Location: Haywards Heath
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 14 March 2021
Salary: £43,500
Specific Hours: Standard Hours - this is a full-time position but some flexibility regarding hours and working from home will be considered
Legacy Administration Manager
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Contract: Permanent, Full time – with some flexibility
Salary: £43,500
Each year Sightsavers receives over £10m from gifts in the wills of our generous supporters. Administering these gifts sensitively and professionally is vital for us to continue to grow this key income stream and eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities through our work.
Sightsavers are recruiting for a new position, a Legacy Administration Manager who will play a vital role within our growing in-house Legacy Administration team.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Legacy Administration, the Legacy Administration Manager will manage and operate the administration of all legacies received by Sightsavers in the UK and Ireland, liaising with Executors, Solicitors, Trust Corporations, together with Legacy Managers/ Officers at other charities. Key duties include:
About you
We are looking for an individual with outstanding customer service and strong technical and influencing skills as well as bags of tact and diplomacy and a team ethos. You will have:
This is an involved role and further details may be found within the job description.
The team are all currently working from home but once the offices reopen, our expectation is that we will need the successful candidate to be able to travel to the offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) at least one day per week. It’s an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Closing date: 14 March 2021
We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in late March 2021.