Fundraising Manager (maternity cover)

We’re a growing national charity with a new and ambitious strategy and a strong funding pipeline. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, grabbing every opportunity to contribute to the development of our work to support kinship families. Reporting to the chief executive, you’ll be at the heart of our growth and development as you play a key role in delivering our plans to drive sustainable income growth and diversify our income portfolio.

This is a developing role with huge potential to contribute to our growth as a fundraising charity. We’re looking for someone with the right combination of skills and experience to build on our successful fundraising from trusts and foundations, lottery and statutory sources, as well as wider knowledge and experience to develop a new major donor funding stream.

Now is an exciting time to join us as Fundraising Manager, you will be building on a period of strong income growth and inherit a healthy pipeline with existing multi-year relationships and new warm potentials. You will work to a stretching but achievable target supported by a wider team that prioritises and champions fundraising including an engaged Board of Trustees and supportive Senior Leadership Team. Finally, you will be joining a charity with a flexible working environment which cares about your wellbeing and development.

We will guarantee interviews to any candidates with experience of kinship care (either of being in kinship care or of being a kinship carer) who demonstrate that they meet the essential skills and experience outlined.

Location: Home-based or London office-based (Vauxhall)

Working hours: Full-time (flexible, working minimum of 28 hours/per week considered – pro rata)

Salary: £33,639 - £36,944 (outside of London); £36,865 - £40,170 (including London weighting)

Benefits: 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time) and pension

Interview date: Interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified.

About Kinship:

Kinship is the leading charity in England and Wales for kinship carers – relatives and friends who raise children when their parents aren’t able to. We offer kinship carers expert advice as well as financial, legal, practical and emotional support and understanding from the moment they need it, for as long as they need it. We’re always there to help with the complicated and stressful decisions that so many kinship families have to make, as well as to celebrate the good times.

Working alongside kinship carers and the children they raise, with their voice and views at the fore, we build communities of support and give everything we have to fight for each family and their rights, as well as to raise awareness of kinship care and secure better support for all those playing this critical role.