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Role Overview
The Talent Set is delighted to partner with a charitable organisation seeking a strategic Head of Acquisition. This senior role involves leading multi-channel campaigns to optimise audience engagement, drive new supporter acquisitions, and adapt to shifting audience behaviours and fundraising priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute innovative multi-channel acquisition strategies, balancing digital and traditional media to reach diverse audiences.
- Lead and guide a team of specialists across paid media, digital engagement, direct mail, door drops, and other channels, ensuring integrated delivery and measurable outcomes.
- Oversee campaign planning, execution, optimisation, and reporting to meet ambitious fundraising targets and organisational goals.
- Drive channel testing initiatives, including DRTV, partial address mail, door-to-door, and new lottery concepts, ensuring evaluation and learning for future campaigns.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies to maintain a flexible and agile approach aligned with evolving organisational priorities.
- Manage budgets effectively, ensuring maximum return on investment while supporting team development and innovation.
- Monitor key performance indicators such as conversion rates and gift rates, adjusting strategies to optimise supporter acquisition and retention.
Person Specification
- Proven experience in digital and traditional acquisition channels, with a track record of managing multi-channel campaigns in a charity or similar sector.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide multi-disciplinary teams and foster a collaborative environment.
- Excellent understanding of media planning, campaign optimisation, and performance analytics.
- Ability to adapt to changing market conditions, audience behaviours, and organisational priorities.
- Effective communicator who can build relationships with internal stakeholders and external agencies.
- Commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets and ensuring cost-effective campaign delivery.
- A strategic mindset combined with operational execution capabilities.
What’s on Offer
Salary: circa £60,000
How to Apply
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the 'apply now' button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.
Commitment to Diversity
The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
CEO
- Salary for FTE: £62,000 - £75,000 dependant on experience
- 38 hours a week over 5 days (flexibility for right candidate)
- Home-based with travel for events and meetings
Reporting into the Board of Trustees, we are seeking an inspirational CEO for the PDA Society, who can lead with humility and curiosity, empowering and supporting our staff along the journey. They will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the charity and its staff and volunteers, and will oversee the development of our training products, research and support services, whilst ensuring sustainable growth in impact and income.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a trusted enterprise within the PDA community with a strong mission and a committed, values driven team. The successful candidate will be passionate about improving the lives of PDAers and their families. You will be energetic, creative and bring new ideas for enhancing the charity’s reputation, through nurturing existing relationships and developing new ones to achieve the charities goals. Our ideal candidate will have lived experience of autism, PDA or other neurodivergence although this is not essential.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on 22nd April 2026
Interviews with Trustees: April / May 2026
Our mission is to improve the lives of PDA children, PDA adults and their families. We are working hard to build awareness and understanding.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.