Who: Chiltern Society
Title: Public Fundraising Manager
Where: Hybrid -3 days a week from Chiltern Society Offices, Chesham
Hours: Full-time (35 hours/week, pro-rata considered for 28 hours/week)
Salary: up to £40,000
About the charity:
We care for the Chilterns and are passionate about protecting its natural beauty, cultural heritage, and environmental sustainability.
Our work focuses on three priorities: celebrating, campaigning, and conserving the Chilterns. We help people connect with and enjoy the area, speak up for the long-term sustainability of its natural and built environment, and create opportunities for everyone to take part in protecting and enhancing its unique character.
About the role:
As our new Public Fundraising Manager, you'll play a central role in making that happen. With your fundraising experience, creativity, and tenacity, you'll manage a small team to help shape supporter growth (membership, regular giving, legacies, etc.) and secure the income needed to deliver our charity's ambitions.
From saving globally rare chalk streams to restoring fragile chalk wildflower habitats, your work will directly protect the nature we all depend on and make a real, lasting difference for future generations.
We are a small but mighty charity with a staff team of just eight. Coming from much larger charities, I have enjoyed the challenges and possibilities that come from working for the Chiltern Society. We are a friendly, collaborative, and dedicated team that is passionate about the part of the world that we are lucky enough to live, work, and unwind in.
With the unique mix of being both at the coalface and influencing strategy, it is incredibly rewarding to see your work turn into lasting improvements for nature on our doorstep.
If you're looking for a role where your skills and ideas will genuinely matter—where you can see the difference you're making every single day—then this is your chance.
Role Responsibilities to include:
* Develop and deliver short-, medium-, and long-term public fundraising plans and budgets, monitoring income and expenditure.
* Champion the growth of long-term, sustainable income.
* Lead individual giving activity, including online appeals, with a strong focus on stewardship, embedding a clear strategy for acquisition, retention, and lifetime value growth.
* Develop and deliver high-quality, creative, and effective new fundraising products and initiatives, driving innovation in public fundraising.
* Optimise third-party and online fundraising channels.
* Lead the legacy programme, embedding gifts-in-wills messaging across the organisation.
* Manage and develop the challenge events portfolio, ensuring excellent participant stewardship and maximum income.
Person Specification to include:
* A practical fundraiser with proven delivery experience.
* Experience raising income from individual giving and either community & events or legacies.
* Experience delivering large-scale, complex fundraising campaigns that recruit, engage, inspire, and retain donors.
* Strong relationship-building skills with high emotional intelligence.
* A creative, growth-oriented, and commercially minded approach.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft compelling impact stories.
* Experience using a CRM system.
* Line management experience (formal or informal).
Key dates:
Application deadline: 27th March, 12:00pm.
Initial interviews: Online with Polly Symondson Recruitment on 30th and 31st March.
Second-stage interviews: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an in-person interview on 15th April at the Chesham office.
For more information and a copy of the full job pack please apply via this site.