Senior head of philanthropy jobs

Philanthropy Officer

Salary: £29,355 per year + benefits
Contract: Permanent
Location: London Office – We encourage flexible working and therefore do not require you to work from our London office full time.
Closing date: 12 July 2022
Interview Dates:
• W/C 18 July 22 – First round interviews will be based in our office (SE1).
• W/C 25 July – Second round interviews (remote)

The role:

We are looking for a Philanthropy Officer to join our fantastic Philanthropy and Partnerships team on a permanent basis. The P&P team consists of six members of staff, and together we want to raise £2.6m this year. This role is all about great relationship management and organisational skills to ensure that supporters of Pancreatic Cancer UK (PCUK) feel valued and inspired.

We’re a small and ambitious team that works closely together to maximise our collective impact. As Philanthropy Officer, the post-holder will support and engage high-value supporters and deliver stewardship at the highest level. The role is varied and requires a proactive, resourceful individual with a love of relationship management and the ability to work across the donor journey.

Some of the main responsibilities of this role include:

• Managing a portfolio of high-value supporters and prospects, providing an outstanding supporter experience, and maximising the impact of their support
• Working with members of our Development Fund Board to maximise their income potential individually and through their networks
  Supporting the Director of Fundraising, Head of P&P, and Senior Relationship Manager in the management of DFB member relationships and their networks as appropriate (ensuring the provision of briefings, preparation of compelling proposals, and reports).
• Supporting the Senior Special Events Manager with key fundraising events in the calendar that deliver a strong net income

About you:

We are looking for someone who wants to begin or grow their career in high-value fundraising and is inspired by PCUK’s mission. You’ll be passionate about people and always put our supporters first. You’ll have great communication skills, both verbal and written. You’ll be confident articulating Pancreatic Cancer UK’s mission and be able to build relationships and inspire confidence with high-net-worth individuals.

You will have a proven ability in the following areas:

• Managing positive relationships with supporters, donors, or other stakeholders
• Cultivating positive relationships both internally and externally
• Communicating sensitively and compassionately with our supporters who have been affected by pancreatic cancer
• Project management skills with demonstrable ability to work well under pressure, handling multiple demands, planning ahead and prioritising own workload with minimum supervision

About Us

Pancreatic cancer is a tough one but we’re taking it on. It is tough to diagnose, tough to treat and tough to research. For too long this disease has been side-lined. We want to make sure that everyone affected by it gets all the help they need. Together we are taking on pancreatic cancer. Underpinning this vision are our four values:

• Pioneering
• Compassion
• Determined
• Integrity

We cannot achieve our vision without employing staff who are committed to our vision, strategy, and values.
At PCUK our ambition is to create an inclusive working environment that reflects the communities and audiences that we engage with and, where everyone can be their true selves, where they feel respected, championed, heard, and supported. We want our workforce to achieve their potential, understand their contribution, and feel proud of their impact by creating a culture and organisation that is genuinely inclusive by advancing equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging through our policies and practices.

We believe diversity drives great outcomes through encouraging the different points of view that come from a diverse workforce. We know people from different backgrounds can bring fresh ideas, thinking, and approaches which make the way we work more powerful, more innovative, effective, and more collaborative.
We have an exciting future, with a clear purpose and we’ve started the journey to realise our ambition to be a fair, compassionate, and inclusive organisation that can celebrate the fact that we are all equally different!

If this sounds like you – we’d love to hear from you! Please see the job description and person specification for full details of the role on our website. If you wish to discuss the role informally, before applying, please contact Victoria Hurwood, Senior Relationship Manager (details are on our advert on our website).

How to apply:

• You can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and application form on our website.
• You must have the right to work in the UK when you apply.

Are you passionate about making workplaces more inclusive? Do you want to make sure none of us are shut out of good jobs as we age? Do you have experience of working directly with large employers and forging corporate partnerships to make change happen? Have you worked in a leadership role in a strategic employer led partnership?

The Centre for Ageing Better is looking for a Senior Employer Engagement Manager to push our work on age-friendly employment to the next level. You will be reaching out to employers across the country to wake more of them up to the reality of the ageing workforce and its benefits – and running a network and programme of activity to help them realise those benefits. The centrepiece of this will be an employer ‘pledge’.

In return, we offer an opportunity to build something that could make a lasting change to the workplace in the UK – and a friendly and supportive team of colleagues to help you do it.

The Senior Product Manager – Digital Services helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by leading the digital transformation of existing Guide Dogs services, and developing and managing new digital services, as well as defining and leading Guide Dogs’ future approach to new digital and technology services. This role will have ownership of a portfolio of digital and technology services.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK, with travel required every 6 weeks to the Reading Office. We’re committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team and the organisation. For this role, there will be opportunities to work from home as well as the office. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximises their potential and best serves our stakeholders.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the candidate pack and job description on the Guide Dogs website.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

· Degree level qualification

· Marketing including digital marketing

· Demonstrable strong understanding of technology products and services

· Project management

· Team leadership

· Significant, proven experience in a marketing/product management role with demonstrable outcomes in a medium or large-sized company with responsibility for brand/product management

· Experience of leading digital service development/transformation at a traditional organisation (not a technology company)

 Desirable

 · Professional qualification in marketing or digital marketing

· Change management qualification e.g. Prosci

· Project management qualification e.g. Agile or PRINCE2

· Understanding of how individuals with vision impairment access and use technology

· Experience of all aspects of digital marketing and development

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed via the Guide Dogs website.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

We are looking for an ambitious, philanthropy expert with extensive experience of proactively building relationships with high net worth individuals. You will also bring experience or detailed knowledge of Corporate Foundations and a sound understanding of Donor Advised Funds would be an advantage but is not essential.

The candidate will be an entrepreneurial self-starter able to identify and pursue new opportunities, with the ability to communicate complex information in a way that is relevant and compelling to their audience.

Responsibilities

The postholder will:

• Develop and direct a fundraising strategy and a case for support
• Develop and nurture relationships and sustainable income sources to reach annual Philanthropy team fundraising target of £3m+
• Lead OIUK’s major donor acquisition and partnership development, working with the SLT, Board and Programme team as required
• Monitor financial performance and seek ways to maximise ROI
• Develop strategic relationships with DAFs, Family Offices, Wealth Advisors.
• Manage the Philanthropy Executive, supporting them in setting and achieving objectives
• Support the Philanthropy team to develop and deliver events for donors and prospective supporters
• Embed excellent stewardship standards to enhance donor engagement
• Work with the Programmes Team to ensure accurate, timely, inspirational proposal writing and reporting

Person Specification

Essential Experience

• A minimum of 5 years in a fundraising, income generating or business development role, including management experience, with an emphasis on income growth and new donor acquisition and development
• A track record of identifying, cultivating and generating income, managing high-value relationships and securing six figure donations
• A track record of developing high-quality, high-value partnerships between for-profit and not-for-profit organisations.

Knowledge – essential

• Proven understanding of the motivation and behaviour of high net worth individuals
• Experience of delivering donor stewardship and cultivation events.
• Philanthropy and charity sector in the UK

Knowledge – desirable

• Financially literate in relation to business and financial institutions
• Understanding of UK Philanthropy Services including DAFs, Family Offices and wealth advisory services.
• Understanding of development issues in the context of Opportunity International UK’s work on microfinance

Essential Skills

• Have persuasive interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build and nurture long-term relationships
• Good verbal communication and presentation skills both face to face and remotely
• Entrepreneurial self-starter able to identify and pursue new opportunities.
• Ability to communicate complex information in a way that is relevant and compelling to the audience.

Essential Attributes

• Commitment to the Vision, Mission, Motivation & Values of the organisation.
• Self-starter.
• Target driven.
• A proactive and organised approach to work
• Self-disciplined with the ability to work independently.
• The ability to inspire, enthuse and motivate others.
• Positive attitude to team work.
• Commitment to bottom line results and goal oriented.

Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, is on a mission to inspire a million more people onto their bikes. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced corporate partnership professional to join the Income Generation team at Cycling UK. You will lead on growing new corporate support for the charity, as well as managing existing relationships, to feed into Cycling UK’s overarching fundraising strategy.

Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer Requirements:

This role will oversee the full cultivation cycle for potential partners, from building the pipeline to initiating approaches and developing pitches. You will be experienced at building relationships with strong sales and marketing acumen. You will be the organisational 'expert' and work closely with the Head of commercial, Fundraising team and other service departments to grow income, brand awareness and our reputation.

If you are target driven, a strong storyteller and communicator and able to build and retain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, we want to hear from you.

We are an inclusive organisation and would, particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. We strongly believe that diversity strengthens our work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of us are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most to us.

If you think that this describes you and you are excited by the prospect of joining our team, please do get in touch to find out more.

Location: Home-based in UK (Occasional travel to Guildford)
Contract Type: Fixed Term, until March 2023
Hours: Part-time (3 or 4 days per week)
Salary: £29,880 - £33,200 (based on full time hours)

Closing date: Monday 18 July 2022 - 9:00am

You may have experience of the following: Senior Corporate Partnerships Executive, Fundraising Manager, Divisional Fundraising Manager, Community Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships Executive, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, Fundraiser, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Partnerships Executive, Fundraising Executive, etc.

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Do you want to have the satisfaction of knowing you are contributing to Swindon’s only adult hospice? Use your passion and skills to make a real difference and join a much-loved charity with its huge supporter base, and in return you will get that feel-good factor!

We are entering an exciting new era where we must build on our historic success and thrive as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and are therefore seeking a Philanthropy Manager to grow and develop our income.

Hours: 37.5 per week – Monday to Friday  

What is the role?

As a senior member of the fundraising team, you will be responsible for generating funds through researching and identifying appropriate trusts, foundations and other grant making bodies. Managing and developing the major donor programme and stewarding legators all in line with the Hospice’s strategic objectives for income growth.

A key element of the role will be to create compelling, creative and persuasive applications and cases for support and to maintain excellent engagement, in order to develop and grow major gift income.

In addition, you will continually raise the profile of the charity in order to develop relationships with supporters in our community, senior volunteers and senior staff, involving them appropriately in our Philanthropy work, in peer-led engagement and networking, in order to further our work.

Our ideal candidate will have a background in charity fundraising with success in achieving challenging targets, a proven experience of excellent relationship stewardship and of bid writing for trusts and foundations. If you think that could be you, we would love to hear from you!

In return, we offer a great range of employee schemes and benefits, including generous annual leave, free parking on-site, on-site café, employee assistance programme, wellbeing team, generous pension scheme, Blue Light Discount Card and so much more!

What we are looking for:

• Strong creative writing skills to prepare effective bid proposals.
• Ability to produce high quality reports & narratives.
• Ability to manage effective internal and external relationships.
• Excellent written, verbal and communication skills.
• Proven experience and knowledge of trusts and foundations.
• Strong IT skills with the ability to work effectively using MS Office products.
• Proven success in meeting deadlines and achieving challenging targets.
• Good interpersonal skills and the willingness to provide support to other staff members
• Charity fundraising experience.
• A minimum of GCSE grade C in Maths and English Language

It would be great but not essential if you have:

• Experience of project development
• Basic understanding of Raisers Edge 7 or similar supporter and donor software would be an advantage

Equality & Diversity

Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business and the communities we serve.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Safeguarding

Prospect Hospice is committed to promoting the wellbeing of all adults and children who use our services, ensuring that they live a life that is free from harm, abuse and neglect. We work in an open and transparent way and encourage staff, volunteers, patients and families to raise any safeguarding concerns.

We will review applications as they come in and therefore we may close the vacancy before the closing date. Candidates are therefore advised to apply early.

Are you a fantastic Project Delivery Manager who prefers agile ways of working? Do you want to work for an exciting social change organisation on the cusp of something big where you can help us develop high quality metrics to measure our real-world impact?

