Open Country is an inspirational Yorkshire-based charity operating from premises in Harrogate and Wakefield. We seek to enable people with any form of disability to access and enjoy the countryside. We work to achieve this through a diverse programme of countryside activities and the provision of information and advice.

The Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on our disabled members and we now seek to increase our activities and services to support those people as they adjust to changes in their lives. To achieve this we are looking to appoint an additional part-time Fundraising Officer (0.5 FTE) to work a job-share arrangement with our existing Fundraising Officer.  We have an ambitious fundraising strategy, which we believe will deliver the required income to achieve our plans. You would be working at the heart of this dynamic charity, within a small, professional and above all, friendly team. 

We are keen to play to your personal and professional strengths and, working as a dynamic job-share, hope to offer the successful applicant a flexible, rewarding and life-affirming role. Join us - it's a belter!

Fundraising Manager: Individual Giving, Legacies and Trusts, St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne

Hours:37.5 hours per week  

Contract: Permanent

Salary:  £36000 - £46000 per annum

Closing date: Thursday 26th August 2021

Interview Date:  TBC

DBS: N/A

About us:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community. 

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive and respectful, and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment which actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression.

The Role:

Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging and rewarding working environment.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Fundraising Manager to join our team and grow our well-established Individual Giving, Legacy and Trust programme.

The post holder will develop, implement, and monitor strategies to raise essential funds to support our patient care.  They will lead an experienced and committed team to develop effective supporter journeys, identifying and cultivating individuals to feed into the organisations Mid Value, Major Donor and Legacy Programme.  Reporting into the Development Director, they will be an important part of the Income Generation and Communications Management Team.

The role provides the opportunity to develop campaigns and activities across a range of channels: including direct mail, face to face, telephone and digital.

The postholder will manage our Database and Supporter Development Lead to ensure that the fundraising database, Raiser’s Edge is used to its maximum potential to support our plans.

St Wilfrid’s enjoys a high profile within the local community with a strong legacy pipeline and Trust Fundraising Programme. A strong communicator, the postholder will manage relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders including donors, solicitors, and trust funders.

Training and Development opportunities, for example Institute of Fundraising Diploma and training with the Institute of Legacy Management will be available to the right candidate.

Benefits included:

• We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Employee assistance programmes
• Additional training opportunities
• Supportive working environment

Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.

This newly created role is perfect for someone wanting to widen their skillset and elicit real change!  You will be working within a small but thriving organisation that values your views and encourages personal and professional development. Investing in people, creativity, independent thought, and brave leadership allows us to deliver life-changing impacts to children and young people with Down’s syndrome in Kent and Medway.

We are seeking a resourceful, proactive, and organised person to support our fundraising and marketing activities. This role will be integral to the growth and development of our work, supporting the children and young people with Down’s syndrome and their wider networks. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to widen their skills, and develop a career in the not-for-profit sector.

About the role:

The post will focus on delivering the fundraising strategy with particular emphasis on raising money from Corporates and individual giving. It will also contribute to the delivery and creation of the communications and marketing strategy.

About you:

The ideal candidate will be proactive and self-motivated to achieve success, with excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will be experienced in charity fundraising, as well as marketing strategies, management, and monitoring. Designing and executing suitable communication material, alongside demonstrable success at engaging people to a cause and motivating giving is vital to bring this role to life. 

Hours:

17.5 hours per week (the postholder will also be required to work occasional unsociable hours in the evening and weekends, for which time off in lieu will be offered)

Salary:

£ 26,000 - £28,000 FTE – depending on experience

Location:

Central Maidstone Office, ME14 1HH. There may be flexible working options and some home working available on request.

Direct Reports: NA

Accountability reports to Charity Manager

Our Vision:

Everyone has the right to live their lives to the fullest of their potential, regardless of disability or disadvantage.

Our Mission:

To support children and young people with Down’s syndrome and their families to access the right support to live full and vibrant lives. 

The postholder is responsible for:

• Implementing the Fundraising Strategy to increase the charity’s income and help make the organisation more sustainable.
• Develop and maintain corporate partnerships.
• Maximising individual support with regard to regular donations.
• Develop and maintain a legacy giving programme.
• Lead the 50/50 Lottery and develop growth plan.
• Develop and deliver the communications and marketing strategy with support from Charity Officer and Charity Manager.
• Building on the fundraising that is already in place within the charity – continually looking at ways to improve and increase support and income.
• Assisting in ‘story telling’ projects and taking a strong lead in social media to promote our work.
• Research potential donors to gain insight into needs, beliefs, and donation habits to understand how to position our organization to them.
• Assist in creating new methods to raise funds for our organisation.
• Leverage technology and social media where possible to improve fundraising activities.
• Create marketing materials, like flyers and brochures, to be used for the promotion of events and other fundraising pushes.
• Analyse the performance of fundraising activities for effectiveness and to identify areas where performance could be improved.
• Maintain complete and orderly records of donors and manage regular donor communications. This will include using and managing a CRM and be supported by the admin team.
• Build upon existing donor relationships and form new donor relationships on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with other organisations and groups within the community to build partnerships and enhance fundraising activities.

