Supporter appeals executive jobs in Manchester

Are you up for a new and exciting challenge, leading one of the most effective and nimble NGOs in the transport and environment sectors in England and Wales?

Transport Action Network (TAN) is seeking a dynamic and knowledgeable CEO to lead its remote team of six.

Since it was set up in 2019, TAN has established itself as a thought leader on planning and transport matters, while providing hands-on support and advice to local communities seeking better transport solutions. It has successfully challenged government decisions and helped local communities fight off damaging road schemes. Some examples include schames that would have harmed Stonehenge World Heritage Site, South Downs National Park and Rimrose Valley Country Park in Liverpool.

TAN is currently supporting the Queensbury Tunnel Society, trying to stop the government blocking up an old railway tunnel so that it can be repurposed for a new greenway. It is also opposing the Lower Thames Crossing 'smart' motorway.

Fancy, getting involved and making a difference?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Deadline for returning completed applications is 23:59 (GMT), Sunday 1st February, 2026

First interviews: 27th February and 4/5th March

Charity Operations Manager

Location: Remote / Cambridge (1 days per week in the office)
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per annum
Reporting to: Managing Director
Term: Permanent

Aquilas is delighted to be partnering with Royal Papworth Charity to recruit a Charity Operations Manager to play a key role in the delivery of the charity's strategic objectives, ensuring effective governance, operational oversight, and stakeholder engagement across a diverse portfolio of grant-funded hospital projects.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated person who wants to drive transformational change across the entire charity. If you have Charity, Operations, Governance or NHS grant giving experience please take a look.

About the Charity:

Royal Papworth Charity plays a vital role in ensuring that Royal Papworth Hospital is able to offer superior facilities, exceptional patient care and an enhanced patient experience thanks to the generosity of our supporters. We provides grants to support transformational projects across the hospital, many of which have a direct and immediate impact on our patients, their families and our staff. 

Royal Papworth Hospital is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge.

About the role:

This is a leadership role responsible for the operational delivery of a diverse portfolio of grant-funded projects across the Trust, driving innovation in patient care and clinical excellence.

The postholder will oversee the charity's governance, compliance, and financial operations, ensuring robust systems are in place to support effective decision-making and strategic delivery. Working closely with clinical teams, senior managers, and external stakeholders, the Charity Operations Manager will play a central role in translating strategic priorities into impactful, well-governed programmes.

Person Specication:

• Demonstrates good levels of financial acumen including the management of financial budgets.
• Experience of leading or working in complex project teams within an organisation.
• Proven ability to influence, inspire and effectively manage staff.
• Experience of working across organisations on projects.
• Understanding the significance of national developments and their impact at a local, regional level.
• Sound knowledge in the use of information technology and its application in practice.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data.
• Experience in writing development propositions.
• Experience presenting complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders with varied backgrounds.
• Analyses multiple demands on the service and resources, while balancing needs against available resources. Assesses likely impact on local service of national developments.
• Ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive commercial information. Experience working with complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and evaluation of a range of options.
• Plan and organise broad range of complex activities; formulates, adjusts plans or strategies.
• Ability to communicate across organisational boundaries effectively.
• Excellent oral and written skills, with experience in using PowerPoint for report writing.
• Excellent attention to detail. Ensuring data and reports are presented to a high-quality standard.
• Presentation skills and the ability to present to a range of groups and individuals.

To Apply:

To receive a candidate pack or arrange a confidential conversation, please contact:

Kieran McGorrian, Head of Not for Profit Appointments, Aquilas 

As we embark on our new three-year funding strategy, we are looking for an innovative and talented fundraiser with a least five years experience, to join the team and help us generate new creative partnerships and opportunities. We are a small, growing team with ambitious fundraising targets and a global reach. There is potential for a number of income streams to grow, particularly philanthropists and creative partnerships with corporations, wealth collaboratives and special events.

Given the current challenging economic and philanthropic environment, we are looking for some one that can generate new fundraising opportunities through creative out of the box thinking to identify and solidify relationships with philanthropists, corporations, global foundations and beyond. You will be able to conceptualise and deliver high quality fundraising events, appeals and utilise your experience and imagination to develop new ways of raising large scale funds. You will be able to drive change and create successful outcomes.

