* Fixed term for up to 12 months maternity cover, or until the substantive post holder returns. 35 hours per week.
Role
Job Purpose
Lead, implement and oversee a comprehensive donor stewardship framework that ensures all donors across all levels are appropriately thanked, recognised and receive high quality communications about their giving and its impact. Understand, monitor and co-ordinate work being delivered by colleagues across different teams to ensure the framework operates effectively. Provide guidance on donor relations policies, with a particular focus on talent scholarships, overseeing the tracking and recognition of high-value gifts, managing donor engagement activities, and collaborating with colleagues to produce, write, and sign off on impactful donor communications and content.
As our Donor Relations and Stewardship Officer, you will be instrumental in stewarding a diverse portfolio of donors, including trusts, foundations, individuals, and corporations. You will manage the full stewardship cycle, from initial contact and gift acknowledgement to impact reporting and ongoing communication.
You will be responsible for nurturing donor relationships, ensuring they feel valued and connected to the QMU community by building robust systems and processes to manage engagement and communications. Your work will include creating engaging content on the impact of our donors and building strong relationships with our student recipients. This is a role where you can be creative, building new and lasting ways to share the impact of our donors’ support.
In this role you will create and deliver bespoke stewardship plans for donors and spend part of your time liaising with academics regarding fundraising projects and donors. You will also spend part of your time meeting/engaging with donors, leading to spending significant time researching and creating impact reports, donor communications and individual gift proposals. Alongside this, you will steward the delivery of some key philanthropic funds and projects, ensuring that the University delivers the impact expected by our donors.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in donor relations, stewardship, development or a related field (for example in marketing and communications). You will possess the ability to produce inspiring copy and inspire donors in face-to-face engagement. You will have a passion for bringing creativity and innovation to your work, have excellent people skills, be highly efficient and organised, and be comfortable managing a range of tasks in parallel.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real contribution to a forward looking university that has achieved a strong positive trajectory in philanthropic income and in alumni relations in the last few years.
* Closing 12th March 2025
Who are we? We’re The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice. We’re a well-established charity located at 20 Dumbreck Road, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow G41 5BW. The hospice provides specialist palliative care for people with a life-limiting, progressive illness, and support for their families and carers.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced fundraiser to join our team as Community Fundraising Manager. This post plays a critical role in creating and implementing community fundraising strategies, donor stewardship and cultivating new donors to the Hospice. The Community Fundraising Manager will line manage the Community team and be responsible for driving income through a variety of new and existing community initiatives and activities.
Job Purpose
• The Community Fundraising Manager at The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice plays a crucial role in grassroots fundraising, community engagement, and education.
• You will be responsible for developing and implementing community engagement strategies to retain existing supporters, cultivate new donors and drive fundraising efforts whilst raising vital awareness of the Hospice.
• This role will also involve line management responsibilities, overseeing the Community Fundraiser, Cans team and Volunteers.
Role Dimensions
• The role includes: Fundraising, Team Management, Relationship Management, Marketing, elements of Event logistics.
Role of Department
• To achieve strong sustained net income growth in order to enable the Hospice to meet its operational and strategic aims.
• To communicate the value of the Hospice, raising brand awareness and promoting services as a leading provider of specialist palliative care.
• To identify and develop a varied portfolio of income streams ensuring sustainability.
• To establish and maintain sustainable relationships to benefit Hospice fundraising and marketing initiatives.
• To work as part of the wider Hospice Team to contribute to the overall strategic aims of the Hospice.
Please note, we do not hold a Sponsorship Licence and are therefore unable to accept applications from candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.
* Remote: Home based, in or close to Glasgow / Renfrewshire with fairly regular travel
* Closing 10th March 2025
About the Role
As a passionate professional in the identification, development and management of a wide range of relationships in support of our programme partnership, you will ensure the Career Ready programme in Glasgow and West areas (currently Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire) continues to thrive, which includes securing charitable donations from supporting partners. Your responsibilities for the area, will be as a team of two, alongside our other Regional Manager for Glasgow and West areas given this is our largest area in Scotland.