Interviews taking place in the week beginning 20th September. We reserve the right to interview earlier or close this job role once we have enough suitable applicants. 

St Catherine’s Hospice is a local charity with a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. Providing expert hospice care, we’re there for people in West Sussex and East Surrey when life comes full circle.

The role of the Fundraising Events Coordinator in the Supporter Acquisition team is to champion and provide support for all areas of events promotion and logistics, whilst delivering the best possible supporter experience.

This is a key role which will support the development and implementation of engaging events, creating opportunities which will attract supporters, both new and existing. This is a rewarding and impactful role where you will know that you are making a difference.

This post is offered on a full time basis, working 37.5 hours per week from 8.30am – 5pm.

Employees at St Catherine’s Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
• Day off for volunteering
• Day off for moving house
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Generous Pension – Up to 9% employer contributors or honour NHS pension
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
• Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
• Flu Jabs
• Counselling Offering
• Discounted Gym
• Schwartz rounds
• Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
• Career pathway and progression

By applying you are also confirming that you have read and understand our Employee Privacy Policy found under policies on our website.

We are looking to recruit a Fundraising Manager on a permanent basis, to work as part of our Corporate Services team.

We have ambitious plans to invest in our current and new services to ensure that our customers continue to receive excellence throughout their lives with us. This role will be instrumental in raising the funds to support these developments and will take the lead in engaging with new and existing stakeholders to communicate the changes.

Key to success in this role will be the development and implementation of Fundraising, Marketing and Communication strategies. As such, we are seeking an ambitious and creative individual who has extensive experience of successfully delivering strategy.

You should have experience of fundraising through a variety of different streams and be able to inspire and excite individuals at all levels. Capital project experience is essential. If you are interested in learning more please contact Andrew Philip, Director of Finance and Resources for an initial discussion.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• Rewarding Career Choice
• 37 Days Annual Leave
• Competitive pay of £39,760.40
• Extensive Training Provided
• Access to shopping discounts through the Perks At Work scheme
• Generous and enhanced pension schemes and family benefits
• As a member of our autoenrollment pension scheme, £10,000 provided in the case of Death in Service
• Flexible working is available
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Free PVG checks throughout your career

General Information

• Capability Scotland is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We are happy to consider job-share applications.
• Capability Scotland is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people and conducts thorough pre-employment checks on all preferred candidates.
• A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.

Grants Fundraising Officer

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Hours: 35 per week

Location: London

Salary:  £34,956 - £40,549 per annum. Please note the starting salary is £34,956 per annum, with the opportunity to progress up the scale over time.

Closing date: 14 August 2021

Expected date of interviews: TBC

Job ref: VA436

Do you believe in standing up for human rights alongside torture survivors? Would you like to use creativity, technology and people power to raise significant funds to positively impact the lives of torture survivors?

Freedom from Torture is looking for a Grants Fundraising Officer to join our new, friendly Philanthropy and Partnerships team. This is an exciting chance to join us as we place survivor empowerment and movement building at the heart of our next four year strategy.

About the role

The key purpose of the role is to lead in generating five and six figure grants from Statutory Funders, and high to medium Trust Funders to support Freedom from Torture’s work with survivors of torture.You will work closely with the Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships and the Senior Trusts and Grants Manager to implement the fundraising strategy, by raising income from funders in line with agreed income targets. You will be expected to identify new funding streams and deliver a year round portfolio of funding applications. You will also manage a portfolio of existing donors who fund a range of our work including clinical, policy and campaigns.

About you

To be successful in this role you must have demonstrable experience of successfully meeting or exceeding fundraising targets from a variety of funders and experience managing relationships with statutory funders and trust and foundations.

It’s essential that you have strong communication skills and experience of managing donor funded grants including review of financial information, preparation of donor reports and donor compliance. You must have experience and knowledge of statutory and grant fundraising research tools and grant writing in the UK charity sector.

To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click the link provided.

Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution and 1% employee contribution.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer! People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

No agencies please.