Existing funders include a mix of philanthropists, corporate partners and leading foundations. There is significant potential for the development of corporate and high value individual partnerships with sectors such as the music industry and female entrepreneurs.

We are a collaborative and dynamic team and are looking for a colleague with valuable experience, an innovative and creative mind and the ability to charismatically build meaningful and profitable relationships with our partners and supporters to enable us to reach our ambitious fundraising plans.

This role will play a big part in helping the organisation to deliver over £650,000 in funding by the end of 2026.

About you

• You will be an experienced fundraiser
• You will be an innovative and creative thinker that can create fundraising opportunities and ideas from all situations
• You will have demonstrable expertise in securing five-figure plus donations from a range of donors
• You will have demonstrable expertise in designing and delivering high quality fundraising events and appeals
• You will be a charismatic relationships manager with experience generating and cultivating relationships with various high-profile supporters and key donors and negotiating these relationships seamlessly
• You will have excellent grant and proposal writing skills
• You will have a tenacious and creative approach to difficult tasks and be able to take initiative to drive activity
• You are resilient, can work with agility and comfortable working towards ambitious targets
• You are familiar with CRM systems and planning and organisation tools
• You will have the ability to form strong relationships remotely, which is crucial as The Circle is a small organisation, and the team all work remotely
• You will have a background/passion in international development and/or women’s rights
• You will have strong attention to detail

Desirable

• You will have experience of the music industry and other creative industries

We’re hiring a Fundraising Officer at WeSwim, this is a relationship-led fundraising role with real ownership and influence.

At WeSwim, we support disabled adults to swim in welcoming, inclusive volunteer run clubs across London. For many of our swimmers, the water offers a new freedom, easing pain, building confidence, and opening up new ways to move and connect. Our work is powered by community, care and people who believe swimming should be accessible to everyone.

We’re now looking for a Fundraising Officer to lead our community fundraising and individual giving efforts and help shape the future of WeSwim’s income.

We already have a strong community of swimmers and volunteers who care deeply about WeSwim. In this role, you’ll work with the community to create more fundraising activitym supporting our members to fundraise in ways that feel achievable, inclusive and meaningful. You’ll be the main point of contact for community fundraisers, creating simple tools and resources that help people feel confident getting involved.

You’ll also work closely with the CEO to develop and grow WeSwim’s individual giving and monthly donations, helping to transform our mix of income over time. 

You’ll build thoughtful supporter journeys, create simple and engaging fundraising resources, and help deliver campaigns that clearly show the impact of WeSwim’s work. No two weeks will look the same, but every week will be purposeful and people-centred.

This is a part-time role (15 hours per week) with a high level of trust, autonomy and collaboration. It’s ideal for a proactive fundraiser who enjoys building relationships, thinking creatively and taking ownership. Someone who wants to be close to the ground and see their work make a tangible difference in a small charity.

Every strong supporter relationship you build will help to keep our clubs running, welcomes new swimmers into the water, and strengthens the community that makes WeSwim possible.

Key Responsibilities:

Community Fundraising

• Inspire & support individuals and groups to run their own fundraising activities (e.g., bake sales, swim challenges, quiz nights).
• Act as the primary contact for all community fundraisers, including swimmers, volunteers, supporters, and local groups.
• Develop accessible fundraising resources and an annual plan of community fundraising activities, moments and campaigns.

Individual Giving & Monthly Donations

• Lead the development and growth of WeSwim’s monthly giving programme.
• Deliver a high-quality stewardship programme for individual donors including welcome and impact communications.
• Use data to track donor retention, upgrade opportunities, and areas for improvement.

Campaigns, Communications & Community Engagement

• Plan and deliver key fundraising campaigns (e.g. Christmas Appeal, Giving Tuesday).
• Create engaging fundraising content and stories across email, social media, the website and fundraising platforms.
• Build relationships with community groups and partners, representing WeSwim at relevant events.

Systems, Data & Reporting

• Maintain accurate fundraising records and supporter data.
• Monitor fundraising performance and produce reports and insights.
• Contribute to improving fundraising systems and digital tools.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, people from the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those underrepresented in charity employees. We believe diverse perspectives strengthen our decision-making and help us better serve our community.

Location: Your work will mostly be from home but will involve travel within London. Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK and are based within easy reach of London.

