The TSA is seeking a highly experienced, confident and capable Head of Fundraising to provide leadership and direction on all aspects of income generation. This is an exciting time to join a small but hugely impactful charity where you will make a real difference to the lives of thousands.

The chosen candidate will be expected to make an immediate impact on the income generation of the charity. An early task for the chosen individual will be to develop and implement a new fundraising strategy for our new charity-wide strategy period, aiming to meet or surpass an income target.

In return for ongoing success, the candidate can expect a high level of autonomy, the chance to shape a small fundraising team (of three), a fluid team structure, and very flexible home working.

To apply for the role, please share your CV and a cover letter with the team: admin@tuberous-sclerosis.org.

Overview of the role:

Reports to: Joint Chief Executives

Hours of work: 35 hours per week

Location: Home-based

Salary: £42,000

Pension: Group Flexible Retirement Plan with employee contribution depending on pension regulations (after 3 months of service)

Holiday: 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and the working days that fall between Christmas and New Year

Notice period: Three months

Contract length: Permanent following successful probationary period of six months

Start date: Immediate

Main purpose of the job:

  • Take responsibility for the day-to-day running of fundraising and income generation activities
  • Develop, implement and monitor effective fundraising strategies, ensuring sustainable income generation
  • Oversee and line manage the small fundraising team, ensuring the effective delivery of the team’s strategic and business plans

Responsibilities

1.  Strategic, leadership and management

  • Provide leadership for fundraising across the TSA team. Attend regular strategy meetings and be a leading voice in shaping immediate fundraising strategies.
  • Lead in the development, implementation and review of fundraising polices and strategy ensuring they are in line with the overall organisation business plan
  • Line manage a Fundraising Officer, including regular meetings and ensuring that the fundraising officer is fulfilling all areas of their role
  • Lead in the recruitment of a further member of the fundraising team in 2024
  • Lead on the short-term strategy for income generation
  • Lead on the annual business planning and budget cycle for the income generation
  • Collect and analyse data to demonstrate the impact of fundraising and income generation. Use this data to inform quarterly reports to the Board, determine the impact of the team’s work and drive continual improvements in policy and practice.
  • Attend and actively contribute to weekly TSA management team teleconferences

2. Income Generation and partnership

  • Lead on all-things income generation. Develop and deliver short- and long-term fundraising and partnership strategy for the TSA. Ensure that the TSA has a balanced portfolio of fundraising income from multiple sources, including community fundraising, trusts and foundations, corporate partners, regular givers, major donors and legacies.
  • Working closely with the Joint Chief Executives, expand the TSA’s range of research funding sources to include public, academic, commercial and innovation funding alongside investment from the TSA itself
  • Accurately forecast and monitor against income generation targets
  • Identify opportunities to work with partners on areas of common interest where the TSA can achieve more through joint funding, gifts in kind (such as time or services) or delivering joint projects than the charity could do by working alone
  • Where possible, review and update the TSA’s policies and procedures on fundraising and working with corporate partners to ensure that we are demonstrating best practice as well as complying with the law
  • Continue to maintain established, and develop new, relationships with potential funders and partners across all sectors, including leads from relevant trusts and foundations, high net worth individuals, key community fundraisers, and corporate and charity partners. Develop appropriate cases for support and oversee any application processes.

3. Communications

  • Lead on the development of inspiring fundraising campaigns, appeals and content for distribution across all digital platforms. Including social media, e-newsletters, website and fundraising platforms (such as JustGiving)
  • Develop a supporter engagement plan to identify and build strong working relationships in order to grow and develop income

Other requirements of the post

The post holder must be prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation.  This may entail occasional evening and weekend work. Occasional travel within the UK may be required for team meetings and events.

A DBS enhanced disclosure will be required prior to taking up post.

Person specification

Essential

  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Multi-talking, prioritisation and time management
  • Proven background in fundraising and income generation leadership, including in community fundraising and trusts and foundations
  • Experience of building relationships with Major Donors and Corporate Supporters
  • Demonstrated experience of developing strategies and business plans
  • Experience of leading a team and line-managing colleagues. At least 5 years’ experience of managing a fundraising team
  • Experience of developing standard operating procedures and embedding them in day-to-day operations
  • Experience of managing budgets
  • Able to set and manage ambitious income targets
  • Able to grasp complex issues and communicate complex issues simply
  • Quick learner and able to onboard swiftly
  • Experience of working with customer relationship management databases (please note that we use Beacon)
  • Experience of a broad range of communications tactics across media, supporter engagement, websites and social media, internal communications
  • Able to work with people with a wide range of abilities, with a warm empathetic style
  • Experience of collecting and monitoring data to analyse service impact and drive service improvements
  • Able to manage a diverse workload, prioritise needs and manage your own time
  • Excellent communications skills (oral and written)

Desirable

  • Fundraising or communications qualification
  • Experience of working with people living with learning disabilities or autism
  • Experience of working with children or adults with disabilities or chronic health conditions