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The Talent Set are excited to partner with an ambitious health charity to recruit a Head of Community & Events Fundraising, operating at the heart of an evolving and high-performing fundraising function. With a growing portfolio and a strong foundation, this is an opportunity to shape the future of community and events fundraising and deliver significant income growth.
This role will lead the strategy and delivery of a diverse portfolio of challenge events, mass participation products and community fundraising activity, inspiring a high performing team and driving innovation across the mass participation portfolio.
Key duties include:
- Lead the development and delivery of the community and events fundraising strategy
- Drive income growth across a diverse portfolio of events and community products
- Inspire, lead and develop a high-performing team, embedding a positive and collaborative culture
- Oversee planning, budgeting and forecasting, ensuring strong financial performance and ROI
- Develop and evolve supporter journeys to deliver outstanding stewardship experiences
- Identify and launch new fundraising products using data and audience insight
- Monitor performance, analyse trends and optimise activity to maximise results
- Collaborate across teams to deliver integrated, supporter-led campaigns
- Act as a key member of the fundraising leadership team, contributing to wider strategy
About you:
- Significant experience leading community and/or events fundraising programmes
- Proven track record of delivering income growth and managing substantial budgets
- Strong leadership skills, with experience building and developing high-performing teams
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate insight into action
- Commercially minded, with experience developing new fundraising products
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Confident working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Passionate about delivering exceptional supporter experiences
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
Our client provides a non-formal education and Learning framework encouraging young people to find their purpose, place and passion in the world. They work in more than 130 countries and territories, and their globally recognised accreditation is available to all 14- to 24-year-olds. The team now require a new Head of Philanthropy and Prospectus is delighted to lead the search.
Head of Philanthropy
£65,000
Permanent
Hybrid, 3 days a week in the London office
The Head of Philanthropy is a fantastic and unique opportunity to lead a global major door programme within one of the world's most respected youth charities. You will be responsible for the strategic leadership and growth of the World Fellowship, the network of high value donors who are passionate and generous about enabling young people to discover their infinite potential. The role combines a healthy mix of strategic development, senior relationship management, and international fundraising at the five and six figure gift level.
The selected candidate will have a proven track record of strategic philanthropy experience, who thrives on building powerful, trust-based relationships with HNWI supporters and senior stakeholders. You will have experience of securing gifts at the five and six figure level and will inspire others through a coaching, empowering style of fundraising leadership. You will be donor centred and will have evidence in your career of designing thoughtful, high-quality experiences that deepen commitment and drive long-term support.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Ryan Burdock and Firas El Dib at Prospectus.
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.
In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.