The Mulberry Bush Charity is looking to appoint a:

Marketing and Communications Executive

Salary (£ 20 – 27,000)

Full or part time position

Based near Witney

Flexibility for some remote working

28 days + Bank Holidays holiday (pro rata)

The Mulberry Bush is a highly successful and forward thinking charity, which has been meeting the needs of traumatised children and their families since 1948.

‘To transform the lives of all those affected by childhood trauma, through specialist therapeutic services’

The successful candidate will deliver high impact, integrated marketing and digital communications to strengthen the Mulberry Bush brand, whilst working to promote individual charity services and supporter engagement.  Working closely with senior management and all teams across the charity, this is an exciting opportunity to use the full range of your marketing and communications skills to help us achieve our charitable objectives and raise the money to make it happen.

Currently our services include:

• The Mulberry Bush School: a non-maintained residential special school and children’s home working with vulnerable and emotionally troubled primary aged children and their families. It has developed an outstanding reputation for successfully re-integrating severely emotionally troubled children back onto mainstream family, school and community life.
• The Mulberry Bush Outreach: offers training and consultation to develop reflective practice and collaborative working to strengthen the leadership cultures in mainstream schools and children’s social care organisations.
• The Mulberry Bush Research: Our research department is committed to research in therapeutic residential and foster care and aims to develop a research culture to influence practice nationally.
• The International Centre for Therapeutic Care: a global free alliance of child centred organisations that share therapeutic practice via our online The Therapeutic Care Journal.
• The Mulberry Bush Third Space: Our events and conference centre in Gloucestershire which holds the Planned Environment Therapy Archive and the National Child Care Library.

We offer a supportive multi- disciplinary working environment which includes comprehensive supervision, team working, relevant and regular training and with generous pay structures and holiday entitlements for all its staff.

Application deadline date: Fri 29th May 2020

Interview date: Wed 17th June (TBC)

Anticipated start date: July 2020

For further information and details on how to apply please contact Lucy Lowe by emailing her or visiting our website.

Responsibilities and Job Specifications

Key responsibilities

• Report to Head of Fundraising and Marketing, with close liaison with the CEO, COO and Service Leads
• Deliver integrated marketing / digital marketing communications, including strategy, execution, creative, production and reporting.
• Create electronic and hard copy collateral, including promotional assets, advertising, social media posts and website copy.
• Manage social media accounts and websites.
• End to end campaign management.
• Competent use of CRM system, Google Analytics and social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
• Manage all relevant agency relationships.
• Measure and report on campaign activity, including ROI.

Candidate specification

• Educated to degree level
• 3+ years’ experience of marketing and communications, with proven track record of delivery, ideally including experience in the not-for-profit sector.
• Responsible for driving marketing results and accountable for improved performance, leading change and ensuring high standards.
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior level colleagues.
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to problem-solve, prioritise tasks and manage multiple projects.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentational and interpersonal skills.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills, but also highly creative.

The Mulberry Bush School is an equal opportunities employer and is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children as its utmost priority and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal background check from the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Senior Individual Giving Officer, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (maternity cover), London, £40,000

• Are you an individual giving professional who has experience in digital and DRTV acquisition campaigns (including mobile)?
• Do you have a background in developing new campaigns?
• Would you like to work for an internationally recognised children's charity?

I am working with a very reputable children's charity who are seeking a 12-month maternity cover Senior Individual Giving Officer to join the Individual Giving team.

What's great about this organisation?

• Ranked in the top 20 of the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list
• Great international brand
• Lovely offices
• Friendly working environment
• 30 days annual leave
• Flexible working options
• Summer early finishing times
• Dress down Fridays
• Season ticket loan

In this role, you will be responsible for...

• Supporting the Senior Individual Giving Manager with team strategy, budget forecasts and campaign reporting
• The management and production of the Individual Giving digital activity calendar
• Taking the operational lead for all digital and DRTV acquisition direct marketing campaigns
• Developing annual and quarterly test plans with the media agency whilst reviewing progress regularly
• Updating acquisition PPC copy in line with the organisation's wider brand guidelines
• Working with the Digital Engagement team and media agency with running paid social campaigns
• Developing the strategy for the charity's DRTV activity
• Reviewing all TV campaign activity with the media agency on a monthly basis
• Ensuring all DRTV campaigns have a strong presence online
• Supporting the Senior Individual Giving Manager with any supplier audits and tender processes
• Setting up any new agencies to be in line with SLAs

You will be ideally suited for this position if you have…

• A successful background in managing the implementation of acquisition Individual Giving campaigns
• Experience in charity fundraising (client side or agency)
• Managed Digital and DRTV campaigns
• Experience in writing media or data briefs for media agencies
• Experience in writing creative briefs
• A degree or professional fundraising or direct marketing qualification would be highly desirable (e.g. IOF or IDM)
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills

What next?

