Digital Fundraising and Direct Marketing Manager

Do you want to raise vital funds to help deaf people leave loneliness behind and reconnect with life?

Do you have significant hands-on experience in growing income using digital marketing? This is a great opportunity to join an amazing charity and help them to deliver against their new five-year strategy which aims to significantly increase the number of deaf people, and people with hearing loss, that are helped.

Position: Digital Fundraising and Direct Marketing Manager

Location: The role can be based anywhere across the UK within commutable access to the Head Office in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. You’ll be able to work from home most of the time but must be willing and able to visit our Head Office as required (potentially once a month for team meetings, or for key photoshoots). If you wish to work from the site more often you will be able to do so.

Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum, depending on experience

Benefits: 24 days holiday, pension, Employee Assistance Program

Closing Date: 20 October

Interviews: First interviews will take place over Microsoft Teams w/c 25 October and 1 November

About the role:

The charity prioritises supporter experience across all of their fundraising and marketing. Digital has been a key driver of their recent growth and currently all digital activity is managed in-house. As Digital Fundraising and Direct Marketing Manager you will add to their digital skill set.

Traditional direct marketing and digital fundraising activity sit together in one team. You will lead this team, while taking a hands-on role in digital delivery. The charity operates with an internal agency structure including production, copywriting and in-house video production. This structure provides your team with significant support, including the production of all puppy sponsorship updates, leaving your team to focus on growing and developing income.

This role will have line management responsibility for two direct reports, the Digital and Direct Marketing Fundraiser and Digital and Website Executive.

About you:

As Digital Fundraising and Direct Marketing Manager you will have hands-on experience of delivering acquisition campaigns at scale across paid social channels including Facebook, and at least one other paid digital channel, you will also bring with you the following skills and experience:

• A proven track record of income generation against agreed financial targets and other KPIs
• Experience of developing and scaling digital marketing programmes – ideally in the charity sector – across a range of channels including paid social
• A good understanding of general fundraising techniques, but does not need to be an expert in traditional direct marketing activity
• A good understanding of conversion lead web design to deliver landing pages against strategic goals
• A passion to research and test new fundraising channels, propositions, and initiatives

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Senior Digital Fundraising, Marketing, Digital Fundraising Manager, Head of Fundraising, Head of Digital Fundraising, Fundraising Marketing, Direct Marketing Manager, Digital Communications Manager, Direct Marketing and Digital, Senior Direct Marketing, Fundraising Manager Direct Marketing, Senior Direct Marketing Executive, Digital Communications Director, Digital Channels Manager, etc.