JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Head of Fundraising

Reports to: Director General / CEO

Salary: £45,000 - £45,000 depending upon experience

Based at: 74 St Annes Road, Woolston, Southampton, SO19 9FF

Hours of work: Full-time [37.5 hours per week]

Team Association: Fundraising Team

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Job Purpose

• To develop and implement fundraising plans (for Corporate Partnerships and Events as a top priority) to achieve voluntary and statutory income goals in support of Sailors’ Society mission.

• To develop new and innovative areas of income, in line with the charity’s digital vision, through fundraising and commercial opportunities

• To grow income through creative fundraising product development and exemplary donor relations management.

• To manage the fundraising team which comprises of Corporate Partnerships and Events as a top priority

• To develop and implement strategies for Community fundraising.

• To provide management and accountability to staff with responsibilities for fundraising. This includes the performance management within organisational systems, policies and strategic direction.

• Have international oversight of the ambassador groups across all regions

• Work with teams in partnership outside of the development department, particularly in Media & Advocacy and Programme, to ensure effective communication, coordination and help drive income across multiple channels to support program.

Profile and Scope

Sailors’ Society is looking for an enthusiastic, professional, full-time Head of Fundraising with a wide-portfolio of operational and in depth corporate fundraising experience. The preferred candidate will have:

• Line management and team development experience with a proven ability to lead a multi-disciplinary fundraising team

• Budget management skills to deliver net income and ROI

• Proven knowledge and strong experience and expertise of fundraising across Corporate Partnerships/CSR, and Events as a top priority.

• Good understanding of community fundraising.

• Experience of securing event sponsorship from corporate partners

• Experience of recruiting participants and volunteers for events

• Experienced in building relationships, both internally and externally

• Considerable experience and track record of successful fundraising products across traditional and digital & social media

• Highly developed competence in working cross-functionally to ensure all Sailor’s Society audiences receive the best service and impression at every touch point

• Great attention to detail and ability to work under pressure

Reporting Relationships and Organisational Fit

The Head of Fundraising will report directly to the Director General/CEO who is accountable for the Society’s Development income. The Head of Fundraising is expected to take a lead in implementing, improving and delivering the international fundraising strategy working with multiple direct line reports.

This role is a critical to developing the Society’s international fundraising reach and you will form an important part of the Society’s management team in turning vision in to reality. 

Location

The post is located in Sailors’ Society Southampton offices and the Head of Development is expected to live in working week commuting distance.

The post holder will also be expected to undertake national and international travel, as well as occasionally work during weekends and outside core business working hours, where necessary, and undertake tasks as required

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy Development, Budgets & Planning & Key Processes

• Work closely with the Director General / CEO to build and develop the overall international fundraising strategy, realistic annual budgets and reforecasts to ensure its successful implementation and its performance monitoring to ensure alignment into the organisational planning process

• To meet income and expenditure targets and closely track the income and expenditure of the team

• Variance report on actual figures against budget on a monthly basis with narration to be used for team updates and management committees and board meetings.

• Work with multiple teams from across the organisation to consider income generation through their activities and facilitate/encourage across team working

• Ensure all income streams are supported with robust and efficient documented end to end processes, operational plans, ambassadorial support, income targets and performance measures.

• Lead process improvement initiatives and ensure short term corrective actions and longer term improvements are managed timely.

People Management

• Provide team leadership and management support for the Corporate and Events team and act as a professional role model.

• Take an active role in supporting the team on participant and sponsorship recruitment through multiple media (phone, online, social media)

• Develop and maintain a high performing team engaged in fundraising

• Support the team in delivering income and expenditure targets

• Ensure the team follow policies and procedures

• Undertake performance management in line with our policies

• Manage team meetings, one to one meetings and ensure constructive feedback is provided to team members on a regular basis

• Ensure personal objectives are set and monitored and staff appraisals are managed in a timely manner

• Encourage learning and professional development among reports and ensure appropriate training is provided where required to enable personal growth and productivity and talent management.

