ASN has a solid income stream of individual giving, with both one-off and more than 1,100 regular donors. We want to both retain and grow this income base and work with our individual supporters in the widest way possible, encouraging them to also fundraise and network on our behalf. This will build on our robust pre-pandemic community fundraising and which we are keen to reboot/pivot online. We have the beginnings of a small major donor income stream, which we believe has potential to grow. Our trusts and foundations programme is also small, but as we develop more work within Europe, we believe this could grow through targeted approaches to funders of European work.

Reporting to ASN’s Founder & Director, you will help to develop and implement Abortion Support Network’s Fundraising and Communications programme. You will work with a network of volunteers with varying levels of experience to grow and diversify ASN’s income through individual giving, major gifts, community fundraising and trusts and foundations. You will develop and implement ASN’s communications strategy, ensuring our messaging and brand is consistent across online (incl. website, social media) and offline channels, ensuring that our fundraising and communications are linked up. You will also work with the Director and our Bookkeeper to ensure that our income projections and budgeting are in line with fundraising activities and goals and support ASN’s wider financial management processes.

We’re looking for someone with high attention to detail, who is both self-motivated and a team player, someone with social justice values who wants to be part of a dynamic and growing organisation to provide critical support to people who want abortions. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Developing, reviewing and implementing ASN’s fundraising and communications strategy 
• Working with ASN’s team of fundraising and communications volunteers to achieve income targets and associated communications KPIs 
• Managing the recruitment, induction and ongoing support of all ASN fundraising and communications volunteers 
• Developing and implementing innovative individual giving campaigns to grow monthly and one-off gifts 
• Developing bespoke ‘Case for Support’ for prospective and current major donors to ensure retention and year-on-year growth 
• Conducting due diligence and prospect research on prospective major donors to ensure high-quality relationships 
• Ensuring regular communications with individual donors, keeping them up to date with our work and the impact their donations have had, ensuring retention remains at or above industry standard 
• Developing and implementing a strategy to ensure database growth through acquisition
• Supporting Trusts & Foundations volunteers to develop a robust prospect pipeline 
• Working with the Community Fundraising and communications volunteers to develop and implement community fundraising events and support groups who would like to fundraise for ASN, both online and when possible in person 
• Working with Social Media Volunteers to ensure interesting, relevant and consistent content across platforms (incl. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) 
• Working with ASN’s Director and Bookkeeper to develop and monitor budgets and income forecasts based on existing and planned fundraising activities 
• Assisting with forecasting, management accounts and reporting across financial KPIs to the Director and the Board of Trustees
• Updating and maintaining the database in line with the General Data Protection Regulations 
• Implementing the Equal Opportunities Policy into daily activities 
• Undertaking any other duties as may reasonably be required in this post 
• Keeping abreast of key fundraising and communications trends and issues and the regulatory environment. Ensuring that standards are set, procedures followed, and issues acted upon or communicated to relevant staff 

PERSON SPECIFICATION 

Essential: 

• Four years of experience in fundraising and/or communications 
• Demonstrable experience in developing and running successful online individual giving campaigns 
• Proven experience in running acquisition campaigns, with a detailed understanding of retention rates, lifetime value etc. 
• Demonstrable understanding of how varying fundraising income streams can intersect i.e. regular gift into a major gift 
• Demonstrable experience in working across a range of communications channels
• Proven experience in recruiting and managing volunteers 
• Proven experience of forecasting income and creating budgets
• Ability to plan strategically and implement those plans 
• Exceptional organisational skills with experience of managing multiple tasks and prioritising effectively 
• Excellent communication skills including a high level of attention to detail, both written and oral
• Ability and willingness to work as a team and to use own initiative
• Excellent presentation skills, confidence in making personal approaches and representing ASN externally 
• Computer literate and confident in using all MS Office software 
• Financially literate with ability to analyse and contribute to budgets, management accounts, financial reporting and forecasts. 
• Knowledge of a fundraising database 
• Ability to travel internationally on an occasional basis 
• Willingness to work, if required, on evenings/weekends 

