Fundraising Manager

Voice 21 UK; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Voice 21 UK, a leader in oracy education, is seeking a Fundraising Manager to enhance its funding capabilities. This permanent role, based remotely, will involve developing relationships with funders to secure vital financial support. The successful candidate will have a track record in high value fundraising, with responsibilities that include managing proposals and contributing to strategic fundraising goals.

Benefits

36 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays

5% employer contribution to pension

Interest-free season ticket loans

Flexible working options

Paid study leave for formal studies

Qualifications

• Proven high value fundraising experience, especially with trusts and foundations.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to nurture relationships with external stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop a pipeline of funding opportunities to meet income targets.
• Draft compelling funding bids and manage relationships with key funders.
• Lead on reporting impact to funders.

Skills

Research

Communication

Relationship building

Organizational skills

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

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Salary: starting from £36,853 to £39,669 depending on experience (0.8 FTE considered)

Permanent, home-based (with regular travel).

About Voice 21

Speaking and listening skills underpin our success in school, work and throughout our lives. Developing young people’s oracy skills equips them with the tools needed to navigate education systems, pursue career ambitions and achieve their potential. Like reading, writing and maths, oracy is an essential, foundational building block that prepares young people to become citizens who can flourish in society.

Despite extensive evidence that high quality oracy education increases students’ confidence, wellbeing, engagement, progress and attainment, oracy is not an essential, everyday feature of every child’s school experience. Unlike literacy and numeracy, it is not commonly understood and provision across the system is not universal or consistent. This disadvantages children from low income backgrounds, who are significantly more likely than their better-off peers to start school without vital oracy skills.

Voice 21 is the national oracy education charity. We exist to enable economically disadvantaged pupils in the UK to develop the necessary oracy skills to thrive in education and beyond. We do this primarily by building the capacity and motivation of teachers and schools to provide high quality oracy education for every child, every day. Great teaching is the most important lever schools have toimprove outcomes for their pupils. We train thousands of teachers each year and support their schools to sustainably embed our evidenced approach. We focus where we can make the most difference, in schools with the highest numbers of pupils eligible for free school meals.

Since Voice 21 was established by educators in 2015, we have grown rapidly to become the UK’s trusted oracy education experts, upskilling teachers, promoting excellence in schools, setting the standard and spearheading national change. Our mission is to secure every child’s entitlement to a high quality oracy education. To achieve this, alongside delivery of our flagship Oracy Schools programme, we share our learning widely, add to the compelling evidence base for oracy, work to influence public awareness and help shape education policy.

About This Opportunity

Help us make oracy education an everyday entitlement for every child, in every school, by growing and diversifying Voice 21’s voluntary funding.

As Voice 21 embarks on its ambitious next five-year strategy, we are looking to strengthen our team with a talented and ambitious Fundraising Manager. Your role will support the Head of Fundraising, CEO and wider team to develop new sources of high value support for Voice 21, working flexibly across trusts and foundations, corporate and philanthropic fundraising.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a knack for identifying funding opportunities and discovering new prospects. With excellent research, communication and relationship-building skills, you’ll work collaboratively with senior colleagues to strengthen our pipeline and drive long term growth in voluntary income. You’ll also contribute your ideas and initiative to develop and deliver compelling engagement opportunities for current and potential supporters, and you’ll lead on reporting impact to funders. Ultimately the post-holder is expected to grow in this role, to manage their own portfolio of high value donors.

You’ll be joining the fundraising team at an exciting time as we look to build out the function in the coming years. The Head of Fundraising has been in post just over a year, and has put solid foundations in place to support long term growth. With a healthy pipeline already developed for the current and next financial year, you’ll have plenty of lead time to find your feet, with a realistic (shared) fundraising target of securing £500K of new voluntary income in 2027. There is significant untapped potential in fundraising for Voice 21. This is a great opportunity for an adaptable, proactive fundraiser to make their mark, gaining experience and developing expertise across high value streams.

