Vacancies

Job Number: 2403

Job Title: Fundraising Manager
Charity: Sight Research UK
Salary Range: circa £40,000
Location: Can be homebased with once a month from Bristol office as well as when required.

Deadline for applications: 7th October

Purpose of the job

This role will oversee the organisation’s fundraising activity, building on good foundations and with a number of new activities in the pipeline to take our fundraising into the next phase. This role will be responsible for continuing the development and growth of a sustainable income generation pipeline from charitable trusts and foundations as well as other income streams, in order to meet the organisation’s grant making objectives. Income generation is a top priority for the Charity, ensuring we can fund as much sight-saving research as possible. The post holder will have a strong background in trust and foundation fundraising, but also bring experience in building new income streams and knowledge of various types of individual giving, as well as some prospect research expertise to help the organisation grow its network of potential supporters.

Role Responsibilities

• Day to day management responsibility for the Charity’s fundraising – being chief problem solver and the day-to-day lead for fundraising related workload.
• Undertaking fundraising work to make the lead contribution in delivering the Charity’s current circa £400k income target.
• Alongside the CEO ensure the Charity has an effective fundraising plan and strategy to deliver income required to meet the Charity’s organisational strategy.
• Review the organisation’s current trust funders pipeline and assess potential for future growth. Monitor and refine the prospect ratings and rankings for trusts and foundations to ensure that they are fit for purpose.
• Lead on managing and growing the portfolio of prospective charitable trusts and foundations funders matching prospective funders to charity programmes/projects.
• Ensure that all available information on current, lapsed, and potential funders is up to date on the organisation’s CRM database (Donorfy) to facilitate tailored funder relationship development and compliance with funder requirements.
• Overseeing existing/where required setting up new effective systems for tracking, reporting and stewardship of income.
• Work with the CEO to develop and manage relationships with existing corporate partners and identify potential new corporate supporters.
• With the support of the Marketing and Communications Manager, deliver on a positive donor/supporter experience with the aim of retention of current supporters for the long term as well as acquisition of new donors.
• With the support of the Marketing and Communications Manager, grow one-off donations and regular gifts and maximise the acquisition of new supporters through direct mail and digital marketing.
• Measure performance against campaigns and appeals.
• Over time explore and potentially develop new fundraising streams including, major gifts and community fundraising.
• Work with our fundraising platform Raisley to deliver the integration work with our CRM to enable seamless gift administration for both one-off and regular gifts.

Person Specification

• Proven experience of trusts and foundations fundraising. Solid experience of translating complex scientific information into compelling funding proposals.
• Proven ability to maintain and develop relationships with funders.
• Experience of prospect research including identifying and prioritising prospects both of an individual and organisational nature, ethical screening and developing gift capacity ratings.
• Proven experience of managing an organisation’s prospect pipeline to keep track of opportunities and activity levels to inform income monitoring against budgets.
• A thorough understanding of the implications of the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR for prospect research and data management.
• Experience of using and interrogating relational databases to create and extract reports.
• Knowledge and experience of CRM databases.

For a copy of the full job pack, including the full person specifications, terms of employment and details on how to apply please contact us via the form on this page.