We’re looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to support the delivery of our strategy and key projects. You will be responsible for: driving cross-organisational expertise to deliver effective project management; for ensuring effective stakeholder management; and for the delivery of projects in line with schedules and budgets. You will be instrumental in bringing different parts of the RSA together to support our ‘Design for Life’ mission – working across interrelated ‘pathways’ to unlock social opportunity through social innovation to regenerate people, place and planet!

Key skills we’re looking for are:
• Knowledge of agile project management methodology.
• Significant experience as a multi-disciplinary programme, delivery or project manager working in a UK and global context
• Significant experience of project management - leading large campaigns, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams in the production of content and management of communication channels through teams in achieving outcomes.
• A high standard of written and verbal communication
• Effective use of data and information systems
• Highly effective time management and prioritisation skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Budget management
• Ability to track KPIs effectively
• An understanding and good working knowledge of risk management
• Highly collaborative, able to work with and get the best from team members from across disciplines
• Aligned with the RSA’s core values

This role is based from RSA House in London for at least three days per week, with hybrid flexibility for the remaining days.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

To find out more about this role, please download our job pack below or visit our website.

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 18 July 2022. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 25 July 2022.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Inclusion Statement

As a social change organisation, we believe everyone, regardless of visible or invisible difference, should be welcomed to participate in creating a better future.

We aspire to maximum inclusion in our work and endeavour to challenge systemic inequity and all forms of discrimination. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who is committed to our vision and values and can demonstrate the skills, competencies and experience required for the role applied for.

About Us

We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We’re committed to a future that works for everyone, a future where we all can participate in its creation. With over 250 years of heritage in making significant social impact, we bring together, our rigorous research, proven change process, influential ideas platforms and our global community of over 30,000 problem solvers united in a desire to deliver solutions for lasting change.

To achieve this, we ask everyone – our staff, our Fellowship, our collaborators, our partners and wider society – to commit to our values and world view and strive to achieve genuine positive impact in our lives.

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.

We are looking for a Philanthropy Manager to play a key role in growing and diversifying our donor base. You’ll manage your own portfolio of fund holders, and you’ll also support and inspire a small team of Philanthropy Officers to do the same. 

As Philanthropy Manager you will have excellent interpersonal skills and experience of developing and managing relationships. Your writing will be clear, concise and accurate. You’ll be confident working with data and ICT. And you’ll be strongly committed to your own learning and development as well as the learning and development of your team.

Person specification

Skills and Abilities

• At least 2 years’ experience of buildingdonor relationships and securing funding support
• Track record in leading and managing staff and supporting colleagues
• Experience of working with individuals at senior levels within different sectors
• Knowledge (or the passion to learn) of the issues affecting the voluntary and community sector across the West of England
• Competent with and enthusiastic about using a wide range of ICT and operational systems, including familiarity with CRM programmes
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including confidence in public speaking and an ability to persuade and negotiate effectively
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

Values and Behaviours

• Strong commitment to, and ability to lead on, the values of the Foundation
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and able to cope well under pressure
• High levels of integrity and excellent professional judgement
• Able and willing to work flexibly, including regularly attending meetings and events outside normal office hours
• Able and willing to travel for work within the region, and occasionally outside it.

Philanthropy Manager

c£40,000

London, flexible working from home and office
Permanent, 4 days considered

Responsible for fundraising and stewardship of relationships with individuals, this role has a particular focus on mid-level and major gifts. Working with the Chief Executive and other Fundraising Managers to refine and develop an established fundraising strategy you will assist in maximising income from individuals.

If you have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and audiences, particularly fundraisers, donors and volunteers, please get in touch.

How to apply and the selection process

Application is by way of CV in the first instance.

 
As this role is available immediately we are actively seeking early applications and will be interviewing on a rolling basis with the intention of making an offer of appointment as soon as we find the right person.

FareShare

Job Description –Senior Trusts and Grants Manager

Reporting to: Head of Fundraising

Location: Hybrid / Office Based

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 Hours

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000

About FareShare

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 10,000 frontline charities and community groups. During 2021, we redistributed 127 million meals, the equivalent of 4 meals every second through our FareShare Regional Centres and our retail surplus model FareShare Go, reaching over 1 million people.

