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Check my CVJob Title: Director of Income Generation and Communications
Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience
Contract: Full time, permanent
Location: Flexible, with regular visits to the head office in Cardiff, as required.
We are looking for a passionate, creative and values-driven senior fundraising and communications leader to join our growing team and help position Llamau as the key charity in Wales, determined to end youth homelessness and homelessness for women.
Ending Homelessness, Changing Futures
At Llamau we believe that no young person or vulnerable woman should ever have to experience homelessness. Our mission is to eradicate homelessness for young people and vulnerable women. But for thousands of the most vulnerable people in Wales, homelessness is a frightening reality. We aim to change this.
We're looking for a warm, friendly, inspiring leader, with a demonstrable track record of growing income and delivering successful marketing and communications strategies. With an empathetic and collaborative management style, you will lead and motivate your team to deliver sustainable long-term income growth across all areas of fundraising and income generation, and to ensure Llamau's visibility and credibility as one of Wales' leading charities.
You will be a strategic doer, with the ability to develop and deliver income generation and marketing strategies which support our vision and ambition. You will be able to set the strategic direction for your team and engender next level growth.
Financially astute, with the ability to clearly set and monitor KPIs and a commitment to continuous improvement, you will also be happy to roll up your sleeves and get involved in the operational side of things as needed. You will be a proactive, dynamic and ambitious individual capable of co-ordinating and prioritising the diverse elements of this role. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and persuade. You will be comfortable developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders - both internal and external.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our ambitious, supportive, fun and high-achieving team. For lots more details or a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Philippa at Charity People.
To Apply
Please share your CV in the first instance with Philippa at Charity People. If your experience matches what we are looking for, we will send you the full candidate pack and will arrange for a call and/or Zoom meeting to brief you on the role. Following this conversation, you will have everything you need to apply formally. We look forward to hearing from you.
Timeline
Deadline for applications 9am on Monday 26th April
Interviews with Charity People 26th - 29th April
1st stage interviews with Llamau w/c 3rd May
2nd stage interviews with Llamau w/c 10th May
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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Job title: Fundraising Manager
Responsible to: Director of Business Development
Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 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%
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 consultant 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
• 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.
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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
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Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support.
Compliance
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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.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.