"Director Of Fundraising" Jobs
First Days Children's Charity is seeking a determined and innovative Director of Fundraising to lead our fundraising efforts and secure the vital income needed to support our ambitious growth plans.
You are the person we are looking for if you:
About You:
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You see yourself as a fundraising heavyweight with a proven track record of exceeding ambitious targets, particularly in securing large grants, major donors and corporate partnerships.
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You thrive on smashing targets and delivering unexpected and exciting results.
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You are a natural leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys continuous learning, and embraces a culture of trusted and honest feedback.
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You are an influencer with exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, comfortable engaging with high-net-worth individuals and corporate leaders.
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You are a strategic thinker with a can-do attitude, not afraid to ask questions and explore innovative approaches to fundraising.
Main Responsibilities:
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Develop a comprehensive fundraising strategy aligned with our growth targets, ensuring diversification of income streams.
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Build and deliver a robust fundraising pipeline, encompassing major donors, corporate partnerships, grant applications and other income streams.
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Lead, motivate and inspire a high-performing fundraising team, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented environment.
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Deputise for the CEO in their absence, providing strategic and operational support.
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Represent the Charity at all levels, building strong relationships with key stakeholders.
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Contribute strategically to the Charity's overall success, providing insights and recommendations to support the mission.
You are:
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Assertive, self-reliant and confident, with a drive to succeed and a love for learning.
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Energetic, enthusiastic, and a fast-paced individual who thrives in a dynamic environment.
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Open to feedback, willing to ask questions, and continuously seek new knowledge and approaches.
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A passionate advocate for change, with a desire to shape the future of fundraising for the organisation.
We Offer:
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A competitive salary of £55,000 per annum.
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A full-time role, based in our Wokingham office.
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Generous annual leave entitlement.
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A company pension scheme.
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An electric car scheme.
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Flexible working from the start, for all employees
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The opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of disadvantaged children.
To Apply:
If you are a fundraising leader with the vision, drive and expertise to take First Days Children's Charity to the next level, we want to hear from you.
Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role.
Closing Date: 21st April 2024
Shortlisting will take place on 22nd April 2024
First interviews (telephone) will take place on Tuesday 23/ Wednesday 24th April
Second Interviews will take place on Thursday 3rd May 2024
Final interview with our trustees and opportunity to meet the team will take place w/c 13th May 2024, if successful an appointment will be made that week.
First Days Children's Charity is an equal opportunities employer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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At Refugee Action Kingston (RAK) we're dedicated to helping the successful integration of refugees and asylum seekers into the local community. With over three decades of experience, we provide a comprehensive range of services including welfare support, immigration and legal advice, education, counselling, and career guidance.
Our values
- Empathy: we put ourselves in the shoes of those we work with.
- Enterprise: we're innovative and resourceful in our approach to supporting refugees and asylum seekers.
- Empower: we strive to empower our clients, helping them achieve their aspirations.
Role overview: as the Director of RAK, you'll lead our organisation in supporting refugees and asylum seekers in South West London to lead fulfilled and independent lives. Proposals for hybrid working will be considered. Your responsibilities will include:
Strategic Leadership
- Developing and implementing annual plans aligned with our strategy, in collaboration with the Board of Trustees, to achieve desired outcomes.
- Maintaining efficient systems for the charity's operations, ensuring good governance and financial sustainability.
- Overseeing all aspects of organisational management including finances, resources, services, and communications, in cooperation with trustees.
Governance and Organisational Management
- Working closely with trustees to direct and deliver RAK's objectives according to the charity's strategy.
- Leading and supporting the RAK team to fulfil objectives, emphasising client needs, monitoring outcomes, and integrating learning into operations.
- Ensuring compliance with governance requirements, supporting board responsibilities, and contributing to trustee meetings and reporting.
Financial Management and Human Resources
- Ensuring effective financial management, leading finance and project management teams to maintain controls, preparing reports, and managing spending within budget.
- Developing organisational structure and processes for positive people and service management, adhering to legislation and quality standards.
- Fostering a healthy working culture that encourages staff and volunteers to excel, contribute ideas, and embrace diversity.
Fundraising
- Developing and executing RAK's fundraising strategy, exploring new avenues to diversify funding sources.
- Collaborating with the fundraising manager to cultivate relationships with funders, submitting funding bids, and providing reporting.
- Focus on growing unrestricted funds to reduce reliance on grants.
Advocacy and Influencing
- Cultivating strong relationships with stakeholders to amplify the impact of RAK's work.
- Advocating for the needs of our clients to local authorities, healthcare providers, and other relevant agencies.