FareShare exists because of two hugely important and highly topical issues.

As a consequence of supply and demand, huge volumes of food are grown or made in the UK and a percentage ends up as unwanted surplus with little commercial value.

At the same time, there are many thousands of frontline community groups and charities that are providing a vital safety net for the most vulnerable in our society. We seek to squeeze as much social good out of that uneconomic surplus by getting it to almost 10,000 such groups across the UK whilst they provide essential wraparound support services for their beneficiaries.

The Cost of Living Crisis and before it, the COVID-19 have shone a spotlight on the issue of food insecurity in the UK and with it, FareShare’s ability to get food to vulnerable communities nationwide.

It is estimated that over 4.7m UK households are now experiencing food insecurity and whilst the equivalent of 1.3bn meals of good surplus food occurs each year, FareShare believes that it is wrong for these two situations to co-exist.

To combat this, FareShare is moving into an ambitious 4 year programme to achieve

unparalleled growth in both our food volumes as well as our

fundraised income. We are driven by the opportunity to secure even more of the food available at farm gate, manufacturing and retail levels and to do this, we

need to maximise our new groundswell of public support to generate the funds needed to operate at this greater scale. There has never been a more

exciting time to join a relevant organisation which delivers both social and environmental impact, at such a crucial time.

By joining us you would be leading some of our most important work in helping us generate more support from Donors, Corporate Food and Fundraising Partners, Foundations and Volunteers as we strive in our ambition to meet the demand for food

to support the UK’s most vulnerable.

FareShare’s Strategy & Vision
 

Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.

Mission: To use surplus, fit for consumption, food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting front line charitable organisations that tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of food poverty.

Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives.

Our Values: Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead

Ambition – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen

Respect – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries

Collaboration – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger

Focus – on providing the best service possible so that we deliver and

achieve the most for our clients/customers.

The role

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising.

The key focus of the role will be:

• Managing and maximising key trusts and foundations, statutory and grant funders seeking to extend their support wherever possible with a focus on multi-year funding
• Ensuring a focus on new opportunities undertaking the necessary research to identify potential funders including those outside of the UK
• Developing a range of engaging proposals around key aspects of FareShare’s work
• Managing the Trusts & Foundation team, ensuring delivery of their objectives (currently two Trusts Managers who in turn manage two Trust Officers although we want the postholder to demonstrate the need for growth of this team)

The role is largely focused on leading the strategy, which ensures delivery of our trust, statutory and grant income programme as we extend the reach of our work over the coming years.

Main areas of responsibility

• Account Management
• New Business
• Communication
• Leadership

• Oversee the planning, delivery and monitoring for a portfolio of warm trusts and foundations, statutory and grant funders, maximising the income potential
• Relationship management for a number of key accounts providing relevant impact reports and associated benefits
• Developing innovative and persuasive proposals
• Maximising opportunities where possible to incorporate Regional Centres within national bids
• Regularly reviewing the plans and/or funding agreements managed by the Trusts team to ensure appropriate levels of stewardship and the potential for repeat or long-term support is maximised
• Managing associated admin and record keeping

• Overseeing the development and maintenance of an effective pipeline designed to undertake detailed prospecting and identify targets needed to deliver long term income
• Ensuring the rolling (monthly) programme is maintained
• Ensuring effective records of secured and projected income are maintained and that where appropriate this is shared with others across the organisation
• To investigate, initiate and develop activity to extend the opportunity for the support of trusts and foundations including EU and USA.

• To work effectively with the Finance team to obtain the necessary budget information to support applications
• Ensure detailed KPIs are uptodate, automated and reported on regularly including identifying variances to forecast and associated action plans
• To work effectively with departments and projects manager to obtain the necessary information around their development plans to create compelling bids
• To maintain the necessary levels of communications with the FareShare Network, including details of national funders where appropriate
• Work cross functionally (particularly with the UK food team), including the FareShare Network, to provide guidance and help identifying new funding opportunities.

