[ref. h00294302] Fundraising Manager
Fundraising Manager
Our client has an exciting opportunity to join their thriving and dynamic team as a Fundraising Manager.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to help our client realise its vision of a world without violence, through an ambitious strategy to extend their preventive programmes and maintain their essential high-quality services. Through developing and expanding income generated through trust and grants, corporate giving and individual giving, you will help our client to be part of the systems change to end gender-based violence.
You will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and team leads to understand funding priorities, identify potential funders and donors and develop compelling funding bids, proposals and appeals. This will include collaboration to develop partnership proposals.
You will undertake new prospect research and develop and nurture excellent donor relationships. You will seek opportunities to strengthen and build on existing and lapsed funding relationships and be proactive about identifying further development opportunities.
In order to realise their ambitions, our client needs to extend their programme of fundraising growth, so they can increase annual income from circa £3 million to in excess of £3.5 million.
About you
Through this new organisational role, you’ll proactively create and grow fundraising income opportunities with individuals, corporate partners and grant giving trusts and foundations. You'll bring our client’s cause to life and build lasting funder and donor relationships, leading the drive for new donor engagement and securing sustainable, multi-year funding.
Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of building relationships with corporate partners, individuals and other donors to achieve and exceed annual income targets and KPIs. You’ll have the ability to support and mentor your team and the capacity yourself to create and craft compelling bids, proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters.
You will be an exemplary relationship builder and have experience in developing multi-faceted partnerships (ideally with experience and success in employee engagement, corporate sponsorship, and/or operational partnerships).
Our client is a small team so you will be comfortable rolling up your sleeves to help out team members and to support new business across other income streams.
You’ll be excited by the opportunity to join them and to work in a varied and busy role within a collaborative and supportive environment.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
Our client strives to create a workplace that reflects the communities they serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. They want to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates diverse voices.Our client actively encourage applicants with protected characteristics to apply.
Our client is committed to taking an inclusive approach to recruitment and selection whilst ensuring there is no discrimination in their processes and that the team and prospective employees are treated fairly, with respect and without bias.Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can be made to accommodate additional requirements. Applicants are encouraged to highlight any specific adjustments needed to enable participation in the recruitment process.
Contract information
Salary: £36,760 pa FTEHours: 37 hours per week (or as agreed)
Responsible to: Head of Income Generation (CEO while this post is vacant)
Based: Office based with up to 50% working from home
Annual Leave: 27 days + bank holidays (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Applicants will undergo a basic criminal record check before employment starts.
How to apply
Our client reserves the right to close this vacancy early if the suitable candidate is found and will be conducting interviews on a rolling basis. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible to be considered.
Interviews will be held in person in our client’s office but please indicate in your application if this is not possible so they can consider an alternative.
Other organisations may call this role Individual Giving Manager, Partnerships Manager, Charity Development Manager, Giving Manager, Philanthropy Manager, Charity Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Team Lead, Fundraising Lead, Individual Giving Lead, or Community and Engagement Fundraising Manager.
So, if you’d like to join the team in this impactful role as a Fundraising Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency