Fundraising Manager / Rheolwr Codi Arian
An exciting Fundraising role leading our philanthropic and corporate fundraising efforts outside of Wales forging relationships with those with close connections to Wales, health and wellbeing or Tenovus Cancer Care’s aims, objectives as Wales’ leading cancer charity.
The Fundraiser job:
From your UK home-base you’ll be flying the flag for the charity outside of Wales. You’ll put on quality fundraising events and build strong relationships through our reputation and Welsh links making a difference when it comes to people with cancer.
Picture putting on fundraising events such as dinners and corporate sponsored events like golf or racing days. And, linking with London in Wales Week promoting networking opportunities with grant-givers, major donors, commercial, and corporate sources. Plus, you’ll help manage and set up our high value business network committees outside of Wales.
To be our Fundraiser with a flair you’ll be skilled in scoping business development opportunities; doing things like managing commercial relationships and events, pipeline building and being self-motivated in pushing past targets. Fundraising experience desired but not essential in comparison to your transferable skills.
In this Fundraising job you can expect to be doing things like:
- Portfolio management and development of new and ongoing individual and corporate high net worth donors
- Preparing client cultivation plans, delivering against five figure income targets and reporting and presenting on your work, delivery and performance
- Interacting at high professional level with internal stakeholders such as our CEO, Leadership Team and our Trustees about your work
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to foster and support our one team working ethos to support your own work and develop other area’s work delivery
- Promoting donor and prospective client engagement opportunities with our work at every opportunity and attend networking and inspirational events
- Spotting an events management opportunity and project managing that through working with colleagues and volunteers
- Using your natural leadership and people engagement skills to inspire, steward, and motivate potential supporters to join US or continue their journey with US and demonstrate our company values through the way you go about performing
You’ll need to be available to work 21 hours a week flexibly so days and hours can be built in and around our standard operating week as set out in our staff benefits. We’re really open to making the working week fit into your lifestyle around the nature and needs of this type of Fundraising role. There may need to be some travel to a city/location where you’re generating the income for example. Or some events you run may be in evenings or weekends.
Most of the job is done from home or where you fundraise outside of Wales and you’ll need to be UK based. Our Cardiff City Centre Head Office is always available to you too. Most Team meetings and day to day colleague work is handled remotely but we’d expect to see you in the office for things such as our quarterly team meetings.
We’d like your CV and a Covering Letter to demonstrate how you have done this type of Fundraiser role already and match the job essentials. We’re looking for skills to show us you’ve:
- Experience in working among high net worth and corporate donor circles to build and foster effective and sustained working relationships
- The ability to display second to none donor care and customer service to a prestigious level
- Experience at scoping viable business opportunities and maintaining an income pipeline that demonstrates viable growth
- The experience and knowledge to raise funds and handle the events management side of things
- The ability to capture and present your work, solutions and ideas to your colleagues and key internal stakeholders verbally and through reports and presentations and be open to others’ ideas and feedback
- The tenacity, self-motivation and drive to perform in a remote role and work on your initiative whilst being mindful of the wider part you play in a team and seeing the bigger picture
The Full Job Description and Person Specification:
https://www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/media/02ypa3f0/fundraising-manager-jd.pdf
The Logistics
- Apply by: 24th September with CV & Covering Letter to demonstrate where you meet the essential requirements
- Interviews held in our Cardiff Head Office on the 2nd October
Your Staff Benefits
In return you’ll be part of a people orientated culture, make impact through a worthwhile cause and have Staff Benefits such as:
- Core working hours 11am-3pm to fit work your lifestyle and personal life around our 7am-9pm general operating hours (flexibility in this type of role required around events)
- Super flexible place of work options with no minimum Cardiff Head Office weekly attendance requirement although we encourage as much in office work as possible
- A generous 35 days annual leave including public holidays that increases with length of service (pro rata’d for part time staff)
- Your birthday off work once you’ve been here for 12 months.
- Opportunity to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave per year
- Occupational sick pay after completion of probationary period
- Contributory pension scheme
- A tailored induction and support programme to help you succeed and excel
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering access to 24/7 confidential advice and support
- The opportunity to participate in staff volunteer activities to support the wider organisation
- The opportunity to learn from, grow with, support and develop people who volunteer with US
About us
Around 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales every year. We’re proud to support over 10% of those and we want to be there many more.
We give help, hope, and a voice to everyone affected by cancer. We understand how cancer can impact every aspect of life and how it affects families and friends too. Our wide range of services offer information, advice, and specialist support to people living with cancer, and their loved ones.
We’re committed to listening to the real experiences of people affected by cancer in Wales to drive the changes that make a difference.
More about US
At Tenovus Cancer Care we’re committed to making our workplace diverse and inclusive where everyone feels they belong and can be their authentic selves at work. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer who does not discriminate based on the Equality Act 2010’s Protected Characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and we will adjust our recruitment processes where we can to support people who wish to join us.
When our people talk about working here they’re proud to reflect our values. They’ll use words such as friendly, fun and welcoming to describe their experience and love our work culture around job flexibility. As well as it being a nice place to work for a good cause the staff benefits are good. On top of the above we’ve got a stylish Head Office in the heart of Cardiff and things to support you in and out of work like an interactive induction programme, an accessible Learning Platform, development opportunities and experienced managers. Plus a Staff Social Committee who organise regular get togethers!
Your Personal Data
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