Senior Philanthropy Manager

We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic philanthropic giving expert to manage Independent Age’s new philanthropy strategy. This is a new role with huge opportunity for impact, supporting a drive for new business to deliver long-term strategic partnerships and significant income growth.  

Over the past 10 years, Independent Age has been through a major transformation. We’ve moved from operating as a benevolent trust, to establishing ourselves as a charity that provides impact at scale, helping older people stay independent and live well. Last year, 1 million people accessed our services.

Our plan now is to significantly increase our number of supporters and service users, and to deepen our engagement with them. In order to seize this opportunity and help us turn this vision into a reality, we have brought together the key functions that drive the public to Independent Age – Marketing, Communications and Fundraising – and taken the bold step of building a brand new Engagement Division.

Key to our new Engagement Vision is our ability to drive significant income growth from charitable trusts and foundations, strategic and statutory grants, and individual major donors.

You’ll play a key role in this new Division, managing the development of Independent Age’s new philanthropy strategy. You’ll lead its implementation across all our activities and develop a relationship fundraising culture across the wider Engagement division. Whilst recognising the challenge ahead, our expectations are realistic and we are incredibly excited by the prospect of dramatically increasing income from philanthropic partners.

You will have a track record of creating, developing and maintaining relationships with a network of new major donors in particular. You will also build on existing trusts and foundations fundraising work, with a focus on securing strategic, multi-year grants and donations. To help achieve this, you will have senior-level support and buy-in to lead on the establishment of a brand new major donor fundraising programme for Independent Age, developing an entirely new income stream.

Most importantly you’ll be inspired by this unique opportunity to harness the support of philanthropy to help more older people as the UK grows older. 

If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.

“All applications will be forwarded to our recruitment partners Charity People”

Closing date is 29th June 2018.