Campaign Manager, First Light

Royal Museums Greenwich; Greenwich; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days annual leave

Interest-free loans

Life Assurance scheme

Free exhibition entry

Flexible & hybrid working

Culture of collaboration

Job summary

Royal Museums Greenwich invites applications for a Campaign Manager, First Light, to deliver the fundraising drive for a major capital project at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. You will lead events, donor engagement, and campaign communications to meet targets.

Working in a hybrid role, you will coordinate gala dinners, travel to the USA in 2027, and manage multi-stakeholder relationships while maintaining high standards of planning and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and delivering events.
• Excellent organisational skills across multiple tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Proven ability to work well in teams and build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the First Light fundraising campaign to agreed objectives and timescales.
• Create fundraising materials and webpages; deliver a successful public fundraising campaign.
• Oversee campaign communications for all stakeholders; co-lead a gala fundraising dinner in 2027.
• Coordinate major donor meetings and events; manage a fundraising trip to the USA in 2027.
• Demonstrate sound planning and organisational ability; maintain high teamwork standards to deliver impact.

Skills

Event planning

Organisational skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Teamwork

Relationship building

Travel readiness

Job description

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.

First Light

The Development Team secures vital funding to support core programming and public engagement, exhibitions, collections care and major capital projects at Royal Museums Greenwich. We work with philanthropists, companies and trusts & foundations, building a community of generous and loyal supporters from our Patrons Circle and legacies to major grants and corporate partners. Our current focus is to secure a team target of £2M revenue income in this financial year, and deliver the funding needed to deliver First Light, a landmark capital transformation of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

First Light is an £85M project to deliver an ambitious schedule of much needed repair to the unique built heritage, vital capital improvements to the site plus an embedded programme of activities to build the nation’s science capital. A focus on physical, cultural, intellectual and financial access will ensure that everyone can enjoy, and benefit from, all the Observatory has to offer.

Aiming to break ground winter 2025 and reopen in spring 2028, First Light will affirm the Royal Observatory as THE centre for the public understanding and enjoyment of astronomy - a place of awe and wonder.

This is an exciting time to join the Development Team as we begin to plan a high-profile public campaign, seek to secure a principal gift to close the campaign and liaise with our ambassadors to build our reach and reputation.

The Role

Reporting to the Senior Manager: Development Business Operations, the Campaign Manager, First Light will deliver vital fundraising activity in support of this capital campaign - working with colleagues to maximise fundraising opportunities, engage supporters and ensure the successful delivery of campaign events, communications and donor engagement activity.

Key responsibilities include to lead delivery of the First Light fundraising campaign to agreed objectives and timescales through the creation of fundraising materials and webpages and the delivery of a successful public fundraising campaign. The role will manage regular campaign communications for all stakeholders, co-lead on the organisation and delivery of a gala fundraising dinner in 2027 and coordinate major donor meetings and events for the campaign. There is also the opportunity to travel through the management of a fundraising visit to the USA in 2027.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of planning and delivering events. They will have excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks. They will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as strong teamworking skills, with the ability to build productive working relationships.

This is a full-time, fixed term role until 30 June 2028 in Band 5 - Management and Proficient Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 9am - 5pm, with an additional hour to be agreed upon with management. Occasional evening and weekend working will be required to ensure the successful delivery of First Light campaign events.

Salary: £38,568 per annum.

Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.

Please also note that due to our commitment to internal opportunities for current staff, internal candidates will be considered first for this role.

The application deadline is Monday 28 September at 23:59. Interviews are pencilled in for w/c 5 October.

We offer:

• 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 after 1 year) plus bank holidays
• Interest-free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
• Free Life Assurance Scheme covering you for 2 times your annual salary
• Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation

To find out more, read a full list of our benefits.

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.