Fundraising Manager

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 (dependent on candidate experience) plus 10% employer pension contirbution, health care cash plan and a range of other great industry-leading benefits

Location: London, WC1X

Contract type: Permanent, 35hrs per week, Mon-Fri

About Us

Help Musicians is a charity that loves music and for 100 years has been working hard to make a meaningful difference to the lives of musicians across the UK. We want to create a world where musicians thrive.    

A musicians’ life can be precarious with ups and downs throughout a career. Opportunities must be hard-won, whilst challenges come along all too easily, with unsteady income and physical and mental health concerns common issues to navigate. In addition, training can take many years and, along with investing in instruments and other equipment, puts up financial barriers to creative progression. Help Musicians offers a broad range of help to support music creators in times of crisis and opportunity - ensuring musicians across the UK can achieve their creative potential and sustain a career in music.    

Sadly, the impact of the pandemic means the charity is needed more than ever in 2021, its centenary year. Last year we were able to provide financial hardship support to over 19,000 music creators and increase access to our mental health services by 40%. In 2021, this ongoing need will continue at scale while the music sector recovers and rebuilds.  

Love Music: Help Musicians  

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, the Fundraising Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of the charity’s individual giving and community fundraising plans, providing effective leadership to the team, driving revenue, improving engagement, acquiring new supporters, and building positive long-term donor relationships.

The Fundraising Manager is responsible for the operational planning of public fundraising in line with strategic goals for the year. You will be responsible for the line management of our small, yet effective team made up of our Community Fundraising and Individual Giving Officers, as well as our Fundraising Assistant.

You will manage a range of fundraising activities within the charity’s developing public fundraising programme including supporter acquisition, supporter stewardship communications, financial appeals, in-memory giving and regular giving. The role leads the implementation of these plans in collaboration with their colleagues – particularly in Marketing & Communications - to ensure an integrated approach to campaigns and a joined-up supporter experience. 

About you

Our ideal candidate will be ambitious in their approach, proactively managing stakeholders through excellent communication and planning skills. We would expect you to be an effective project manager and be able to effectively coach team members in fundraising best practice. You should also have a pragmatic and structured approach to budget and operational management which must be demonstrated in previous roles.

At a technical level, we require you to be confident in using digital tools and channels to drive supporter engagement and will be comfortable working with databases and CRM systems to monitor campaign success and segment data for analysis. We do require that you hold an IoF, IDM, CIM Diploma or have significant equivalent experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join us at an exciting time in our centenary year, to help us achieve our ambitions to provide more support and reach more people than ever before.

For full details of the role, job description and person specification and how to apply, please visit our website.

Deadline for applications: Monday 2nd August, 9am (Extended deadline, was previously Friday 23rd July).

WR Fundraising Recruitment is recruiting a Fundraising Officer for a small team to assist in researching and writing trust & grants applications with a focus on community projects across the South.

At an exciting time of development, we are looking for an aspiring fundraising professional with some exposure to researching potential funders and bid writing /application administration to identify and research small to medium-sized potential trust donors and write compelling cases for support.

The charity is fully home working at the moment, we expect the role to be split between home and office working (Central London) when the office re-opens.

We’re looking for an outgoing personality who will be keen to develop relationships internally and with external funders. In a varied role, the successful candidate will have the benefit of starting with a solid portfolio of existing grant givers, while working collaboratively with the team to identify and develop opportunities for further funding.

This is a fantastic role for an aspiring trust fundraiser in a national charity where you’ll benefit from expert training and develop solid fundraising skills for the future.

Fundraising Officer (Trusts & Foundations)

Central London

Full Time, Permanent

£26,000 per annum

Working closely with a small team and direct support from a great Fundraising Manager, duties will include:

• Research and identify suitable grant giving trusts and foundations
• Prepare and submit well-written, compelling and complete funding applications
• Monitor reapplications to current supporters
• Establish and maintain relationships with a portfolio of trust donors giving small and medium-sized grants
• Writing compelling cases for support and follow up reporting
• Achieve agreed income targets

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to develop a career in fundraising. You will be working with the support of the Fundraising Manager and have the opportunity to gain valuable skills, knowledge and experience in trust fundraising.

Experience in prospect research and the administration of fundraising applications to Trusts / Foundations highly desirable.

Applicants will need:

• Experience of the charitable sector (preferably in fundraising)
• Experience of writing detailed funding applications or reports or similar
• Experience of developing income streams
• Experience of professional relationship building
• Ability to write compelling and innovative proposals and funding reports
• First class, demonstrable written communication skills
• Ability to work harmoniously within a small team

To apply and for further information, please email a copy of your up to date CV in the first instance.

WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Job title: Fundraising Manager

Responsible to: Director of Business Development

Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working

Hours: Full-time

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3%

We are recruiting for this post alongside a Digital Marketing and Fundraising Officer. Please see the recruitment pack for both roles below. 

*Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered for the role*

Introduction

Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a team member who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising.

Management & Leadership

•   To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.

•   Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.

•    Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met. Manage the Trust and Foundations fundraiser.

•   Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.

•   Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.

Income generation

•   Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets

•    Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.

•   Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.

•  Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.

•Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.

• Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas

Monitoring & Evaluation

•   Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.

• Review grant agreements

•   Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.

•   Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.

•   Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.

•   Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved

Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support.

Compliance

To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation

Person Specification:

• At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector
• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
• Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well.
• Experience of budget and financial management
• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
• Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

Alex TLC is an independent charity for people with rare, neudegenerative conditions – genetic leukodystrophies. This role will increase our capacity to support beneficiaries and reduce the health inequalities they often face.

The Fundraising Manager post is a role for someone with two years’ experience, or more, of charity sector fundraising. We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, creative thinker to increase our community fundraising, non-pharma corporate and small grant income streams.

Working closely with senior staff including the CEO, Communications Manager and our team of Voluntary Grant Fundraisers, you will help shape and deliver an innovative fundraising strategy.

This is a significant role within the leadership team and includes management of one junior staff member.

The role is part time, office and/or home based. 

Achievement of targets is rewarded annually through our Performance Related Pay scheme.

You will be joining us at an exciting time! You will add capacity to the Management Team and play a key role in developing strategies to enable our organisation to grow. You will also deputise for the CEO in her absence. However, although it is our ambition to increase revenue from training to enable further expansion, initially you will focus on the operational side of the delivery and quality assurance of Peeple training including processes for supporting the implementation of learning. You will also work with colleagues on the accreditation of adult learning which forms an integral part of our Programme and training.

What you’ll be doing:

You will:

• line manage the Development Manager (Scotland), Qualifications Manager (Scotland), part-time Peeple Trainer and our Training Administrator(s), and have matrix management responsibility for NOCN Parent Accreditation
• carry out all tasks necessary to ensure that the training and/or implementation support commissioned from Peeple is high quality and provides excellent customer satisfaction
• ensure that effective systems for training, accreditation and implementation support are maintained
• induct new trainers and ensure there is sufficiency of trainers to meet demand for Peeple training
• develop or commission the development of new training courses
• keep under review the role of accredited adult learning (for both practitioners and parents/carers) in our organisation
• ensure compliance with policies, procedures and standards set by accreditation bodies
• work with the CEO to develop longer term strategies for Peeple and to promote our work to a national audience, deputising for her as necessary.

What we’re looking for:

• You are a collaborative colleague and an experienced manager who has taken on leadership roles.
• You can take a strategic overview whilst retaining an eye for detail.
• You are an experienced trainer, ready to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into the day-to-day tasks associated with training over 800 practitioners around the UK each year.
• You have an understanding of adult learner accreditation, ideally with some qualifications of your own in the field, and you are knowledgeable about the early years sector.
• You are passionate about the importance of helping parents/carers to be the best they can be.
• You want to work for small charity that is trying to make a big difference in helping narrow the attainment gap.

Are you passionate about people’s rights? Do you want to be part of a team fighting poverty and injustice by providing free, community-based advice and support services? Are you an experienced fundraiser with a strong track record in securing funding from Trusts and Foundations and other sources?

With people’s welfare and wellbeing being in the spotlight in the wake of the pandemic and the need for our services never greater, this is an exciting time to join our small, friendly and dynamic team. We are busy working towards achieving objectives set out in our five year strategic plan and are looking for someone who shares our values to help us achieve our ambitious goals.

St Pauls Advice Centre (SPAC) is one of Bristol’s longest-established charities. Our experienced team helps our local community access justice by providing free, professional legal advice on social welfare law issues. Community leaders created the advice centre in the 1970s to support local people, recognising the difficulties that many in the community were experiencing accessing their rights, understanding their obligations and navigating complex systems and processes. Many of our clients are vulnerable, marginalised and disenfranchised.

The purpose of the role is to lead the growth and diversification of St Pauls Advice Centres’ income and assist in the development of new projects in order to achieve our strategic objectives. You will be working closely with the Executive Director and Finance Manager.

We describe St Pauls Advice Centre as friendly, local and here to help – if that sounds like you too, we look forward to receiving your application.

