Fundraising Manager

Thank you for your interest in working for Birthrights. If you are interested in centering anti-oppression in your fundraising work, in embodying an abundance mindset and working in ways that resist fundraising cultures that too often results in burn out, please read on and download our recruitment pack for more information about Birthrights and the role.

About Birthrights:

Birthrights was founded in 2013 with the understanding that at the heart of the poor experiences and outcomes of maternity care for so many people in the UK, is a consistent failure to listen to the voices of women and birthing people and a complete disregard for their fundamental human rights. We champion the rights of women and birthing people through information and advice, training, campaigns, research and legal action. You can read our ten year strategic framework here.

What we can offer you:

• This role is being offered on a salary range of £37,000-£42,000 pro rata
• All our staff work part-time, and we are open to you taking up this role on 3 or 4 days per week
• Home based working - our staff work from home across the UK, with some in-person meetings
• 30 days annual leave pro rata (excluding bank holidays)
• Investment in your wellbeing through our broad wellbeing plan, including £500 personal wellbeing allowance in 2025/26
• Enhanced sick pay and parental leave policies
• Flexible working
• Supportive colleagues dedicated to bringing about systemic change in maternity care.

About the role:

This is a hugely exciting role that will be part of Birthrights Senior Leadership team and play a key part in helping Birthrights' meet its ambitions and achieve its potential.

You will be the sole dedicated fundraiser in Birthrights, and as such you will be:

• Developing and delivering our long-term fundraising strategy to ensure we have financial stability.
• Securing multi-year funding from Trusts and Foundations, working with the CEO(s), Trustees and Senior Leadership Team to successfully prospect, cultivate, solicit, steward and report.
• Making the most of potential corporate and major donor interest that comes our way.
• Ensuring we have the right internal infrastructure, process and reporting in place.
• Contributing to the strategic direction, performance and health of the organisation as a member of our Strategic Leadership Team, including by centering racial justice in all we do.

About You:

You are a talented fundraising professional with:

• Excellent organisation and priortisation skills to effectively manage your time and others, to deliver both urgent immediate work and long-term priorities
• Ability to build and maintain relationships and engage with funders and individuals from a range of backgrounds
• A track record of securing funding from Trusts and Foundations, with experience of working with Trusts and Foundations from prospecting and cultivating to soliciting, stewarding and reporting
• Ability to tell compelling stories, with strong written and verbal communication and influencing skills
• Ability to make strategic decisions, keeping up to date on trends and priorities in fundraising and philanthropy and situating these in our organisational context to consider how these may affect and influence our fundraising approaches
• Supportive and willing to work collaboratively towards our commitments to anti-oppressive practices and to approach fundraising with an abundance mindset, care for self and others and calm presence

We still want to hear from you even if you don't meet all our criteria. Please tell us about experiences that have not been included here, but that you feel might be relevant to this role.