Desirable: 

• Experience in fundraising in other territories (i.e. Poland and other countries in Europe) 
• Experience in other forms of fundraising such as Major Giving, Trusts & Foundations and/or community fundraising 
• Experience of financial management within a small charity 
• Experience of using platforms including or similar to Donorfy, MailChimp and various payment platforms (Fundraise Up, Stripe, Apple Pay, PayPal, etc) 
• Experience working with the press and fielding press enquiries

Personal Attributes/Qualities: 

• Post-holder must be pro-choice. This will be evaluated at interview 
• Trustworthy, patient, flexible and a good relationship builder 
• Ambitious, innovative, target-driven and self-motivated
• Enjoy working as part of a team 
• Open to new ways of working, learning new tasks and skills as required 
• Committed to building meaningful, personal relationships with our supporters 
• Strongly motivated by success and passionate about seizing opportunities as they present themselves 
• Driven by the desire to give our supporters an excellent experience 

Inclusion 

Abortion Support Network especially encourages applications from People of Colour, LGBTQ+ people (we are a trans-inclusive organisation), people with disabilities, and people who have experienced other exclusion or marginalisation. We have tried to make this recruitment process as accessible as possible, but if you have particular needs please get in touch and we can think together about how to make this process more accessible for you. 

INTERVIEW PROCESS 

Please submit CV and cover letter of no more than two pages detailing why you would suit the role and any other information you believe to be relevant. Deadline for applying is Wed 17 March by 9 pm.  

Successful applicants will be invited to take part in a two stage interview process, both conducted over Zoom or Skype. The first interview will include skills testing. The first round of interviews will be scheduled to take place Monday 29 March and the morning of Wednesday 31 March.

Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) is currently seeking an experienced fundraising officer to support the growth of the organisation. You will help us realise our vision of a city region free from poverty and be an integral part of our small but growing team. GMPA is all about impact. From promoting the Real Living Wage to working with Greater Manchester’s councils on local poverty strategies and initiatives, our work has never been more needed.

The role will be home based with the need for some travel within Greater Manchester, and with the option of some office based working once we are able to return to our main base in central Manchester. Initially the role will last for 18 months. 

This is a new role and will predominantly focus on supporting funding applications to trusts and foundations, as well as supporting income generation through other sources and developing and overseeing the organisation’s fundraising strategy alongside the CEO and COO.

To apply please send a CV and covering letter by email (as attachments in word format) detailing why you are suitable to the role.

Your application should directly address the person specification detailed in the job description. Please also provide the names and contact details of two referees.

The deadline for applications for this role is 5pm on Thursday March 4th, 2021.

GMPA is an open and inclusive organisation. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including people with lived experience of poverty.

**PLEASE NOTE: To apply for this vacancy, please ensure you firstly download a copy of our application form from the documents section below and complete it when you click through to our website. Click the 'apply' button and fill out your personal details in the relevant sections. Once you have submitted these you will be asked if you would like to attach any documents. At this stage please submit the completed version of the application form.**

Job Purpose

UK for UNHCR (UK4U), the UN Refugee Agency's national charity partner, is looking for a Head of Major Donors & Trusts to join us at a crucial time in our development.  As a start-up, we are a small but high performing team with big ambitions. You will play a key part in developing and leading our major donor and trust work, playing a key part in the success of our fundraising going forward.  You will work closely with the corporate partnerships and individual giving teams as well as communications and operations colleagues and UNHCR internationally. 

Working with the Director of Fundraising, Chief Executive and Trustees you will develop and implement a strategy for the Major Gifts and Trusts income stream, motivating and leading a small team of specialist major donor and trust fundraisers and delivering an excellent supporter experience.  A team player, you will work closely with UK and international colleagues.

Passionate about the refugee cause and UNHCR’s contribution, you will have demonstrable experience of successfully cultivating and stewarding donors as well as preparing and presenting funding proposals for trusts and individual major donors and of setting annual and longer term plans and budgets.  You will be familiar with leading and managing a fundraising team and with working across a complex organisation with programme delivery colleagues.  Donor focussed and a problem solver, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be someone who enjoys developing strong relationships. 

