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Digital and Data Lead Leeds Community Foundation and GiveBradford
Join Leeds Community Foundation and GiveBradford in this crucial role to lead a number of exciting digital and data transformations.
* Location: Leeds and Bradford
* Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 (Fixed term contract - 2 years)
Leeds Community Foundation is the region’s largest charitable funder. Donors, partners and changemakers fund through us to make their giving go further.
In the last four years alone, we have invested £19.1m and awarded 2,215 grants to vital community organisations, enabling them to continue helping local people flourish.
This is an exciting and transformative role that will lead the development of digital systems, data infrastructure, and insight production and reporting across Leeds Community Foundation and its associated entities. This role will play a pivotal part in delivering digital transformation and supporting robust decision-making, impact measurement, income generation and improved operational efficiency.
Since 2005, Leeds Community Foundation has been working to create a fairer Leeds for everyone.
Through flexible and responsive grant making, we enable and strengthen community organisations that are the backbone of our city, because when they thrive, so do our communities – and all of us benefit.
Leeds Community Foundation oversees four distinct charities, including Bradford District Community Foundation (GiveBradford ). This means we have separate trustees responsible for our work in Leeds and in Bradford and can develop complementary but distinct strategies to make the most of partnerships at national and regional levels alongside appealing to donors with a specific passion of place.
For over 20 years, we’ve been helping donors invest and distribute more than £65 million to benefit communities across our city and the wider region where it can make the most difference, and we hold about £50m philanthropic capital on behalf of a wide range of donors at any one time.
As a trusted partner to businesses, foundations and professional advisors, we’ve deliveredcountless strategic giving programmes with life-changing outcomes.
Now, more than ever, our communities need us. With growing social, economic and climate pressures, grassroots community organisations have never been more vital, but with demand soaring and resources stretched, they’ve never been at greater risk. That’s why we’ll continue to develop partnerships, invest where it’s needed and build a fairer future, together.
Our values
* Open and honest
* Intentional
About the role
It is an incredibly exciting time to be joining Leeds Community Foundation and GiveBradford as Digital and Data Lead. The next two years will be transformative for the organisation from a digital and data perspective, including an imminent CRM migration, the introduction of AI tools, integrating data insights with finance, impact, and income generation, and horizon scanning for further opportunities to be at the forefront of Community Foundation innovation.
The role will:
* Drive our digital transformation ambitions in line with the 2024–2029 strategy.
* Act as the lead for digital infrastructure, including our CRM system, data management platforms and automation tools.
* Identify and implement improvements to internal systems and workflows, ensuring that all improvements are based on feedback and consultation with users.
* Identify digital solutions that improve board and committee effectiveness, policy access, and reporting.
* Overall management of the IT contract with our external providers, act as the first point of contact for the staff team, and manage contracts, purchase and service of IT hardware and software.
* Use data to track performance against KPIs, grants impact, donor expectations and organisational learning.
* Prepare clear, data-informed updates for reporting to the Senior Leadership Team, the board and external stakeholders.
* Ensure compliance with data protection laws, including GDPR, and lead on relevant documentation and controls.
* Deliver digital tools that enhance community access, donor reporting and impact presentation.
* Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and others in the team to embed data insight into planning, fundraising, and reporting.
* Support the finance team with fund and financial reporting alignment across platforms.
* Liaise with external contractors and digital providers on project delivery and service maintenance.
* 5% contributory pension.
* 25 days’ annual leave, plus statutory holidays, and additional leave for continued service.
* Additional birthday leave day.
* Discretionary additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period.
* Faith-based bank holiday swap scheme.
* 14 hours paid volunteering time.
* Employee Assistance Programme (including access to counselling, legal and financial advice).
* Commitment to personal development and training.
* Regular full team away days.
* Internal well-being initiative and access to mental health first aiders.
* 2 wellness days per year.
Who we are looking for
This role will suit an experienced CRM system manager who is passionate about innovation within data and digital.
The ideal candidate will have:
* Experience in CRM systems (Salesforce preferred), data reporting and digital transformation.
* Experience in leading IT infrastructure in an organisation.
* Experience in analysing and presenting data to inform decision-making.
* Understanding of GDPR, data governance and systems integration.
* Excellent technical and systems problem-solving skills.
* Confidence to create, manage and present dashboards and data insights.
* Strong project coordination and stakeholder management.
* Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical users.
* Problem-solving skills and a good understanding of risk management.
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We understand that different members of the community have different access needs and have made some modifications to the way we do business to accommodate people from diverse communities and abilities.
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* Step-free access to the building, all key meeting rooms and bathrooms, and an accessible workstation.
* Accessibility dogs are welcome.
* Interviews can be held in meeting rooms that support hearing loops.
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Timetable
Closing date: 9 a.m. Monday 4th August 2025
Candidates informed of outcome: Wednesday 6th August 2025
Interviews: Tuesday 12th August 202
Interview questions will be shared 24 hours in advance of interviews to help candidates prepare.
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