We offer flexible working and a generous benefits package: 

• Salary: £30,451
• Annual Leave: 30 days per year
• Extra 3 days annual leave between Christmas & New Year
• Pension Scheme: 5% employer’s contribution
• Flexible working hours: 35 hours per week (28hrs per week optional)
• Opportunities for home working

We have a new exciting opportunity for a Head of Fundraising to join our team based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis (37.5 hours per week) and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £43,000 - £46,000 per annum.

Are you a natural and persuasive communicator who is looking to apply your skills in a charity setting? 

About us and the role:

As part of our organisation’s investment, YMCA DownsLink Group are now seeking a Head of Fundraising to support us to continue to develop and deliver our ambitious fundraising and communications plans. 

We achieved our first year’s income target and are now looking for an experienced, commercial, target driven, fundraiser to help drive us towards generating an annual income of £1 million in five years-time.  We adapted our fundraising plans last year due to the restrictions of covid but as the country prepares to open up, so will the opportunity to generate fundraising partnerships and relationships. We are looking for a natural and persuasive communicator who flourishes in external facing forums and who is able to develop relationships at all levels. 

What we are looking for as our ideal Head of Fundraising:

The successful candidate will be target driven, enjoys making connections and building relationships and will have natural commercial acumen and a positive, creative energy. ?Someone who is brave enough to sometimes take the more challenging path because this is the right path towards real change. This person will enjoy the challenge of creating shape where there may be ambiguity and creating a sense of possibility across an organisation. 

Key Requirements for our Head of Fundraising: 

- Demonstrable experience of growing fundraised income across all fundraising streams including specific experience of individual and high net worth income fundraising
- Very strong, persuasive, communication skills, able to influence audiences at all different levels of seniority and experience
- Previous sales training is desirable but no essential 

Closing date for applications: Monday 9th August 2021

Interview Date: Monday 23rd August 2021

YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns. Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

If you feel like you have what it takes to become our Head of Fundraising click apply today, we would love to hear from you!

ABOUT LAUNCHPAD

Based in central Reading, Launchpad provides vital information and support for vulnerable individuals, couples and families in Reading who do not have a stable place to live or are at risk of losing their homes.  We have been in Reading for over 40 years and have just opened a new Work and Life Skills Centre to enhance life opportunities for clients.  It is an exciting time for us!

Our services work in three ways:
 

Preventing homelessness

Launchpad works to prevent homelessness with a drop-in centre for anyone who needs crucial housing or homelessness-related information and guidance, and our floating support team helps people in the community address more serious housing-related challenges before they get worse.

Providing homes

We aim to break the cycle of homelessness by providing temporary homes with bespoke support for up to 100 people in Reading for periods of six to twelve months.

Rebuilding lives

Launchpad rebuilds lives to give clients the very best chance of success with a range of therapeutic activities, and support with education, training and employment.
 

THIS ROLE

The Fundraising Manager is responsible for the operational planning and implementation of all fundraising in line with strategic goals for the year, and delivering a range of fundraising events and projects within the charity’s developing fundraising programme – including supporter acquisition, supported stewardship communications, financial appeals and regular giving.

ABOUT YOU

Our ideal candidate is an experienced Fundraising Manager with a passion for helping the vulnerable, looking to work with a small team where you can make a real difference.

With excellent relationship building skills and significant experience of leading events and activities which drive individual donations, and corporate and community fundraising, you are looking for a new challenge and the chance to build a portfolio of innovative fundraising events and projects.

Professional, approachable, confident and empathetic, you love people and are great at motivating, developing, and managing effective performance to achieve successful outcomes - and meet ambitious fundraising targets

An adept project manager, you put the supporter at the heart of everything you do with experience of cultivating, developing and stewarding supporters to deliver a first-class experience.

You are ambitious in your approach, proactively managing stakeholders through excellent communication and planning skills.  You know your way around a fundraising CRM system, are competent with Microsoft packages and have experience of working with volunteers and managing a small team.

This is a superb opportunity for someone with drive, focus and a desire to work with our fantastic charity to help us to prevent homelessness in Reading.  You’ll discover a passionate, supportive environment where the entire team are working toward the same goals and are dedicated to making positive change, and a lasting impact on people’s lives.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Please note the role is office based at our premises in Reading.  There is flexibility for some working at home when necessary. As a key service for vulnerable people in Reading, our service has been open throughout the pandemic.

Please visit our website where you will find more information, including details on how to apply.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 4 August 2021.  Interviews will be held on 12 August 2021.

Whilst appointments will always be made on the merits of the application and performance in the selection process, Launchpad is committed to achieving greater diversity, inclusion and equity in our workforce – and actively encourages and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, beliefs or disability.