Head of Development

Our client, a mental health charity are seeking a senior leader with experience with 5-6 figure fundraising but that can be within any of trusts & foundations, corporate and/or major donors.

Head of Development
Salary £55,000 - £60,000 + Benefits
Hybrid - London/Home

This role comes at an exciting time with the opportunity to lead the growth of their Development Team as they expand their capacity across all these areas of income generation. They currently have at least one role under each area and there is desire, supported by the board of trustees, for further recruitment to strengthen each as needed.

They are happy to consider people who want to work full-time (35 hours), or four days per week (28 hours).

Here's a summary of your key responsibilities:

• Provide inspirational leadership to their Development Team, managing the current team of five to deliver their £3m 2025 budget
• Develop, oversee and actively lead the implementation of a fundraising strategy which exploits a wide range of fundraising opportunities, maintains diverse and sustainable income streams, and builds the organisation’s unrestricted income capacity to meet its aims and objectives.
• Lead by example, personally building and managing a pool of 6 figure prospects to deliver against targets within your area of speciality (major donor, trusts and/or corporates), with a focus on new business across the team
• Potential to help them expand their high value fundraising on an international scale
• Collaborate across their teams, including Research, Marketing and Finance, to develop their list of fundraising products and proposals
• Refine and deliver their high value tracking and reporting on financial and activity KPIs, working closely with the Senior Data and Compliance Manager and using CRM, Raiser’s Edge NXT
• Build and monitor annual Development Team income and expenditure budgets and work with their Executive to provide regular updates against progress and reforecasting as needed
• Drive innovation in fundraising activity in order that the charity can stand out – improving current approaches but also developing new behaviours, projects and activities to win new funding through excellent stewardship and cultivation
• Capitalise on the expertise and networks of their senior volunteers, including working closely with their trustees and other Development Team colleagues to maximise existing opportunities for introductions, including the Lord Mayor’s Appeal
• Develop their ability to carry out targeted and systematic research to establish new high value prospects utilising existing networks, their database, search engines and referrals

About you:

This role is for you, if you have fundraising experience with grants and foundations as well as corporate fundraising and/or new business acquisition experience. This means you will have experience in stewarding and securing new gifts from foundations as well as researching new opportunities to apply for funds.

You will also be skilled in understanding and translating complex information and turning it in to compelling written proposals, for grants, corporate partnerships and major donors.

You will be driven to ensure that projects are delivered to the highest possible standards and be a sophisticated communicator with the confidence to build relationships with and inspire colleagues and donors.

They do require someone who is proactive, hardworking and results-focused.

Experience of Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge/NXT is desirable but not essential.

Essential Skills & Experience

Proven Leadership Experience

• Strong track record of leading and managing teams effectively.
• Ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve targets.
• Experience in building and growing teams.

High-Value Fundraising Expertise

• Demonstrated success in securing 5-6 figure donations from trusts, foundations, corporates, and/or major donors.
• Ability to build and manage a pipeline of high-value prospects.

Desirable Skills & Experience

Experience in the Mental Health Sector

• Understanding of mental health research and its importance.
• Existing contacts within the mental health or healthcare sector.

International Fundraising Expertise

• Experience in organising and executing high-value stewardship events.
• Ability to leverage events for donor engagement and fundraising.

What they’re offering you:

In return, they offer a great working experience within a friendly team. They operate a hybrid working scheme (in the London office Mondays and Tuesdays, with the remaining days from home). They are located near Barbican Tube.

Plus, they offer lots of generous benefits and training opportunities.

They're a Sunday Times Top Company to work for.

Closing date: 29/09/2024

Please note, they typically start interviewing within two weeks of the job advert going live. They reserve the right to close the job before the deadline based on the volume of applications, so they encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

They believe in equality and inclusion and they welcome job applications from everyone, provided you meet the criteria for the job.

Safer recruitment is important to this employer and the successful applicant will be asked to provide two references. They will also be required to complete a safeguarding self-declaration and undertake a DBS check.

They look forward to hearing from you.

Benefits

Flexible working: As a mental health charity, staff wellbeing is of paramount importance. They operate a core hours policy (10-4) to encourage flexible working and staff are mainly home based with the requirement to come into the office two days per week. A standard full-time working week is 35 hours, plus an hour for lunch breaks.

Holidays: Annual holiday entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays.

Wellbeing Allowance: they provide an allowance of up to £1200 per annum for each employee to spend on activities that increase their wellbeing. This is paid through payroll and is taxable.

Cycle to work scheme: An interest-free loan is available to enable employees to purchase a bike and accessories, repaid via equal deductions from the employee’s salary over 12 months.

Employee Assistance Programme: All employees and their families have access to a 24-hour confidential advice and support line.

Counselling: Employees have access to a number of free face-to-face sessions, via the EAP scheme.

Pension: they makes contributions of 5% and employees make contributions of 3%.

Season Ticket Loan: An interest free season ticket loan is available, repaid via equal deductions from the employee’s salary over 12 months.

Personal Development: They value employee development and review individual training needs through their performance management system. The Head of HR also runs internal development sessions for all staff through their training programme.

No agencies please.

Location: London, GB

Posted Date: 9/25/2024