If you are interested in applying for this 12-month maternity cover Senior Individual Giving role, or in learning more, then contact me ASAP:

Tel: 0207 269 6338

Email:

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Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

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Senior Individual Giving Officer, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (maternity cover), London, £34,000

• Are you an individual giving professional who has experience in digital and DRTV acquisition campaigns (including mobile)?
• Do you have a background in developing new campaigns?
• Would you like to work for an internationally recognised children's charity?

I am working with a very reputable children's charity who are seeking a 12-month maternity cover Senior Individual Giving Officer to join the Individual Giving team.

What's great about this organisation?

• Ranked in the top 20 of the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list
• Great international brand
• Lovely offices
• Friendly working environment
• 30 days annual leave
• Flexible working options
• Summer early finishing times
• Dress down Fridays
• Season ticket loan

In this role, you will be responsible for...

• Supporting the Senior Individual Giving Manager with team strategy, budget forecasts and campaign reporting
• The management and production of the Individual Giving digital activity calendar
• Taking the operational lead for all digital and DRTV acquisition direct marketing campaigns
• Developing annual and quarterly test plans with the media agency whilst reviewing progress regularly
• Updating acquisition PPC copy in line with the organisation's wider brand guidelines
• Working with the Digital Engagement team and media agency with running paid social campaigns
• Developing the strategy for the charity's DRTV activity
• Reviewing all TV campaign activity with the media agency on a monthly basis
• Ensuring all DRTV campaigns have a strong presence online
• Supporting the Senior Individual Giving Manager with any supplier audits and tender processes
• Setting up any new agencies to be in line with SLAs

You will be ideally suited for this position if you have…

• A successful background in managing the implementation of acquisition Individual Giving campaigns
• Experience in charity fundraising (client side or agency)
• Managed Digital and DRTV campaigns
• Experience in writing media or data briefs for media agencies
• Experience in writing creative briefs
• A degree or professional fundraising or direct marketing qualification would be highly desirable (e.g. IOF or IDM)
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills

What next?

If you are interested in applying for this 12-month maternity cover Senior Individual Giving role, or in learning more, then contact me ASAP:

Tel: 0207 269 6338

Email:

Would you like £500 in high street vouchers?

Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

The consists of five distinct brands: , , , and .

Digital Producer - £40,000, Charity - South West London

• Are you a digital producer professional with experience in implementing digital projects?
• Do you have a background in improving supporter experience and building technical solutions?
• Would you like to work for an established medical health charity?

Pro-Marketing is working alongside an illustrious health charity who are seeking a Digital Producer to develop their digital ambitions. This high achieving marketing team operates like an in-house agency within the charity and notably has an in-house design team too.

What's great about this organisation?

• Amazing London location
• Modern offices
• Tangible cause as you will get to see first-hand what the charity raises funds for
• High achieving marketing and fundraising functions
• Centralised brand aligned marketing team
• In-house design team
• Opportunities to market fundraising activity that is makes national news

In this role you will be responsible for…

• Planning and creating high quality, innovative and creative digital content for the website whilst also supporting the SEO of the site too
• Overseeing content and product development across all digital channels
• Using insights from data analysis and user testing to ensure that excellent supporter experience and maximum income is being driven
• Managing relationships with digital development agencies, digital media agencies and key suppliers
• Providing digital expertise and advise on key fundraising campaigns
• Leading on PPC campaigns
• Line managing a Digital Officer

You will be ideally suited for this role if you have…

• Experience of working on CMS systems (Drupal 8 systems would be desirable)
• A background in PPC advertising
• UX and digital user journeys experience
• An understanding in website reporting systems (Google Analytics)
• Brief writing and budget setting experience
• Line management experience would be desirable
• Offline and online marketing experience
• Notable experience of agency relationship management
• An interest in working for an established medical health charity

What next?
If you are interested in applying for this Digital Producer role, or in learning more, then contact me ASAP:

Tel: 020 7269 6338

Email:

Would you like £500 in high street vouchers?

Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

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Supporter Insight Manager, London, Charity, £42,000

• Do you have a supporter insight background?
• Have you used Alteryx and Tableau online?
• Would you like to work for an established national health charity?

Pro-Marketing has partnered with a fantastic health charity who are seeking a new Supporter Insight Manager in London. In this position, you will be responsible for developing deeper relationships with existing supporters and will help to identify opportunities to recruit new supporters.

What's great about this organisation?

• Well established national health charity
• Large modern London offices
• Recognised brand
• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Family-friendly policies
• Gymflex
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance cover
• Interest-free season travel loans
• Social environment with lots of clubs and events

In this role, you will be responsible for…

• Leading the production, communication and circulation of strategic insights and recommendations to improve overall supporter engagement
• Engaging external suppliers where necessary to deliver reports, analysis and insight across both quantitative and qualitative data
• Using analytical methods and insight to identify any opportunities for charity growth
• Ensuring all key insights and outcomes are communicated clearly across the organisation and that key stakeholders are engaged
• Monitoring external trends and activities to build the brand of the charity
• Identifying and activating supporters for the charity
• Connecting with teams across the business to help generate engagement
• Line managing the Support Data Analyst

You will be perfectly suited for this role if you have…

• A successful supporter insight management background
• Experience of using packages such as: SQL management studio, FactStats, SPSS, CHAID, Alteryx or equivalent statistical/analytical modelling and segmentation would be highly desirable
• Experience of using data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau would be highly desirable
• Previously developed audience segmentation through statistical analysis / clustering techniques
• Previously line managed

What next?

If you are interested in applying for this Supporter Insight Manager role, or in learning more, then contact me ASAP:

Tel: 020 7269 6338

Email:

Would you like £500 in high street vouchers?

Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

The consists of five distinct brands: , , , and .

Database Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Database Officer who has previous fundraising CRM experience to join a leading charity based in Old Street London. This leading organisation are going through a sustained period of growth and change who are currently investing heavily into their database team and are now looking to add a new Database Officer to join their expanding department. The Database Officer will play a pivotal role importing all data onto their Raisers Edge CRM, carrying out reports for marketing campaigns and being the main point of contact for all things Raisers Edge.

As the Database Officer, you will receive full training on some of the newest data techniques and technologies. If you are looking for the next step in your career this is a great opportunity for an ambitious Database Officer to work closely with stakeholders and to build, test and run data extracts to ensure the organisations fundraising is at its most effective, while also having the opportunity to progress your career at a fantastic charity. If you are looking to work in an excellent environment where flexible working is encouraged, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Skills required for the Database Officer are-

- Experience working with fundraising CRM’s  

- Good communication skills, written and verbal to interact with the charity’s stakeholders

- Wants to work in an environment where you will be challenged and have the chance to learn new skills.

Database Officer / Data Executive / Fundraising CRM / Raisers Edge / Data Quality / Blackbaud / Thank Q

This is a brilliant chance for a Database Officer to take the next step in their career and really progress his/her career further. You will gain the full benefits that comes with working for a large organisation.

Location: Old Street, London

Salary: £25,000 - £29,000 + Excellent benefits (Depending on Experience)

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity.

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy

Data Selections Executive 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Data Selections Executive to join an exciting charity organisation based near Old Street, London. This leading charity are currently going through a sustained period of growth and are currently heavily investing into the fundraising department. The Data Selections Executive will help assist building segmentations & bulk imports to help generate further fundraising. 
 
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Data Selections Executive who wants to learn a wide range of skills such as SQL and Faststats to join a leading charity where you will work very closely with the Database Manager on large scale fundraising campaigns. You will be providing data manipulation to produce effective and accurate selection and segmentation of supporter data for fundraising appeals. This a great opportunity for a Data Selections Executive that is looking to take the next step in their career where you will get to learn further analysis & reporting skills.

Skills required for the Data Selections Executive are:

• Experience building Data Selections and marketing segmentations
• Previous charity experience is preferable
• Strong skills working within a CRM
• Ability to pick up new skills quickly
• Desire to work in a fun and exciting work environment

Data Selections Executive / Segmentation / Faststats / SQL / Marketing Campaigns

This is a great opportunity for a Data Selections Executive that is looking to progress their career within a well-established charity.

