Fundraising Manager

Join us in seeing our vision come to life, where living in Letchworth Garden City offers everyone the opportunity to flourish as part of a vibrant community, enjoy the best that both town and country offers, and benefit from easy access to nature with unrivalled facilities, culture, and support networks.

JOB ROLE:

This is a key role where you will lead and develop the Foundation’s Fundraising strategy to support the delivery of our charitable objectives and strategic aims. Working with internal colleagues and external funders, you will ensure we secure sufficient income to deliver practical impact through our services.

You will work with collaboratively with stakeholders to create compelling funding applications and lead the fundraising activity to ensure efficient processes and maximisation of opportunity.

Key areas of focus include Arts, Culture & Heritage; Environment & Wellbeing; Community impact and social change, some knowledge and a keen interest in this area is key.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience of working in a fundraising role, with experience of developing and implementing a fundraising strategy and evaluating its effectiveness.


• Experience of writing Cases for Support and presenting compelling advocacy materials to support a fundraising strategy


• Experience of researching grant opportunities as well as developing tools and resources to support grant applications


• Experience of managing funder communications and relations


• Track record of securing and managing multi-year revenue funding with annual targets of £250k upwards.

This role is hybrid, a proportion of the working week will be based at our offices in Letchworth.

OUR VALUES:

Collaborative. Evidence-based. Inclusive. Supportive.

We are a people business. We look for passionate people who will help us to meet our vision and values. Our values demonstrate our principles and guide our actions. We want our values to come to life through people’s experience of each other and the Foundation as whole - ultimately helping create a culture that ensures our commitment to achieving our vision and mission.

OUR BENEFITS

Every member of our team is valued, which is why we support them with a range of benefits to help them thrive both inside and outside of work.

Our benefits are grouped around three priorities – Health, Work life balance/time and Finances

Health:

Cash Health Plan

A contribution towards Private Medical Insurance (dependant on Grade - L2 &L3 only)

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing resource

Smart Health 24/7 GP consultation

Time:

27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time)

Holiday buy / sell scheme

1 day paid Volunteering Leave per year (pro rata for part time)

Finances:

Company Pension

Life Assurance

£210 Wellbeing Allowance per year

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Employee Discount Scheme

Discounts for our venues

APPLICATION

Applications must include a CV and a covering statement/letter explaining why you are applying for the role. Applications without a covering statement may not be accepted.

Please note if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close the vacancy ahead of the published closing date.

EQUAL OPPORTUNTITIES

Whether it is creating diversity in our services or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have. We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.

SAFEGUARDING

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all our colleagues to share this commitment.

FLEXIBILITY

We understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

PERSONAL DATA

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation (LGCHF) will only collect personal data relevant to the recruitment process and will process that data in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 / UKGDPR. Your personal data will only be shared with persons directly involved in the recruitment process, and LGCHF will retain your personal data for only as long as it remains relevant to LGCHF. For further information please ask for a copy of our general recruitment privacy policy. For information on your data rights, go to www.ico.org.uk.