Development Manager

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation seeks a Development Manager to spearhead their 10-year anniversary event and bolster fundraising efforts. This key role is crucial in building public engagement while enhancing community focus through strategic communications and partnership initiatives. The position offers flexibility and the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the organization's mission of supporting artists.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of initiating and delivering impactful events.
• Proven experience of developing fundraising strategies.
• Confident in communicating through all types of media.

Responsibilities

• Plan and project manage the charity’s 10-year anniversary celebratory event to be delivered in October 2025.
• Identify and cultivate supporter prospects for future fundraising opportunities.
• Lead on sponsorship and partnership opportunities for the event.

Skills

Organisational skills

Event management

Fundraising strategy

Communication

Networking

Job description

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The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is a charitable arts organisation with a mission to support emerging and established artists through exhibitions, residencies, and studio provision. With art hubs across five sites in London, The Bomb Factory is known for its community-focused, artist-led programming that champions experimentation and accessibility. 2025 marks the Bomb Factory’s 10th anniversary — a milestone that underscores its long-term impact, evolution, and resilience in a volatile art landscape. The Bomb Factory creates space for public access to contemporary art without barriers. Our commitment to fostering inclusivity and accessibility in the art world drives our extensive learning and participation programme, tailored to enriching local communities and schools.

The charity is now seeking its first Development Manager to play a pivotal role within this small but ambitious organisation to support with its celebratory anniversary event and longer-term goals. The event will be ambitious, fun, a spectacle to inspire and create a sense of community. The aim is for the event to act as a springboard to a structured fundraising programme, increased public engagement and reputation-building efforts to keep the Bomb Factory’s doors open for the next ten years.

The role has potential to scale with the charity and would suit someone who is experienced and hands-on with development, a team player, willing and confident to contribute to decision-making and shape fundraising strategy.

Job purpose

To plan and project manage the charity’s 10-year anniversary celebratory event to be delivered in October 2025 and to kick start the charity's fundraising prospects.

Specific responsibilities:

• Alongside the wider creative team, plan and project manage the 10-year anniversary celebratory event to be delivered in October 2025
• Contribute to strategic communications of telling our story and articulating the case for support
• With support from the team and building working relationships with Trustees and other key stakeholders, identify and cultivate supporter prospects for the event and future fundraising opportunities
• Lead on sponsorship and partnership opportunities for the event
• Set the charity up for success with systems and processes to underpin prospect cultivation

Responsibilities following the event, with potential to extend the contract:

• Building on the case for support - lead the research and design and initiate implementation of a fundraising strategy suitable for the charity
• Advise on and embed good practice around fundraising

Requirements

• Significant experience of initiating and delivering impactful events
• Strong organisational skills including budgeting
• A self-starter, able to work in a small and dynamic organisation
• Be an active participant in the world of art and culture, accustomed to networking with a range of stakeholders
• Proven experience of developing and putting into practice fundraising strategies in a similar role, working with individual donors, partnerships, trusts & foundations or public funders
• A strategic thinker who can support the team to develop and communicate the Bomb Factory’s evolving role as a key organisation within the London arts ecosystem
• Confident in communicating through all types of media

Job title: Development Manager

Reporting to: Strategy Manager with regular liaison: Director, Head of Operations, Trustees

Hours: 3 days (21 hours) a week flexible between the hours of 9am and 6pm - to be agreed with the Manager

Length: 6-month contract (immediate start) with potential to be made permanent on a 2 day a week basis

Location: The role can be worked on a hybrid basis, with an office currently based in the Bomb Factory Holborn building. Applicants must be able to come to the London office at least one day per week

Salary: £35,000 FTE per annum (prorated for part time)

Applications can be emailed with a CV, short cover letter and two references to [e-mail], by 19 June 2025 with the subject line ‘Development Manager Application’. References will not be sought until the offer stage. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Artists and Writers

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