- Maintaining an effective advice and advocacy service, meeting quality standards (AQS & OISC) and regulatory requirements.
General Duties
- Undertaking any other related duties as required and appropriate to the role.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Leadership and Change Management: proven track record of leading client-focused services, driving strategic development, and managing change effectively.
- Project and Programme Management: experience in creating and delivering complex projects aligned with strategic objectives.
- Fundraising Expertise: understanding of fundraising importance in the charitable sector, with a history of successful and innovative fundraising initiatives.
- Digital Proficiency: ability to harness digital tools so that roles are carried out efficiently and competently.
- Financial Management: track record of managing budgets and contracts effectively.
- Analytical Skills: experience in complex report writing and data analysis.
- Empathy and Inclusivity: ability to empathise with clients from diverse backgrounds and a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
- Team Leadership: excellent people skills, with the ability to empower and motivate staff and volunteers to operate effectively.
- Partnership Building: strong ability to build partnerships, manage coalitions, and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders.
- Communication Skills: excellent communication and persuasion skills, including experience in public speaking.
- Governance Knowledge: understanding of governance principles in the voluntary or public sector.
- Safeguarding: experience in leading on safeguarding and health and safety.
Desirable Criteria
- Asylum System Knowledge: understanding or lived experience of the asylum system.
- Policy and Advocacy: experience in asylum-related policy or advocacy work.
- Commercial Awareness: experience in negotiating with statutory, local, or voluntary organisations/authorities.
Refugee Action Kingston exists to enable refugees and people who seek asylum to succeed as integrated members of the local community
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Age UK is recruiting for a Senior Supporter Experience Manager to join our award-winning fundraising team on a 12 month fixed-term maternity cover contract.
As Senior Supporter Experience Manager, the successful applicant will develop and take ownership of Age UK's Public Fundraising's over-arching supporter experience strategy by managing a programme that builds long-term relationships between Age UK and its supporters, delivering on a supporter first culture.
You will develop a supporter centric approach to planning effective multi-channel, multi-product supporter journeys to grow loyalty, engagement, and income.
We're looking for someone with an audience and data insight driven approach to identify moments that matter and key pain points to improve the supporter experience. By doing this, you will ensure that each touchpoint across the supporter experience is engaging, effective and reflects Age UK brand and values.
You will provide robust data led, testing strategies that enable cross-sell, upsell and ultimately improved lifetime value for Age UK.
We're looking to recruit a proactive self-starter who can contribute to campaign, content and engagement strategies across the charity, ensuring that fundraising audience insight and needs are at the heart of development.
Please note that due to the hybrid nature of this role, the successful applicant will be required to commute to our London office (EC3N 2LB) once a week on Thursday's.
Age UK internal grade - 4L
Must haves:
- Experience in a supporter experience focussed role
- Significant experience mapping and analysing multi-channel journeys.
- Experience working with data and insight teams to deliver journey and product portfolio analysis.
- Significant experience leading cross functional journey planning projects.
- Experience developing next best offer strategies
- Experience supporting teams to continuously improve and optimise supporter journeys.
Great to Have's:
- Proven levels of data literacy to inform decision making and direct marketing testing strategies
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
- Ability to lead cross functional project groups and programs.
- Excellent presenting skills
- Excellent analytical skills, with an ability to manage multiple data sources, identifying actionable insight.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and facilitate both internally and externally as necessary to secure progress towards goals.
- Understanding of online and offline fundraising channels and how they can be used to target audiences.
- Understanding of creative content and the best channels for content devised with the audience in mind.
What we offer in return
- Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
- Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
- Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
- Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
- Blue Light Card Scheme
- You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.
Additional Information
Committed to promoting equality and diversity.
All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview.
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.
Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
ROLE
Stella Maris is growing as a charity, in terms of income generation and new programmes of activity around the world. To help support this development, we have created this new important role. The Fundraising & Communications team at Stella Maris comprises about 12 staff members (some full time; some part time). The team and the charity have now reached the point in their evolution where we need to appoint a Major Donor Manager. This post holder will offer excellent stewardship to our existing Major Donors. He/she will also help to identify and cultivate new potential Major Donors from within and outside our existing pool of individual donors. He/she will substantially grow the Major Donor income stream for the charity. He/she will cultivate and steward Major Donors to give in new and more impactful ways, will increase giving levels, will increase the number of Major Donors, and will create lasting and meaningful relationships with our most committed and generous supporters. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated and effective Major Donor fundraiser. The postholder will help us, as a leading maritime charity, to achieve our mission to support seafarers, fishers and their families around the world.