We are interested in hearing from candidates with a range of professional experience: charity or private sector. We welcome applicants from minority ethnic and protected groups. If you think you have the relevant skills and crucially, the passion to support the refugee cause, please apply.

Who We Are And What We Do

United Kingdom for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s national charity partner for the United Kingdom. We generate public awareness of the plight of refugees and raise funds to help protect them through UNHCR’s humanitarian operations across the world.

Our supporters include UK private individuals, communities, corporate partners, trusts and foundations. The funds we raise help UNHCR deliver emergency relief such as shelter, medical care and basic supplies to people fleeing conflict and persecution, as well as healthcare, education and livelihoods opportunities for those who remain displaced over the long term.

Nobody chooses to be a refugee, but we can all play a part in their protection and we want those who work with us to share our values and passion for the cause.

We strongly value diversity and recognise that it is critical to our success and the cause that we serve. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all who work with us and strongly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. 

We are also open to flexibility in many different ways, including an element of working from home and flexible hours.  Please don’t be afraid to speak to us about this at the interview stage, so we can explore what’s possible.

Role Responsibilities:

· To develop and lead the major donor and trust strategy for UK for UNHCR to substantially and sustainably increase income from major donors and trusts.

· Lead, manage and motivate the Major Donor & Trust team,*  modelling excellence in

management, generating high standards of performance and behaviour, with team members developed to achieve their best.

· To work closely with the Chief Executive, Trustees and other supporters to maximise their input, making sure they are supported to identify new prospects and to make their own asks.

· Personally manage and inspire a portfolio of individual donors and prospects with the potential to give five and six figure gifts.

· To develop new opportunities with major donors, trusts and foundations in line with UK4U’s fundraising strategy. This will include leading and supporting approaches to new prospects.

• Ensure the development and management of a robust prospect pipelines for major donors, trusts and foundations.

· Ensure a prompt strategic and tactical response to major donor and trust prospects in the event of humanitarian emergencies

· Ensure the database of major donor and trust supporters and prospects is up-to-date, accurate and GDPR compliant.

· Oversee cultivation events for major donors and representatives of trusts and foundations, liaising with UNHCR colleagues for input into global events when appropriate.

· Work within UK4U’s  and UNHCR’s due diligence policy and processes

· Ensure accurate income recording and earmarking procedures to facilitate financial reporting.

* Currently consists of four posts: Trust & Foundation Manager, Snr Major Donor & Trust Officer, a Major Donor Manager (new role), and a Prospect Researcher (new role).

Personal Attributes and Experience

Essential Experience

• Experience of line and team management in a fundraising environment.
• Experience of managing complex relationships with major donors, trusts, Trustees and other supporters.
• Experience of successfully identifying, cultivating, asking and stewarding five and six figure gifts.
• Experience of managing and growing a prospect pipeline.
• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-cultural environment.
• Experience of applying effective problem-solving when the situation demands.
• Experience of financial and budgetary management.
• Experience of working a fast paced environment.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills.

· Ability to act proactively to identify new prospects and fundraising opportunities.

· Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to tailor your approach to different audiences

· Ability to communicate complex themes and subjects in writing and verbally.

· Ability to juggle and prioritise multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

· Able to demonstrate flexibility, with a willingness to respond quickly, particularly at times of humanitarian crisis.

· An understanding of GDPR and other regulatory compliance issues.

· Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

· Knowledge of Salesforce or similar CRM Products/fundraising databases.

· Evidence of up-to-date knowledge of best practice and new initiatives in philanthropy.

· Understanding of the changing fundraising landscape of the UK and what this means for philanthropic fundraising and the charity sector.

Desirable skills/experience

• Demonstrable interest in international development/humanitarian issues and/or a higher education or similar qualification in these areas.

