[Hiring] Head of Fundraising @mySociety and SocietyWorks

mySociety is a small, functional charity which makes use of electronic gear to assist other people to take part extra absolutely in democracy, make governments and society extra clear and assist other people paintings in combination to deal with societal demanding situations. We’re searching for an skilled fundraiser who has the analysis, proposal writing and finances construction enjoy to ship on our fundraising technique through securing new assets of source of revenue from grant making foundations and govt programmes, coupled with the strategic making plans and control talents to additional diversify our source of revenue through development our person donations. You’ll be offering maternity duvet and dealing as a part of a nimble, digital-first, and fully faraway crew – you’ll be able to paintings from any place in the United Kingdom! You’ll give you the chance to fulfill your colleagues head to head at our quarterly in individual crew conferences.

The position calls for growing current connections and leads and figuring out and development new relationships with a purpose to ship ~£1 million a 12 months in investment. You’ll be our sole fundraiser, coordinating with our Leader Govt and good, pleasant, multidisciplinary programme groups to expand workable, fundable proposals, and to control and file on grants, performing as the principle courting holder for funders. It is important to be creative in in the hunt for out attainable new funders, and to temporarily seize how the organisation works, with a excellent working out of ways our technology-led local weather, transparency and democracy programmes take a seat inside and lengthen the achieve of broader techniques of affect. 

The perfect candidate might be an outstanding communicator, proactive and tenacious at discovering and following up leads, versatile and collaborative in method, with excellent wisdom of the wider investment panorama and related and lively connections and networks.

No recruiters or businesses, please.

What does the position contain?

• Ship on and refine our 4 12 months fundraising technique, development and keeping up a excellent working out of the desires of every of our programmes, priorities and desired charitable objectives
• Body our present and deliberate process to accurately align with the priorities of attainable funders
• Determine new leads for unrestricted grant investment to enhance our current and core process
• Determine related limited grant investment for tasks that align with our current priorities and new adjoining spaces
• Lead on writing and filing grant proposals, growing suitable budgets, logframes, and so forth in collaboration with different individuals of the crew
• Take care of efficient tracking practices with a purpose to establish new investment alternatives
• Take care of our database of funders and attainable investment contacts
• Give a contribution to the advance of the organisation’s wider technique, via wisdom of the investment panorama
• Produce common experiences on fundraising growth in opposition to objectives
• Increase mySociety’s broader source of revenue era paintings, development person giving and different approaches as suitable

• Personal the connection with current funders and be their major level of touch inside mySociety
• Lead on grant settlement/contract negotiations and compliance
• Be certain all related crew individuals are absolutely briefed at the phrases and prerequisites of investment agreements, together with key closing dates
• Supply common updates to funders on growth, and percentage insights and information with them

Necessities

We expect this place would fit your needs highest when you’ve got some or all the following:

• Demonstrable fundraising observe report; each quantitatively in cash raised, and qualitatively in organisational are compatible and sustainability
• A proactive and resourceful method
• Nice non-public rapport and other people talents, in a position to temporarily make connections and construct productive and efficient relationships
• Breadth of enjoy and hobby in growing other source of revenue streams
• Very good conversation talents, each written and oral – in a position to seize the breadth of our enjoy and summarise it adapted for the desires of every proposal
• Talent to expand the strategic courting between communications, occasions and fundraising
• Robust sector enjoy, preferably inside civic expertise or similar fields
• Sensible and organised for report conserving and reporting
• In a position to evaluate grant alternatives and comprehensively ruin down proposal necessities into manageable duties
• Tech savvy with confirmed enjoy of related databases and packages

Interested by making use of however no longer certain you may have the entire talents? Please practice anyway! We enhance finding out at the activity and rearranging duties inside the groups to fit the skillsets of the most productive applicant. Please tell us to your masking letter what your related enjoy is and the place you could want to be told as you pass.

Were given questions? Drop an electronic mail to Yolanda Gomes on [email protected]

Advantages

This can be a fixed-term maternity duvet contract with a pro-rated wage within the vary of £55,000 to £65,000 according to 12 months, plus pension (4% employer, 4% worker).

You will have to be based totally in the United Kingdom and you want to have the precise to paintings on this nation (sorry, however we will be able to’t be offering assist with visas or relocation bills).

You’ll be able to learn extra about what it’s like running at mySociety at https://www.mysociety.org/about/careers/tradition/

Time limits and dates

The appliance closing date is 10pm Sunday 15 December 2024 and interviews will happen in early January 2025  by means of video convention. We can intention to inform candidates of whether or not or no longer they’ll be invited to interview through the top of December 2024.

Utility directions

Your utility will have to include a CV and masking letter. We’ll depend on your masking letter to turn us why your talents make you a excellent are compatible for this position after we are shortlisting applicants, so take your time getting it proper. There can also be a sensible workout for longlisted applicants to finish.

We can shortlist all packages anonymously. So please use your initials slightly than your title in your CV and canopy letter, and don’t come with figuring out main points similar to your title or electronic mail addresses on those connected paperwork.

We’re in particular eager about bettering the range of our crew and we welcome packages from all suitably professional and skilled other people, and in particular from applicants with Black, Asian or different Minority Ethnic heritage, in step with our EDI technique.

We’re tracking our recruitment processes to make sure we’re doing the entirety we will be able to to inspire packages from other people of all backgrounds. We’d ask you to delight whole our not obligatoryequalities tracking shape. The tips you percentage within the shape might be nameless and won’t affect the overview of your utility.

In regards to the corporate

mySociety is a not-for-profit social undertaking, based totally in the United Kingdom and dealing the world over. We make internet sites and gear that empower electorate… like WriteToThem, FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow, TheyWorkForYou, and Alaveteli.

You’ll be able to learn extra about why you could wish to paintings for us on our careers web page, or signal as much as our jobs mailing record to listen to about new positions.

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