Senior Community Executive

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S CHARITY; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30d

Flexible working

Enhanced pension

Life assurance

Wellbeing schemes

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is seeking a Senior Community Executive to advance our high-value community fundraising programme in London. You will build lasting relationships with high-value supporters, including bereaved families fundraising in memory of loved ones, and steward others to maximise generosity and create lasting legacies.

This 12-month fixed term contract offers a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of two days per week in our London office.

Qualifications

• Proven fundraising experience, with a track record of building and managing successful long-term supporter relationships, especially for In Memory.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to inspire, engage and influence others.
• Strong emotional intelligence, empathy and resilience, with the confidence to navigate sensitive conversations.
• A proactive, creative and strategic approach, with the ability to identify opportunities and drive fundraising growth.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with high-value community supporters, particularly bereaved families fundraising through our Brighter Future Funds.
• Manage and grow a portfolio of dedicated supporters, helping them maximise their fundraising potential and make a lasting impact.
• Play a leading role in developing our Brighter Future Funds programme, using creativity and insight to enhance the supporter experience and strengthen long-term engagement.
• Lead on special stewardship events, including our annual Evening of Thanks, celebrating the incredible contributions of our supporters.
• Collaborate with teams & influence across the charity and hospital to create personalised, sensitive and impactful supporter experiences.

Skills

Fundraising experience

Relationship management

Emotional intelligence

Strategic fundraising

Organisational skills

Job description

Senior Community Executive

Are you an experienced community fundraiser who thrives on building meaningful relationships and wants to make a lasting difference to seriously ill children and their families? This is a unique opportunity to join our Community Fundraising team at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, working with some of our most dedicated and inspiring supporters. You'll play a key role in supporting bereaved families fundraising in memory of their loved ones, and stewarding other high value supporters to help them create a lasting legacy while shaping the future of our high-value community fundraising programme. This position is a 12 month fixed term contract. The salary for this position is £38,371 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the London 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

• Build and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with high-value community supporters, particularly bereaved families fundraising through our Brighter Future Funds.
• Manage and grow a portfolio of dedicated supporters, helping them maximise their fundraising potential and make a lasting impact.
• Play a leading role in developing our Brighter Future Funds programme, using creativity and insight to enhance the supporter experience and strengthen long-term engagement.
• Lead on special stewardship events, including our annual Evening of Thanks, celebrating the incredible contributions of our supporters.
• Collaborate with teams & influence across the charity and hospital to create personalised, sensitive and impactful supporter experiences.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven fundraising experience, with a track record of building and managing successful long-term supporter relationships, especially for In Memory.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to inspire, engage and influence others.
• Strong emotional intelligence, empathy and resilience, with the confidence to navigate sensitive conversations.
• A proactive, creative and strategic approach, with the ability to identify opportunities and drive fundraising growth.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work collaboratively.

About The team

You’ll join a passionate and supportive Community Fundraising team, dedicated to empowering individuals, families and communities to make a difference for seriously ill children. Our High Value Community Fundraising team works closely with some of the charity's most committed supporters, building lasting relationships and helping them achieve extraordinary things through their fundraising.

DBS note a Basic DBS check is required for this role.

DBS

Closing Date

2nd November 2026

Benefits

• 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.

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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

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.

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 [e-mail]