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation.  We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

The Director of Partnerships at UNICEF UK leads the teams responsible for approximately one third of our income. You will have the opportunity to motivate and guide a high performing, multi-functional team to deliver our ambitious plans for increasing income from companies, trusts and foundations.

To succeed, you will be an inspiring fundraising leader who is supporter driven and results focused. You will have experience of long term strategic and tactical planning, and budgeting in a non-profit fundraising environment.  You will have personal experience of developing and managing high value relationships (£1m+) with companies, trusts and foundations, and you will have the appetite to explore innovative strategies for growing and stewarding our partnerships.  Above all, you will be motivated to use your talent, skills and experience to achieve greater results for children around the world.

The decade ahead will be critical for nature and therefore for the wellbeing of society. Plantlife is looking for an ambitious and influential person to lead our fundraising and marketing activity as a member of the Senior Management Team. You will be responsible for a range of activities spanning engagement with our superb supporters through to re-invigorating our commercial arm. You will have demonstrable success in growing income from areas as broad as individual giving to consultancy, grants, trusts, funds and legacies, and you’ll be marketing Plantlife to wide and diverse audiences. You’ll have a great team to work with and stretching targets to aim for.

Plantlife has a new and ambitious strategy that you will help lead and deliver.

If you want to be the person that can make a difference, with the required individual skills combined with a team approach to achieving success, Plantlife is the place for you. We would love to hear from you.

This is a full-time post.  The location is flexible, however, a weekly presence at our HQ in Salisbury (Covid pemitting) is expected. The role will require frequent travel across the UK to meet supporters and visit other Plantlife locations.  We work normal office hours (9-5, Monday to Friday), although this role will also require some weekend and evening working.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 March at 12.00 midnight.  Interview date: 15th March online.

• Australia's leading environmental organisation for over 50 years.
• Provide innovative, visionary leadership for a $14m fundraising program
• Flexible location - Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane

The Organisation 

Proudly independent and supported by a growing movement of over 600,000 people, for more than 50 years the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has protected and advocated for our natural environment.

Right now, a pollution and extinction crisis threatens our living world and climate damage and habitat destruction are ACF’s biggest challenges. In bringing together community, government and business ACF seeks to drive big, systemic change to solve the climate crisis, stand up for nature, redesign our economy and fix our democracy.

Benefits & Culture

• Highly collaborative, action-orientated culture
• Open to International candidates, sponsorship available
• Melbourne based head office but flexible home working and location
• Attractive salary plus packaging

The Role
  
Reporting to the CEO you will provide visionary leadership to the fundraising team and develop a growth strategy. You will oversee an established individual giving program and expand philanthropy and community fundraising activities to capitalise on the broad support for stronger climate action within Australian society and internationally.

Key focus areas will include:

• Bringing innovation and business acumen to ACF’s strategy for community fundraising
• Demonstrating inspiring and collaborative leadership within the ACF executive team
• Leadership and developing a high performing fundraising team
• Overall responsibility for fundraising income and driving growth across all streams
• Representing and fostering ACF’s key values and global award-winning culture

Skills Required
  
You have established a highly successful career in fundraising, ideally within progressive supporter-led organisations – or within revenue focused roles in digital technology businesses.

A leader in your field, you are a creative thinker who has grown diverse programs or portfolios through developing and implementing innovative projects and campaigns.

Ideally, you bring proven experience in building philanthropic relationships and/or business partnerships that have delivered sustainable business growth.

As a senior manager you have a collaborative, action-orientated, encouraging style demonstrated by the success of high performing teams you have worked with previously. 

Tackle the biggest challenges of our time, with ACF, Australia’s most influential environment organisation. To apply submit your resume and a cover letter addressing the skills required section.

• Australia's leading environmental organisation for over 50 years.
• Provide innovative, visionary leadership for a $14m fundraising program
• Flexible location - Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane

The Organisation 

Proudly independent and supported by a growing movement of over 600,000 people, for more than 50 years the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has protected and advocated for our natural environment.

