Fundraising Manager – Children’s Charity

Fundraising Manager – Children’s Charity
Covering Reading, Newbury and Wokingham (with most meetings to be held in Reading)

About Us

Dingley’s Promise provides life-changing support to children under five with additional needs and disabilities. We offer specialist learning through play, family support and training and promote building wider inclusion into early years environments.

We believe that every child should have the best start in life. With your help, we can make this vision a reality.

We’re currently looking for an enthusiastic Fundraising Manager to join our team and lead across our full range of fundraising activities.

The Benefits

- Salary of up to £35,000 DOE
- Make a difference on a daily basis
- Welcoming and supportive team
- Work at a strategic level as a key member of the Senior Management Team
- Flexible working, with the opportunity to work from home as needed
- Take on a busy and varied role where no two days are the same

If you are a fundraising professional looking to work in an established charity’s senior management team and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is an amazing opportunity to raise awareness of an incredible organisation with a fantastic cause.

We are looking for a driven, tenacious individual who sees opportunities to build income from different sources. Over time, you will put in strategies to increase our income, while managing a very busy and varied role.

Working at Dingley’s Promise may be the most fulfilling job you’ll ever have. Each day, you’ll enable us to support even more children, connect families facing the same challenges and share best practice on how to best care for children with SEND.

We understand that our people are integral to our success and we are committed to supporting their development and ensuring their wellbeing as a priority.

So, if you want to join a dedicated, professional team with a passion for making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

As our Fundraising Manager, you will lead and drive our fundraising activities, ensuring we have sufficient income and can continue to grow. You will oversee our communications and will also deputise for the CEO as necessary.

Regularly travelling between our three centres in Reading, Newbury and Wokingham, you will:

- Create and lead the delivery of our fundraising strategy
- Secure significant income from a wide range of sources
- Secure sponsorship and manage our events and fundraising activities
- Oversee, develop and support a Communications Assistant and Bid Writer
- Act as a champion for our charity and represent us externally, building our reputation on a local and national level

About You

To join us as our Fundraising Manager, you will need:

- A track record of securing significant funds through a variety of income streams
- Experience of driving communications to generate funding and support for a charity
- An excellent understanding of best fundraising practice and ideally a qualification
- To be a confident speaker and networker with proven success in building corporate and major donor partnerships
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to review the quality of bids in line with organisational targets
- To be comfortable working remotely and motivating yourself

We want to hear from you if you’ve worked as a Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Strategy Manager, Business Development Manager, Marketing Manager, Campaign Manager, Community Fundraising Manager, Corporate Fundraising manager, or Marketing Communications Manager.

The closing date for applications is the 10th December 2019.

Webrecruit and Dingley’s Promise are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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