Deputy Director of Fundraising Planning & Performance

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 87,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Deputy Director of Fundraising Planning & Performance to lead transformative initiatives within a high-performing fundraising team. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive innovation and strategic leadership, ensuring the charity achieves its ambitious goals. With a focus on data-driven decision-making and team development, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of fundraising efforts. Join a mission-driven organization that is dedicated to making a real impact for seriously ill children and their families. This position operates under a hybrid working model, fostering flexibility and collaboration.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing schemes

Qualifications

• Proven track record in senior leadership and strategy development.
• Significant experience in analytics and data-led decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead three centralised teams across the fundraising directorate.
• Strengthen data approach to enhance performance and deliver growth.

Skills

Senior Leadership

Strategy Development

Innovation

Data-Driven Decision Making

People Leadership

Relationship Building

Problem-Solving

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

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Client:

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Location:

London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

08.05.2025

Expiry Date:

22.06.2025

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Are you looking for a once-in-a-career opportunity to lead bold transformation within one of the most high-performing fundraising teams in the sector?

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH) are hiring for a Deputy Director of Fundraising Planning & Performance to join us for an 18 month fixed term contract. Over the next 18 months, you will support our business-critical enabling teams to lay strong foundations for the long-term growth across our fundraising portfolio. You will play a central role in ensuring GOSH Charity achieves its ambitious goals, including one of the biggest capital appeals in its history, helping to fund vital research, pioneering treatments, and life-changing care for seriously ill children.

This is a chance to make a real impact for families who need it most.

The salary for this position is £86,800 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

You will take on a broad role leading our three centralised teams across the fundraising directorate – Fundraising Operations & Standards, Innovation and Fundraising Strategy & Integration. Supporting expert Heads of teams, your role will have 9 key pillars:

Strategic Leadership – Taking a central role in our Fundraising Leadership Team, working with the Director of fundraising to deliver the fundraising strategy.

Data Focus – Strengthening our approach to data to enhance performance and deliver growth.

Driving Innovation – Developing and delivering a robust pipeline of fundraising products and innovations.

Supporter Engagement – Optimising supporter journeys and developing a future roadmap.

Compliance and Standards – Providing senior leadership on compliance and fundraising operations.

Team Leadership and Development – Developing and leading a high performing team.

Future Resilient Structures and Skills – Collaborating across the organisation to implement future proofed structures and resources, as well as driving automation.

Senior Leadership Support – Enhancing collaboration and working alongside fellow Deputy Directors.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting – Delivering clear updates and actionable insights.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven track record in senior leadership, with experience/understanding across strategy development, innovation, and supporter/customer engagement.
• Previous success in delivering a cultural shift towards innovation and embedding a test and learn approach within an organisation.
• Significant experience in analytics, insight development, and data-led decision-making to inform strategic direction and delivery.
• Strong people leadership experience, inspiring and supporting large teams to deliver ambitious goals.
• Exceptional relationship building and networking skills.
• Able to plan and present strategies to senior leadership.
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional strategic planning and decision-making skills, with a data-driven approach.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver integrated strategies and plans.

Interviews
1st stage virtual on 5th and 6th June
2nd stage in person 16th June

How to apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing Date: 28th May 2025
Interviews: 1st stage virtual 5th and 6th June, 2nd stage in person 16th June

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact [emailprotected]

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.