Head of Fundraising and Partnerships

(Home-based – Greater London)

Salary – £36k- £42k (plus inner London weighting of £3,200)

2 year fixed term contract (with potential to extend)

Closing date 12th November 2018

About Breast Cancer UK

Breast Cancer UK's mission is to prevent breast cancer through scientific understanding, education, collaboration and policy change.

We are the only UK breast cancer charity focused entirely on the prevention of breast cancer by campaigning to reduce risk. Many thousands of women every year get breast cancer but at least 1 in 4 breast cancers is thought to be preventable.

• We fund scientific research that will help to understand and address the preventable risk factors for breast cancer
• We educate and raise awareness of the preventable risk factors for breast cancer and provide practical information to help people reduce their risk
• We campaign for policy changes that promote the prevention of breast cancer

We have grown in size and impact over the last 5 years and we have ambitious plans to do even more. As well as tackling the environmental causes of breast cancer, we aim to promote awareness and understanding of the preventable lifestyle risk factors too.

The Role

The Head of Fundraising and Partnerships will play a key role in developing and delivering a fundraising strategy that will diversify our income streams, grow fundraising across business partnerships, legacies, appeals and individual donors and promote long term income sustainability so that we can deliver real impact in the area of breast cancer prevention.

A full person specification and job description is available on our website, but responsibilities include:

• Developing and implementing an income generation strategy that helps to identify and meet targets for growth.
• Ensuring Breast Cancer UK’s fundraising activities are transparent, adhere to industry best practice, our own high ethical standard and are compliant with relevant charity legislation and codes of practice.
• Developing, monitoring and providing regular reports to the Board and subject specific Committees on impact measurement and key performance indicators.

Key Facts:

• Hours: Full Time (37.5hrs/week) 2 year fixed term contract (with potential to extend)
• Location: Home based (Greater London)
• £36k – £42k depending on experience (plus London weighting)
• 25 days holiday per year plus public holidays, plus three days when the office is closed over the Christmas period (when holiday time must be taken).
• Supportive and positive working environment.
• Good opportunities for learning and development.
• Up to 4% matched funded contributory pension scheme

Person Specification

You will:

• Be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience/professional qualifications
• Have significant experience of growing income streams within the voluntary sector or similar context. 
• Have a proven record of ability to build new and existing strategic partnerships for income generation purposes.
• Have an excellent understanding of how to develop fundraising strategies, action plans and performance indicators. 
• Have exceptional written and verbal communications skills, with ability to adapt style to suit different fundraising audiences.
• Have strong people management skills and an ability to inspire and support others.
• Be experienced in the use of CRM or support management systems to develop supporter relationships, insights and campaigns. 
• Be adept at communicating complex/sensitive or complicated themes and adapting style for specific target audiences.
• Be able to work under pressure and multi task – to work at both a strategic and operational level.
• and be proficient in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and databases.

A general understanding of the not-for-profit sector; health sector and/or cancer prevention policy would also be desirable.

Other Information

A full  job description helps the post holder to understand her/his main duties.

Breast Cancer UK is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of background. Breast cancer affects all people and we welcome applications from all genders. Please help us monitor the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policy by completing our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. This will be separated from your application on receipt and any information gathered anonymised and used only for statistical purposes. 

Breast Cancer UK has no head office and all staff are expected to be able to work from home.

The post holder will be required to travel within the UK, for example to attend meetings or conferences in other parts of the country. This may occasionally require overnight stays. The post holder may also be required to undertake occasional evening and weekend work where, for example, we hold events or conferences.

Application Process - please visit our website for more information

Application deadline: 5p.m on the 12th November 2018.

Provisional dates of interviews are as follows: 1st interviews will be held in the week of the 19th November via conference call. A 2nd round of interviews in which will candidates will be expected to prepare a short presentation will be held towards the end of the following week.

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

We understand the trust that people place in us when sharing their data. We will always do our utmost to respect that trust and protect their personal information.We will only process your personal. information in accordance with the above purposes (i.e. to process your application, contact you should you be shortlisted).The information provided by you will be kept for the duration of the recruitment process and in the event you are unsuccessful for no longer than 1 year after the application deadline date. We will not pass any data to any third parties and your information will be kept securely in a digital format. Should you be offered the role, your information will be kept for the duration of your time with Breast Cancer UK and for up to 6 year after. You have the right to request a copy of the data held on you by us and can withdraw your consent at any time. A full copy of Breast Cancer UK’s Employee Data Protection and Privacy Policy can be requested by calling 0845 680 1322