Corporate & Events Fundraising Management

• Ensure all fundraising activities are fully budgeted and planned

• Undertake tenders for suppliers where needed

• Oversee fundraising activity planning timelines and manage the teams deadlines

• To improve existing processes for Corporate Partnerships/CSR, Events & Community.

• Oversee the research and advertisement of fundraising activities to enable people to take part and fundraise on our behalf with little support from us

• Manage sign off on fundraising materials to be on budget and to a high standard

• Oversee the development of risk registers for fundraising activities, minimising risk to the organisation and staff.

• Work with a range of internal teams or external agencies to develop and deliver marketing and PR for fundraising activities.

• Research relevant projects and gather collateral for marketing materials

• Maximise the use of the database for management of the fundraising activities

• Oversee the fundraising activities evaluations and ensure lessons learnt are captured and applied for future activities.

• Ensure an excellent supporter journey for our event participants to include recognition and development of their support

• Ensure consistency and strength of the case for support and donor value propositions across the full range of donor touch points

• Collaborate with Program and Media & Advocacy to develop best communications content to build into campaigns and programs

Relationship Building

• Work with our networks of Ambassadors and volunteers to deliver fundraising activities on our behalf

• Act as a key contact with external agencies ensuring high quality, accurate delivery of fundraising activities and marketing materials on time and budget

• Establish and maintain close day to day working relationships with internal departments to ensure the effective delivery of all areas of your responsibility

• Build relationships with key individuals and organisations internationally, with a particular emphasis upon supporting the Director General / CEO to begin fundraising in new territories, for example (including but not exclusively) India, North America and China.

Compliance

• Ensure that we comply with relevant charity legislation and best practice as it applies to your areas of fundraising.

Person Specification (minimum requirement)

You are likely to have developed your portfolio of fundraising skills over time in a national or international charity and can demonstrate considerable experience in individual, mass-market giving. You will have had several years of line-management experience in more than one area of fundraising and are looking for more managerial responsibility. As a graduate, you will have taken opportunities to improve your professional competence.

Benefits

• Free onsite parking
• New modern building
• Friendly atmosphere
• Life assurance benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Out of town with easy access to main transport links

Fundraising Manager

Your role will be to securing income for large-scale capital investment at Stanley Halls, alongside developing relationships with statutory funders and trusts who may support programming and core running costs of the building in the future.

These funding bodies will include Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other voluntary sources, predominantly trusts and foundations.

You will be a self-starting and experienced fundraiser, with demonstrable success in securing major donations from institutional funders as well as a wider understanding of other income streams. Your ability to build a compelling case for support, and present this case to a range of funders in an engaging way, will be central to this role.

We are committed to returning Stanley Halls to its original use as a cultural centre and community resource; to maximising its potential to provide the diverse communities of South East London with entertainment, arts and education; and to championing the legacy of William Stanley, one of Victorian London’s most unusual and idealistic entrepreneurs, who built this unique London landmark. With your support Stanley Halls will continue to thrive and grow. 

Stanley Halls is at a very exciting stage of its development, with a new Venue Director bringing a bold new artistic and strategic vision. The building is at the heart of Croydon's blossoming cultural scene, and over the next few years, we hope to play a vital role in the re-development of the area. The opportunities to build funding partnerships that help to deliver these cultural & community plans are significant.

Our ambition is to become a key performance and arts centre in South East London. We are looking to build a community of artists across a wide variety of different creative disciplines; traditional and modern; craft-based and cutting edge. Our developing performance schedule will be about promoting the very best emerging artists across all performance artforms.

Stanley Halls has secured funding from recognised funders over the past four years, including Architectural Heritage Fund, National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Lottery Community Fund , BFI, and we are also benefiting from funding from the Good Growth Fund. As we develop the venue programming and forge new artistic collaborations, alongside growing our volunteering and community outreach, we are excited by the potential for this expansion in activity to unlock future funding opportunities.

