Overview
Join VICTA's team and be part of our award-winning work empowering children and young adults who are blind or partially sighted. We help young people question limiting presumptions they might have, helping them to view themselves and their potential in a new way.
We seek an experienced fundraiser who is looking for their next challenge or wants more responsibility to develop and deliver a robust, high-quality mass participation events strategy and plan. Drawing on your experience and the strengths of the charity, you will be responsible for our flagship fundraising event, the TCS London Marathon and shape the future of our mass participation portfolio including bespoke challenges.
Our ideal candidate will have excellent planning and project management, relationship building and influencing skills. Your strong leadership skills and change management experience will be essential as you navigate and embed new challenges and ways of working within an ambitious and growing team. You’ll bring big picture perspective and use your communicating and influencing skills to ensure our key stakeholders help us deliver and grow. Embracing insight, testing, evaluation, and continuous optimisation you will make sure all our engagement is audience centred. If you are an ambitious, highly organised and passionate Senior Fundraising Manager, this is the role for you.
We provide a positive work culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted. The ideal candidate will be a problem solver, diligent, have a good sense of humour and happy to lead from the front. The position offers hybrid working with a minimum of three days in our Milton Keynes office.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to Emily McMillan emcmillan@victa.org.uk.
A full job specification is available on request.
Responsibilities
* Lead our flagship fundraising event, the TCS London Marathon, and shape the future of our mass participation portfolio including bespoke challenges.
* Develop and deliver a robust, high-quality mass participation events strategy and plan.
* Utilise insight, testing, evaluation, and continuous optimisation to ensure audience-centred engagement.
* Provide leadership, change management and relationship-building to support ambitious growth and embedding new ways of working.
Qualifications
* Experience in fundraising with planning and project management, relationship building and influencing skills.
* Strong leadership and change management experience.
* Ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders and drive sustainable growth.
Benefits
* Hybrid working possible (minimum three days in office)
* Critical Illness Cover
* 23 days holiday rising to 28 days (plus public holidays)
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