MAIN PURPOSE
The Major Donor Manager, reporting into the Director of Development and working with some guidance from the Head of Major Gifts, will maintain and grow a stable pipeline of income from Major Donors. He/she will secure unrestricted and restricted income from a portfolio of Major Donors to support the activities of the Stella Maris network in the UK and overseas. He/she will produce cultivation plans for individual Major Donors, meet them, craft tailored applications and reports for them.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1 Manage relationships with a portfolio of Major Donors in accordance with the Charities fundraising strategy and giving programme activity.
2 Establish individual donor cultivation, engagement and stewardship strategies, ensuring each prospect and existing donor has an appropriate communications and cultivation programme in place.
3 Ensure that donor profiling and research activity is undertaken on existing and potential Major Donors (within data protection regulation guidelines) in order to enhance and develop relations.
4 Identify potential Major Donors from within the Mid-Value Donor portfolio and help graduate them up to Major Donor giving levels.
5 Working with the Governance and Executive team, conduct meetings and visits with individual Major Donors around the UK.
6 Accompany Major Donors on port visits within the UK and possibly abroad.
7 Craft carefully tailored applications, thank you letters and reports for Major Donors.
8 Support other senior staff and stakeholders, such as Trustees, in cultivating relationships with Major Donors by providing research and other information as required, and bringing them to meetings with Major Donors when appropriate.
9 Build and cultivate relationships with intermediaries, e.g. wealth advisers, lawyers.
10 Arrange events for Major Donors.
11 Ensure that all activity is recorded accurately on the charity’s Customer Relationship Management database, and that actions are undertaken in a timely and professional manner.
12 Extract monthly reports on activity levels with Major Donors, e.g. number of contacts, meetings, asks, etc., and circulate this internally to selected senior staff members.
Closing date for applications 2359 hours on 25 April.
Short listing 29 – 30 April.
Candidates notified of shortlisting results 2 May.
1st Round of Interviews in London 7 May.
2nd Round of Interviews (if required) 8 May.
Candidates notified of outcome 10 May.
Reports to: Chief Executive
Direct reports: 2 x roles to be recruited
Department/Service: Core Services
This role is a key leadership role responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising strategy to support the sustainability of Women in Prison.
Key Responsibilities Areas
1. To develop and implement a voluntary (trusts and foundation; HNWI, corporate, individuals) fundraising strategy
2. To manage relationships with key donors and stakeholders
3. Budgeting, reporting and compliance
4. Develop and lead the fundraising team
5. To be a key member of the senior leadership of Women in Prison modelling feminist collective leadership
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
About RefuAid:
At RefuAid, we are dedicated to making a significant impact, enabling people who’ve fled war and persecution to rebuild independent and dignified lives in the UK. As we embark on an exciting phase of growth and development, we are looking for a Director of Fundraising to join and lead our ambitious team. This pivotal role offers the unique opportunity to build on the strong foundations laid by our co-founders, shaping the future of our fundraising efforts and, by extension, our organisation's impact.
Role Overview:
Stepping into the shoes of our Co-Founders, the Director of Fundraising will inherit a vibrant legacy of relationship-based fundraising. You will be expected to maintain and enhance our existing relationships with a diverse range of supporters including family and larger charitable foundations, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and corporates such as BP, AerFin, PWC, Gowling, and Allen & Overy. This role is not just about sustaining current successes; it's about growth. We're looking for someone who can confidently aim to bring in £950k a year, with the vision and drive to increase this figure as our organisation expands.
Key Responsibilities:
- Spearhead our fundraising strategy, cultivating and nurturing relationships with a wide array of supporters, from family foundations to high-profile corporates.
- Set ambitious fundraising targets and develop strategic plans to achieve them, ensuring RefuAid's financial health and capacity for impact.
- Actively engage with and apply for new fundraising leads, to ensure a steady stream of income.
- Lead, motivate, and potentially expand the fundraising team, fostering a collaborative, supportive, and high-achieving environment.
- Represent RefuAid at high-level meetings and events, effectively communicating our mission, impact, and funding needs.
- Collaborate closely with the leadership team to align fundraising efforts with the organisation's goals and needs.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience in a senior fundraising role, with a track record of meeting substantial financial targets.
- Extensive networking and strong relationship-building skills across foundations, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and corporates.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to lead initiatives, motivate teams, and inspire confidence among stakeholders and supporters.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the flair to engage and influence a diverse range of people and organisations.
- Genuine passion for RefuAid's mission, with the drive and enthusiasm to make a tangible difference.
What We Offer:
- The chance to play a crucial role in the growth and impact of an ambitious organisation.
- A supportive, dynamic, and inspiring work environment.
