Fundraising Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to help Horsham Matters realise our aim to provide practical support as well as complimentary holistic services to the most vulnerable across the District of Horsham. Our aim is to offer assistance at the earliest opportunity, addressing the root causes of poverty with a vision to end the need for foodbanks.

In order to realise this ambition, we need to establish a new programme of fundraising growth, that can increase our annual turnover from £650k to £1m.

Through this role, you’ll proactively create and grow fundraising income opportunities with corporate partners and large scale, multi-year grant giving Trusts and Foundations. You’ll grow our portfolio of flagship fundraising events, and you’ll lead the fundraising team, inspiring income growth across donor stewardship, community fundraising, individual giving and our wider relationships with grant giving Trusts and Foundations.

You'll be at the heart of our local community, bringing our cause to life and building lasting donor relationships.

Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of building relationships and growing income with corporate partners and large scale Trusts and Foundations to achieve and exceed annual income targets and KPI’s. You’ll have the capacity to create and craft compelling proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters.

Key Responsibilities

·         Through excellent, comprehensive, and considered research, you’ll identify and prioritise a pool of potential large scale, multi-year Trusts and Foundations funders for Horsham Matters. Working with colleagues, you’ll develop authentic, compelling, creative and winning funding bids that can successfully engage and grow these new Trusts and Foundations funders.  

·         You’ll proactively identify, engage and build good relationships with prospective corporate donors, successfully securing them as funding partners. Alongside this you’ll deepen engagement and grow our relationships and partnerships with existing corporate donors. You’ll develop funding and partnership proposals that can successfully engage corporate partners and align with their needs, motivations, areas of interests and values.

·         You’ll lead and grow our portfolio of flagship fundraising events, helping us engage a variety of prospective and existing donors.

·         You’ll lead the fundraising team and line manage the two team members (our Trusts & Foundations Officer and our Community Fundraising Assistant). Working with the fundraising team to set fundraising priorities and to ensure that we maximise our opportunities for donor stewardship, relationship management and income growth across community fundraising, individual giving, and wider trusts fundraising. 

·         You’ll develop, monitor and manage a fundraising portfolio establishing a fundraising pipeline, including a range of KPI’s that can be tracked and that will enable you to make informed projections regarding future income. You’ll successfully manage competing, proactive and reactive fundraising opportunities to ensure that Horsham Matters remains focused on its fundraising priorities.

Skills

·         You’ll have established and proven experience of corporate partnerships and trusts and foundations fundraising. You’ll also have a good understanding of other aspects of fundraising.

·         With excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills, you will inspire and motivate existing and prospective supporters, providing excellent stewardship and crafting compelling and winning funding proposals and appeals.

·         You’ll have experience of setting, managing and reporting against fundraising KPI’s, budgets and priorities.

·         You’ll have experience of line management.  

·         You’ll be well organised, proactive, and a self-starter who is able to self-motivate. You’ll be able to build relationships and rapport with colleagues across the organisation.

·         You’ll be able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially-excluded backgrounds.