Director of Fundraising

Finegreen; Berkhamsted; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity in Berkhamsted seeks a Director of Fundraising to innovate and lead a team in delivering significant income and strategic partnerships. The role involves overseeing fundraising initiatives, engaging with the community, and ensuring sustainable growth in donations. The ideal candidate will combine strategic leadership with a passion for hospice care, aiming to enhance fundraising efforts and community support.

Qualifications

• Experience leading fundraising teams to deliver significant income.
• Ability to develop strategic partnerships and innovative fundraising approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver over £2.5m in annual income.
• Identify and implement new fundraising strategies.
• Represent the Hospice in external partnerships.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Fundraising

Data Analysis

Storytelling

Education

Relevant Degree

Job description

Director of Fundraising
Hours: Full time (reduced hours would be considered)
Salary: Competitive
Location: Berkhamsted, Herts.
Contract: Permanent

At The Hospice of St Francis we believe Hospice care is fundamental for a good life - a human right, not a postcode lottery. The work of the Hospice is vital – to the people they support, their families and to the community. Funding our future means commercial enterprise, philanthropy and sustainable trading.

The Hospice of St Francis is a charity with a powerful history and has provided outstanding hospice care for over 45 years. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC since 2016, The Hospice helps 2,000 local people and their families in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, to live their lives well. Care is tailored to individual’s needs, supporting people recovering from life threatening illness, those living with a diagnosis that will result in premature death and support for family and friends in caring and through loss and grief. The Hospice works to deliver care, at Home, at the Hospice in the Health and Wellbeing Centre and in-patient unit.

The Hospice has invested in digital development. The Director of Media and Digital income oversees income to the value of £400k with a trajectory for growth. This includes all appeals, promotion of established products like legacy giving and matched funding programmes. The legacy pipeline was redesigned in 2024 with an award winning film “I will 1%” inspired by the work of Richard Ratcliffe. The Hospice is one of over 100 Hospices working with Hospice UK to promote legacy funding at a national and local level with a combined campaign. Investment for the future means The Hospice has a centrally managed people and systems team, this includes management of our CRM (Donify), enabling the Executive Team report on KPIs with internally triangulated data for better decision-making. The Hospice is also working with Finegreen to recruit an interim Head of Philanthropy to review the approach to philanthropy to date and make clear recommendations. A third party will deliver market research to update intelligence on current and potential markets for supporters. With innovation at its core, The Hospice has embedded ‘everyone’s a fundraiser’ into the organisational culture. This includes an embedded fundraiser in clinical services for a faster response whenever a person receiving care and support expresses an interest in becoming a fundraiser. All of this ensures our Fundraising Directorate can now focus on ‘in real life’ or ‘in person’ fundraising, identifying and working with new cohorts of supporters, assure continued innovation in facilitating meaningful giving experiences, running high profile events to unite people behind a shared cause, challenge events and new approach to philanthropy.

As our Director of Fundraising, you will be an innovative strategic leader, a people person who combines humanity with data driven decision-making. Your role includes leading an experienced team to deliver over £2.5m in income annually and steward £1m in legacies, with the opportunity to make your own appointments to lead philanthropy. As part of the strategy of the Hospice your business case development will deliver an additional ≥£1m by 2028, in a trajectory for growth. An adept storyteller with a passion for Hospice care – you will lead strategic partnerships, working cross sector and operating effectively at Board/Committee. You will be accountable for identifying, testing and implementing fundraising approaches not typically used to date in the sector, including new philanthropy, donor advised funds and social investment models with a pipeline for delivery of new income. You will research and develop strategic alliances built on value exchange, where individuals and organisations come together to define the benefit of this collaboration and commitment to donate/invest. An accessible, visible and credible ambassador you will build networks to garner support across the community. There will be opportunities to represent the Hospice in external partnerships and projects locally and nationally.

If this feel like the right role for you, we would love to hear from you.

Recruitment Timetable

Applications Close: Sunday, 8 June 2025
Shortlisting Interviews: w/c 16 June 2025
Final Interviews and Assessment: w/c 30 June 2025

For further information and a confidential call, please contact our recruitment partners at Finegreen - Joe Joyce and Natasha Parmar on: [e-mail]

Application is by CV and Covering Letter and should be submitted to: [e-mail]