Are you an experienced fundraising manager with a passion for wildlife, who can inspire support for a cause from a wide range of people and support colleagues in securing the funding they need? Avon Wildlife Trust has exciting plans for nature’s recovery in the Bristol and Bath city region. We want to create and restore habitats, enable people to take action for wildlife, and secure more land for nature in our local area. We are looking for a Head of Fundraising who can galvanise support for our work from funders and donors, develop a high-performing fundraising team, and support colleagues in developing fundable projects to restore habitats, engage people and bring wildlife back. If this is you, we look forward to hearing from you. Fundraising Fundraising underpins everything we do as a charity. We are fortunate to have a strong membership base supporting our work and a range of trusts, foundations and grant-making bodies funding projects to engage people and restore wildlife. We have ambitious plans underway, including: Acquiring land where we can restore habitats and develop facilities to engage and inspire more people to take action for nature, Extending the reach of Team Wilder to inspire and support more people to take action for wildlife and help reach a social tipping point where this becomes normal Developing new landscape-scale projects and partnerships to engage landholders and communities in restoring habitats and bringing wildlife back. The role of Head of Fundraising will include: Inspiring support for our work from donors and funders, both directly and through your team Leading and supporting your team to grow income from a wide range of fundraising channels Supporting colleagues in delivery teams to develop and secure funding for highly impactful projects We are seeking to grow, develop and diversify our fundraising in a number of areas, including: Inspiring more support from major donors and corporate partnerships - growing our capacity to cultivate and secure major gifts through land acquisition campaigns, relationship-building and capital appeals, Increasing unrestricted income from individual giving, through membership recruitment & retention initiatives, development of non-member supporter offers, digital campaigns, In Mem, Gifts in Wills and legacies Further developing statutory funding, partnership bids and grant income to secure funding for projects to deliver our impact objectives To support this, we are investing in improving the operation of our CRM system, including establishing data integrations, improving data hygiene and developing reporting to provide better donor segmentation and insight. Team Development We are seeking to grow our fundraising team, both in the short-term to support land acquisition and capital appeals, and in the longer-term to develop our fundraising channels based on businesses cases on potential return on investment in areas such as corporate fundraising and legacy marketing. Closing date: 11:59pm, Wednesday 8th May 2024 Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a first interview on Tuesday 21st May 2024. Leading candidates may then be asked to attend a second interview, anticipated to be on Wednesday 29th May 2024