Senior Fundraising Manager

Job overview

Oxford Health Charity is entering an exciting period of growth, with an ambition to increase the scale and impact of charitable income raised to support patients, families, carers and staff across Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a new, fixed-term 12-month opportunity for an experienced fundraising professional to join the Charity team and provide dedicated capacity to develop our fundraising potential. The post has been created to enable the Charity to maintain momentum across its fundraising programme while the Head of Charity takes on additional operational and line management responsibilities.

Working closely with the Head of Charity and wider Charity team, the postholder will contribute to the development and delivery of the Charity's fundraising strategy, helping to build a stronger and more ambitious fundraising pipeline.

This is an opportunity for a proactive and creative fundraiser who can combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, build strong relationships and identify opportunities to generate greater income and impact. The successful candidate will play an important role in strengthening the Charity's fundraising capability and creating a strong foundation for future growth.

We are happy to accept full time and part time applications.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the development and delivery of Oxford Health Charity’s fundraising plans, aligned to strategic priorities, income targets and growth ambitions.
• Develop a diverse fundraising portfolio, growing sustainable restricted and unrestricted income across trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships, philanthropy, major gifts, legacies and individual giving.
• Lead high-value fundraising opportunities, developing compelling cases for support, strategic propositions, major projects and appeals.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospective funders, donors and partners through prospect research, relationship management and CRM systems.
• Lead the strategic development of corporate fundraising, including partnerships, sponsorship and employee engagement opportunities.
• Identify funding opportunities for transformational projects and capital programmes, working with the Head of Charity and Trust colleagues.
• Provide specialist fundraising advice to Charity and Trust colleagues, strengthening funding propositions and fundraising activity.
• Develop effective stewardship to retain supporters and maximise long-term value.
• Monitor fundraising performance, forecasts and pipeline activity, using data and sector insight to drive growth and improvement.
• Contribute to fundraising, impact and pipeline reporting to the Charity Committee and other stakeholders.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.