Vacancies

Role responsibilites

• Work across the organisation to enhance and support a collective and ambitious approach to fundraising, taking ownership of Fundraising plans, relationships and systems.
• Lead the strategic direction for trusts and major gift fundraising and stewardship aspects of income generation.
• Cultivate, secure and steward funding and relationships through , high net worth individuals, trusts and foundations with a focus on long- term relationships.
• Produce annual plans, budgets and KPIs for philanthropy income generation.
• Take ownership of trusts and high net worth pipelines, set up discovery conversations, write proposals and applications.
• To work with the Head of Development & Strategy to support the Development Committee, providing updates and input to Board meetings.
• Work with internal colleagues to identify funding priorities, developing attractive purpose aligned propositions for funders.
• Collaborate proactively across the organisation to find, develop and share stories that will inspire support.
• To share your expertise and knowledge to develop an organisational culture of active prospecting, and passive fundraising through effective communication, relationship management and key events.
• To establish a proactive philanthropy calendar, engaging our donors to maximise their giving, creating a purposeful and genuine connection between Sported our generous community.
• Keep track of third sector trends ensuring Sported relevance to emerging areas of potential alignment (e.g sustainability, place etc).
• Define and monitor measurement of progress – tracking pipeline movement, and conversion to highlight and respond to key challenges and opportunities.
• Undertake any other duties and reasonable requests that are in keeping with the nature of this post and to support the charity.
• Be a positive, empathetic team player that engages with all other colleagues across our organisation.
• Monitoring the performance of the fundraising function using a range of metrics and reporting on this in a concise and timely manner.

Person specification

Essential:

• An established track record of meeting realistic income targets through building effective relationships with supporters at all levels.
• A fundraising role in a charity of comparable size with proven success in delivering a high value fundraising programme with a strong background in securing income through grants and trusts.
• Extensive proven experience of producing high quality and compelling proposals, reports and correspondence to inspire generous support.
• Experience of leading and overseeing budgets including setting, measuring and performing against KPIs.
• Experience of building up pipelines of prospects using research resources and third-party support.
• Experience of monitoring the performance of the philanthropy function using a range of metrics and reporting on this in a concise and timely manner.
• Ambitious, creative and a determined strategic thinker who turns strategy into results.
• Strong track record of delivering targets, both financial and non-financial.
• Strong communication and networking skills with the confidence to engage stakeholders at all levels (Trustees, volunteers, partners, senior execs).
• Ability to be both strategic and operational.