Database Manager

Are you passionate about working with data to help the deliver charitable projects? Do you want to be part of the largest fundraising and volunteering campaign ever undertaken in the Midlands? We are now in the planning stages of our next campaign. Inspired by our founder, Joseph Chamberlain, it will aim to change lives locally and globally. It will be unique and ambitious and will place Birmingham as one of the leading fundraising and volunteering universities in the world.

To deliver this ambitious campaign DARO has recently invested in a new CRM system (Blackbaud CRM) and are now recruiting a Database Manager. Reporting to the Head of Campaign Data & Insight, the Database Manger will directly manage the Campaign Data team to help secure a firm foundation for the new campaign. The Database Manager will be an enthusiastic and energetic individual, a data expert, and an excellent project manager. The Database Manager will be a keen problem solver who can find innovative and creative IT solutions to match business processes and troubleshoot complicated, often critical, database issues. They will have a strong working knowledge of databases and the effective management of data, deftly navigating large data sets to ensure seamless and accurate information is delivered to the wider department. They will have strong interpersonal, customer service, and communication skills and enjoy engaging with both internal stakeholders and colleagues across the wider sector.

Our University has a proud history of philanthropy stretching back to its foundation in 1900. With a clear vision to change the lives of the people of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain raised the funds required to build the University from citizens and corporations based locally and around the globe. Since then philanthropy has continued to play an important role in shaping the University, most recently in 2015 when we closed the Circles of Influence Campaign, which raised £193 million, making it the largest HE fundraising campaign outside Oxbridge and London.

The University has global reach, including several partnerships with other leading universities around the world, and is grounded in its local community, having opened the first fully comprehensive University secondary school in the country in 2015. We are an ambitious and successful research-intensive University (one of the top 100 research-led universities globally) and have produced 11 Nobel Prize winners, including three who received their awards in 2016.
Our students come from nearly 150 countries and our flagship outreach programmes mean that almost 25% of our student population come from disadvantaged backgrounds, one of the highest proportions in the UK.

The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) exists to support this academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities. The Office, which is comprised of 50 staff across five teams, is focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni, individuals, and organisations who are passionate about changing lives, through funding our leading research programmes, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students, and providing internships.