- Significant room for personal and professional growth, including the opportunity to build and lead a talented fundraising team.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
How to Apply:
If you're excited by the prospect of scaling RefuAid's impact and stepping into a transformative role, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a covering letter detailing why you are the ideal candidate for this position and how you align with RefuAid's mission.
Join us, and let's create meaningful change together.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
There has never been a greater need for Independent Age’s work. More than two million older people are in poverty, with millions more living with precarious finances. At Independent Age, we believe that no older person should face financial hardship. That’s why, by 2027, our goal is to have improved the lives of one million older people. Our information and advice, grant-making, partnership activity, policy work, and campaigning increases the financial well-being of older people, enabling them to have greater choice and independence in wider areas of life.
As Director of Services and Grants, you will be responsible for ensuring that our multi-channel services and grants programme serve and improve the lives of older people, reach those who are most likely to be in poverty, and have the maximum impact. You will help us grow our capacity, build our network of charity and commercial partnerships, develop our external training offer, and reach more people including those groups most likely to experience financial hardship.
Having operated at a senior level, ideally as part of a Senior Leadership Team, you will be an inspiring leader with a demonstrable passion for our cause. Experienced in successfully managing service transformation and development, including in a contact centre environment, you will also have an understanding of grants programmes, and of building strategic partnerships and national networks. With an understanding of demonstrating and reporting on impact, experience of supporting fundraising for services and bidding for contracts, you will ideally also have knowledge of developing an external training offer.
Please review our candidate pack, linked below, for further information. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with all of the criteria in the person specification but you do meet most of them and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, which you can choose to work over five days a week or a 9-day fortnight.
What it’s like to work at Independent Age:
We celebrate diversity at Independent Age and champion the differences that make each of us unique. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We aim to attract and retain a wide range of talent and create an environment where everyone can feel safe, protected, welcome and included.
We offer great benefits including 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, and fantastic learning and development opportunities. We also offer a number of enhanced leave provisions and benefits. We know that a good work life balance helps us perform at our best and supports wellbeing. Flexible working hours and hybrid working is standard. But if you need a different form of flexibility, we are always happy to talk flexible working.
You can find out more about what it’s like to work at Independent Age by visiting the careers page on our website.
Application Process:
To apply, please visit our website to submit a curriculum vitae and a supporting statement, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the job description and person specification. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific requirements and need support to apply in an alternative format.
To support our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion we use anonymous shortlisting. Therefore, please do not include your name, photo, or information to indicate your gender or age in your CV and supporting statement, and please ensure the title of any uploads does not contain your name. Please do not omit dates of employment.
Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application documents you submit and, if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer. A Basic DBS Certificate will be required for this role.
Closing date for applications: end of day on Monday 8 April 2024
First round interviews to be held Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 May 2024
Second round interviews to be held Thursday 16 May 2024
Using Anonymous Recruitment
This organisation is using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias in the first stages of the hiring process. Our system keeps your personal information hidden until the recruiter contacts you.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Lesley Hynes Fundraising is looking for an experienced trust fundraiser who wants to take their career to the next level. We are looking for someone who is a great trust fundraiser today and who has the ambition to build a stellar future career in this space.
At Lesley Hynes Fundraising, we recognise the essential role that trust income plays in providing a funding backbone to the charity sector. We are looking for someone who understands the critical role this type of fundraising plays and who wants to excel at it in support of our clients. The successful candidate will not only work directly with a range of amazing clients, but also play a key role in developing trust fundraising excellence and expertise across the company, liaising with colleagues and planning collaborative sessions with them and external partners. It’s a role with variety built in.
Lesley Hynes Fundraising works exclusively with small and medium-sized charities and NGOs, providing fundraising expertise, strategic direction and hands-on fundraising support to help charities achieve sustainable growth. Our clients are charities working in mental health, rare disease, the environment, asylum support, food aid, the criminal justice system, and homelessness. We work with them in the long-term and are a critical part of their organisations. We don’t dip in and out. We are a constant. We’ve worked with 30% of our clients for over a decade.
Our specialism is in raising multi-year unrestricted funding from charitable trusts and foundations. We are determined to succeed and we are tenacious for our charity clients. Since 2010, we have raised £33 million for them.
Our team is made up of five established trust fundraisers, most of whom have over 20 years’ experience in fundraising for a broad range of charities across the sector, including health, social welfare, human rights, refugees, penal reform, arts and the environment.
The work is varied and hugely satisfying and the culture friendly, professional, supportive and respectful.
As Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser you will:
- Develop and deliver a strategy to maximise Trust and Foundation income and ensure that all opportunities for securing grant income for Lesley Hynes Fundraising clients, or similar sources of funding, are explored.