• To work with trust and grant funders with a good understanding of the UK funding landscape
• Play an active role in the development of the wider fundraising strategy contributing to planning where required
• Provide line management support to the Trusts & Foundations team as detailed above, ensuring that they understand, and work towards their objectives
• Work towards individual performance standards and targets whilst setting and monitoring them for line managed staff, conducting the relevant annual reviews and identifying opportunities for development
• Conduct annual reviews of performance and actively take part in your own, identifying opportunities for development

As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Significant experience of working with trust and grant funders with a good understanding of the UK funding landscape
• A proven track record of meeting challenging targets, securing new multi-year business and increasing income from existing funders
• Experience of strategic planning, analysis and evaluation
• Strong financial skills with the ability to work with complex budgets and monitor them to produce associated grant reports
• Line management experience
• Proven ability to form good working relations, both internally and externally
• Ability to work on own initiative, meeting objectives and tight deadlines under pressure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in writing proposals and presentations
• High level communication skills and ability to engage at all levels with diverse stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external departments
• Build on long term partnerships with external stakeholders with the aim of achieving strategic goals
• Experience of working in a regulated environment and demonstrable risk assessment capabilities
• IT literacy, in particular of using Microsoft applications
• An understanding of and ability to promote equality and diversity

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of project management
• Experience of securing funding from EU and US sources
• A champion of Safeguarding principles and practice
• An interest in the impact of food waste on the environment
• An interest in food poverty and its causes

Competencies and behaviours

• Enthusiastic approach
• Desire for change and ability to adapt
• Flexibility and ability to work well as part of a team and alone
• A commitment to Equality and Diversity
• Curiosity and empathy with FareShare’s mission and strategy

Benefits 

Salary £45,000 - £50,000

Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel

25 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employers pension contribution

Employee Assistance Program

Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme

Season ticket loan

Flexible working

Are you a talented high-value fundraiser that wants to make a real impact? Do you have experience in soliciting major gifts of £10,000 and above from individuals? Can you help deliver a philanthropy strategy at one of the country’s biggest charities?

If so, you could be the Philanthropy Development Manager we are looking for!

About the role

You’ll work closely with the Head of Major Gifts in the Philanthropy team to build and maintain a portfolio of individual prospects and donors with capacity to make gifts of £10,000 - £100,000 (leadership gifts), involving volunteers and staff across British Heart Foundation (BHF) as required.

As an ambassador for the BHF, you’ll proactively identify and qualify new prospects, engage existing and lapsed donors, and work collaboratively with colleagues in the Philanthropy team to manage a new Giving Club that incentivises donors to make multi-year pledges.

Ensuring our database is kept fully up to date, you'll coordinate with other fundraisers and teams to facilitate collaboration across the organisation.

You’ll deliver agreed annual targets and help drive income for research that will save and improve the lives of people affected by cardiovascular disease in this country and around the world.

Working arrangements

Please note this is a fixed term contract until April/May 2023 - covering family leave.

This is a dual location role, with your working time split between your Home and approximately one day per fortnight in our London Office. As part of the role, you will also need to travel into London and elsewhere for meetings with donors, as and when required. This will allow us to unlock our best work for our cause, blending the best of home and office working.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

About the team

BHF is creating a culture that drives transformational and sustainable income through philanthropic giving, from high-value donors in the UK and overseas. To achieve this vision, we are building a high performing Philanthropy team comprising dynamic fundraisers working with individual donors or trusts and foundations, talented proposition writers, research and insight specialists, and event and stewardship experts.

Sitting within the Philanthropy team, the Major Gifts team focuses on individual donors and is led by the Head of Major Gifts. It comprises two Philanthropy Lead posts (gifts of £75,000 and above) and two Philanthropy Development Manager posts (gifts of £10,000 and above).

To realise our ambitions, we need to raise significant additional funds to accelerate and drive critical research. Raising funds through philanthropy is a key area of our income generating strategy for 2030.

