Philanthropy Manager
- Employer
- Harris Hill
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £27,366 - 36,667 per year
- Closing date
- 3 Aug 2018
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- Function
- Fundraising, Major Donor/ Gifts
- Sector
- Children & Youth, Social Care & Welfare
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Harris Hill are excited to be working with a well-established children's charity to find a Philanthropy Manager to join the team. You will be responsible stewarding and developing new and existing support from individual donors.
Key responsibilities:
- create, approve and deliver aspects of the team's annual business plan and budget with your manager
- Grow relationships and deliver income from donors/potential donors that you are responsible for
- Identifying new potential donors from a range of sources to ensure the strength of the Major Giving department prospect pipeline.
- Use a variety of communication methods including written and verbal, building positive relationships with influential people with the ability to negotiate successfully to achieve positive outcome.
- Improve and capture knowledge and understanding of supporters and donors proactively.
- Conduct thorough research through a numerous sources, to acquire relevant information that can contribute to applications, proposals, donor strategies and fundraising communications.
You will have the following skills and experience:
- The ability to secure support/business from wealthy individuals, ideally through face to face interactions, with demonstrable personal experience.
- Written communication skills to analyse, interpret and present complex information to influence others successfully.
- The ability to verbally communicate information, including direct personal approaches for donations and project updates to a range of audiences in a clear, inspiring and confident way.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to operate and negotiate successfully with colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Organisational skills to plan and manage your own work to deliver your personal objectives, identifying conflicting demands and establishing clear priorities.
- Knowledge of philanthropic motivations and current trends in philanthropy to be able to identify and exploit new opportunities to a successful conclusion.
- The ability to think strategically and create and implement fundraising strategies.
Company
Harris Hill has been providing the Charity and Not-for-Profit sector with high quality recruitment solutions for over 27 years. In the past year we have worked on more than 3,000 charity vacancies (approximately 2,000 permanent and 1,000 temporary) and are continuing to grow, developing new teams to respond to the strong demand for specialist charity professionals.
Our teams focus on specific functions within charities including Fundraising, Marketing/PR/Digital, Data Management & Business Support, Finance, Human Resources, Temporary and Executive-level roles.
We are committed to delivering a level of excellence to both candidates and clients alike and have an unrivalled reputation for finding talented people their ideal charity jobs within the UK's leading national and international charities and non-profit organisations.
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- Telephone
- 020 7820 7300
- Location
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1 - 2 Paris Garden
London
London
SE1 8ND
United Kingdom
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