Right now, a pollution and extinction crisis threatens our living world and climate damage and habitat destruction are ACF’s biggest challenges. In bringing together community, government and business ACF seeks to drive big, systemic change to solve the climate crisis, stand up for nature, redesign our economy and fix our democracy.

Benefits & Culture

• Highly collaborative, action-orientated culture
• Open to International candidates, sponsorship available
• Melbourne based head office but flexible home working and location
• Attractive salary plus packaging

The Role
  
Reporting to the CEO you will provide visionary leadership to the fundraising team and develop a growth strategy. You will oversee an established individual giving program and expand philanthropy and community fundraising activities to capitalise on the broad support for stronger climate action within Australian society and internationally.

Key focus areas will include:

• Bringing innovation and business acumen to ACF’s strategy for community fundraising
• Demonstrating inspiring and collaborative leadership within the ACF executive team
• Leadership and developing a high performing fundraising team
• Overall responsibility for fundraising income and driving growth across all streams
• Representing and fostering ACF’s key values and global award-winning culture

Skills Required
  
You have established a highly successful career in fundraising, ideally within progressive supporter-led organisations – or within revenue focused roles in digital technology businesses.

A leader in your field, you are a creative thinker who has grown diverse programs or portfolios through developing and implementing innovative projects and campaigns.

Ideally, you bring proven experience in building philanthropic relationships and/or business partnerships that have delivered sustainable business growth.

As a senior manager you have a collaborative, action-orientated, encouraging style demonstrated by the success of high performing teams you have worked with previously. 

Tackle the biggest challenges of our time, with ACF, Australia’s most influential environment organisation. To apply submit your resume and a cover letter addressing the skills required section.

SUPPORT, INFORM, EMPOWER

Three key words that sum up the Salvesen Mindroom Centre.

For nearly twenty years, Salvesen Mindroom Centre has been making a huge difference to the lives of children, young people and their families living with learning difficulties. Over that time, it has built strong foundations and gained a trusted reputation for its knowledge and expertise. But being founded by a Swede married to a Scot the charity likes to think it does things a little bit differently. A mix of Nordic cool and Scottish practicality!

Its goal is to become a world-leading centre bringing practical help, research and education together to address the impact of learning difficulties. Thanks to a generous donation from Alastair and Elizabeth Salvesen, its journey has been an incredible period of transformation.

Every year, the charity’s highly skilled advice and outreach team work with hundreds of families across Scotland and numbers are increasing annually. Its helpline is open five days a week, with expert advisers available to help those whose lives have been impacted by learning difficulties, providing the emotional support and the right information. For those who require more direct support, its highly experienced outreach team work throughout Scotland, engaging with both the families and the professionals in schools, social work, justice and health to ensure that we really are getting it right for every child.

The charity aims to empower families to take back control of their own situation and move forward. In the last twelve months it has introduced two excellent new services that work directly with young people – helping their voices to be heard above a very complex and challenging landscape.
By working across Education, Health, Social Work, Justice and private organisations, the charity also empowers professionals by giving them the information and the tools they need so that they feel confident in supporting young people with learning difficulties. Just as an example, the General Teaching Council for Scotland commends its guidance to tens of thousands of registered teachers.

Research has always been central to its vision for a world-leading centre of excellence. Learning difficulties know no boundaries and the charity’s work is complemented by the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre (SMRC) based at the University of Edinburgh. The SMRC team is taking forward research that offers the prospect of improving the lives of those living with learning difficulties worldwide. This unique partnership brings outreach expertise and research together, making the experience of families central to this work and, in return, empowering them through knowledge of best practice.

Salvesen Mindroom Centre’s journey has been extraordinary. And this is only the start.

The charity is now looking to diversify its fundraising and create a strategy that works for them. Nearly three-quarters of its funding comes from an individual source, and its objective is to reduce that below 50%. While there is time to make these changes, the charity needs someone well-respected in the fundraising sector with the right creativity and experience to lead it on this journey.

