Philanthropy Executive (HNWI)

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading visitor attraction as a Philanthropy Executive. Support the Principal Giving Programme and manage relationships with high-level funders. This role offers professional development in a world-class cultural organization, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Life insurance

Free admission to exhibitions

Staff discount at shops and cafes

Training initiatives and opportunities

Affordable membership to Civil Service Sports Council

Membership to Sports and Social Association

Qualifications

• Ambitious, self-motivated individual with excellent communication skills.
• Highly organized with substantial opportunity for professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the Principal Giving Programme.
• Prepare briefings, written correspondence, and manage databases.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Job description

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We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ over 1000 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

This is an exciting time to join the NHM’s Development team, as we have launched a major capital campaign that is set to rejuvenate the Museum spaces and transform access to our collections. Alongside this we have secured investment from the UK Government to build a major new science and digitisation centre at the Thames Valley Science Park in collaboration with the University of Reading.The purpose-built centre will house much of the Museum's collection and will includelaboratories, digitisation suites, collaborative research spaces, conservation labs and workspaces.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

Working alongside an approachable and highly successful Philanthropy team, reporting into the Senior Principal Gifts Manager, the role of Philanthropy Executive will support the development of our Principal Giving Programme (highest level funders of seven figure+). You will focus on the administration of the programme: preparing briefings, written correspondence, database management and working closely with the Senior Principal Gifts Manager to create compelling proposals. Alongside supporting with this, you will have your own portfolio of five to six figure funders and prospects and will need to maintain a high level of organisation and excellent communication to build both internal and external relationships with donors and prospects.

About you

We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated individual, who is highly organised and has excellent communication skills. The role will provide substantial opportunity for professional development within a world-leading cultural organisation.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfill their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.

How to apply

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Closing date: 23:59 on 28/05/2025

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.