Major Donor Fundraiser

Premier has an exciting new role working directly with the Group Fundraising Manager to deliver the Fundraising Strategy for the Major Donor programme in a fast-paced, multimedia environement. 

This position is a key income generation role for Premier and will involve relationship building with a wide range of supporters and stakeholders to secure long term financial support for the charity.  

As a face to face fundraising role, the position holder will work towards developing relationships for the financial benefit of the charity to contribute to building the supporter base of Premier and particularly increase donors at Major Gifts level. 

Key Tasks

Fundraising/ Relationship Cultivation

• Implement agreed Major Donor fundraising strategies
• Management of a personal portfolio of key donors & prospects, with the purpose of generating significant gifts in support of the Major Donor programme, through a mix of desk based relationship building as well as strategic meeting setting
• Responsibility for all aspects of the donor journey including research, cultivation, briefing, gift ask and stewardship phases per prospect
• Increase growing support from existing major donors, as well as identifying and securing new Major Donors by bringing them into a closer relationship with Premier
• Contribute to the regional fundraising strategy
• Be an engaging and effective ambassador for Premier in all face to face donor interactions including the existing events programme at prestige receptions
• Contribute to the development of fundraising resources & collateral including cases for support, FR communications and delivery of appeals with Major Donors
• Maintain a diary of meetings and visits to the Premier Studios for cultivation purposes
• Work closely with key internal staff to ensure an important flow of content for effective donor journeys with prospects and supporters

Events and Prospecting research

• Maximising on the Fundraising events programme to network and prospect
• Conduct ongoing desk-based research on prospecting making use of Premier’s extensive database of relationships
• Contributing ideas for creative prospecting on database, looking at giving patterns, affluence and affinity
• Prepare strategy for donor acquisition, identifying and recognizing key indicators for cultivation of relationships
• Contribute to the development of ideas for how to sell the value proposition of Premier & align messaging to appeals/relationships/stakeholders

Fundraising Administration

• Manage & maintain Portfolio on the donor database, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the records
• Provide general and occasional administrative support to the fundraising team

Qualifications & Experience 

• Degree educated
• Member of Institute of Fundraising (desirable but not essential)
• At least 2 years’ experience working in a similar fundraising role with experience of face to face cultivation of support in Community, Corporate or Major Donor
• Good demonstrable experience in target driven fundraising
• Experience of working in a busy, high pressured environment.
• Understanding of the broad Christian community

Ability & Skills 

• Excellent interpersonal skills – spoken, written & face to face
• Experience in relationship building with a natural ability to adapt appropriately to different audiences 
• Proficient IT skills and related software packages (Raisers Edge)
• Self-motivated and pro-active, taking responsibility and initiative
• Team player

Personal Qualities 

• Regional travel required so an ability & enthusiasm for travel is essential
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends
• The post-holder will work within a Christian environment and therefore it will be necessary for the post-holder to have sympathy and understanding for the Christian faith and its values & be in able to work within the ethos of our organisational aims

Closing Date: 11th February 2017 

Due to the number of applications we receive we cannot reply to unsuccessful candidates, therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please accept that, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.

Premier reserves the right to conduct interviews before the closing date for application.