- Undertake detailed prospect research and maintain accurate records of the research for Lesley Hynes Fundraising clients.
- Write funding applications on behalf of Lesley Hynes Fundraising clients and assist in drafting and reviewing funder reports.
- On occasion assist in the organisation of events in order to present Lesley Hynes Fundraising clients’ case for support, and attend external meetings with Trusts and Foundations if the client requires.
If you have over 5 years experience in trust fundraising and a track record of success, we hope you will consider joining our team and we look forward to hearing from you.
Applicants not contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date should assume they have been unsuccessful.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Good Faith Fundraising Manager (Trusts and Foundations)
Location: Fully remote with flexible working arrangements
Salary: Up to £37,100 per year FTE, dependent on experience
Contract: Full time, permanent. We are open to this role being full-time or part-time (at least 0.6 FTE). If part-time, the role would likely be more exclusively focused on the Warm Welcome campaign.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 10th April 2024, 11:59pm
First interviews: w/c 22nd April 2024 or w/c 29th April 2024. Successful candidates will be informed of their interview date and time.
Start Date: ASAP
About the Good Faith Partnership
At Good Faith Partnership (GFP), we create solutions to society’s most difficult problems. Our clients are diverse and complex, from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to faith-based organisations, businesses, charities and funders. We connect businesses, governments, charities, philanthropists, foundations and communities to make lasting change - from incubating projects like the Warm Welcome campaign, helping support the Home Office’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme or co-ordinating public affairs for the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the UK, US and EU.
We are relational, ambitious, curious and solution-focused. At our core, we believe in the power of strong, unlikely relationships, to drive positive social change.
We were founded in 2016 and are at a critical juncture as we expand and grow.
Who we want on our team
The core competence of everyone in our team is the ability to build trusted relationships among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
We are looking for people who are:
● Exceptional with people and committed to the power of relationships to facilitate social change
● Relational, ambitious, curious and solution-focused, aligning with our core values
● Self-starters with high levels of drive, energy and determination to build a vision from scratch
● Curious and show initiative, with problem-solving skills and an ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing context
● Calm under pressure, and can adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
● Skilled at working in a complex environment with cross cultural, interfaith and political partners
● Willing to pitch in to help other team members if needed
● Organised with strong time management skills.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and proactive individual to work within a small, friendly and dynamic team. If you like a varied role and are looking for the potential to continue to grow your Trust and Foundations experience to support work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives, this could be the role for you.
We are looking for a Fundraising Manager to work predominantly on the Warm Welcome Campaign, whilst also supporting wider fundraising efforts within the Good Faith Partnership. The role will work primarily on Trusts and Foundations, supporting other areas of work within the fundraising function, as necessary.
Joining during an exciting period of growth, you will be inheriting a pipeline of passionate funders who have supported the establishment and rapid growth of the Warm Welcome Campaign since 2022. At the same time, there remains a wealth of funders yet to be approached and relationships to be developed.
You will be responsible for securing significant income for the Warm Welcome Campaign from a variety of sources, mainly from Grant-making bodies. This will involve identifying new opportunities, managing donor relationships and producing compelling communications to promote the work of the Warm Welcome Campaign and the Good Faith Partnership. Reporting to the Development Director, you will work closely with them and other Senior Directors to maximise income potential.
We are also interested in expanding our fundraising with a focus on individual giving, community and corporate fundraising and would value your expertise in these areas.
We have a CRM which will support your activity in:
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Developing and maintaining fundraising systems to ensure excellent donor relationships, maintenance and development
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Identifying trust and foundation opportunities and overseeing the process of grant applications to prospects and funders as well as reporting and communicating with funders.
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Supporting colleagues in identifying and cultivating relationships with current and potential donors.
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Overseeing other Warm Welcome fundraising efforts as appropriate
This role will also be responsible for supporting wider efforts at the Good Faith Partnership in relation to fundraising, including:
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Supporting colleagues on other GFP projects in fundraising efforts, and scoping funding opportunities for potential new GFP projects.
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Supporting the Good Faith Foundation (the linked charity of the Partnership) in relation to relevant fundraising efforts
Person specification
Essential experience
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Successful experience of Trust and Foundation fundraising
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Experience of donor management and building/overseeing fundraising systems
Desirable experience
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Experience of successful income generation from areas outside of Trusts and Foundations
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Experience of fundraising from both faith-based and secular funders
Abilities and Understanding
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Understanding of funder needs, criteria and the ability to apply this understanding when preparing quality applications and funding reports.
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Ability to communicate across a range of mediums, to a range of audiences.