Join us in making a difference to increase opportunities for disabled people to swim in London.

We’re delighted to be working with a fantastic charity to recruit their Individual Giving Executive!

Role Overview
As an Individual Giving Executive, you will project manage a range of Individual Giving campaigns within the Development & Stewardship team. The role focuses on cash appeals, raffles, newsletters and supporter journeys across various channels including direct mail, telephone and digital.

Key Responsibilities

· To manage the day to day running of individual giving campaigns; including campaign planning, overseeing creative development, liaising with key stakeholders, co-ordinating print and production, monitoring and analysing results and feeding back to agencies.

· To assist with the analysis, evaluation and reporting of campaigns, drawing conclusions and making recommendations for future activity.

· To manage the invoicing process and campaign income and expenditure.

· To assist in the selection and sign off of data for all direct marketing campaigns managed.

· To assist with planning of yearly marketing plans & strategy.

Person Specification

· Experience of managing a range of direct marketing campaigns within a fundraising environment.

· Familiarity with marketing databases and the ability to conduct analysis using Excel.

· Ability to schedule and prioritise workloads effectively

· Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

· Ability to assess creative work, write/edit copy and feedback edits in a constructive manner

· Ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, to a range of people at different levels of the organisation and with different target markets

What’s on Offer

• Location: home-based role
• Salary: £25,800-£27,000
• Contract: Permanent, Full-time

 
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.

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Our PR & Media Manager is crucial to guiding our public story and scale up our media reach as we enter the final stages of our campaign to end bear bile farming in Vietnam and develop the profile of our founder and CEO Jill Robinson MBE. As the internal lead for global PR and media, you will cultivate strong relationships with colleagues in our Programmes and Fundraising teams to amplify their work through celebrity support, thought-leadership and media engagement.

Your main areas of responsibility include press office management (managing the media inbox, journalist and influencer liaison, writing press releases, and media monitoring , working with our international network of external PR specialists to prepare and deliver PR & Media plans for each of our key fundraising markets (UK, US & Aus.), preparing pitches, media releases and content for media outreach and building a library of case studies and fact files to demonstrate our impact. 

Working closely with our Celebrity Manager, your other key area of responsibility is developing and implementing creative media opportunities for our celebrity supporters to raise Animals Asia’s profile through earned, owned and shared digital platforms, print and broadcast media. You will possess the knowledge, skills, and creativity to help us raise awareness of Animals Asia and what we stand for, helping us grow our supporter base and meet our brand goals. You will be managed by our Global Director of Strategic Communication. 

Key duties:

Strategy and planning

• Development of creative campaigns that deliver high quality coverage to reach target audiences in line with Animals Asia’s organisational and communications objectives including fundraising, brand awareness, policy influencing and behaviour change.
• Utilise a range of appropriate tactics such as celebrity and influencer support, CEO profile building and subject matter expert thought leadership.

PR delivery

• Participate in the development and implementation of our thought leadership program, supporting our internal subject matter experts to publish on Linked In, contribute to earned media and participate in speaking opportunities.
• Preparing, publishing, moderating and reporting on social media content for PR and media purposes, including the identification and targeting of key influencers to support our campaigns share our content.
• Support and promote global campaigns, appeals and events with PR, including the development of press materials and media targeting and liaison.
• Participate in a program of activity to develop and build the profile of our CEO, Jill Robinson, as a key ambassador for Animals Asia.

Press office management

• Day to day running of the press office, including responding to media enquiries, drafting media releases, undertaking proactive pitch development, outreach to journalists and influencers, maintaining our database of media contacts and other general press office management.
• Leading on the creation and maintenance of our external events and key dates calendar to identify opportunities and clashes for PR.
• Keeping abreast of external events and news stories for reactive response and future planning.
• Identifying, monitoring and responding to any reputational and other reactive issues, including anything related to our celebrity ambassadors, in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Coordinate the monitoring, reporting and evaluation of all PR and media related activities, to assess and learn from the success of activities to feed into future plans as well as build the positive profile of the PR function across the organisation.
• Management of PR suppliers, such as Meltwater and MuckRack, to ensure a smooth and well-functioning press office with timely reporting and access to information.
• Maintaining the news and media sections of our website and media packs.

