Scripure Union is seeking a Major Donor Fundraiser, to help deliver an ambitious growth in income to support the work of Scripture Union in England and Wales. The successful candidate will:

• be an experienced major donor fundraiser who has a sound knowledge of the UK Christian marketplace and the attitudes and motivations of Christian donors.
• be an excellent communicator with a proven track record in project managing and major donor campaigns.
• have proven track record of personally soliciting high value gifts from major donors and of developing long term relationships.
• have experience of arranging events and organising high-profile meetings with senior colleagues, stakeholders, and donors.
• have excellent networking, negotiation and influencing skills.
• be an enthusiastic team player and be competent at working effectively on your own, as well as part of a team.

If this describes you, and you are in agreement with the aims and beliefs of Scripture Union, then we would like to hear from you. For more details or to apply, please visit our website and submit your CV and a covering letter.

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Adelaide Nketsia, HR Officer

Closing date:17 July 2020 

Interview date: To be confirmed

Interview Location: On Microsoft Teams

Major Gifts Fundraiser
Norwood 
£35,525
Stanmore
Full-time, Permanent

Norwood has been proudly serving the community for 225 years and is the largest Jewish charity in the UK supporting vulnerable children and their families, children with special educational needs and people with learning disabilities and autism. 

Every day our multidisciplinary teams and dedicated volunteers make an invaluable difference to people's lives. 

The Major Gifts Fundraiser will be responsible for managing an existing portfolio of major donors and building relationships with potential new major supporters to Norwood. You will cultivate the charity’s major donors ensuring long term relationships and engagement with their activities.

The postholder will also be jointly responsible, with the Head of Events, for income to corporate and major donor events.

Along with your fundraising credentials you will also need to be able to demonstrate an understanding of the UK Jewish community. This is not just the values, traditions and beliefs that underpin both family and communal life but also how these shape the character and patterns of philanthropic giving by the community.

Applications are in the format and CV and Supporting Statement.

Given the current crisis we are experiencing a high volume of applications for the active searches we are managing at the moment. We regret that it is impossible to provide a detailed individual response to each application received. If you do not hear from us within 7 days of the advertised closing date, please assume that your application is not being taken forward to the selection stage.

Job specification

• High profile national charity
• Manages one report
• Leading engagement with HNWIs, and digital special events
• Inbuilt flexible working

Person specification

• Min. 2 years’ experience of major donor fundraising
• Exprience of making the ask at £5k+

Harris Hill is delighted to be assisting the fantastic charity, Group B Strep Support, in the search for a new Major Gifts Manager at their office in Haywards Heath, West Sussex on a full or part time basis.

Group B Strep Support is a National charity that works across the UK, striving to prevent life-threatening group B Strep infections in newborn babies. They aim to inform every expectant parent of the dangers posed by group B Strep infection. If a pregnant woman is tested for group B Strep, she can be offered antibiotics in labour to minimise the risk to her baby - preventing illnesses such as sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia.

GBSS is looking for a Fundraiser with experience of securing four/ five-figure donations from Trusts & Foundations and/ or HNWIs, to join their team. You will have sole responsibility for setting up and running the Trusts & Foundations and HNWI fundraising stream for the charity.
You will need to enjoy researching funders and developing projects as much as you like stewarding funders and hitting income targets. In conjunction with this, you will have sole responsibility for creating, producing, and implementing a new Trusts & Foundations and HNWIs fundraising strategy for the coming year. Throughout, you will need continually to monitor financial performance, keep an eye out for any new marketing and fundraising opportunities, and report progress back to the Chief Executive.
To be considered for this role you will need to be well versed in building and managing relationships with Trust & Foundation supporters and/or with HNWIs. You will have significant experience of successful fundraising from donors, demonstrable excellent written communication and project management skills, and excellent attention to detail.

If you would like to receive a full job specification for this role or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Natalie at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7336.

Closing Date - ASAP

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.

This new and exciting role at MRG has been created to incorporate individual giving fundraising into MRG’s fundraising strategy. By ‘individual giving’ we mean digital fundraising (through appeals and platforms), potentially direct mail (acquisition and retention) as well as legacy work and high-value fundraising from corporate partners and major donors.