About you

An ambitious and dynamic fundraiser, with a track record of securing gifts of £10,000 or above from new, cold prospects and existing donors. You will have worked successfully with influential volunteers to deliver income in a large and complex organisation.

With a natural flare for identifying and cultivating relationships, and strong planning and prioritisation skills, you’ll be able to manage a portfolio of 100 - 150 prospects, across the various stages of identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• An exceptionable fundraiser who can demonstrate building relationships with emotional intelligence, and empathy when working with others.
•  A skilled and brave strategic and project manager, who can develop clear, efficient and logical plans to achieve goals.
• Optimistic and positive, with excellent communication skills and able to inspire confidence in donors as well as senior internal and external stakeholders.
• An excellent writer, with a keen eye for grammar who can transform complex project information into compelling stories and content for a high-value audience.
• Meticulous with high attention to detail.
• Proficient at using data and evidence to monitor KPI’s, track trends and help us make informed decisions.
• Driven and ambitious to deliver our high-value income strategy.

About us 

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy. Our aim is for all of our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work, so we can continue to fund life saving research. 

What can we offer you

To find out more about benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of this page.

Interview process

The interview process will be held over MS Teams.

How to apply

It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up to date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.

As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

Key info

• £57,624 (inclusive of London weighting)
• Reports to External Relations Director
• Full time, Permanent
• Flexible, must work from London office at least once a week plus in person meetings and events
• Closes 12pm, Friday 8 July 2022

This role leads a small team, with responsibility for raising philanthropic revenue from trusts, foundations, corporates and HNWIs. Long term, you will be focused on growth of income, building on an existing springboard of activity to further develop the fundraising proposition.

About the role

As England’s largest social work charity, Frontline’s mission is to create social change for children who do not have a safe or stable home. Through their social work leadership programmes, the Frontline Fellowship and their Innovation Lab they look to develop excellent social work practice, leadership and innovation. They develop social workers to be agents of change, improving the system to have greater positive impact for children and families.

This position offers an opportunity to further establish Frontline’s fundraising proposition. You’ll bring ideas and solutions that package up the work of the charity and demonstrate impact.

The income portfolio is predominantly formed of trusts and foundations funding currently, with plans to diversify and establish further corporate and HNWI relationships. Alongside this, there are opportunities to consider how to best utilise the network of the Frontline Fellowship – alumni who have previously completed one of Frontline’s programmes.

There is an understanding organisationally that fundraising is everyone’s responsibility. This role will continue to drive this culture, establishing support for new activities by working with key stakeholders, senior leadership and trustees, to lead and manage the growth of Frontline’s fundraising programme.

Key responsibilities

• As head of fundraising you will work closely with the external relations director and senior stakeholders to review, refine and implement a long term fundraising strategy, focused on growth and diversification of income.
• With responsibility for the strategic delivering of fundraising you will develop and implement fundraising initiatives, working creatively to establish new income sources. 
• You will manage a small team, remaining hands on and identifying new opportunities with high value partners and individuals. 
• You will design and deliver an engaging programme of cultivation and stewardship activity – focused on working in collaboration with other teams and with a view to securing long term, sustainable support.

Person specification

• Proven expertise of high value fundraising (ideally including trusts and foundations) and raising five- and six-figure donations.
• Experience of leading teams, supporting their development and leading by example.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders, effectively gaining and utilising their support to further fundraising activities.
• Creative and solutions-focused approach to fundraising – supporting long term diversification and growth of income by identifying new opportunities for support. 
• Target driven with an eye for detail – assessing, prioritising and managing a varied workload of fundraising activity.

Key position in the Development Team, focused on corporate new business and establishing five and six-figure partnership opportunities.

Corporate development will play a significant and exciting role within the organisation’s plans to increase development income (across all streams) by £1m in 2022/23. There are some fantastic conversations and potential partnerships already underway, with ample opportunity to be creative and think outside the box when it comes to partnership activity, bringing a commercial mindset and new ideas to the table.