Key responsibilities

Research and develop a qualified pipeline of trust/foundation and corporate prospects to ensure we achieve voluntary income targets in 2027/28 and beyond.

• Draft winning funding bids and support the Head of Fundraising and/or CEO to develop compelling proposals and/or pitches
• Support and manage the CEO to lead relationships with funders and prospects
• Lead on managing the funder reporting cycle and ensuring we deliver on our funding agreements, producing timely and inspiring impact reports
• Drive awareness and understanding of fundraising internally by making connections with colleagues across the organisation and working collaboratively to support achieving fundraising goals
• Maintain the quality of data in the fundraising team CRM (Salesforce), managing contacts and pipelines through the database and producing accessible reports on fundraising performance and forecasts
  
  

Essential Knowledge And Skills

Previous high value fundraising experience (trusts and foundations, corporates or philanthropy)

• Demonstrated ability to maintain a varied workload, deliver to deadlines, and successfully manage multiple work streams and projects
• Strong interpersonal skills and good emotional intelligence, with the confidence and evidenced ability to be able to nurture and maintain successful relationships with high value external stakeholders and senior colleagues
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to translate complex projects and/or ideas into accessible and persuasive narratives
• The instincts and initiative to spot and seize fundraising opportunities
• Passionate about reducing educational inequalities and transforming learning and life chances for young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds
  
  

Where you’ll work: All Voice 21 staff work remotely and this is a home-based role. Regular travel to our central London office (by Victoria station) is expected for meetings. Regular travel to visit our projects in schools and/or to meet funders will also be required. Occasional overnight stays may be required, depending on where you are based. Voice 21 pays travel and accommodation expenses and the package of salary and expenses will be considered when agreeing a starting salary with the successful candidate.

Contract: Permanent, subject to successful probation review after three months.

Why work for Voice 21?

Tackle a vital challenge, with great people. Voice 21 exists to transform childrens’ learning and life chances through talk and we are aiming to be working with 2,000 schools a year by 2025. To reach this goal we recruit great people and give them real responsibility, training and support.

Output focused culture, with flexible working opportunities. We have an agile and flexible approach, our team can work when and wherever works best to deliver the requirements of their role. For staff working at home, we support them to create a workspace and provide technology that enables them to work effectively.

Real development opportunities. We believe in supporting people to develop the skills they need to be excellent – whether this means funding external training, finding a mentor to support them or giving them the time to learn from others in the organisations through our regular CPD sessions. We also offer paid study leave for team members taking part in formal studies outside of work.

Great benefits. 36 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays and Christmas closure period). Holiday entitlement increases linked to length of service, 5% employer contribution to pension, interest-free season ticket, cycle and technology loans, employee assistance scheme.

Remuneration. Our pay is a band and spine point approach where there is up to 7 years progression available (depending on starting point)

Application details

To apply: Application is by CV and cover letter (which should be maximum two sides of A4). Applicants are advised to carefully consider the job description before applying, tailoring your CV and cover letter to demonstrate clearly how you match the specification for this role. Applicants who do not address how they match the essential knowledge and skills listed above, are unlikely to progress to interview. Please email your CV and letter to [e-mail] with the subject line ‘Fundraising Manager’.

Closing date: 9am Monday 23rd June

Interview dates:

• 1st round informal interviews will be virtual (via Zoom), scheduled on either Tues 1st or Weds 2nd July. Questions will be shared in advance so candidates can prepare their answers
• 2nd round panel interview, also virtual, will be scheduled on either Tues 8th or Weds 9th July. Candidates invited to the 2nd round may be asked to prepare a short presentation as part of the interview – a brief for which will be shared in advance, after the 1st round
  
  

Questions: Please contact Voice 21’s Head of Fundraising, Deborah Benson, if you would like to discuss this opportunity before applying: [e-mail].

Valuing every voice

Voice 21 believes that every voice should be heard and valued. We are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

Voice 21 is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. By offering a salary range, we demonstrate our commitment to considering a wide range of applicants who may bring different perspectives and levels of experience.

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