We are looking a Director of Fundraising to join our Leadership Team (LT) to lead and inspire our fundraising team to deliver aspirational targets to help keep our air ambulance in the air. This is a unique opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference in a local, life-saving charity during a time of great organisational change and development.

You will be a senior fundraising leader with a strong track record in delivering stretching targets. You will inspire your team to continually grow and develop our income streams including Community, Corporate, Events, Individual Giving, Trusts, Major Donors, Lottery, Legacy and Retail.

An effective and strong communicator, you will work with a wide range of key stakeholders, as well as colleagues, senior managers, volunteers, supporters and crew in order to build our profile further and increase our income.

Spread a Smile is a rapidly developing charity, with a mission to brighten the days of seriously ill children and teenagers in hospital.

Magicians, musicians, fairies, poets, singers, face painters, artists and therapy dogs make approximately 40 visits to London hospitals each month to provide a diversion from the boredom and monotony of those confined to hospital for prolonged periods. Spread a Smile reaches over 6,000 children a year.

Initially focussed on establishing a robust, well-organised and expertly delivered service in London and the South East, Spread a Smile wants to grow from six to 12 major hospitals and hospices in the next five years.

It is critical for the charity, as they grow, that they build upon the strong culture of connection, seen from founders and trustees, staff, donors and beneficiaries. Their work is utterly engaging, and exactly what you’d hope it to be, but for families the meaning of their work couldn’t be more profound. They raised £650k in 2017/18, from corporates, trusts and foundations, individuals and high-quality events.

Many of the team of 16 have been with the charity since the start, but their consistent and excellent trajectory of growth (across fundraising, capacity and operations) has led them to a point where they need a Director of Fundraising to manage and develop their income and related communications.

This new position will report to the Chief Executive, work closely with all parts of the charity, and ensure Spread a Smile is managing the income opportunities available, and that its capabilities are growing with demand.

The Director of Fundraising will:

• help deliver excellent fundraising outcomes directly, from a range of high value individual supporters and high value events
• lead and manage a team of three – a developed Head of Fundraising with a focus on corporates, a developed Trusts and Foundation Fundraiser, and a Fundraising Assistant
• strategically plan, and report on, the best route for income delivery and growth
• start with a rich and exciting corporate portfolio, a warm but underdeveloped major donor pipeline (including a 400 head gala), and some excellent trusts and foundation results
• maintain and develop great care of donors along the way

The position will best suit:

• an expert high value fundraiser, able to work brilliantly with people, with a broad portfolio and with limited resources
• an effective organiser and manager, able to coordinate multiple projects in a small team
• an ambitious and motivated leader, keen to make a mark in a very exciting charity

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Nicola Hall 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.

Eden Brown is proud to be partnering with a high profile charity in the East of England on their exciting Director of Fundraising vacancy to join their Leadership Team to inspire their fundraising team to deliver aspirational targets for their amazing cause. In this role you will make a difference in a local, life-saving charity during a time of great organisational change and development.

The Director of Fundraising will be a senior fundraising leader with a strong track record in delivering stretching targets. You will inspire your team to continually grow and develop our income streams including Community, Corporate, Events, Individual Giving, Trusts, Major Donors, Lottery, Legacy and Retail.

We are looking for someone with extensive experience of leading multi-disciplinary fundraising teams, you will work with a wide range of key stakeholders, as well as colleagues, senior managers, volunteers and supporters in order to build their profile further and increase the charity's income.

To apply or find out more about this fantastic new role please contact Tony Williams on [email protected] or 020 3017 5014.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Are you passionate about raising money for charity and leading the communications and marketing strategy to support fundraising? Do you thrive on finding innovative and sustainable ways to raise funds? If the answer is yes, and you have senior level experience in fundraising and marketing, this role at Hospiscare, a much loved and respected local charity, could be for you.

