Philanthropy Development Manager
- Employer
- Shelter
- Location
- London, EC1 but currently remote working
- Salary
- £36,858 pa (inclusive of £4,615 London Weighting) + excellent benefits including flexible working
- Closing date
- 9 Nov 2020
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- Function
- Fundraising, Corporate Fundraising, Major Donor/ Gifts
- Sector
- Housing & Homelessness
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Contract
Job Details
Maternity Cover until 7th January 2022
London, EC1 but currently remote working
Closing date: 9 November 2020 at 11.30pm
Do you have experience in soliciting large donations from High Net Worth Individuals or working with High Net Worth clients in a private sector role? Then join Shelter as a Philanthropy Development Manager and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our creative, passionate and ambitious Philanthropy team.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We are in the middle of a national housing emergency that has collided with a public health emergency, and more people than ever are turning to Shelter for help. We need ambitious individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our Philanthropy team is a continuing success story. Over the last three years, we have grown our major gifts income to £2.3m, but we know there is even more potential. This growth has been achieved by significant investment in the team and the development of a range of products and propositions. Join us, and you’ll play a big part in our ongoing success.
Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the Role
As part of an innovative, collaborative team, you will help us take philanthropy fundraising to new heights. This role is designed to help us build relationships with HNWIs and support growth in six and seven-figure donations. You will manage a portfolio of high net worth individuals, cultivating and stewarding donors, while also identifying new prospects, developing the proposals that will inspire them to give and also feeding into our operational annual and long term plans to deliver a major donor strategy.
About you
A track record of successfully dealing with influential individuals to secure significant gifts/accounts is required. You’ll also need excellent communication and relationship-building skills with a confident approach to donor management and the ability to articulate a compelling case for support. What's more, you have both the initiative and collaborative approach it takes to proactively identify opportunities and improve ways of working across the team and wider organisation.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
To find out more about the role and have an informal conversation please contact emma_mathysse@shelter.org.uk to arrange a call. Apply to be part of our award-winning fundraising team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Company
The housing crisis is now a national emergency.
Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.
Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.
Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.
We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.
In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.
We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.
Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.
In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.
For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.
We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.
This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.
Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.
Polly Neate, Chief Executive
Helen Baker, Chair
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