Summary of role:
Attracting the finest and most distinguished historians, academics, leading thinkers, and writers from the UK and abroad, the Chalke History Festival is now firmly established as one of the must-attend events of the festival summer.
An exciting opportunity is available to lead all fund-raising activities for Chalke History Festival and the Chalke History Trust covering both commercial sponsorship of the festival and fund-raising from major donors, charitable organisations and patrons. Responsibility for delivering over £750k pa of sponsorship and donation income annually.
Details of role:
Fund-raising:
Working with the Managing Director, to develop a new 5-year fund-raising strategy to build on the current platform of existing sponsors and donors to underpin and expand the current levels of non-ticket and non-concession income
Identify new targets for fund-raising and build a network of potential funders
Develop a new CRM system to manage all contacts throughout the fundraising pipeline
Utilise the Founder & Creative Director as well as the Managing Director and all of the trustees, ambassadors and other connected parties to the organisation to maximise fund-raising efforts
Manage the Sponsorship manager, the Patron manager and the team administrator to makes sure sponsor, donor and patron programmes ar...