Head of Voluntary Fundraising
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Hybrid working with average 2 days per week at St Giles Head Office (Camberwell) or other London St Giles / Partner offices. Occasional travel to regional offices
Ref HVF-251
Closing date: 9 a.m. on 14 October 2025
Are you a proactive and driven individual who is highly skilled at building and managing relationships and strategically developing income from a range of sources? Do you have a proven record of successfully securing and managing five and six figure funders and setting and implementing strategy for raising income from voluntary funding sources?
If so, join St Giles as our Head of Voluntary Fundraising, where you will work closely with the Executive Director of Fundraising, Policy and Communications to identify funding opportunities, trial and evaluate new ideas to secure increased restricted and unrestricted income. You will also build, lead and inspire a fundraising team to provide the highest level of stewardship maintaining, uplifting and securing new funders and partnerships through a range of fundraising methods.
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.
About this key role
As our, provide inspiring leadership to the voluntary fundraising team – setting a supportive work culture that inspires staff to develop and contribute to increasing income generation by 10% that aligns with St Giles mission, values and ethos, plus contribute effectively as a member of the wider St Giles leadership team. You will also identify personal development needs within the team and facilitate staff to build their skills and access training opportunities and work collaboratively to develop and implement effective strategies and new systems for different income streams (Trusts & Foundations, Corporates, Individual Giving, Legacies, Major Donors & Community Fundraising).
We will also count on you to oversee and generate multi-million income streams with a total value of £5 million per year, refine and test new income streams, including Individual Giving, Legacies and In-Memory, and to work with the communications team to establish stewardship & acquisition campaigns that grow the donor base & awareness of St Giles work. Devising and delivering an effective cultivation and stewardship programme for prospects and existing donors and partners is also a vital aspect of this role.
What we are looking for
• Five years’ experience working in charity or related sector
• Successful track record of achieving targets and growth in fundraising teams
• Three years’ experience of line management and of managing a team.
• Experience of creating, implementing, and tracking strategy and securing buy-in
• A detailed knowledge of fundraising and changing trends in the funding environment
• The ability to think creatively to secure funding
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A professional, collaborative and flexible approach to your work
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.
Closing date: 9 a.m. on 14 October 2025 Interview date: 21 October 2025
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
We help people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.