Hospiscare has an opportunity for a Director of Fundraising and Marketing to join their team in Searle House, Exeter. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of circa £60,000 per annum.

What you will be doing as our Director of Fundraising and Marketing:

Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications leads both the Fundraising and the Marketing and Communications teams, is a member of the Senior Management Team and attends and advises the Board.  As Director you would be expected to be a source of expertise, very comfortable influencing and communicating expertly with a range of audiences and a skilled networker.

The Fundraising team includes community fundraising and a range of specialist fundraisers, making sure that we have a balance of new and tried and tested ways to maximise our income. The Marketing and Communications team supports the income generation required to provide the high quality palliative care Hospiscare is valued for, playing a central part in making sure the charity is well known and has a recognisable brand which is communicated across diverse media. Both teams are also well supported by committed volunteers.

Skills and characteristics required to become our Director of Fundraising and Marketing:

In this role, you would set the strategy for Fundraising and Marketing, ensuring this is supported by robust, fully costed operational plans and budgets. It is essential that you have a relevant degree level qualification, substantial and relevant senior level experience, including budgetary and team leadership, ideally within the charity sector.

Benefits of becoming our Director of Fundraising and Marketing:

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Generous holiday entitlement and sickness benefit

- Great pension scheme

- Opportunities to work flexibly

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Access to NHS Benefits

Closing date: Monday 18 November 2019 at 5.00pm

Assessment day: Tuesday 3 December 2019

Relocation expenses may be available up to the current limit set by HMRC.

Hospiscare is a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer which promotes equal opportunities for all and welcomes applications from all sections of the community regardless of sex, disability or any other protected characteristic.

Registered charity number 297798

We are seeking a Trusts Fundraising Manager to play a key role in Kiln Theatre’s ambitious and collaborative four-person Fundraising Team.

About Us

Kiln Theatre views the world through a variety of lenses, bringing unheard voices into the mainstream. We present high-quality and innovative work, which provokes debate and emotionally engages. Located in Brent, the most culturally diverse borough in London, we are a local venue with an international vision. 

The Role

The Trusts Fundraising Manager will work with the Director of Fundraising to meet the annual target for trust/foundation income (c. £600k pa). They will lead on writing grant applications, reporting to funders and researching prospective grant-givers.

This is an incredibly exciting time to join Kiln Theatre as we move into 2020, the year that Brent is London Borough of Culture. The Fundraising Team is an active and visible department at Kiln and we have excellent support from the leadership team and Board of Trustees. 

Benefits

Employee benefits include complimentary theatre tickets for preview performances, £2 tickets for cinema screenings and a 20% discount in Kiln Kitchen bar, cafe and restaurant.

Application Process

Please see the job description attached. To apply, visit our website.

There is scope for discussion about salary parameters at interview stage.

Fixed Term contract - 2 years

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

About the role
A newly created senior position in our Fundraising team and an opportunity to play a key role in our long-term approach. In this role you will help naturalise future thinking, taking full advantage of digital / technology solutions to deliver our goals, maximising the impact on supporter experience. We’re also looking for you to take a step back and help with an overview of where we are now and where we can go. You will horizon scan and help our teams to do the same. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to lead on representing fundraising in wider strategic conversations at Crisis.

We want to make the most of new technology and we’re looking for you to help drive this. Working across different teams you will inspire them to reimagine how they would work if they started again today and building a new culture that ensures that ensures we are future ready. It’s a perfect time to start this unique role in a wonderful team.

About you

1. Knowledge of utilising digital/ tech to deliver great results for a customer facing team
2. Project management skills
3. Change management skills
4. Experience of using digital for income generation
5. Understanding of the evolving digital environments
6. Strong relationship management skills
7. Strategic thinking, coupled with tactical delivery
8. Understanding of data utilisation to affect commercial decision
9. Commitment to Crisis’ purpose and values including equality and social inclusion
10. People management skills

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including: 

• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please complete our online application form, addressing in the supporting statement section how you meet points 1,2, 3 and 5 only of the person specification.. 