This role requires experience of partnership and account management and the scale and ambition of our social mobility work means you will need to be well organised, confident and able to positively influence a wide range of people including headteachers, teachers, CEOs and HRDs.
You will identify and approach opportunities that are well researched and pursue with unswerving perseverance. It’s also a great chance to develop personally.
Regional Managers are responsible for leading our work which involves growing, developing and maintaining the employer and education partnerships that deliver the Career Ready programme. This includes the Local Advisory Board, local authorities (key stakeholders), schools (we have a member of staff in each school who coordinates), the Developing the Young Workforce Regional Group, and the many employer organisations and their people who volunteer as mentors, provide paid internships and deliver masterclasses.
By assimilating what, why, when and the how of our work, you will be able to:
* Lead, grow and develop our Career Ready partnership in Glasgow and the West, optimising the programme experience for all stakeholders and securing the engagement of employer support for the programme of approximately 300+ students each year who will participate in the 18-month long Career Ready programme annually.
* Support programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and business development by working closely with the Career Ready Glasgow & West Local Advisory Board, the other Career Ready Glasgow & West Regional Manager, the Head of Programme & Operations, Partnerships Manager and the Career Ready Regional Manager Scotland team all who are focused on quality, impact and sustainability underpinned by attention to detail via efficient and effective processes. You will be supported by and work with the Career Ready Scotland Operations Team to maintain thorough data and management information for the area.
* A working from home allowance of £300 pa is provided.
* Annual leave: 25 days holiday plus bank/public holidays plus 2 additional days in the summer. In addition, Career Ready is closed between Christmas and New Year. Career Ready also allows flexible use of some Bank & Public Holidays.
* 6% of salary contribution to a private pension subject to an employee contribution of 3%.
* Access to both our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme.
* Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans.
* Business expenses including mileage allowance for car usage.
Edinburgh Napier University strives to deliver the best teaching, to the widest range of students who can benefit from it, in ways that are appropriate to the needs of students and employers. Philanthropic support plays a critical role for many students by providing much-needed financial assistance and encouragement to enable them to access and complete higher education, as well as pursue extra opportunities to enhance their studies whilst they are at university.
Our Development Office works with a wide range of partners to assist the development of the University, its students, alumni and staff. It has two main aims: to raise philanthropic funds and to enhance the University's relationships with its alumni and friends worldwide.
As such, we are currently recruiting a Development Officer to grow fundraising and lead the disbursement of the University Scholarships and Awards programme by expanding the portfolio of valued donors.
The Role:
As Development Officer, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in fundraising or sales to generate income from corporate and individual donor relationships, in turn growing new scholarship and bursary funding.
Your fundraising knowledge/experience and proficiency in soliciting donations from companies/individuals will serve you well, as you lead the development and implementation of our strategy to grow named scholarships, and bursaries, in line with the department fundraising plan.
The role will also give you the chance to use your strong relationship building skills and ability to quickly build rapport, to engage with philanthropists, corporates and charitable trusts, building their sense of connection to the Edinburgh Napier students who will directly benefit from the funding that you secure, making this a truly rewarding role.
We expect that your strong attention to detail will allow you to manage the administrative duties of the post as well, and you will need to use your understanding of basic finance procedures (including overseeing income and expenditure accounts) to maintain accurate records of awards, ensuring that budgets for various student scholarship and grant programmes are managed.
This is a post that will see you making a positive and profound difference in the lives of many of the students that we support. Furthermore, we hope that this will be a logical next step for you as you build on your fundraising knowledge/experience, taking on a role that will see you meeting a wide variety of interesting people, while supporting the University in planning approaches for philanthropic backing of our academic objectives.
What we will need from you:
* Further or higher education, or relevant work experience.
* Experience of sales or soliciting donations from companies or individuals.
* Ability to assess funding applications and liaise with student applicants.
* Experience of working in a customer-focused role including dealing with queries and resolving issues.
* Experience of writing formal reports, case studies or papers.
* Excellent communication and organisational skills.
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