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Hybrid working with average 2 days per week at St Giles Head Office (Camberwell) or other London St Giles / Partner offices. Occasional travel to regional offices
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Closing date: 9 a.m. on 14 October 2025
Are you a proactive and driven individual who is highly skilled at building and managing relationships and strategically developing income from a range of sources? Do you have a proven record of successfully securing and managing five and six figure funders and setting and implementing strategy for raising income from voluntary funding sources?
If so, join St Giles as our Head of Voluntary Fundraising, where you will work closely with the Executive Director of Fundraising, Policy and Communications to identify funding opportunities, trial and evaluate new ideas to secure increased restricted and unrestricted income. You will also build, lead and inspire a fundraising team to provide the highest level of stewardship maintaining, uplifting and securing new funders and partnerships through a range of fundraising methods.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As our, provide inspiring leadership to the voluntary fundraising team – setting a supportive work culture that inspires staff to develop and contribute to increasing income generation by 10% that aligns with St Giles mission, values and ethos, plus contribute effectively as a member of the wider St Giles leadership team. You will also identify personal development needs within the team and facilitate staff to build their skills and access training opportunities and work collaboratively to develop and implement effective strategies and new systems for different income streams (Trusts & Foundations, Corporates, Individual Giving, Legacies, Major Donors & Community Fundraising).
We will also count on you to oversee and generate multi-million income streams with a total value of £5 million per year, refine and test new income streams, including Individual Giving, Legacies and In-Memory, and to work with the communications team to establish stewardship & acquisition campaigns that grow the donor base & awareness of St Giles work. Devising and delivering an effective cultivation and stewardship programme for prospects and existing donors and partners is also a vital aspect of this role.
What we are looking for
• Five years’ experience working in charity or related sector
• Successful track record of achieving targets and growth in fundraising teams
• Three years’ experience of line management and of managing a team.
• Experience of creating, implementing, and tracking strategy and securing buy-in
• A detailed knowledge of fundraising and changing trends in the funding environment
• The ability to think creatively to secure funding
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A professional, collaborative and flexible approach to your work
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Closing date: 9 a.m. on 14 October 2025 Interview date: 21 October 2025
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We help people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.
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The Head of Data & Technology will play a central role in delivering our mission to transform outcomes for everyone affected by ovarian cancer. This is a newly created leadership role, and an exciting opportunity to own and lead the entire technology & data programme for the organisation.
As Head of Data & Technology, you will ensure that we’re maximizing the functionality of our fundraising database (Raiser’s Edge), make proposals to SLT spanning topics from cyber security and technology strategy to compliance and internal capability and skills, and deliver tangible improvements to how the organisation works. This is a varied and crucial role and the postholder will have a real opportunity to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy.
You will be supported by a forward-thinking SLT, a range of great suppliers (including an outsourced IT provider and data protection advisors) and the wider Corporate Services team.
The job description for this role is broad and we are not expecting applicants to have deep technical experience in every area of the role – but we would love tohear from anyone who can meet the following key requirements:
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Experience of working with, and maximising the effectiveness of, fundraising databases.
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A collaborative colleague who enjoys working with others to understand across an organisation and solve problems using technology.
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A strategic thinker who is able to shape strategy, as well as diving into the detail when required.
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A great project manager.
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A problem solver who is able to resourcefully manage a broad portfolio of work.
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A passion for using technology and data to amplify impact.
This is a permanent, full time role. We currently offer a hybrid-working model. This means you may usually work from your home or remote location, but are expected to attend meetings and pay for your own travel to the office in London.
If you’d like any more information on the role, please contact us.
Please visit our website for details on how to apply.
Please submit your application by 11.59pm 5 October 2025.
Interview process:
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First round – Thursday 9th October, focusing on skills & experience, may include a brief assessment tbc, in person in central London
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Second round – Monday 13th October, focusing on values & behaviors, held online via Teams. Second round candidates will also be invited to informally meet individuals in key roles via a 20-30 minute informal Teams call on the same day.
For both rounds, some questions will be shared in advance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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BookTrust – Head of Fundraising
Location: Based in either Farringdon, London or Leeds offices. Hybrid working, with at least eight in person meeting days per month. S[SG1] ome UK travel to meet with prospects, donors and colleagues.
Salary: £75,000 per annum.
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
BookTrust, the charity that champions the power of reading, is seeking a Head of Fundraising in a new senior role to oversee the strategic development and management of their voluntary income, to help them deliver their goals to shape a national reading culture.
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, reaching over 1.3 million children and families across England, Wales and Northern Ireland each year and delivering evidence-informed programmes that make a measurable difference to children’s reading behaviours. Their work is rooted in the belief that every child deserves the chance to enjoy reading and all the lifelong benefits it brings. In recent years, the charity’s work has focused on helping children from low-income and vulnerable family backgrounds to become regular readers.
The Head of Fundraising will be responsible for stewarding an existing portfolio of major statutory and voluntary funders, and managing BookTrust’s high value and individual giving portfolio. This includes trusts and foundations, statutory funders and corporate partners from the publishing sector and beyond, from Waterstones to Build-A-Bear. The post-holder will build on significant fundraising growth over the last three years, and will work to further grow and diversify fundraising income to meet the goals of the charity’s recently launched 2025-2030 strategic plan.
The successful candidate will be engaging, experienced and have a proven record across high value fundraising (with a preference for major donor/philanthropy, trusts and corporate partnerships), as well as having a good knowledge of Individual Giving.
They will have experience of operating at a senior leader level with a charity, with responsibility for liaising with, and reporting to, the SLT and the Board, and will be able to show demonstrable success in achieving personal and team income targets. Commercially and politically astute, candidates will also be emotionally intelligent and natural collaborators, willing to work with others on bringing income generation ideas to life in an organisation with a diverse funding model including mixed models of trading and philanthropy.
This is an exciting opportunity to help secure the financial support needed to get even more children reading and fulfilling their potential in life, with strong backing from BookTrust’s leadership and a commitment to supporting the team to growth, thrive and achieve success together.
This role would be ideal for a senior leader who has managed a significant income stream or small multi-disciplinary team who is looking for a broader challenge and a chance to make real impact.
Please download our Candidate Pack for further information [PDF], which includes details on how to apply.
Closing date: Monday 13th October, 9.00 am.
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