The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website. 

Closing date: Sunday 24 November (23:59)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

For more information about our work and to see our work in action, please visit:

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

Director of Services

Location: Cardinal Hume Centre, Westminster, London

Job Type: Permanent, Full time contract

Salary: £60,000 per annum

Closing date: (9.00am) 2nd December 2019

- Are you passionate about preventing youth and family homelessness and poverty?
- Can you champion the interests of people who need our support?
- Can you lead a team to have a greater impact by providing early and preventative help?

Over the past thirty years the Cardinal Hume Centre has seen substantial growth. Based in Westminster we work hard for homeless young people, insecurely housed families and their children. Last year over 1200 people used our different services.

We have made real improvements in recent years, but we know we face challenging times. In nearly all its forms, homelessness is increasing in Westminster and around a third of families live in poverty. People face some of the highest housing costs in the country, a challenging labour market and rising levels of violent crime. Some of those we support come from care or broken relationships which can limit access to support which most of us take for granted. Some are seeking asylum, safety and support.

Our response is far too important to be left to chance. We need a new senior leader to direct our support for our homeless and badly housed clients. You will join at a critical stage as we develop the focus and shape of our future work. We know it will involve change and your role will be to ensure that this is in the best interest of homeless and insecurely housed young people and families. Our aim is to develop a distinct and strategic response that builds on our strengths and draws on the very best of our team, values and ethos.

Of course, we need someone with experience of leading and developing services for vulnerable people, but equally important is the ability to be an inspiring and insightful leader. We need someone led by values who can use evidence to shape the bigger picture.. A person who can collaborate and use their soft skills to draw out the individual qualities of the team.

It will be a challenge, but if you join us you will get an amazing opportunity to work with a passionate team of staff and volunteers. You will shape a respected charity, develop as a leader and most importantly have real impact on the lives of people who need our help. If you want to work at a Centre that values every individual and is determined to make a difference, please come and join us.

You may have experience or a background in the following: Director of Services, Strategic Director, Head of Services, Service Delivery Manager, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Head of Operations, Operations Director, Strategy Manager, Continuous Improvement, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, Third Sector etc.

Have you got experience in Corporate, Trust or Donor fundraising?

Do you want to work in an exciting environment where you can truly make a difference to people's lives?

Lewis-Manning Hospice Care provides exceptional end of life care to local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses and their carers in Poole, the Purbecks and across East Dorset. The Hospice is now embarking on a new strategy for the future. This exciting phase of development plans to take our hospice day care and clinical services closer to patients’ homes by opening satellite centres across East Dorset and the Purbecks complementing our existing Poole based service. 

In order to enable and deliver our new strategy we are now looking for experienced fundraisers to join our team. We are looking for driven and proactive candidates to fill our new positions of Corporate Fundraiser, Trust Fundraiser and Database and Donor Development Officer.

Our Corporate Fundraiser will work proactively with companies in the region and develop new relationships with prospective Corporate supporters to develop and grow corporate income and expand support for our organisation.

Our Trust Fundraiser will identify, research and apply to trust and grant funding bodies, maximising fundraising income and developing a range of compelling funding propositions and proposals for support.

Our Database and Donor Development Officer will ensure that our database is used to maximum potential, produce campaign analysis and management information reports and play a lead part in our donor care strategy maintaining an accurate map of our donor route. 

These roles will join our current fundraising team who are working to ensure the charity has a sustainable and diverse fundraising and supporter base enabling it to fund its strategic objectives, ensuring agreed annual targets and outcomes are met or exceeded and maintaining and developing the integrity of our brand.

Reporting to our Director of Fundraising and working closely with the Marketing and Communications and Retail teams, these roles will be tasked with heightening the charity’s profile, increasing local awareness and maximising potential in our income generation activities.

