Fundraising Manager – Established Children’s Charity

Fundraising Manager – Established 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 our fundraising, communications and monitoring activities. 

The Benefits 

- Salary of up to £35,000 DOE 
- Make a difference on a daily basis 
- Welcoming and supportive environment 

If you are a fundraising professional with experience of creating marketing materials and running campaigns, this is an amazing opportunity to raise awareness of an incredible charity with a fantastic cause. 

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 the Fundraising Manager, you will oversee our fundraising, communications and monitoring activities, ensuring we have sufficient income and can continue to grow. You will also deputise for the CEO in their absence. 

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

- Oversee, develop and support a Communications Assistant and Bid Writer 
- Create and lead the delivery of our fundraising strategy 
- Secure sponsorship for events and activities 
- Act as a champion for our charity and represent us externally, building our reputation on a local and national level 
- Help our Centre Managers to understand and utilise our reporting features 
- Support staff in using data to demonstrate the charity’s impact 

About You 

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

- Experience of securing significant funds through a variety of income streams 
- Previous experience of creating marketing materials and running campaigns that target different audiences through a range of media channels 
- A track record of designing and using monitoring and evaluation processes show demonstrable organisational impact and drive improvements 
- To be a confident speaker and networker with proven success of building corporate and major donor partnerships 
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to accurately review the quality of bids 

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

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. 

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as a Fundraising Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week