Content production and asset coordination

• Lead on the internal coordination of information, asset gathering and content production for proactive and reactive media activity, delivering outputs in an engaging, accessible and media appealing way, including with the development and maintenance of a case study and fact file library and the production of media-ready content, including with video, images, audio and copy.
• Develop and craft key messages that get cut through, in support of our campaigns.
• Draft high quality materials such as press releases, opeds, blogs, briefings, pitches and bios across all PR, including in close collaboration with our internal subject matter experts to develop our reputation and thought leadership in animal welfare.

Relationship management

• Day to day management of PR suppliers and partners, including our international network of external PR specialists to deliver PR campaigns.
• Internal liaison with colleagues throughout Animals Asia to gather information, check facts and develop content and pitches for earned media.
• Build relationships with key journalists, celebrities and social media influencers.

General

• Proactive attendance at meetings.
• Proactive in keeping up to date with developments in PR & Media.
• Represent Animals Asia at internal and external functions and events as required.

Person Specification:

• Minimum of three years’ experience of working in a busy press office or PR agency, including drafting key messages, press releases and responding to media enquiries.
• Strong news sense, knowledge of biodiversity and animal welfare is a plus.
• Strong experience of using a range of proactive and creative PR tactics to generate high quality and on message PR coverage, such as with celebrities, individual profile building, fundraising and policy influencing campaigns.
• Excellent experience and understanding of different types of PR opportunity and outlet and how to target them, such as broadcast, opinion, news, features and letters.
• Experience of working with celebrities, their managers and agents.
• Experience in measuring and reporting on press coverage, including using media monitoring software to track media engagement, journalists and coverage.
• Excellent understanding of reputation management and associated risks.
• Experience in using media monitoring software to track media engagement, journalists and coverage.
• Extensive experience of writing and publishing to social media.
• Competent video editing skills.
• Excellent written English. including writing for journalists and a public audience.
• Demonstrable experience of prioritising and delivering against multiple deadlines in a time pressured environment.
• Confident in building relationships with journalists, colleagues and stakeholders and being a credible representative for the charity and the cause.
• Proven ability to work well under pressure.
• Willingness and ability to work early/late flexible hours (due to the global nature of the role) and occasionally on weekends.
• Commitment to the objectives and values of the organisation.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite products.

Communication / interpersonal skills:

• Strong people skills with a high level of organisational awareness and demonstrated ability to liaise with a broad and diverse range of stakeholders.
• Proactive, with a “can-do” attitude. Results-driven to improve performance.
• Ability to display initiative, common sense and diplomacy.
• Commitment to professionalism, discretion and confidentiality.
• Well-presented, articulate and polite.

Conditions and Benefits:

Place of work:

Home-based (Global).

Working hours:

Full-time. Standard hours are 37.5 hours per week from 9am to 5pm, with good flexibility.

You will be required to work such additional hours as are necessary to fulfill your role which may include evenings and weekends. You will be expected to manage your hours, responsibilities and workload accordingly.

Reports to:

Global Director of Strategic Communication.

Manages:
N/A.

Budget responsibility:
N/A.

Probation: 6 months.

Annual leave:

Commensurate with the country of residence. 

The holiday year runs from January 1st to December 31st.

Other benefits:

Standard Animals Asia benefits plus training will be provided as required with opportunities for growth and development.

How to apply:

Please send your CV and cover letter outlining how you meet the person specification and why you should be considered for this role to us.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Find out more, please visit our website.

Animals Asia values candidates with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We welcome applicants of every ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, socioeconomic status, disability, or veteran status. We are committed to building an organization that creates an inclusive environment for all. 

Using AI During Interviews:

Animals Asia is committed to ensuring a fair and authentic interview process. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including but not limited to real-time transcription, automated response generation or assistance in formulating interview answers, is strictly prohibited during any stage of the interview process.

We will take a candidate's agreement to participate in an interview with us as confirmation that they will not use AI tools in any form during the conversation. If it is discovered or reasonably suspected that AI has been used, the interview will be terminated immediately, and the candidate will no longer be considered for the role.

We appreciate your understanding and adherence to this policy, which is in place to maintain the integrity, professionalism and reliability of our recruitment procedures. 

Application Deadline on 26th January 2026