Location: Old Street, London

Salary: £26,000 - £29,000 + Excellent benefits

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity! 
Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

The Paid Search Marketing Lead (PSML) will act as a senior practitioner within the search marketing team and will develop, implement and optimise cross-channel strategically aligned campaign activity for our clients.

The PSML will leverage their advanced search marketing skills, as well as third-party tools and scripts to support the team to understand client objectives, audit current campaign activity, overhaul search and display strategies and implement new internal processes which help us to exceed client expectations.

The team gets a lot of autonomy to show their skills, so you’ll be confident and independent enough to really shine.

Ideally, you are: 

• super-keen on paid search marketing;
• passionate about making a positive difference in the world;
• organised;
• lovely to work with;
• someone who has worked in-house at a charity or agency-side leading on paid search and display.

Location:  Currently remote, then from Runway East in London Bridge (SE1)

Role type: Freelance or Fixed term contract. PT or FT considered.

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 pro-rata (depending on experience)

Closing date for applications: Rolling applications. The job will remain open until the right candidate is found.

How to apply: Fill the form. If you would prefer to submit a video application, rather than a written one, email us and we’ll let you know the best way to do that.

Not sure if you should apply? Got a random question? Just email – we’re happy to answer them before you apply.

About Platypus Digital

Platypus Digital is a digital marketing agency for the charity sector, based in London. We work with charities, social enterprises and other organisations doing great work.

We believe that digital is a powerful force to get important messages in front of people when they need them the most.

Duties and responsibilities

Planning and delivery – 75% of your time

• Plan, implement and improve on the internal processes to ensure maintenance, monitoring and optimisation of our portfolio of client Ad Grants and paid Google Ads accounts takes place on time, within budget and on target, organising the split between manual and automated processes through scripts and third-party tools
• Lead on the active account and campaign optimisation, from understanding the strategy for the accounts to setting up scripts to performing common tasks and working with team members to implement changes
• Help refine our technology stack to improve our auditing and benchmarking process, incorporating user and stakeholder insights to make sure our client’s account deliver on target
• Plan and deliver detailed keyword research to develop account structures and goals based on these criteria
• Write and sign off effective, keyword-rich ad copy tailored to objectives that also adhere to Google’s best practices
• Act as an external brand ambassador, making sure all campaign activity is closely aligned with client brand guidelines and overall tone-of-voice guidelines
• Build strong relationships with client-side managers, agency partners and freelance designers and copywriters to plan, optimise and improve upon search and display campaigns capabilities for our clients
• Provide guidance to junior colleagues on targeting, spend targets, bidding strategy, messaging strategy and overall visual design
• Plan and oversee reporting cycles and report formats to ensure campaigns across search and display are reported back with results, insights and recommendations are fully understood by our clients. 

Client management – 25% of your time

• Work with the head of search and data to ensure client objectives are at the forefront of all campaign activity and that opportunities across other channels are properly identified and pitched in to clients
• Liaise with clients to understand internal stakeholder requirements to information requirements in order to plan and build detailed client-facing reports that help inform our clients to understand how we are meeting their objectives using Google Data Studio and other third-party reporting tools
• Act as our client’s external search and display expert to ensure a full understanding of our work throughout the organisation

About the person

Experience

• In-depth technical knowledge of the tools, standards and platforms needed for digital project delivery – as well as knowing what is and isn’t possible
• Advanced knowledge of Google Ads platform, Google Campaign Manager and expert knowledge of search theory including the ability to explain the methodology in an easily understandable way
• Advanced knowledge of Google Analytics – proven ability to base insights on data and confidence in relaying this insight to stakeholders at multiple levels across organisations
• Demonstrable experience in setting up and managing Google Ads campaigns through Google Ads Editor and Google Ads Scripts to improve management of the accounts
• Strong attention to detail across copywriting, formula and processes

Values

• A commitment to the work of charities
• Keen to set a high standard for yourself and others
• A self-starter with a natural curiosity in finding the best solution to a problem
• Strives to nurture junior colleagues by taking a proactive attitude towards professional development and the welfare of team members.

How to apply 

1. Fill in the form, giving details of your relevant experience and reasons for wanting to work for Platypus Digital.
2. If you sound like a good fit, we will invite you an informal call to discuss the role.
3. If your chemistry call goes well, we will invite you complete a short task to make sure you have the right skills we are looking for. This will be sent to you at a time of your choosing and we will then assess the results.