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Ability to develop and maintain relationships with trustees as well as trust and foundation staff.
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Ability to apply the use of thorough research in prospect and funder communications.
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Understanding the value of accurate record keeping and the ability to create high functioning, accessible systems for the whole team’s use.
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Highly organised with accurate record keeping and ability to prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met and opportunities are maximised
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A strong team player who is flexible, positive and responds with strong influencing and negotiation skills and a commitment to the organisation and team working.
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All candidates will need to be competent with Google Suite and Microsoft Office
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Able to use a CRM for pipelines, relationship development, reporting and evaluation
Further Details
● Members of the Good Faith team are predominantly based near London, Reading and Bristol. Applicants must be able to travel to London once a month for a Tuesday full team meeting, and to London, Reading or Bristol once a month for coworking.
● This role is fully remote, with flexible working arrangements.
● To apply, please send a cover letter (max 1 side of A4) outlining why you believe you are a good fit for the role, along with a CV by Wednesday 10th April 2024, 11:59pm. Please use ‘Application for Fundraising Manager’ in the email subject line.
● We’d be very happy to answer any specific questions relating to this role - please email us with ‘Query for Fundraising Manager role’ in the email subject line and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
● If you disclose a disability during your application process and you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will contact you to discuss any reasonable adjustment you might need at the interview. If you wish to disclose a disability, please do so in your covering letter.
● All employees, volunteers, partners, suppliers and consultants working with GFP are expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies. GFP’s commitment to safeguarding means we seek to ensure that no harm comes to people as a result of contact with the organisation’s programmes, operations or people.
● For more information, please visit our website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Hybrid Working with 1-2 days per week at St Giles Head Office (Camberwell - SE5 8JB)
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Are you a proactive, highly motivated and passionate individual with at least one year’s experience in a charity fundraising role and an expert knowledge of the fundraising landscape? Would you thrive as part of a growing charity where you can use your skills and experience in fundraising to help support even more people to turn their pasts into better futures?
If so, join St Giles Trust as a Senior Fundraising Officer where, as an integral part of the Fundraising and Communications team, you will play a key role in contributing to the development and success of our new Fundraising strategy.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
We have launched an ambitious new income generation strategy for 2023-2026 focused on 1) diversifying our income generation model and 2) increasing growth of voluntary income by 15% through restricted and unrestricted funding streams. This key role is essential to us realising this ambition with a focus on raising unrestricted income from a variety of income sources such as Trusts & Foundations, Fundraising Appeals, Challenge Events, Fundraising Events and Individual Giving.
About this exciting opportunity
Our successful candidate will develop and design high-quality applications, presentations, and pitches to secure multi-year unrestricted gifts from key supporters including Trusts, Foundations & Major Donors that support St Giles’ values & ethos. You will provide excellent stewardship to existing donors, including writing reports, arranging, planning and hosting visits for key stakeholders, and providing support to the Head of Voluntary Fundraising & Executive Director of Fundraising with reports, due diligence procedures and applications.
We will rely on you to work collaboratively to identify, plan and deliver local and national fundraising appeals, provide excellent stewardship to individual donors through the creation and implementation of quality donor journeys, and maintain promote, and diversify a small portfolio of challenge events our supporters can take part in. Providing line management, supervision and coaching to a Fundraising Assistant is also a key element of this role, as are contributing to refining processes and record-keeping to ensure that we are utilising database and systems to their maximum potential and contributing to the implementation of the income generation strategy.
What we are looking for
- Proven record of winning and/or managing a portfolio of grants, or relevant experience/transferable skills.
- Experience working with a CRM or fundraising database, preferably ETapestry.
- Experience of building supporter journeys for various audiences.
- Ability to think strategically and creatively to develop innovative ideas to help us stand out to our existing and new donors.
- Advanced IT skills – Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint (essential) Canva.
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to write compelling and informative copy for reports, applications and external communications.
Please note this role requires a Standard DBS Check.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply please visit our website via the apply button.
Applications are being reviewed on a weekly rolling basis so please apply at your earliest convenience. We will review applications on a Friday and notify any shortlisted candidates of being invited to interview on the Monday of the following week. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application by Thursday at 23:59 for it to be considered in the following week.
Prospectus are excited to be working exclusively with 38 Degrees to help them recruit for a new Fundraising manager (Major Gifts) to join their team. 38 Degrees is one of the UK's biggest campaigning communities, involving over a million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. They are united by a shared vision to create a fairer and more respectful UK and a more sustainable world. 38 Degrees is fiercely independent and primarily funded by small donations from hundreds of thousands of members of the public from all over the UK.
