Interim Head of Individual Giving (Maternity Cover)

About Children with Cancer UK

Children with Cancer UK is the leading national charity dedicated to the fight against childhood cancer. Our aims are to determine the causes, find the cure and provide care for children with cancer. The charity was founded in 1988 following the death of 14-year old Paul O’Gorman to leukaemia and, just nine months later, his sister Jean, also to cancer. Before his death, Paul’s parents promised to help other children with leukaemia and, today, we fund life-saving research into childhood leukaemia as well as all other forms of childhood cancer.

• We fund life-saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood cancer.
• We fund innovative welfare projects to provide better care for young cancer patients and their families.
• We campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancer, to protect more children and to improve the lives of young cancer patients, today and for future generations.

About the role

The Interim Head of Individual Giving is responsible for leading the Direct Marketing and Supporter Care teams and is responsible for delivering an annual income target of circa £6.5 million.

Through regular meetings with the Chief Executive, contribute to the overall strategy and development of the fundraising activities and feed these into the overall Charity strategy.

Your role will be to maximise the net income of existing activities whilst developing new, complementary and sustainable opportunities for Direct Marketing appeals, a Mid-value programme, raffles, weekly lottery, in memoriam donations, and legacies to develop more broadly based direct marketing activities.

For further infomation regarding this positon, please see attached job description.

Applications and Deadlines

As this position is a maternity leave cover, ideally the successful applicant will be available to commence employment on Monday, 3rd October 2016 and be employed until November 2017.

To apply for this position, please forward your CV and supporting statement before the deadline of Monday, 15th August 2016.  Interviews will commence Thursday, 18th August 2016.