This is a unique opportunity to develop and drive digital income through platforms and channels, embedding digital skills across our fundraising function, as well as using meaningful data and insights to drive positive change across digital fundraising activities.

As a strong digital all-rounder, you must have hands-on experience in a wide range of digital marketing channels and platforms, as well as the ability to translate stats into meaningful insights to influence change and drive action.

You will contribute to the design and delivery of a donor acquisition and retention programme, helping us understand and attract new, committed supporters who are inspired by our work. You will work to develop individual supporter journeys and donor retention.

You will lead on implementing individual giving campaigns including appeals launched by the organization or responding to external opportunities such as the BBC R4 appeal or Giving Tuesday. NB: MRG will be broadcasting a BBC R4 appeal at the end of October 2020 which you will help to prepare and maximize.

You will contribute to the development of the organization’s high value fundraising efforts targeting potential corporate and major donors.

Last but not least, you will develop a legacy strategy for the organization.

To apply, please fill in the application form and the equal opportunities form from our website and return them by 9am on Monday 6 July 2020.

Be part of one of the UK’s longest-running charities working to protect animals! Freedom for Animals began as the Captive Animals' Protection Society in 1957 and works to end the captivity of animals, especially those used for entertaining the public in zoos, circuses and the media industry.

Freedom for Animals is currently looking for a Grants Fundraiser to join our small but dedicated team! Do you have excellent written communication skills and attention to detail? Are you able to work to tight deadlines and manage your time efficiently? Do you want to help work towards a world without cages? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Working with our Fundraising and Communications Manager, the chosen candidate will be responsible for preparing, submitting, and managing funding applications as well as performing prospect research.

Salary: £18,000 pro rata

Location: Manchester (remote working considered)

Hours: 2 days per week / 7.5 hours per day

Contract: Part-time fixed term 6 months

Closing Date: 13th July

You will bring your digital fundraising experience gained in the sector to help Leeds Cares shape our programme at the start of our digital fundraising journey.  We area an ambitious charity and are about to embark on significant projects that need your experience to develop our acquisition of new supporters and retention of existing ones.  At a time when it has never been more important to improve digital channels and communications, this role will support efforts to increase and deliver more successful fundraising campaigns.

Reporting to the Head of Individual Giving your creativity will help shape, plan, manage, and deliver digital fundraising resources. 

Background and purpose

Who Are We? The Jumbulance Trust is a small Charitable Trust with 2 unique specialist vehicles, part coach part ambulance, which are specifically designed and equipped to make it possible for those with  serious illness or disability  to travel throughout the UK and Europe on holiday, short break, Pilgrimage or a day trip.

Each “JUMBULANCE” can accommodate a maximum of 21 and 26 respectively with tracking to accommodate up to 6 wheelchairs and/or 5 beds, has a heavy duty lift, large accessible washroom, full kitchen and extensive medical equipment

Our Vision: A society in which adults and children with severe disability are able to maximise their quality of life through social and travel opportunities.

Our Aim: The Jumbulance Trust exists to make accessible travel possible for those who by reason of their disabilities or illnesses find most means of transport impossible to contemplate.

 We want to ensure that everyone

• Lives the best life that they can

• Never feels alone or isolated

 • Feels empowered and confident

The Grants & Trust Fundraiser position is a new role, perfect for someone looking for a step up into grant fundraising or looking for a second role. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing our grant and trust fundraising programme, building on the work done over the last few years.  The role will require building strong working relationships with new corporate partners, donors, community, fundraisers and external group leaders to create a sustainable income stream as part of our future investment in fundraising. Reporting to the General Manager (GM) the Grant and Trust Fundraiser will be responsible for developing our trust fundraising capability; that will include but not be limited to, investigating, researching and constructing applications for new funding. The successful candidate must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to ensure we demonstrate a compelling case for support to potential donors. To be successful in this role you will have experience and/or understanding of raising income from trusts, foundations, corporate partners and major grants together with excellent research, communication and relationship development skills. You will be working with a small, yet dynamic, team used to taking both initiative and responsibility. During the first 6 - 12 months, the successful candidate will be expected to establish themselves in the new role and develop our trust fundraising strategy. Following successful completion of a probation period, there will also be flexible working opportunities. Main role responsibilities:

Strategy

• Lead on prospect research (trusts, corporate partners,foundations and major donors)

• Contribute to our other fundraising strategy activity and initiatives

• Ensure reporting, monitoring and evaluation processes are robust and provide the necessary information to GM

 • Develop a case for support that meets the needs of our target groups, in line with our aims, objectives and vision

• Work closely with the team and translate information accurately to ensure effective communication

Please send a cover letter with your CV including your successes and experience with fundraising. Only applicants with the relevent skills will be considered.

