This is a home-based role and covers the whole of the UK, with regular travel within your region of responsibility.
Region - Central England and South West England.
Circa £42,800 per annum
Full-Time fixed term 12 months maternity cover beginning August 2020 - August 2021 - 35 hours per week

Raising vital money to transform children's lives.

The role
This is a fantastic time to join the fundraising team to continue to drive the recent corporate fundraising strategy within community fundraising. You will be managing the pipeline of local corporate acquisition across all regional community fundraising teams to achieve financial and non-financial targets. Our 4 year target has been doubled to £5 million so we are looking to bring on board an energetic, commercially minded manager looking to utilise their relationship building skills and to really drive the team to hit targets.

You will make a difference by:

- Leading and managing performance of the Central and South West regional fundraising area, setting objectives and KPIs for the successful delivery of community fundraising, with particular focus on local corporate fundraising activity across all community fundraising teams
- Monitoring all income and expenditure targets for local corporate fundraising activity across the Community fundraising teams, reporting on variance against budget and taking ultimate responsibility for achieving or exceeding local corporate income targets
- Driving the Central and South West team to hit income targets.
- Deputising for the Head of Community Fundraising in all areas as required and contributing to the leadership and direction of Community Fundraising through the regional/senior management team

You will need:
- Proven experience in hitting significant new business targets
- Proven experience of delivering projects, applying project planning and management techniques
- Experience of managing the acquisition pipeline and resources for corporates fundraising managers
- An understanding of the corporate sector and community fundraising discipline and issues relating to charity management, charity legislation, best practice and other regulatory requirements
- Excellent relationship building skills, ability to build rapport and develop relationships with a variety of people
- Ability to set, manage and monitor complex budgets and to track, analyse and report against results

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here.

Rewards

We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits here.

For safe and happy childhoods

At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

For more information, please contact Anne Marie Wilson at anne-marie.wilson@actionforchildren.org.uk
The closing date for this post will be Friday 19th June with a view to interview the following week.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

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