This role is offered on a permanent basis paying a salary between £46,771 to £48,858 per annum with flexible hybrid or remote working arrangements in the UK.
The post holder is the lead person responsible for developing 38 Degrees Major Gifts approach and strategy together with the CEO. They are responsible for crafting and operationalising the strategy to achieve strong income growth across high-net-worth individuals, foundations, grant giving institutions and their new higher level regular giving supporter group (Avalanche Network). Reporting to the Campaigns Director, the post holder will work to ensure 38 Degrees is able to better sustain its work by leveraging the support of people able to give more, and institutions who provide progressive campaigning organisations like 38 Degrees with financial support to power a movement to change the country for the better.
They are looking for someone with demonstrable experience in working with communities, foundations, and high net worth individuals, and in leading projects that have generated income from fundraising. They are looking for a candidate with demonstrable experience and knowledge in creating plans and strategies for fundraising projects and working with senior management towards strategic income initiatives. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of the political landscape and an ability to apply political knowledge to develop effective fundraising approaches and tactics.
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 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.
The Black Country Living Museum is an award-winning open-air museum.
Throughout its 46-year history, its aim has always been clear: Inspiring your discovery of the Black Country. The Museum ensures that the revolutionary story of the Black Country’s industrial landscape – the first ever of its kind in the UK – is celebrated by generations. They are close to completing their largest development ever, with a multi-million-pound investment bringing the region’s stories into the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
An important feature of the Museum is its independence. They do not look to others to achieve their results. Describing themselves as a heritage business, rather than a heritage service, within the intersection sweet spot between visitor attraction, museum and charity. They seek to appoint a new Director of Development and External Affairs to own income for the organisation and Prospectus is proud to be leading the search.
Director of Development and External Affairs
Black Country Living Museum
Permanent
On-site in Dudley
c. £70,000
The Director of Development and External Affairs will lead the fundraising, audiences, and communications teams and support the direction of strategic plans for the Museum. The Director will determine a strategic plan for commercial opportunities within the remit of the role including corporate sponsorship, hire and hospitality, filming and photography location shooting, as well as fundraising revenue streams. You will manage both capital and revenue income targets and support an experienced team to increase visitor attendance to achieve c. 400,000 visitors per year. Crucially you will deputise for the Chief Executive where appropriate.
The selected candidate will have leadership experience in an organisation of at least comparable scale and complexity and will have a track record of developing and delivering successful strategies across external affairs, fundraising and audiences. Ideally, you will have bags of enthusiasm for the Museum’s cause and independence and will enjoy working in – and harnessing – a supportive and creative organisation which attracts and retains diverse talent.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application, then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.
If you are interested in applying to this Director of Development and External Affairs position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or 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.
Are you passionate about leading a creative and high achieving team supporting vulnerable adults and local VCS organisations? If so, we want to hear from you!
Age UK Lewisham and Southwark is looking for a Director of Services to oversee the delivery of our Lewisham-focused services: Community Connections (social prescribing), Community Development, Befriending and Community Transport.
Although the post holder will be working for Age UK Lewisham and Southwark, the teams they manage will support adults of all ages from 18+
The successful candidate will oversee an amazing team and work closely with partners across the health, social care, and voluntary sectors to ensure that isolated Lewisham residents get high quality services that enable them to find local groups that meet their needs, break down barriers to access and provide support from well trained and caring volunteers.
If you are a confident manager, who shares our vision of person-centred services that build on people’s strengths, and are keen to empower staff, volunteers and service users to contribute to the strategic vision of the organisation and to find creative new ways to work with partners and make a difference in the local community, this job is for you!
Age UK Lewisham and Southwark aims to provide a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and we strongly encourage you to apply if you are from a marginalized or underrepresented group.
Employee Benefits:
- 26 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional 1 day leave for Birthdays
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme including access to a helpline for partners and dependents
- Flexi time scheme allowing the claiming back of additional hours worked
- Other flexible working options, including some hybrid working (ie some home working by agreement)
- Generous contractual sick pay scheme, allowing staff to recover without the worry of loss of income
- CycleScheme members – enabling employees to save 25-39% of the cost of a new bike & accessories whilst also spreading the cost
- TechScheme members – enabling employees to purchase tech through AUKLS and spread the cost from their salary
For full details please download the Job Pack which includes a Job Description, Person Specification and application form.
Closing date for applications – 9am on 15th April 2024
Interviews will take place week commencing 22nd April in Catford
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Objective:
2wish exists to provide support to anyone affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child or young person aged 25 and under.
