Head of Fundraising
Location: YBF Office : East Barnet
Salary: A GBP 36,000 (pro:rata A GBP 45,000), Pension and flexible working, 25 days per annum, pro rata, plus bank holidays. Holidays will increase in accordance with our Annual Leave Policy.
On activation and after satisfactory completion of the probationary period, YBF will contribute, in line with government requirements, into a stakeholder or personal pension scheme.
Vacancy Type: 12:month fixed term contract, with potential extension subject to funding .
Hours: Part:Time : 28 hrs per week* (plus statutory breaks). Occasional evening or weekend work may be required.
Application Closing Date : Rolling interviews to take place before Weds 13th February 2026
Please note the role will occasionally involve evening and early morning events, YBF works closely with their staff to accommodate personal circumstances.
YBF offers a flexible approach to working hours, working closely with each staff member to suit their personal and professional needs. Working within friendly and sociable working environment with like:minded colleagues, with flexible hours and hybrid working.
About Young Barnet Foundation
YBF is an organisation that supports over 200 members (charities, community groups and social enterprises) who deliver positive activities and vital support services to children and young people in the London Borough of Barnet. We are proud members of Barnet Together and one of nine Young Peoples Foundations operating across London, Manchester and Dorset.
Our team works collaboratively, tactically, and strategically under an ethos of Generous Leadership to support and build capacity within and beyond our membership, including:
* Providing members with advice, information, and networking/training opportunities; assistance with fundraising and partnership building
* Working with local authority and strategic partners to encourage intelligence, ideas and resource sharing.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
* Adopting and adapting the YBF Fundraising Strategy to ensure diversity of income and fundraising opportunities to support and maintain the sustainability and growth of Young Barnet Foundations
* Responsible for developing and maintaining new and existing Trust and Foundation Funding relationships including applications, M and E reporting, attending key networking events.
* Develop and manage the Community Fundraising Programme with line management of community fundraisers. Establish a network of community fundraisers, building relationships with community fundraising champions, and providing excellent supporter care and timely communication.
* Identify opportunities to grow our Sector Grants funds via partners : funders, corporates, individual donors
* Line management of part time Marketing and Communications roles to with responsibility for operational delivery of their communications strategy.
* Performance management of your team, including, 1:2:1 meetings, appraisals, day:day performance management against KPIs, motivation and objectives.
* Work with the team to plan, develop and deliver new community fundraising products, campaigns and events that will resonate with stakeholders including members, donors and volunteers to fundraise.
* Oversee Comms and Marketing team to develop and drive forward promotion of community fundraising to reach existing and new audiences, including developing content for social channels, e:comms, webpages and fundraising packs.
* Build collaborative relationships with peers across the charity.
* To support and implement strategies to achieve sustainable, long:term funding, contract:winning and other income generation for the children and young peoples sector in Barnet via our Membership eg providing members with advice, information, and networking/training opportunities; assistance with fundraising and partnership building, funding Training and events for the sector
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