Fundraising Manager

Capital Appeals Manager (Fundraising Manager)
Salary: Circa 42k FTE Depending on Experience, pro rata for part time
Hours: Part-Time, 3 days (21 hours) per week can be worked flexibly or on set days.
Duration: 2 year contract.
Location: This charity's Stables, Barnet EN5
Responsible to: CEO

About the Employer:

This charity provides mental health and education support to some of London's most vulnerable young people through offering equine assisted therapy and alternative education programmes. The organisation's ability to deliver excellence in its service quality is dependent upon a skilled and competent workforce where learning and continuous improvement is a fundamental aim.

This charity has been in operation for over 10 years and has grown year on year in terms of income and number of young people reached and number of services they offer.

They have 5 full time and 5 part time contracted staff members, 18 freelance staff members and work with 17 volunteers. 400 - 500 young people per year benefit from their life changing services; their hope is that this will increase to 700+ per year from 2027 once the building project at their site is complete. They have ambitious longer term plans for growth.

The charity has been operating in North London for over 10 years from a small stables, after their lease sadly came to an end in January 2023 they moved to their long term home. This was a derelict stables owned by the Council which they have secured via a 25 year lease. In 2022-23 they raised £300,000 to get the site usable as an equine therapy centre, although it is still very run down with much of it boarded up an derelict. They now have full planning permission to develop the site and build a purpose built equine therapy centre which will allow them to double the number of young people who access the space.

About the Role:

To make this dream a reality they are looking for an experienced Capital Fundraising Manager to lead the Capital fundraising campaign for this project to raise £700,000 over 2 years - in order to fund this build.

The hope is to raise £350,000 in year one in order to fund half of the build (stage 1) with the remaining funding being secured in the 2nd year to complete the build in year 2. The organisation has a strong track record of fundraising including recently securing 5 years core costs funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and they have warm relationships that they can call on once this fundraising campaign gets activated.

This is an exciting opportunity to join this charity at a time of growth and change and an opportunity for someone to really make this role their own.

About You:

Central to this role is the ability to work according to the organisation's core values of:

• Ambition: for young people, the charity and ourselves as individuals
• Curiosity without judgment (about human and equine behaviours)
• Embrace difference: a variety of perspectives & life experiences are essential
• Embrace difficulty; it's where the learning happens
• Commitment to always improving; & owning areas that improvement is required
• Respect

You are driven and ambitious, both in your personal career goals and in achieving and surpassing fundraising targets. You will also bring this ambition to your aspirations for this organisation, striving for excellence and growth in all endeavours.

Experience of successfully managing capital funding appeals with a proven track record of securing significant funds from high net-worth individuals, corporate organisations and grant making organisations.

Self-motivated and able to confidently lead on fundraising projects including:

• Creating capital fundraising strategy
• Generating a capital fundraising pipeline
• Reporting efficiently on progress

The ability to proactively manage stakeholders from across the organisation to ensure all are involved and their personal networks are utilised in this campaign.
This will include:

• Working alongside the 2 CEO's to develop a strategy and to utilise existing contacts and warm leads
• Working closely with the Marketing Manager to ensure fundraising materials and pitch decks are high quality
• Engaging staff, volunteers and supporters in the campaign
• Manage fundraising pipeline and presenting a progress updates to the board if required
• Creating a relationship with one of the charity's HNW funders who has connections with other HNW individuals and corporations
• The Equestrian Management Agency (who support this organisation as their partner charity and are invested in making this fundraising campaign a success)

What's in it for you:

• The opportunity to work with and learn from a friendly, flexible team of highly knowledgeable people who are passionate about the charity and its work
• Contributing to tackling youth mental health crisis - with a great team
• Benefit from investment and a genuine commitment to you, your training and career development including:
  • Personal CPD budget to access further training & develop your skills
  • Access to in-house training sessions in various areas of horse and human psychology
• Generous holiday allowance
• Basic Healthcare plan

Don't feel you meet every single requirement?

This charity is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, the employer encourages you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles and they would welcome an explanation as to how you believe you would develop the skills required with training.

Interested?

Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role.
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