Aims:
- Ensure every Emergency Department and Critical Care unit has a suitable bereavement suite
- Ensure that bereavement boxes are available at each of these hospitals
- Ensure that immediate bereavement support is available for all affected by the sudden death of a child or young person
- To provide a professional counselling service and other therapies for those affected by the sudden death of a child or young person
- To provide support to individuals who witness the sudden death of a child or young person
- To provide support and training to professionals from any sector who may be affected by the sudden death of a child or young person
- To advocate and campaign on behalf of suddenly bereaved families
Context of role:
The Director of Operations is a Senior Leadership role supporting the CEO in the strategic leadership and management of 2wish. We are in an exciting transition period where the organisation is expanding and this is a new role in our staff team that has been created to support our ambitious CEO to deliver our new strategic plan whilst ensuring we maintain operational excellence and high performance.
One of our greatest assets is our kind and caring staff team who consistently adhere to the high standards required by our CEO, our Board of Trustees, our funders and our families. We are searching for an experienced, positive and thoughtful individual with a strong background in operations, office management and people management. The successful candidate will play a central role within our dynamic team with a focus on developing and overseeing the smooth running of our internal systems and processes, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, developing and managing our team, monitoring performance and helping to develop our services and support families and individuals.
The successful post-holder will join a supportive Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the CEO, working collaboratively with the Director of Transformation and closely with the Heads of Support, Finance, Fundraising, and Marketing and Communications, to effectively deliver services in your remit, namely; Organisational Development, Compliance, Governance, IT, Systems and Facilities.
Hours:
Normal office hours are 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday, although alternative hours may be worked with line manager agreement. Work outside office hours may sometimes be necessary and will be compensated for by time off in lieu
Annual leave:
28 days plus bank holidays. Annual leave steadily increases after five years of service. Annual leave and statutory holidays are calculated on a pro rata basis where applicable.
Pension:
2wish operate a contributory pension scheme. 2wish will auto-enrol you into the scheme in accordance with it's auto-enrolment obligations. Full details of the scheme will be provided to you once you are enrolled, including the minimum level of contributions that you will be required to make during your membership (current contributions - employer 3% and employee 5%).
Mileage:
A fixed rate allowance is payable for agreed mileage undertaken on 2wish business in a private vehicle, over and above your usual journey to your workplace/s.
Location:
2wish currently offers a form of hybrid working and this will continue for the foreseeable future. This post will continue to include home working, with the expectation on the successful candidate to travel to 2wish Head Office regularly. Applicants living in border counties to Wales will be considered, but the applicant must be willing to commit to regular travel to Head Office.
Additional benefits for our employees:
- An 'Employee Assistance Programme,' including wellbeing support
- Free parking on 2wish premises
- Free branded 2wish clothing
- An extra annual leave day on your birthday
- Incremental increase in holiday entitlement based on length of service
- Paid sick leave
- Discounts for personal purchases on 2wish Merchandise
- Discounted tickets to UK 2wish events for staff and family
- Extra holiday entitlement when taking part in 2wish overseas events
- Company mobile phone for performance of duties
- Tools/equipment required for the performance of duties
- Reimbursement of work expenses
- Bright Exchange employee discounts
St Hilda’s East has a 135-year history of combating deprivation and social exclusion in East London. We welcome people of all ages to our large community centre in Shoreditch where we offer a wide range of wellbeing activities. We also run a day centre in Shadwell, with a focus on supporting elders from the Bangladeshi and other communities. This is an exciting time to join St Hilda’s East as we organise a series of celebrations and events to commemorate our 135th anniversary.
As Head of Funding, you will play a vital role in identifying and securing funding from a wide range of sources to sustain and further develop services across the organisation. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will contribute to strategic decision making, with lead responsibility for developing and implementing our fundraising strategy.
This job is for you, if you:
· are an accomplished fundraiser with significant success in attracting funding from diverse income streams
· have had significant success in applying to grant making trusts and statutory agencies
· have the ability to develop positive relationships with a diverse range of people including prospective corporate sponsors, high net worth individuals, grants officers, partners, colleagues, and service users
· possess excellent writing skills with meticulous attention to detail
· have a proactive and creative approach to solving problems and developing new sources of income.
How to Apply
Visit our website for the Job Description and full Person Specification and instructions on how to apply.
Closing date for applications: 15th April 2024 at 9.00 am
Interviews: 22nd and 23rd April 2024
Our Recruitment Policy
St Hilda's is committed to racial justice and wider inclusion and diversity. We are working towards a goal where our team fully reflects the diversity and difference in lived experiences of our local community.
St Hilda’s East is a vibrant, multi-purpose organisation providing a wide range of life-changing services and opportunities for local people.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.