Direct reports
Grants and Trusts Manager, Grants and Trusts Senior Officer, Partnerships Senior
Location
Nailsworth
Purpose of the role
The Head of Fundraising leads the development and delivery of the charity’s fundraising strategy, ensuring a robust, diverse, and sustainable income base. You are responsible for delivering and sustaining a significant income target, growing restricted and unrestricted income across multiple streams – including trusts and foundations, individual giving, community and corporate support – and ensuring our approach is strategic, integrated and aligned to our organisational goals.
This is a senior role within the charity, providing both hands‑on fundraising and leadership across the team. You will lead a high‑performing team, oversee budgets and targets, support bid development, and be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), helping shape wider organisational planning and direction.
You have cross‑organisation accountability for the organisation-wide approach to evaluation, academic research, supporting strong evidence‑based impact. You will also lead on data and fundraising compliance.
Key responsibilities
Strategy and delivery
- Develop and implement a fundraising strategy that supports organisational impact and sustainability, aligned to organisational targets
- Set, report and analyse performance across fundraising income streams, highlighting and managing risks
- Oversee and contribute to high‑value fundraising bids and appeals, including proposal development, budget presentation and stewardship
- Ensure a balanced, long‑term pipeline of income opportunities aligned with organisational mission and priorities
- Oversee all supporter communications development and delivery
Leadership and development
- Lead a high‑performing, motivated team, overseeing delivery and professional development
- Set clear individual role expectations and team objectives and monitor performance
- Work with your team to ensure consistency and best practice across the fundraising function, aligning with the wider organisation approach
- Positively contribute within the SLT to cross‑organisational planning and strategic decision‑making
- Proactively network and represent the organisation with professionalism and credibility, building strong relationships with stakeholders including significant funders
- Compliance with internal policy and external regulations
Monitoring, evaluation and development
- Lead the charity’s approach to monitoring and evaluation, aligned with sector practice
- Ensure consistent and robust gathering of compelling evidence of impact
- Steer evidence‑based project/programme development to shape fundable, fully‑costed initiatives
Governance and compliance
- Oversee GDPR‑related compliance across the organisation
- Ensure all fundraising activity adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice
Decision‑making and accountability
You are accountable to the CEO
- Approved fundraising strategy, delivery and budgets
- Team leadership, priorities and objective setting
- Fundraising priorities and donor communications
You collaborate or accelerate on:
- Future fundraising strategy and targets and budgets
- Organisation‑wide planning, programme/project development and emerging priorities
What success looks like
- Meeting or exceeding income targets across funding streams
- Fundraising strategy embedded and aligned with wider organisational priorities
- Excellent supporter stewardship delivering sustained and reliable income
- Motivated, well‑supported team, meeting their individual objectives and delivering high‑quality work with confidence and clarity
- Clear, credible evidence of impact that drives programme/project development
- Regular and accurate performance and budget reporting in place
Person specification
Experience
- Proven track record of income generation across a range of fundraising areas
- Strong leadership experience, including line management and team development
- Experience of securing and stewarding five‑ and six‑figure grants
- Adept with extracting and analysing data insights, and IT proficient
- Solid understanding of individual/community giving campaigns and supporter journeys
- Expertise in monitoring and evaluation in a fundraising or programme context
- Understanding of fundraising Code of Practice, GDPR and related regulations
- Experience of digital fundraising or comms‑led income generation
Personal skills and qualities
- Strategic thinker with strong planning and problem‑solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including bid writing and impact reporting
- Positive, inclusive leadership style with a focus on collaboration and development
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Confident working with data and income reporting, able to adapt to new tools and systems
- Committed to the values of reading, oracy, education and child wellbeing
- A team player who supports others and contributes to a positive working culture
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