Fundraising Campaign Manager - Cambridge Children's Hospital

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge is seeking a Fundraising Campaign Manager to support a £100 million fundraising campaign for a new children's hospital. The role requires strong fundraising experience and interpersonal skills to manage diverse relationships. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to transformative healthcare initiatives and work within a supportive environment fostering personal and professional growth.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Flexible working arrangements

Subsidized transportation

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising or campaign management.
• Ability to manage relationships with senior personnel.
• Highly motivated and talented individual.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the coordinated gift pipeline for the campaign.
• Track and report campaign activity and fundraising metrics.
• Develop campaign policies and implement them.

Skills

Fundraising

Campaign management

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The University of Cambridge (UoC), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHSFT (CPFT) and Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT (CUH) are working in partnership to realise a visionary new hospital for children and young people across the East of England. Supported by three charity partners – Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT), Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations (CUDAR) and Head to Toe Charity – the project will seek to match £100 million committed by the government with £100 million in philanthropy. The campaign for Cambridge Children’s presents a compelling proposition for donors motivated by the opportunity to build a world first hospital that pioneers a whole new approach to healthcare for children and young people, with the potential to positively impact on child health around the world.

The Fundraising Campaign Manager will have a crucial role in supporting the Campaign to raise £100 million in philanthropy. This post will be critical in supporting three separate organisations to work together to deliver a unified campaign to achieve the philanthropic goal. You will be a highly motivated and talented individual with fundraising or campaign management experience and excellent interpersonal skills, to manage and develop a diverse set of relationships with senior personnel within the NHS, the University and philanthropic partners.

• Consolidate and lead on the coordinated gift pipeline for the Cambridge Children’s Hospital campaign
• Consolidate the pipeline of prospects and track progression through the solicitation cycle, working in partnership with the campaign’s lead fundraisers to report to the Campaign Executive and other leadership
• Track campaign activity and fundraising reporting to agreed metrics
• Support the development and maintenance of ‘gift opportunities’ at key gift levels and overarching cost documentation, mapping asks to align with the fundraising priorities
• Develop, revise and maintain campaign policies for the Campaign Executive and lead on their implementation (e.g. naming, counting, recognition)
• Develop and roll out campaign-specific programmes, e.g. CCH Founders Circle, CCH volunteer strategy and tools
• Execute campaign board meetings, engagement, and regular communications
• Update and report against campaign plan including day to day management of the campaign budget, spend and financial reporting (incl Return on Investment analyses)
• Ensure standards for campaign data management
• Provide overall strategic programme management for the Campaign

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Cambridge Children’s takes a new approach to healthcare. Treating children and young people from 0-25 years, the hospital will integrate cutting-edge technology with university research to treat the whole child. It will seamlessly integrate physical and mental healthcare, bringing expertise from these disciplines together under one roof and embed a holistic approach to treat the person, not just the patient. New methods for early detection will enable quicker and more accurate diagnoses to introduce preventative treatments for children and the adults they will become. Alongside state-of-the-art care, Cambridge Children’s will work in close regional partnership with local acute providers, Community Services, GPs and Social Care to deliver care closer to home.

Embedded at the heart of Cambridge Children’s will be a pioneering research institute dedicated to understanding the early origins of disease affecting both physical and mental health, shifting medical practice from reactive care to prevention. The goal is to better detect, understand and delay the onset of physical and mental health conditions – ultimately, to prevent them from ever occurring.

This ambition will leverage the advantages of co-location on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC), the largest centre of life sciences and health research in Europe, and the vibrant Cambridge life sciences cluster combining start-ups, spin-outs, SMEs and large multi-nationals including AstraZeneca and GSK.

To note: This 24 month fixed term post will be hosted by Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) on behalf of the Cambridge Children’s project partners.

Interviews to be scheduled week beginning 13 October with further stakeholder panel with Campaign Board representatives to also be scheduled in late October.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This advert will close at midnight on 5 October 2025.

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 13 October 2025.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025