Prospect Development Manager - FTC 12 Months

About The Role
Contract: This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, covering maternity leave.
 
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
 
As a successful Prospect Development Manager at Alzheimer’s Society, you will lead an exciting variety of projects and work collaboratively with a broad range of internal stakeholders. You will be a subject matter expert and have the opportunity to learn from a diverse array of fundraisers – including corporate, philanthropy, trusts, foundations, and communications specialists. The role will be an opportunity to shape a team, supporting development of technical skillsets such as the use of news aggregations tools, CRM databases and other software to build high quality research outputs.
 
Your main responsibility will be managing the Prospect Development team to deliver high quality research, plans and connections, helping us achieve outstanding prospect acquisition and intuitive supporter journeys.
 
The best bits:

- Managing our Prospect Development function, leading a team of 2 Prospect Development Officers.
- Flexing your excellent research skills by supporting an ambitious team of high value fundraisers to achieve their strategic goals.
- Using your outstanding relationship building skills to forge connections across our welcoming fundraising team to make connections & deliver maximum value and excellent experience for our supporters.
- Working with incredible colleagues passionate about making a difference and giving our supporters the best experience possible.

Using your unique leadership style and excellent knowledge of prospect research including policies, procedures & processes you will foster a culture of continuous improvement in your specialism. Sitting as part of our Fundraising Communications team, you will work together to become an expert on the work of Alzheimer’s Society, ensuring we have ambitious plans for consistently spotting the most current & exciting opportunities to further our fundraising ambitions as well as monitoring, reporting & evaluating the progress against these plans.
 
Working as part of a close knit but geographically dispersed team, there will be regular opportunities to discuss professional strengths and development needs, learning from peers and leadership teams alike. The successful candidate will be encouraged to pursue project work playing to their strengths, as well as benefit from robust development plans to support areas for further upskilling. If you feel professionally fulfilled by using your expertise to deliver value and achieve ambitious income and supporter experience targets- this is the role for you!
 
About you

- Passionate about making a difference to people affected by dementia.
- Excellent and experienced prospect researcher. 
- Great leadership skills and feel comfortable using your initiative to problem solve in a fast-paced environment.
- Be a fundraising manager with a passion for horizon scanning and prospect research looking to expand your technical expertise.
- Ability to share your knowledge, experience, and expertise through your team and your excellent network of internal relationships.
- Be innovative, but detail orientated, and be able to present complicated information to a range of audiences.
- Be motivated by delivering truly transformational positive impacts for those affected by dementia, and you will learn how to weave this pivotal impact into every piece of work.

This role is a pivotal part of our Fundraising Communications team, enabling our High Value fundraisers to connect and deepen relationships with supporters. You will lead the Prospect Research team, working closely with our High Value teams to reach our ambitious income targets.