And if you have any questions about the role or whether you think you’re a good fit, just email  – we’re happy to answer them before you apply.

Direct Marketing Manager

A brand new and exciting role has arisen for an experienced Direct Marketing Manager who has extensive Direct Mail and Copywriting experience to join a leading animal welfare charity based near Borough, London. This charity is currently going through a sustained period of growth and are looking to add an experienced Direct Marketing Manager to their team. This is a brilliant chance for a Direct Marketing Manager to help them manage their multi million pound accounts, as well as maintaining and growing relationships with their agencies and other stakeholders and ultimately make a real difference to the charity and those animals helped by it.

You will benefit from a very strong work life balance, including the ability to work from home.

Skills required for the Direct Marketing Manager are:
- Extensive experience fundraising for a charity
- Experience with Direct Mail Campaigns and writing Copy
- Experience with Telemarketing
- Good Project Management and Budget Managing experience
- Stakeholder management experience

Fundraiser / Fundraising / Charity / Non-profit / Stakeholder Management / Direct Mail / Telemarketing / Project Management / Budgets / Direct Marketing

This is an incredibly exciting chance for an experienced Direct Marketing Manager to work for a leading charity.

Salary: £35,000 - £36,000 + Fantastic benefits
Location: Near Borough, London

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity.

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy

Data Selections Analyst

An amazing opportunity has just arisen for an experienced Data Selections Analyst to join an award-winning charity based in Aldgate, London. You will be providing data manipulation to produce effective and accurate selection and segmentation of supporter data for fundraising appeals. The Data Selections Analyst will receive excellent training on FastStats, SQL coding and data modelling techniques to allow them to really progress their career. 

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Data Selections Analyst who wants to move into a role where you will progress your skills further within analysis, learn statistical analysis and data modelling. You will be joining this charity at an exciting time as they have great plans for the future and are in the process of implementing new systems. Working for this exciting charity you will get to utilise their flexi working policy and work from home twice a week.

Skills required for the Data Selections Analyst are:

• Experience of building Data Selections and marketing segmentations
• Strong skills working within a CRM (any CRM is fine)
• Ability to pick up new skills quickly (SQL, FastStats, Data modelling)

Data Selections Analyst / Marketing Segmentation / Insight / FastStats / SQL
Location: Aldgate, London 
Salary: £32,000 - £35,000 + Excellent benefits

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity!
Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

We have an exciting new opportunity for a role within a well-established Educational Charity for an Individual Giving and Legacies Manger. This role will focus on implementing a new fundraising strategy in order to achieve income and growth in the long term and enhance the legacy pipeline.

Key duties within this role

• Implement a clear integrated digital supporter marketing strategy that encourages unrestricted regular giving
• Manage external agencies and keep campaigns running smoothly and to a high standard
• Work with the Head Of to innovate and explore new fundraising initiatives and ensure all other teams are putting out the correct external messages
• Work closely with database team on supporter care and engagement
• Represent the organisation at events

The ideal candidate will have the following skills

• Experience of implementing individual giving, trust and legacy programmes, and developing and delivering fundraising campaigns with a focus on digital strategy
• Ability to maintain good working relationships with colleagues and achieve shared goals
• The job will involve some out of hours work due to the need to attend some evening work events and the nature of dealing with an international audience

If you feel like this role is the new challenge you have been searching for please do apply as soon as possible as the position will be moving quickly.

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We won't give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect. We provide advice and support to empower anybody experiencing a mental health problem and campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Fundraising, you will be responsible for developing and leading the strategy for Community & Events fundraising, establishing clear action plans and leading the team to deliver the strategy to meet income targets, whilst managing the budget to bring in over £12.5million with a spend of £3million.

Managing a team of 45 within the Community and Events Department and providing line management to 6 direct reports, you will work with staff across Mind, whilst creating a culture of innovation, both in terms of creating new products and initiatives and continuous  improvement of working practices and processes.

We’re looking for candidates who have significant experience of planning, developing, implementing, delivering, evaluating and reviewing strategic and operation activities, with financial and budget knowledge within fundraising. You’ll have excellent IT skills to include MS Office packages, databases and above all excellent interpersonal and communication skills, managing relationships with external suppliers and a direct or indirect experience of mental health problems would be desirable, however is not essential.

