Job description
Harris Hill are thrilled to be working with a large international maritime charity who are looking for a new Major Donor Manager to join their team. The charity is growing, in terms of income generation and new programmes of activity around the world. To help support this development, they have created this new important role.
The Major Donor Manager, reporting into the Director of Development and working with some guidance from the Head of Major Gifts, will maintain and grow a stable pipeline of income from Major Donors. The successful candidate will secure unrestricted and restricted income from a portfolio of Major Donors to support the activities of the charity’s network in the UK and overseas. The candidate will produce cultivation plans for individual Major Donors, meet them, craft tailored applications and reports for them.
Key details:
Role: Major Donor Manager
Location: Hybrid working but ideally in their central London office
Salary: £42,000
Contract: Full time, permanent
Amongst other criteria, the successful candidate will have:
1. Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with Major Donors, wealth advisers, etc.
2. Strong rapport building and persuading skills.
3. Excellent written and verbal communication.
4. At least two years’ experience of Major Donors fundraising.
5. Experience of crafting applications, thank you letters and reports for Major Donors.
6. Successful track record of achieving targets and growth in Major Donors fundraising.
7. Experience of researching Major Donors.
8. Good knowledge of Gift Aid rules.
9. Good knowledge of GDPR and data protection rules.