Fundraising Manager

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Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding management role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos?
Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate, and take accountability?
Then Advance could be the career choice for you!
WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED FUNDRAISING MANAGER TO JOIN OUR TEAM TO FOCUS ON TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATES, AND INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Job Title: Fundraising Manager
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 per annum depending on experience
Location: Based at the Advance Head Office in Hammersmith with potential travel to other Advance locations as required.
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hour per week

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Advance is committed to equality and diversity and strongly encourages applications from women with disabilities, from BME backgrounds and the LBT community.

The Role

In this expansion role for Advance, you will work closely with the Director of Business Development and Insights and Service Directors, to facilitate financial resilience, ensuring sustainability and growth. You will develop and deliver an ambitious fundraising strategy, alongside our Statutory Fundraising Manager, which will incorporate a range of funding sources. You will have significant trusts and foundations, corporate and individual giving experience partnered with a record of successful funder partnership management and income generation, and a solid understanding of fundraising regulation and best practice.
The role will be focused on both existing and new business, which includes managing a pipeline of existing and new opportunities for the organisation’s service portfolio. You will develop proposals and bids with the aim of producing high quality and innovative tender submissions.
To be successful in this role you will be dynamic, an exceptional relationship builder and communicator and confident presenter. As an advocate for Advance, you will have the innate ability to bring potential funders on a journey to understand the importance of specialist women services and integrated community based projects.

In Short, You Will Bring

A proven track record of creating and managing successful fundraising programmes, delivering income targets between £100k and £5 million from trusts, foundations, corporate funders or other similar partnerships.
Recent experience of delivering innovative ideas and contributing to the development and delivery of strategic plans.
Experience of writing bids and management reporting.
Record of maximising opportunities from researching prospects to generating meetings and securing income to achieve income targets.

What We Offer

30 days holiday plus public holidays pro rata, and a day off for International Women’s Day
Pension scheme
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
The opportunity to work in a flexible, supportive environment with a team of committed, inspiring women and we will support you as you to continue to build your skills and experience and grow your career

Please find the full job description and person specification attached below.

The closing date for this position is Sunday 11th July 2021
To apply: please send your CV along with a supporting statement setting out how you meet the criteria for the role and indicating where you first saw this role advertised, your notice period and salary expectations
Please note that any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK and satisfactory DBS check