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Top job! Director of Fundraising and Business Development

  • Full time
  • £41,708 – £42,416
  • Flexible location. National office is in Edinburgh with home working until restrictions are eased.
  • Closing 6th January 2022


  • Advertised from 20th December 2021
  • Permanent

Role

About the Role:

We are looking for an incredible Director of Fundraising and Business Development who believes that good fundraising and business development enhances all the work of the charity.

The Director of Fundraising and Business Development will lead all of our fundraising and income generating activities across the whole gamut of different income streams. They will develop and implement a fundraising strategy that utilises trusts and foundations, participates in tenders, identifies and wins government grants and awards, builds powerful individual and community giving campaigns and generates unrestricted traded income through social enterprises and our nascent training programme.

You may not have experience in all of these areas, but we will support you to build a multifaceted team. We want you to have an entrepreneurial attitude, one where you are excited about the prospect of building and delivering new and exciting income streams for the charity that not only provide us with greater income but also enhance our mission to make sure that no one has to face mental ill health alone.

The Director of Fundraising and Development:

• Creates and implements an innovative fundraising strategy that generates new income for the charity.

• Lead a team of fundraisers and business development professionals to ensure that we are utilising all income streams and are getting excellent return on investment.

• Co-ordinate and manage fundraising, comprising community, trust, corporate, traded income, major donor, statutory contracts and digital fundraising, across the organisation

• Build powerful and long-lasting relationships with funders.

• Develop and lead our traded income propositions including our training and consultancy business and potential future retail/hospitality opportunities

Support our business development managers to go for and win tenders across the country to deliver high quality services.

• Build and enhance our community fundraising and individual giving functions

• Is a senior leader across the charity, taking ownership of our development and ensuring that we have the plans and resources in place to match our ambitions.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is ambitious, positive, experienced and entrepreneurial to be our new Director of Fundraising and Business Development. This is a great opportunity to shape a whole organisation’s future.

• You are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives and about the difference that high quality, integrated fundraising strategies can make to the impact of an organisation. .

• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, you look for new and exciting opportunities and are positive about future possibilities.

• You are an innovative leader who takes people with them and builds strong trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• You can demonstrate leading fundraising projects and activities at a senior level from inception to completion, creating new income streams and raising revenue.

• You have demonstrable experience of creating and delivering on ambitious fundraising strategies.

• You have experience of managing a range of fundraising activities and team members and integrating them into a cohesive offering.

• You have excellent interpersonal, written and oral skills. You are comfortable and knowledgeable of online fundraising.

• You are comfortable writing and developing bids. Some experience of corporate fundraising, bidding for statutory tenders and individual giving would be advantageous.

• You are ambitious about what you, your team and the organisation can achieve. You see a challenge as an opportunity to improve and deliver outstanding service and support. You are a changemaker

Could we be a match?

This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future.

In return for your passion, innovation and dedication, we offer

• Professional development including funded opportunities

• An excellent leadership opportunity to make a lasting difference and develop your skills

• A generous 37 days’ holiday

• A 35 hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan

• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment

• 24/7 access to an award winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.

Support in Mind Scotland is the operating name of National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland)

A company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland SC088179. Charity No SC013649

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and value the unique experience that each individual brings to our organisation. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce, and to building a team made up of diverse skills, experiences and all kinds of life experiences.

Find out more about us on our Website at supportinmindscotland.org.uk and on Social Media.

Application notes

Please email your CV, Covering letter and completed application form to join@supportinmindscotland.org.uk as soon as possible with ‘Recruitment - Director of Fundraising and Development’ as the title. We are keen to fill this position as soon as possible so will be running rolling recruitment.

If you consider yourself to have a disability, please complete the relevant section within the application pack to inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated, so please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.


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