Location: Taunton Contract: Permanent Salary: £34,142 per annum for 37 hours per week. St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Philanthropy Manager to join our team. It’s a great time to join the hospice. As well as celebrating our 45th anniversary, 2025 will see the launch of our new five-year strategy. At the heart of this, is the need to challenge perceptions and build greater awareness of what hospice care is today. We want to help people to understand how they can access St Margaret’s and benefit from our outstanding range of services. This is where you come in Joining our exceptional team of fundraisers and communication professionals, you will play a key role in engaging with funders and supporters who are passionate about safeguarding hospice care for the local community. You will steward our existing brilliant supporters, raise awareness of the hospice’s work, and generate vital funds for our clinical services If you think you’ve got what it takes and would like to join us for the next chapter of St Margaret’s story, we’d love to hear from you. What can you expect to be doing? As our Philanthropy Manager, you’ll take the lead in developing a compelling case for support. By telling the hospice’s story and articulating our new five-year strategic plan, you will help to secure five and six figure multi-year funding. Your day-to-day work will include: Managing grant funders. Cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals. Maximising existing relationships and giving potential across our high value income streams, namely Trusts, Foundations and Major Donors. Researching opportunities and securing new funding. What can you expect to be good at? You will be: Adept at building relationships, both internally with hospice colleagues and externally with target funders. Skilled in project management and have the financial acumen to develop powerful grant applications. Able to network and collaborate with a range of potential funders, with the ability to articulate and report on the impact their support is making. Comfortable making funding requests and have a good grasp of what makes a compelling ask. Experienced or willing to organise and host solicitation and supporter events. Benefits Holiday entitlement 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time) Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5 who join directly from the NHS or another hospice Ability to buy and sell annual leave Pension scheme NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering: Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance Counselling and support Legal, financial, and medical information and advice And more Life assurance cover – 2x salary Health Cash Plans - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits Blue Light Card – Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35% Enhanced maternity/paternity leave Excellent learning and development opportunities Volunteering and fundraising opportunities Eligibility criteria applies If you want to get to know our team or have a chat before applying, we'd love to hear from you. Just reach out to Hannah Roberts at Hannah.Robertsst-margarets-hospice.org.uk Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time. For any questions about our recruitment process or to request an application form is sent to you, please contact Recruitmentst-margarets-hospice.org.uk We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact us for a chat if there's anything you want to talk about before you apply. If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can't wait to hear from you Closing date: 8th December 2024 Interview date: 18th or 20th December