Executive Director of Fundraising and Digital

PROSPECTUS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An organization dedicated to supporting refugees is seeking an Executive Director of Fundraising & Digital to drive financial growth and oversee digital transformation. The ideal candidate will have extensive fundraising leadership experience and a strong track record in generating significant income across diverse streams. This hybrid role will involve strategic leadership to enhance the organisation's outreach and supporter engagement, ensuring alignment with its mission of dignity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience in fundraising and income generation.
• Proven track record of delivering significant income growth across multiple fundraising streams.
• Significant experience in brand development ensuring consistency across channels.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the organisation’s financial growth and supporter engagement.
• Provide strategic leadership across fundraising and digital platforms.
• Build and lead a high‑performing Fundraising and Digital directorate.

Skills

Senior leadership experience in fundraising

Track record of income growth

Brand development

Digital campaign innovation

Job description

Executive Director of Fundraising & Digital

Our client sees a Britain where refugees find safety and have a fair chance to rebuild purposeful, happy lives, contributing to our communities. It is a vision rooted in dignity and shaped by the belief that everyone deserves the chance to live in stability and to thrive. Now, the organisation will appoint a new Executive Director of Fundraising & Digital and Prospectus is proud to lead the search.

£90,000 • Permanent • Hybrid from the Stratford, London office, with travel to services as and when needed • Interviews beginning w/c 2nd February

The Executive Director of Fundraising & Digital is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for ensuring the organisation’s financial growth, supporter engagement, and digital transformation. This role provides strategic leadership across fundraising, digital platforms, brand, and supporter experience, ensuring these functions deliver ambitious income targets, expand public reach, and align with the organisation’s mission and values. The Executive Director builds and leads a high‑performing Fundraising and Digital directorate, fostering a culture of empowerment, innovation, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The selected candidate will have extensive senior leadership experience in fundraising and income generation, with a proven track record of delivering significant income growth across multiple fundraising streams. They will also have significant experience in brand development and/or guardianship, ensuring consistency and impact across channels, and will demonstrate considerable evidence of driving innovation in fundraising and digital campaigns.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.

If you are interested in applying to this Executive Director of Fundraising & Digital position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You’ll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.