We are looking for fundraisers who are innovative, with high energy and who are excited to help us achieve our new vision at Lewis-Manning Hospice Care. 

The ideal candidates will have a minimum of 2 years’ fundraising experience and ideally some experience of working in a health related or charity environment. You must also have a strong track record of hitting and exceeding financial targets and proof of innovation around fundraising and income generation. 

If you are interested in any of these unique opportunities, please contact our Human Resources team at Lewis-Manning Hospice Care for more information.

We are looking for an experienced fundraising professional to shape, lead, and implement a comprehensive fundraising and supporter engagement strategy; to initiate, grow, and sustain voluntary income streams; to increase the involvement and value of existing supporters; and garner new avenues of support.

THE ROLE

The Head of Fundraising and Supporter Engagement will be responsible for:

• Designing and overseeing a comprehensive supporter journey strategy to manage and grow income, as well as non-financial support, from all sources 
• Nurturing relationships with existing major funders, stakeholders and supporters (including individuals and churches); increasing representation to these audiences and raising the profile of the organisation
• Identifying and help prioritise new potential supporters and sources of funding, and devise strategies for engaging those individuals, churches and trusts
• Implementing professional fundraising practices and processes (including full-cost recovery, bid writing, database management); overseeing, monitoring and reporting of fundraising activity and results, and reporting to funders
• Reviewing, and developing, the current fundraising strategy
• Planning a number of fundraising campaigns each year for individual and church audiences in conjunction with the Creative Director and creative team
• Lead the supporter engagement team in the delivery of excellent customer service
• Bringing together the ideas and skills of the supporter engagement team with strategic and professional implementation of the charity’s objectives
• Working closely with colleagues to develop and produce communications and marketing collateral to support and promote the recruitment of donors and increase engagement with other audiences
• Working proactively with other members of the UK Management Team to cultivate a vibrant culture that ensures the organisation and ministry is served with excellence and passion
• Providing concise and accurate briefings and regular reports to the Management Team
• Working closely with colleagues to collect and use data, consistent with fundraising and data protection requirements
• Acting as an ambassador and advocate for the work of the Charity where appropriate
• Undertaking other related tasks to benefit the organization

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

• Committed Christian in agreement with the organisation’s vision*
• Sympathy with the purpose, ethos, and objectives of Lifewords
• An active Christian faith with an openness to engage in and lead devotions in the office
• A team player who can work with independence, intelligence, drive and initiative
• Flexibility, calmness and the ability to work under pressure

Desirable

• Clean UK Driving License
• Willingness to travel in UK and some overseas project visits as and when required including occasional nights away from home

OUR OFFER

Work arrangement and salary:

• This is a full-time role primarily working with our team at our offices in Waterloo, central London
• Permanent contract (subject to six months’ probation)
• 23 days paid annual leave (plus Bank Holidays and the office closure between Christmas and New Year)
• Salary: c.£45,000 pa plus 10% contribution to pension and life assurance cover

HOW TO APPLY

Send your full CV (including responsibilities and relevant achievements) and a covering letter of no more than two pages which should include the following:

• Your motivation and relevant experience for this role and how you meet the Person Specification (please do mention your fit with the Christian faith* and motivation we seek in this leader)
• A specific example of your fundraising or supporter engagement experience, clearly explaining what its impact / results were and your own personal contribution

Closing date for applications is 12 noon on 28 November 2019

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 3 December 2019

Applicants must be able to prove that they have the legal right to work in the UK

* The successful applicant must have a commitment to the Christian faith and share the vision and ethos of Lifewords (see the ‘About’ section of our website). This is an occupational requirement under the UK Equality Act 2010

About “Speakers for Schools”

Few charities generate more excitement and inspiration than Speakers for Schools. Whether or not we’ve organised Naomi Campbell to share the highs and lows of her journey with 150 young people from Elmgreen School, or 15 young people to participate in work experience at the Bank of England, every day brings laughter, excitement and that warm feeling that you did something good.

