Head of Capital Campaigns

Barbican Renewal is a major capital campaign designed to create a 21st-century welcome space for diverse audiences, visitors, and artists. Barbican Renewal will ensure every part of the Barbican Centre’s iconic site is restored, revitalised and relevant for future generations. As part of this bold vision, the team will hire a new Head of Capital Campaigns to secure significant funding for the £191m+ campaign.

The Head of Capital Campaigns is responsible for ensuring that the capital fundraising team develop campaign targets for: statutory grants, major gifts, trusts and foundations, corporate, as well as a public-facing individual campaign. You will develop and implement a multi-year strategy that meets the Barbican’s capital campaign targets, nurtures relationships with capital donors, and engages new supporters.

This role requires agility, resilience and an enterprising approach. At the centre of your experience will be demonstrable capital campaign work securing gifts from major donors for incredible campaigns. You will have experience of managing a variety of senior stakeholders and competing priorities and will enjoy developing a compelling case to give to this campaign.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.

If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.      
 
In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.