The team already works with an impressive and broad portfolio, which includes leading brands across a range of sectors. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Development you will take responsibility for generating new corporate support through a range of partnerships – from membership, sponsorship/co-creation of events, commercial partnerships, funding partnerships etc. – the opportunities are vast and varied.

Job description

• Lead on the planning, development and implementation of corporate new business activity;
• Identify and manage a pipeline of high value corporate prospects, conducting due diligence to minimise reputational risk;
• Develop a broad and varied portfolio of new partnership opportunities, with a focus on high-5/6-figure and multi year relationships;
• Work closely with senior stakeholders (including Trustees and Committee members) to engage their support in priority projects;
• Complete thorough and smooth handover processes for your colleagues in account management once new partnerships are confirmed;
• Line manage a corporate executive (new business), leading by example and supporting their development.

Person specification

• An experienced corporate fundraiser with a passion for new business, looking for a role that allows a high level of creativity and breadth to their portfolio;
• An individual with expertise of securing five and six-figure corporate support, negotiating and drafting sponsorship/partnership agreements;
• Someone with a high degree of commercial awareness – understanding the needs of corporate supporters to present them with a variety of funding/partnership opportunities.

Senior Philanthropy Lead

Location: Stratford, London with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week (flexible working requests will be considered)

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Application method: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form and answered the application questions. CVs are required for all applications, however they will not be reviewed as part of the shortlisting process.

Closing Date: 7th July 2022. You are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time once we have received sufficient applications.

Are you a self-motivated and sharp-minded relationship professional that can help us beat cancer?

We have an exciting opportunity to join us in a new role of Senior Philanthropy Lead, in our Philanthropy directorate, working across both Philanthropy and Partnerships teams. This role will aim to maximise the value and engagement of high value prospects through the development of relationships with all parts of CRUK which interact with high value prospects and supporters. It will have a particular focus on working across Philanthropy, Partnerships and High Value Fundraising Events (HVFE), growing high value relationships and their engagement with CRUK in addition to working to open their networks and facilitate additional connections and points of engagement with CRUK.

CRUK's philanthropy and partnerships strategy have identified that additional value could be yielded from greater network sharing, increased understanding and collaboration across teams and more cross-organisational relationships with key supporters. This role is both responding to those recommendations and reacting to successful income that has been driven by current cross-organisational supporter relationships.

What will you be doing?

• Manage a portfolio of up to 60 prospects with a primary focus on qualifying prospects and developing the engagement and stewardship of prospects and their networks through the full life cycle of giving and renewal. Ensure consistent pipeline movement
• Build robust working relationships with key colleagues across Philanthropy and Marketing, Fundraising, Events (MFE), with a focus on Partnerships, HVFE and with Philanthropy Leadership giving team, to identify opportunities and develop strategies to maximise the value and engagement of high value prospects
• Bring new high value supporters to CRUK through network introductions from existing supporters and senior volunteers
• Work across CRUK to identify and develop new income generating initiatives involving high value donors
• Work with fundraising and organisational leadership to encourage a cultural shift in support of greater integration and understanding across all fundraising teams related to high value donors and their engagement

Who are we looking for?

• Extensive experience of professional fundraising with demonstrated track record in developing donor relationships and closing gifts
• Knowledge/understanding of fundraising best practices. Understand and have a comfort level with the engagement and stewardship process/principles of securing major gifts
• Significant experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple and complex projects
• Excellent project management and organisation skills with strong attention to detail and demonstrated analytical skills; excellent writing skills with strong comfort with technology (knowledge of databases, Excel, PowerPoint and other platforms)
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and to navigate new territory, setting a clear path and establishing new protocols
• An interest and passion for biomedical science
• Highly organised with a proven ability to set and deliver to a high standard consistently with competing and demanding deadlines; able to prioritise activity to achieve core purpose of funding world class science

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, and much more. We want to ensure that you have the best work/life balance possible, so we actively encourage a flexible working culture for all our roles wherever possible. For most of our office-based roles you'll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If this sounds like you then we are keen to hear from you! If you can demonstrate the above and want to make an impact, then we'd love to have you join the team.