This is a part time role with a salary of £25-£32,000 pro rata.

Home based role but will require face to face meetings with the GM on a regular basis (monthly)

14 hours per week.

Looking for a 3 day a week Part-Time Bid Writer - London based but home working (Min 1 day in the office)

Your new company
A renowned military charity base in London and Devon. They are looking to onboard someone into their development team that is based out of Central London

Your new role
The role is part time and you will be working three days a week. Currently the role is exclusively home working but post-pandemic you will be expected to go into the office minimum one day a week. You role is to help write bids for trust and foundation proposals to successfully secure funding. You will work with the development team to building and develop existing relationships with Trusts and Foundation as well as donor relations to be able to pitch for funding. There is some aspect of business development as the successful candidate will join The Development Team, formed approx. 12 months ago, which is responsible for Trusts, Foundations and Statutory, Corporate partners and Major Donors. Focusing principally on Trusts, Foundations and Statutory

What you'll need to succeed
The candidate will ideally be a hybrid of both private sector and third sector experience (the latter is required, the former would be nice to have as well) with existing relationships in the trusts and foundation space. They need to have excellent written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to write applications that stand out from the market. To be successful the experienced bid writer will need to be highly organised and motivated, a self-starter with an ability to assimilate and process information quickly and someone who is happy to do a certain level of business development and independent research, to generate concept notes and applications that match and sustain the funding needs of the charity and its delivery programme. The candidate will also be responsible for the stewardship of relevant organisations, ensuring that reporting timelines and processes are maintained and adhered to.

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary, flexible working and the opportunity to make lasting impact within an organisation.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Windle International is looking for a highly-skilled and motivated Fundraising Manager to create and lead on the fundraising strategy for the organisation – helping people who have been affected by conflict and marginalisation in East Africa to get a quality education, so that they can contribute to sustainable development and the creation of peaceful societies. 

Windle International (WI) is an international NGO, comprised of independent charitable organisations – our members - based in and operating across East Africa, the UK, the US, and Canada.

What we do

Starting from humble beginnings in 1977 with the establishment of Windle International Kenya in Nairobi by founder Dr Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington, we now operate in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, the UK, the US, and Canada.

Together, we empower refugees and people affected by conflict to achieve their academic potential, and contribute to sustainable development, by acting as a lead provider of quality education and training. We run education and vocational training programmes, manage Early Childhood Development and Vocational Training Centres, primary and secondary schools, and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship programmes. Our vision is a world in which every child has the opportunity through education and training to make the most of their potential and contribute to sustainable development.

About the role

Windle International is the umbrella organisation responsible for representing, supporting and coordinating Windle’s work at an international level. Windle is at a crucial time in its development, and we have exciting plans to build on our reputation for being a trusted and well-respected organisation and to increase support for our work. We are seeking a highly-skilled Fundraising Manager who has significant experience of fundraising, including proven track record of writing successful proposals, negotiating, winning and delivering partnerships with, and funds from, charitable trusts and foundations, companies, individuals, and major donors. Experience of delivering successful fundraising campaigns would be an asset.

This is a newly-created and pivotal position, and the successful post-holder will work closely with the recently appointed Communications and Advocacy Officer who is based in Oxford, UK. The role is part of a small, dedicated and friendly team and will have a lot of autonomy. It will involve close collaboration with the leadership and senior staff in our member offices in East Africa and Europe, and the trustees of the organisation. The role will require national (UK) and international travel. We welcome applications from people seeking to work from home, provided they can commit to spending regular time in the office in Oxford.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to play a significant role in shaping the organisation’s fundraising strategy whilst generating immediate impact. If you have a passion for humanitarian work, are experienced in setting up a prospect pipeline, managing partnerships and securing funding, we would love to hear from you.