It is specifically looking for a strategic thinker who has extremely well-developed skills across the board but particularly in major donor and corporate fundraising. This role will work directly with the Chief Executive as part of the small management team and with a close relationship to the Board. The Director of Fundraising must be an individual who will command respect from both internal and external stakeholders, giving strategic leadership and taking responsibility for delivering results.

This is the role for someone whose energy, drive and capacity for engagement will develop and sustain new relationships with major supporters and inspire the charity’s small, but very capable fundraising team.

If you believe that everyone has the right to achieve their potential, and if you have the skills, experience and passion to take Salvesen Mindroom Centre on the next stage of its exciting journey, then we would like to hear from you.

How To Apply

Please contact BTA to request an information pack, full job description and person specification.

Please note, Bruce Tait, BTA Chief Executive is leading the recruitment for this role and would be delighted to host initial conversations regarding suitability after candidates have reviewed the candidate information. Please get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.

Closing Date: Midday, Tuesday 16th March

Interview Date: Friday 26th March

This search is being conducted exclusively for Salvesen Mindroom Centre by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.

Job title: Director of Fundraising
Reports to: CEO
Direct reports: Team of 5
Location: Cannock, Staffordshire and home based
Salary: £65,000 – £75,000

About Newlife

At Newlife we believe that disabled children should get the better future they deserve. For 30 years we have provided disabled children and their families with specialist protective equipment, growing to become the biggest charitable provider of essential specialist equipment for disabled children in the UK and the only one offering an emergency response, delivering items directly to family homes within just 72 hours. We also run a free, national nurse-staffed helpline.

As well as providing specialist equipment we campaign strongly for better rights for disabled children and their families. Our campaigning is informed by academic research into the lived experience and needs of disabled children and their families, funded and commissioned by Newlife.

Our work is made possible by two main income streams, generating annual turnover of c. £11m p.a.  The first is our successful discount clothing retail operation which provides valuable CSR-focused recycling benefits for our network of high-street brand retail partners, as well as employment for many disabled people. Fundraising is our other vital income stream, focused primarily on trust and major donor fundraising, child-focused media appeals and a highly successful corporate partnership with River island.  With the right leadership and investment we believe there is opportunity to significantly grow the latter to help meet the increasing demands on our services.

About the role

The Director of Fundraising is a pivotal new appointment for Newlife. The Director will join our senior leadership team and be responsible for delivering a transformation in our fundraising activity, performance and positioning, with the full support of the CEO, the senior leadership team and the trustee board.

This will include leadership and management of the fundraising team and its programmes and growth, development and implementation of the fundraising strategy, and financial management. This is a hands-on role and the Director will lead by example, undertaking as well as directing the fundraising, and managing relationships with a pool of corporate partners, major donors and other key stakeholders. The role would suit an experienced fundraising leader with a track record in growing charitable income from high value sources.

Closing date: 9am Monday 15th March 2021

For further information, please click 'Apply on website' to visit the site of Peridot Partners, our recruitment consultants.

Working in the Audience Engagement team, the Community and Events Fundraising Assistant will respond to supporter enquiries and deliver great stewardship, will monitor our external events platforms and will provide administrative support to ensure the smooth running of our community and events fundraising activities.

This is a home-based, six-month fixed-term contract. The post is full-time but flexible working will be considered. Some weekend working may be required.

Would you love a career in a dynamic and friendly organisation that makes our community a better place to live?

Together Co is Brighton and Hove’s leading loneliness charity, working to create connections that change lives for the better across the city.
We run Social Prescribing and Befriending services that support more than 2000 people a year and have 500+ volunteers working alongside our staff team.
In a city of 300,000 people no one should be lonely or socially isolated. Together, we can make sure no one is. 

We are looking for someone with a proven track-record of successfully leading fundraising initiatives, who has a digital mindset and loves working with Brighton’s fabulous business community. 

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, and LGBTQ+ people.

The New Room (also known as John Wesley's Chapel) is an award-winning museum and heritage attraction in the centre of Bristol.  We are seeking to appoint a part-time fundraising officer to deliver and develop its fundraising strategy for the next 12 months with possibility of extension.

