Corporate & Events Fundraising Manager

Changing Lives supports people facing the most challenging of circumstances to make positive and lasting change in their lives.

Job Title

Corporate and Events Fundraising Manager (South)

Project

Fundraising

Band / Tier / Level

Band 6.1

Reporting to

Senior Fundraising Manager

Direct Reports

0

Location

London

Salary Band

£29,250 (plus London Weighting £4,250)

FTE / Working Hours

Full Time (37 hours per week)

Overall Role Purpose

Changing Lives is a national charity supporting over 15,000 people each year facing homelessness, domestic violence and abuse, long-term unemployment and those in recovery. It is an exciting time to join Changing Lives as we expand our operations into London. We are seeking an experienced, proactive and passionate Corporate and Events Fundraiser (South) to expand our small, but dynamic fundraising team.

The Corporate and Events Fundraising Manager (South) will develop and implement fundraising strategies to cultivate strong relationships with new corporate partners and organise high-impact fundraising events to increase awareness and income. The successful candidate will also support fundraising across Birmingham and Northamptonshire, where we have established front-line services.

The role offers flexible, hybrid working and will be based from one of our London services and remotely from home.

Key Activities

·       Work with the Senior Fundraising Manager to review and implement the fundraising strategy for the South.

·       Work closely with the Communications Team on projects, campaigns, appeals and events.

·       Deliver a strategy to identify, recruit and retain new corporate donors, Charity of the Year partnerships, payroll giving, corporate sponsorship, and gifts in kind to maximise income and deliver against targets.

·       Attend corporate networking events to develop leads.

·       Undertake research into potential corporate partners, understanding their motivations and criteria for choosing Charity of the Year partnerships.

·       Develop and manage a pipeline of suitable companies to approach.

·       Develop cause-related marketing partnerships with corporates

·       Deliver a high standard of account management to corporate partners through excellent stewardship, meetings, partnership agreements, reporting and sharing success.

·       Collaborate with the Fundraising Team to promote relevant fundraising products, events, appeals and campaigns to new and potential corporate partners.

·       Collaborate with the fundraising team to identify relevant products, events and campaigns that will be of interest to existing and potential corporate partners.

·       Promote existing fundraising events to increase donor participation.  

·       Build a portfolio of high-quality events to market to potential donors to increase engagement and income.

·       Manage all aspects of event planning, including budgeting, logistics and marketing.

·       Secure corporate sponsorships, raffle and auction items for events.

·       Recruit and manage volunteers for events.

·       Deliver a high standard of event stewardship.

·       Support donors in maximising their event fundraising.

·       Accurately budget, forecast and record income and expenditure, keeping accurate records of activity.

·       Manage corporate partnerships, donors and events on our CRM, Dynamics 65.

·       Follow the Donor Thanking Strategy and bank donations in line with our Ethical Fundraising Policy.

·       Ensure donor communication is handled appropriately in line with GDPR compliance and log any complaints or breaches immediately.

·       Work closely with the Communications Team to raise our profile across social media and press.

·       Build strong relationships with project staff across London, Birmingham and Northamptonshire.

·       Support any fundraising across other fundraising streams including individual, community, legacy and small grants.

·       Act as an ambassador for Changing Lives, representing the charity in a professional manner and undertaking public speaking at events, meetings, pitches and networking events.

·       Keep up to date with industry standards and developments as well as competitor analysis.

·       Bring a creative and proactive attitude to the team.