Founded by ITV Political Editor Robert Peston (Trustee), and chaired by Andrew Law (Caxton Associates), Speakers for Schools was created to help level the playing field for UK state schools and their students by giving them the same access to the UK’s leading figures from politics, business, and sport as enjoyed by private schools. 

Bill Gates, Baroness (Martha) Lane Fox, Professor Brian Cox, David Dein, David Cameron, Natalie Bennett, Philip Hammond, Naomi Campbell and over a thousand other influential and inspirational people have been kind enough to volunteer their time to speak with Speakers for Schools. Three-quarters of a million Young People have attended a Speakers for Schools talk.

More recently, we launched our S4SNextGen service. S4SNextGen works with our outstanding network of speakers and partner employers, to offer young people, work experience opportunities which would usually be out of reach to them. We have now offered more than two thousand work experience placements at employers such as the Bank of England, M&C Saatchi, Disney, Vogue, BA, Cisco and others. 

Speakers for Schools is entering a new and exciting phase in its journey. Having recently appointed its new CEO Jason Elsom, and thanks to the continued and extended generosity of the Law Family Charitable Foundation, Speakers for Schools will accelerate its growth to support more young people by initially growing its team from eight to thirteen before the end of 2019, with additional growth planned throughout 2020. 

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Core Purpose and Key Responsibilities

You will have the enviable position of working with our CEO, Director of Fundraising, and wider team, to establish a fundraising programme, where none currently exists. This means that you will not inherit an outdated onion-layered programme, installed by someone who came before you, but contribute to the shaping of something new. 

We expect out-of-the-box thinking and entrepreneurial strategies, built on the foundation of your experiences, and ideas which you may not have previously been able to action. Although our current and enlarged team are supported by one donor, you will play a key role in helping us scale, by contributing to a team target of restricted and unrestricted funding of 6/7 figures above our current funding levels. You will report to our recently appointed Director of Fundraising, in a team which we anticipate will grow during 2020. The rest we will write together.

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To Apply

If selected, you will normally be interviewed within seven days of application. The role will close when we find an outstanding candidate to join us.  As such, there is no specific closing date. Forward a CV and a covering letter / video / presentation on what you feel makes you our new Senior Fundraising Executive. Please note if you do not provide a covering letter or similar, your application will not be considered.

Speakers for Schools is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equality of opportunities to all employees and applicants. Speakers for Schools is committed to treating all employees and applicants in the same manner irrespective of gender, marital status, family status, religious belief and/or political opinion, disability, age, race and/or ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

Women for Refugee Women is looking for a dynamic and committed Fundraising and Development Officer to help us tell our story effectively to existing and potential supporters in order to enable the sustainable growth of the charity.

Women for Refugee Women is a charity that supports women seeking asylum in the UK and challenges the injustices they experience. We work at the grassroots by empowering refugee women to speak out and advocate for themselves, and through communications and campaigning work which engages the mainstream media and politicians.

This is a new role at WRW, to support the charity in sustaining and growing our income from individual donors. You will need to be passionate about effectively communicating our work to supporters and building strong relationships with people who are keen to support refugee women to rebuild their lives with dignity.

We are looking for someone with proven fundraising experience and a strong commitment to race and gender equality.

Women for Refugee Women particularly welcomes applications from individuals with experience of migration and/or a refugee background.

Main purpose of role: To develop Women for Refugee Women’s income from individual donors and build relationships with donors, as well as contributing to WRW’s overall fundraising strategy and operations.

Location: Old Street, London

Accountable to: Communications and Fundraising Manager

Hours: 5 days per week

Salary: £30,000 (reviewed annually) plus pension contribution

Length of contract: Permanent

Women for Refugee Women is a small organisation where every team member is valued, and everyone is supported to carry out their role effectively. We encourage staff members to take up training opportunities to develop their skills, all staff members are able to access individual counselling support if desired, and we enable staff members to work flexibly, including the potential to work some of their hours from home, according to individual preferences. We try to ensure that WRW provides a supportive environment where individuals can grow and develop their roles in line with our values and vision.