As the oldest Methodist building in the world, the New Room shares stories of 18th century Bristol, the Methodist movement, social justice, equality, health and wellbeing with over 50,000 visitors annually.  The site consists of the chapel, museum, library & archive, meeting rooms, Fairtrade café and gift shop. 

The New Room receives some funding from the Methodist Church but is responsible for securing most of its income from a variety of different sources in order to maintain its extensive programme of events, activities, and educational provision. 

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser to be responsible for owning and implementing the New Room’s fundraising strategy in order to increase income and help make the New Room more sustainable.  This post is focused on securing funding that will allow the New Rooms to continue its work with its existing staff team and volunteer base.The role holder will oversee all areas of fundraising with a constant focus on return on investment and with a primary focus on trust and grants fundraising.

If you interested in applying for this position, please submit your CV, along with a covering letter stating why you wish to be considered for this role by Friday 12th March. 

Applications can be submitted via Charity Job or emailed directly to the New Room director - see New Room website for full details.  All applications will be anonymised before consideration.

Interviews - Wednesday 24th March
Proposed start date - Tuesday 6th April

Here at Charity Horizons we are delighted to be supporting Family Fund in their search for a Head of Fundraising to join the team at this busy and exciting time. Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families on low incomes raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. Last year the charity provided over 89,000 grants or services worth over £33 million to families across the UK, and with 93% of families telling the charity that the pandemic has had a negative impact on their child’s health and wellbeing, Family Fund are now committed to supporting families to recover from this uniquely difficult period. 

As Head of Fundraising you will take the lead in successfully delivering Family Fund’s fundraising strategy, managing all aspects of income generation and supporting the wider team. You will also be responsible for governance, budgeting and managing processes related to fundraising, ensuring best use of available resources in order to maximise income. With a recently written 5 year strategy, this role provides a hugely exciting opportunity to implement growth in what promises to be a transformational year. 

To be considered for this role you should be a skilled fundraiser with significant experience leading and managing teams. Experience across a variety of income streams is essential, and any specific experience in individual given desirable. You should be a resourceful and creative leader with strong communication skills and an ability to develop relationships with funders and create compelling proposals for support. 

This is a contract position to cover a maternity period of 9 months. As a result of the impacts of Covid-19 this role will be home-based for the foreseeable future meaning we are able to consider people outside of the office’s locality. Family Fund has adapted to the pandemic in a proactive manner meaning teams are working successfully from home and people are well supported and connected as they work remotely. 

We will be recruiting for this role on an ongoing basis, and when we have a sufficient number of suitable applicants the role will close. This is an incredibly exciting job role that provides a wonderful opportunity to make a real difference to families across the UK – apply now, to avoid disappointment! To register your interest, or find out more, apply directly or contact Charlie or Leanne at Charity Horizons.

Charity Horizons is an equal opportunities employer and as such actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable candidates irrespective of age, disability, hidden disability, race or national origin, religion or belief, gender, gender expression, political view, sexual orientation, medical condition and pregnancy.

It's a really exciting time to join the FIrst Days Team. We are embarking on a new strategy, in new premises with some new team members. We have achieved a lot in the last year - and you can be part of achieving so much more. 

This role will build on the success of our fundraising over the last three years, which provides a strong foundation for the right candidate to bring their expertise, creativity and drive to match our strategic ambition in the years to come. 

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser to join our team as Head of Fundraising. You will work with the CEO to develop a robust fundraising plan that reflects the ambitions of the charity’s strategy over the next three years (and beyond) and work alongside the Community Fundraising Manager and volunteers, as well as the wider team, to embed this strategy. 

You will be results driven, have excellent knowledge of fundraising and a track record of securing large and high-profile grants. 

This role forms an integral part of the management team at First Days and will be central to the planned growth of the organisation in the years ahead. 

This is a permanent position, with a six month probation period. The role can be home based, anywhere in the country, however, once Covid restrictions are lifted we would anticipate some regular travel (once a month) to our head office in Wokingham Berkshire.