Download the Fundraising Manager Recruitment Pack for more information and detailed job description.

Homeworking flexibility - get in touch with us wherever you are located.

Extremely competitive salary dependent on skills and experience (plus 30 days Annual Leave)

Permanent, 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday)

Are you an experienced senior fundraising or income generation leader, looking to grab your next exciting opportunity to shape as your own?

We are looking for a creative outward-facing visionary who will take pride in leading and developing the charity’s income generation streams, aligned to our new and innovative business plan.

You will be an adaptable and effective communicator, relishing in organisational-wide interfacing and stewardship of key stakeholders.

People management should come second nature to you, inspiring, motivating and driving your team and colleagues to meet ambitious targets and bend and shape the culture.

You will have significant success of generating income across a variety of fundraising strands (e.g. Major Donor, Legacy, Corporates and Trusts) and are confident to use these strategic skills to develop all social and commercial enterprise (i.e. Bursary Schemes, Pricing, Charity Shops), identifying new and imaginative partnerships.

If this sounds like your next challenging venture, then we would love to hear from you.

Subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

To apply, please email your CV along with a covering letter explaining your interest and suitability to the role as outlined in the attached Job Pack. Applications without a covering letter will not be accepted. 

Applicants will be invited to interview on a rolling basis so please submit your application as soon as possible.

We are currently looking for a full time permanent Philanthropy Manager to join our team.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a non-formal education and learning framework operating in more than 130 countries and territories around the world, through which young people’s achievements outside of academia are recognised and celebrated.

We at The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation are the engine that drives and supports the Award’s growth, access and impact across the globe.

It is our long term ambition that every eligible young person aged 14 – 24 will have the opportunity to participate in the Award. Our vision is that 20% of them are from at risk and marginalised communities for whom the Award can be truly life-changing.

The purpose of this role is primarily to build long lasting, highly engaged philanthropic relationships. This includes donor research, due diligence, recruitment, renewal, development and delivery of appropriate communications material and donor relationship management.

We are looking for an experienced and self-assured major gifts fundraiser who can proactively lead, cultivate and steward major donors internationally, predominantly with a focus on 5/6 figure gifts.

The role will work closely alongside one other Philanthropy Manager to build a comprehensive relationship with our incredibly generous donor groups, ensuring that they feel part of our charitable work, feel able to contribute and able to introduce their friends and colleagues to our work. It is envisaged that this role will require an even split between front facing donor engagement and high-quality donor relationship management.

To apply for this role, please enure that you submit a cover letter with your CV. 

The closing date for applications is the 16 July 2020. Interviews will take place shortly after the closing date and we are looking for the successful candidate to start as soon as possible.

This job is unlikely to attract a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a work permit). Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 immigration status to work in the UK may not be considered if there are a sufficient number of other suitable candidates. To apply for a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship, employers need to demonstrate that they are unable to recruit a resident worker before recruiting an individual overseas.

We are recruiting for this amazing food-poverty charity who are searching for a Senior Major Donor Officer to join their successful team. This organisation has been overwhelmed with support throughout COVID-19 so it is an exciting and secure environment for anyone to join.

This role will focus on securing gifts in excess of £5,000. You will have a portfolio consisting of existing major donors and prospects from the database that have never been cultivated. This role will allow you to build your own major donor strategy and will work closely with the trustees and SLT.

You will need:

• To be a natural relationship builder with experience of managing high-value donors


• Experience of working with senior volunteers and internal stakeholders to leverage opportunities


• A resilient and positive attitude

Closing date: 30^th June

Salary: £32,000 - £34,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

As traditional sources of funding are under review, our partner, a wildlife crime prevention entity in East Africa, is seeking the support of an experienced professional to review existing sources of funding, and advise them in developing a financial sustainability plan.

Key Deliverables

• Review existing sources of funding, and analysing how their programme implementation might be impacted as a result of reduction in funding.
• Analyse how existing databases and resources might be used to generate more publicity, interest and funding. 
• Reviewing and identifying alternate sources of funding – including individuals and other grant providers – and developing a plan & strategy for fundraising.

Person Specification

• Finance professional, with experience in analysis and modelling [essential].
• Experience in fundraising finance and financial planning for a not for profit organisation [essential].