Please refer to the full Job Description upon applying for the role

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Smile Train is changing the world one smile at a time. We’re always on the hunt for curious, passionate, and innovative thinkers to join our team, to help us do what we do better. If that’s you, please read on.

Smile Train is an international charity headquartered in New York. Our mission is to transform the life of every person impacted by cleft lip and palate. We train and support doctors and medical professionals to provide free life-changing comprehensive cleft treatment to our beneficiaries. Our sustainable model has allowed us to reach 1.5 million children in 90+ countries to date and we’re just getting started. We are truly changing the world one smile at a time.

We are looking for a Development Manager to join our UK Team. This person will be responsible for all aspects of major gift fundraising, cultivating and managing relationships with individual major donors, trusts and foundations and legacy prospects. Working closely and with the support of UK Fundraising Director, the Development Manager will set and achieve annual fundraising goals. 

The Development Manager will report to the Director of Fundraising, UK. This is a full-time staff position based at our office in London, starting as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:

Core responsibilities

• Develop and cultivate relationships with major individual donors
• Develop and manage relationships with trusts and foundations
• Organize and manage all aspects of UK donor fundraising and cultivation/stewardship events
• Develop marketing strategy for legacies

Additional details

Individual Major Donors

• Develop a plan for outreach to high net worth individuals, including developing and maintaining a donor prospect list
• Identify and research donors from within and outside our current database with the interest and capacity to make significant donations
• Cultivate relationships with major donors and prospects, with emphasis on personal meetings where possible to inform donors and prospects about Smile Train, identify their areas of interest and explore opportunities for funding
• Develop bespoke donor stewardship plans tailored to individual requirements and expectations

Trusts and Foundations

• Research, identify and develop a strategic plan for new and existing trust funders at all levels
• Develop and steward relationships with trusts and foundations
• Keep current foundations supporters engaged, by providing appropriate updates in a timely manner as necessary 

Events

• Identify potential event locations, conduct site visits and propose event concepts
• Propose invitation list, manage invitation and RSVP process
• Plan and execute all details of the event 

Legacy Fundraising

• Review and update legacy marketing materials
• Process bequests including acknowledgements to solicitors and family members
• Manage relationships with solicitors for potential future bequests
• Develop and manage the planned giving mass mailings
• Send out legacy brochures to donors and responding to incoming queries

Qualifications:

Our ideal candidate has/is:

• Degree in a related field (such as fundraising, non-profit management)
• 4+ years of relevant experience in development or fundraising, ideally in a non-profit environment
• Success working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a strong ROI orientation 
• Strong strategic, analytical, and persuasive skills 
• Ability to network and leverage contacts and connections, and ability to prioritize while working under multiple deadlines
• Detail-oriented; ability to effectively collect, analyze, organize, distill and present information
• Superior verbal and written communication skills 
• Great customer service and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to maintain perspective and a sense of humor

Application information:

Smile Train is committed to diversity and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

To apply, please complete the application through the link below. Include your CV, and a cover letter that describes why you believe you would be a good fit for Smile Train and this role.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, but we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a marketing expert with experience working in a membership organisation, to join an important organisation who support the charity sector. In this role you will be responsible for driving the membership and marketing strategies forward and getting the most out of an established and ambitious team.

Following a recent restructure, the organisation is at an exciting time of change, and the ideal candidate will be excited to liaise with a variety of stakeholders across different sizes and disciplines of a social change organisation. They are looking for a confident, solutions focused individual, who is an exceptional leader of people.

Essential experience:

* Managed a commercial membership scheme and increased member numbers
* Experience leading an organisational marketing strategy
* Experience leading an organisational marketing strategy

The role is both technical and strategic in nature therefore you will need to be passionate about data and using the information to drive the organisation forward to meet its challenging goals and aspirations.

Key responsibilities:

* Ensure membership scheme is appropriate and that the fee structure and commensurate level of benefits offered reflect the needs of the market.
* Ensure that member services and benefits continue to be relevant and useful to our audiences and are effectively promoted to both members and the non-member audience.
* Ensure renewal and retention campaigns are undertaken in a timely and effective manner.

Salary: £42,820 - £44,880 (dependent on experience)

This is permanent role, working 35 hours a week, with a flexible working pattern.

For more information please call or e-mail me, 02078207305, [email protected]

The charity will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so please get in touch now, to avoid disappointment.

I look forward to hearing from you.