How to apply:

Please download and read the Fundraising and Development Officer Application Pack.

To apply, send your application by 11pm on 10 December 2019 with:

• Your CV;
• A covering letter explaining why you want to work with WRW and how you meet the person specification;
• A one-page document representing a new ‘Fundraise for Us’ page for our website, encouraging individuals to fundraise for Women for Refugee Women.

Interviews will be held on 14 January 2020 in central London, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

About Orbis UK

Orbis is an international eye care charity that prevents and treats avoidable blindness and visual impairment.

Of the 253 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, 75% have conditions that are preventable or treatable. We screen for and treat eye conditions, raise awareness about eye health, and train and mentor local eye care teams in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where most of those people live.

We do this through our long-term programmes as well as on the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, a state-of-the-art ophthalmic teaching hospital on board a customised aircraft.

You will be joining Orbis UK at an exciting time as we have rapidly grown over the past few years, with our income increasing from under £3M in 2010 to over £8M in 2017.  This success has been, in large part, due to working closely with our programme teams in the UK and around the world to develop and deliver large scale, community-based eye care programmes, that have resonated with foundation and statutory donors.

About the role

The Senior Trusts Fundraising Officer leads on all our Trusts and Foundations relationships and activities. By delivering excellent and tailored stewardship to existing supporters, and a rolling research plan to ensure the pipeline of opportunities is continually refreshed, this post manages the portfolio of Trusts and Foundations which contributes over £300,000 funding to Orbis UK.  This post reports to the Head of Partnerships who has overall responsibility for Corporate Partnerships and Trusts and Foundations Fundraising.

Title: Senior Trusts Fundraising Officer

Department: Fundraising and Communications (team of 20)

Reports to: Head of Partnerships

Location: London, UK (near Monument)

Contract: Full time, 37.5 hours per week permanent

Salary: £28,000- £32,000 per annum (depending on experience)

The main responsibilities of this role include

Deliver first class stewardship and relationship management to Trusts and Foundations donors to maximise the value and length of their support.

• Produce general and bespoke reports (as required) to keep donors updated on the work they are funding.
• Develop a creative strategy to engage Trusts and Foundations to increase income, including tailored communications and timely updates on relevant information. 
• Bring an innovative approach to pipeline development, generating new opportunities from a range of sources and approaches.
• Represent Orbis UK externally at meetings, presentations and networking events to raise awareness of our work and increase credibility with potential or current donors.
• Actively engage in identifying opportunities to leverage Trusts and Foundations relationships to maximise high value donations through other income streams.
• Ensure all activity in relation to Trusts and Foundations fundraising, pipeline development and reporting are accurately recorded on Raiser’s Edge, and data management complies with GDPR.

Full details of the job description can be downloaded from our website or Charity Jobs website.

Benefits of working for Orbis UK

Before completion of probation:

• 22 days holiday plus three days between Christmas and New Year
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• E-learning Courses
• Social Activities
• Access to low cost gym within the building
• Flexible working including flex-time

After completion of probation:

• Matched employer pension contribution up to a maximum of 10% of basic salary
• Interest free season ticket loan

Application and interviews

Closing Date: 9am Monday 25th November 2019
First Interviews:  Thursday 28th November 2019

Second Interviews: Thursday 5th December 2019

Start Date: ASAP

All applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the UK. Successful applicants may be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to reply to all applications, so if you haven’t heard from us by Friday 29th November, your application has not been successful.

Orbis UK is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from any suitably qualified persons. We will ensure that no job applicant receives less favorable treatment either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of age, race, disability, gender, marital status, religion or faith or sexual orientation.

Safeguarding: Orbis UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and criminal records checks.

Application is via curriculum vitae and covering letter to HR Manager.