Fundraising Manager
Fundraising Manager
● 21 Hours per week (ideally spread over 3-4 days)
● £35,000 p.a. pro rata (£21,000)
● Working from home, but with some travel to Central London
● Permanent contract
About LMK
Good relationships shape our health and happiness, yet we are taught so little about them. LMK (Let Me Know) is on a mission to change that. We are a young and thriving charity providing education about healthy and unhealthy behaviours so that young people have the knowledge and skills to avoid abuse and thrive in their relationships. We work in schools, community organisations and workplaces across London.
LMK is growing at pace and we are ambitious in our plans for the future. We’ve already engaged 15,000 young people and professionals in our workshops in our first 4 years and we want to reach 10,000 young people per year by 2025-26.
Our work is primarily funded through grants received from charitable trusts and foundations, but we have exciting plans to diversify income to include major donors, corporate supporters, statutory awards and challenge events. This post will focus on supporting major donors, corporates and trusts and foundations.
We have:
✔ A clear plan of who we want to target for our workshops over the next 3 years, and a fundraising plan to support it
✔ An engaged leadership team and Board of Trustees
✔ Evidenced outcomes, rich data/statistics and compelling case studies
✔ Diversity and strong social purpose
✔ A new organisational strategy that sets our vision from 2024-2027
✔ A new CRM system that has been built to support our ambitions
Job Purpose
This is a new role, joining a small and growing Fundraising Team, with responsibility for proactively leading the cultivation and stewardship of potential and existing major donors, grant-making trusts, and corporate supporters, with a particular focus on driving significant income growth.
You will build and maintain lasting relationships with LMKs valued funders, thinking strategically and working closely with programme delivery colleagues to develop fundraising cases of support and impact reporting.
Reporting to the Head of Fundraising & Development, the successful candidate will join LMK’s core staff team, and will have a real input into our plans and strategies for the future by working with LMK staff, LMK Leaders (youth workers who deliver our workshops to young people), members of our Youth Advisory Board and trustees to develop and implement our long-term strategy.
Key responsibilities:
● Develop and deliver a structured and dynamic plan to engage high-value donors, trusts and corporate supporters.
● Understand supporter motivations, identifying opportunities across the Charity that inspire and engage, enabling supporters to achieve their fundraising goals.
● Work closely with colleagues to develop inspiring fundraising cases for support and impact reporting.
● Undertake prospect research, identifying prospective new funders for LMK
● Meet with and present to potential and existing funders with passion, enthusiasm and professionalism.
● Manage funder relationships, ensuring that they are kept informed of progress, key milestones and future opportunities to support the charity, and that they are thanked and thoughtfully stewarded, in order to maximise retention, and increase levels of support over time.
● Influence and shape project development and impact measurement by ensuring major funder needs are taken into account
● Work with colleagues to monitor the progress of grant-funded projects, ensuring that obligations are fulfilled within the terms of the grant wherever possible and informing funders in a timely fashion of any significant deviations from projections.
● Proactively seek out feedback from funders where appropriate, share insights with the team and use this to inform LMK practice.
● Ensure all activities are legally compliant, in keeping with our values and adherent to due diligence and our Acceptance or Refusal of Donations Policy.
● Ensure that information relating to funders is appropriately recorded in CRM systems, accurate and adheres to data protection guidelines.
● Provide regular reports and information to the Head of Fundraising & Development on your progress against plan, targets and income generated.
● Comply with our policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, confidentiality, complaints and data protection.
Person specification
● A proven ability to work proactively to identify new contacts and opportunities for funding through extensive research
● Experience of providing excellent relationship management and stewardship resulting in increased levels of financial support from partners
● Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
● Thorough understanding of legal and charity regulations in relation to fundraising
● Skilled in identifying and developing creative, high-quality cases for support, funding proposals and impact reporting in collaboration with others
● Strong MS Office/Google knowledge, numerate, comfortable with data
● Highly organised to manage a diverse workload with excellent time management and ability to pay attention to detail.
● A knowledge of the Violence Against Women and Girls sector, Education sector or working with young people would be preferable, although not essential.
Safeguarding
This role is subject to a Basic DBS check
In return for your dedication, we will offer you
✔ The opportunity to help prevent relationship abuse and domestic violence in young people
✔ A competitive salary
✔ Working from home
✔ A genuinely flexible working environment
✔ Pension of 6%
✔ 32 Days of annual leave, (including bank holidays)
✔ Employee Assistance Programme
✔ Wellbeing perks
✔ A diverse, bold and collaborative culture with two social meet-ups annually in London
Please note: This 'hybrib' role is remote with some travel to London (up to 2-3 times per month).
Size: 6 - 10
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
