their families.
Key responsibilities
Fundraising: Work alongside with the Head of Philanthropy and Projects to implement the fundraising strategy, including:
- Delivery of the specific fundraising activity delegated to this role to grow income year on year (individuals, community, corporate, legacies, events), supported by the work of freelancers.
- Strategic oversight of all public fundraising including monitoring, evaluating and reporting to the Board.
- Ensure excellence in donor stewardship that helps retain, grow and diversify support from existing donors.
- Maintain a proactive focus on donor acquisition, across the UK, prioritising areas where we have projects.
- Effectively utilise the CRM to proactively and accurately capture donor information and consents.
- Strong focus on return on investment to ensure efficiency in working nationwide, carefully prioritising activity.
Charity management and operations
- Help to shape organisational strategy, using data insight to drive decision making.
- Data management lead; incl. CRM management, data protection, embedding a culture of data collection.
- Lead on setting and managing annual income and expenditure budgets.
- Ensure compliance with the latest regulatory requirements and sector best practice.
- Coordinate and manage policy, procedure, risk management and wider charity administration.
- Provide support for financial management; incl. outsourced book keeping/monthly management accounts; working with accountants to ensure timely production of the Annual Report and Financial Statements
- Work closely with Board members with specific lead responsibility, incl. with the Treasurer in the production of cashflow and other financial reports.
- Supported by the volunteer coordinator (freelance), manage and develop a network of volunteers and ambassadors (e.g. talks, photo calls, events, collection tins, admin, research).
- Act as Secretary to the Board; including statutory filing, coordinating quarterly meetings and taking minutes, compiling/circulating Board papers, diarising other meetings and communication as needed.
- Represent the charity externally with diverse stakeholders.
- Responsible for the effective management and leadership of the public fundraising and operations team.
Within your cover letter, please provide detail about how you meet the person specification within the Job Description, providing evidence and examples wherever possible. This will be used by The Murray Parish Trust to score your application objectively against shortlisting criteria. It would also be helpful to include why this job opportunity and/or our charity particularly appeals to you. Thank you.
Supporting the mental health of seriously ill children, and their families, through specialist, imaginative and empowering projects.




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About Koreo
Since 2004, Koreo has grown into one of the UK’s leading consultancies with a social purpose. Our aim is to build a just and regenerative world by accelerating the potential for people and organisations to create systemic social change.
We provide consultancy services to a range of clients across the purpose-driven sector while also delivering our own programmes. Our consultancy services focus on:
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Organisational Development: Driving culture change, embedding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion principles into practice, and organisational design and restructuring.
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Leadership Development: Strengthening leadership capacity through the design and delivery of bespoke management training programmes, while creating customised talent development initiatives to diversify and enhance workforces.
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Purpose, Strategy & Impact: Helping organisations define their social purpose, design effective strategies, and measure progress through robust impact and evaluation frameworks.
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Fieldbuilding: Supporting organisations build networks and partnerships that foster shared learning, collaboration, and innovation across the social change ecosystem.
Our flagship programmes, Charityworks and 2027, complement our consultancy work and are aimed at building a more diverse and better-equipped social change movement. They focus on bringing diverse talent and inclusive practices into the social change sector while enhancing the leadership capacity of both emerging and established changemakers.
The Role
Koreo is looking for a Senior Business Development and Partnerships Manager to drive growth across our programmes, particularly Charityworks and 2027. These programmes aim to create a more diverse social change sector by placing young people from across the UK in 12-month work placements with nonprofit organisations, also known as host organisations. Alongside their work placements, participants take part in a year-long, ILM-certified leadership and development programme designed to accelerate their impact and future potential.
We are seeking a dynamic and proactive individual who thrives in a hands-on sales and relationship management role. This person will be responsible for securing work placements for our candidates by engaging with both new and existing host organisations across the nonprofit and grant-making sectors. They must be skilled at maintaining relationships with long-standing partners while also driving new business to support the overall growth and success of our programmes. Each year we aim to secure 150 work placements for diverse young talent from across the UK.
Working closely with the Director of Programmes and Managing Director, and line managing the Programme Marketing and Communications Manager and Recruitment Coordinator, the Senior Business Development and Partnerships Manager, will play a key role in executing Koreo’s programmatic growth strategy. They will identify and cultivate new leads to build a strong prospect pipeline of host organisations, pitch to secure new partners and manage relationships with existing partners, while also overseeing the recruitment of participants into our programmes.
This role is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong sales, partnership management, recruitment and/or business development experience who is passionate about building a more inclusive and impactful social sector.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Business Development and Partnerships Manager, you will hold responsibility for:
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Strategy Development & Implementation: Working with Directors to articulate and implement business development strategies that support the growth of Koreo’s Programmes.
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Business Development: Cultivating new business leads, pitching our programmes to prospective clients and securing work placements for programme participants, while growing the network of non-profit organisations engaged in our programmes.
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Operational Infrastructure: Ensuring our operational infrastructure effectively supports the entire sales pipeline, from identifying warm leads to tracking sales-qualified leads, converting prospects, contracting, and invoicing clients. This includes responsibility for our CRM (HubSpot) as well as overseeing data management and metrics tracking.
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Recruitment Campaigns: Supporting the implementation of campaigns that attract diverse applicants to our programmes and overseeing their assessment and selection, as well the process for matching successful candidates into roles with our partners.
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Marketing & Communications: Support the Marketing Manager in developing marketing collateral and delivering email and social media campaigns that promote Koreo’s programme offers to prospective applicants and clients.
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Account Management: Facilitating high-quality account management for our existing partners, identifying opportunities to strengthen and deepen engagement with them, and prioritising retention. This will include regular engagement with partners through updates, meetings, and running events.
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Line Management: Contributing to a just, inclusive and regenerative work culture in which a diverse team can do its best work, this includes line management of a small team in a way that is aligned with Koreo’s values
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Representing Koreo: Championing Koreo and our wider work externally, inspiring others to join our vision for a more equitable and inclusive future for the social sector.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.