Head of Philanthropy for Student Programmes and Individual Giving
UE09: £61,198.00 - £75,498.00 Per Annum.
USG / Development & Alumni.
Open Ended Contract - Permanent.
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
The Opportunity:
Are you passionate about improving support for students in higher education across all disciplines and all backgrounds? Does the opportunity to build, manage and influence relationships between alumni and donors excite you? Would you thrive in a collaborative, ambitious, income generating working environment? Are you a proven leader with the skills and personality to lead teams in the UK and overseas to take philanthropy and advancement in individual giving to the next level?
We are seeking a Head of Philanthropy for Student Programmes and Individual Giving to lead three fundraising teams (University Programmes Team, United States Philanthropy Team and Supporter Engagement Team) who (broadly, but not exclusively) focus on fundraising from alumni and individuals.
This is a senior-level role, with wide-ranging responsibilities to deliver a strategic priority for the University. The post holder will be responsible for three broad areas which are:
- Devising and delivering a strategy for individual giving from alumni and other donors in a wide range of forms
- Using these activities to drive gifts to support students
- Using these methods to support a range of University priorities by collaborating with advancement leads for other School and College priorities.
The scope of the role is large and will include overseeing preparation for and implementation of several major strands of strategic philanthropic activity concurrently. The post holder will focus on developing the University’s activities to diversify its long-term income streams by increasing philanthropic income from alumni, individuals, stakeholders and other funders.
This is an open-ended and full-time position with the possibility of hybrid working.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Significant experience of managing income-generating teams, with demonstrable experience of motivating teams in progressively more demanding roles.
- Extensive experience of fundraising in Regular Giving or an equivalent level track-record of securing income through a variety of techniques, including in a front-facing role in sales, communications or marketing.
- Experience of developing strategic detailed income generation and engagement plans with associated communications and analysis of the impact (Desirable).
- Knowledge of UK charity law, data protection/ GDPR, governance, and experience of working with relationship management databases, including relevant data analysis to inform strategic planning and decision making.
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Application process
As part of your application, please ensure you include both a CV and a covering letter. Applications without a cover letter will be disregarded.
Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss the role informally.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An inclusive, exciting, positive, creative and rewarding place to work. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which include a generous holiday entitlement, optional defined benefits pension schemes with generous employer contributions, family friendly initiatives, flexible working, extensive staff discounts, and much more. Go to our staff benefits page for further information. A reward calculator helps show the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The Development & Alumni department offers an inclusive and welcoming working environment: we understand that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission of "connecting for good". Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success.
You will be empowered to shape and inform aspects of our office culture such as diversity and inclusion, mental health and wellbeing, and sustainability. Staff members are also supported to contribute to the University’ equality diversity and inclusion agenda through groups such as the Disabled Staff Network, Staff Pride Network and Edinburgh Race Equality Network. The University of Edinburgh is proud of its Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.
You will be supported to bring new ideas, and to take and learn from calculated risks. You will be empowered to develop ways of working that fit team needs and individual circumstances.
Key dates to note:
The closing date for applications is Monday 2 September 2024.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 30 September 2024.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
ABOUT US
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Development & Alumni maintains and enhances our relationships with all our former students – around 250,000 in more than 150 countries. We also fundraise in order to ensure that the University can continue to provide ground-breaking research, world-class facilities and scholarships to talented students and staff members from across the world.
The is outward-looking, consultative and committed to working in partnership with others. We respond to the evolving needs of the University, our students, and wider society. We collaborate to fulfil social, cultural and economic benefit to Edinburgh, Scotland and the world – as outlined in the University’s Strategy 2030. Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We aim to achieve excellence in all that we do, always being principled, considerate and respectful.
Find out more at https://www.ed.ac.uk/development-alumni
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