UK Senior Philanthropy Manager

Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

28 days annual leave

Employee assistance program

Pension contributions

Birthday leave

Marriage leave

Dependent leave

Parental leave

Job summary

Hope for Justice is seeking a Senior Philanthropy Manager to lead and grow our UK philanthropy activity. You will strategise, manage the UK team, and build a strong portfolio of major donors while shaping partnerships that advance our mission.

You will work with senior leaders to identify opportunities, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive donor engagement across the UK, maintaining high ethical standards and safeguarding commitments.

Qualifications

• Significant senior fundraising or development experience with major gifts.
• Experience leading philanthropy strategy and UK market execution.
• Experience working with executives, Boards, volunteers and networks to open doors.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the UK philanthropy strategy and translate global strategy into local priorities.
• Line manage and develop the UK philanthropy team with clear objectives and rhythms.
• Personally own a portfolio of major and principal donors and prospects.
• Build donor-specific cases and deliver confident, data-informed asks.
• Represent Hope for Justice at strategic events and foster partnerships.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Relationship building

Coaching & development

Collaborative influence

Discretion & judgement

Ethical communication

Education

Relevant degree or fundraising qualification

Tools

CRM

Dashboards

Forecasting

Job description

Hope for Justice is looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Philanthropy Manager to lead and grow our philanthropy activity across the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior fundraiser who combines strategic thinking with a genuine love of building relationships. You'll lead the delivery of our philanthropy strategy in the UK, manage and develop the UK philanthropy team, and personally build a strong portfolio of major and principal donors and prospects.

Working closely with senior leaders, colleagues and supporters across the organisation, you'll help identify new opportunities, strengthen existing relationships and create meaningful partnerships that grow income and support Hope for Justice's mission.

Main Purpose

To manage Hope for Justice philanthropy across the United Kingdom, supporting the CPO to translate the global Philanthropy Strategy into locally relevant execution, managing the UK team, personally prospecting for and developing major and principal donors, representing Hope for Justice at strategic events, and leading the incremental development of and hiring for the team over the forthcoming scaling phase.

Main Duties:

Country and Regional Philanthropy Leadership

• Lead the delivery of the Philanthropy Strategy in UK, translating global strategy into market priorities, donor propositions, portfolio plans, income goals, and team rhythms.
• Represent UK market opportunities, performance, risks and resourcing needs in global fundraising planning and leadership discussions, including in Christian circles and church networks
• Execute on annual and quarterly priorities and metrics for the country team.

People Leadership and Team Performance

• Line manage, coach and develop the team shown in the approved organisation chart.
• Manage role clarity, portfolio ownership, annual objectives, development plans and balanced scorecards for each specialist lane.
• Run effective one-to-ones, portfolio reviews, pipeline reviews and team meetings; remove blockers, rebalance work and address performance promptly.
• In partnership with the CPO own the recruitment, onboarding and workload transitions in line with the phased vacancies shown in the organisation chart.

Major and Principal Donor Prospecting

• Personally own a focused portfolio of major and principal donors and prospects, with substantial emphasis on new relationship development.
• Build a qualified pipeline through referrals, networks, events, research, giving history, capacity indicators and relational intelligence.
• Create and execute individual donor strategies through identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, retention and upgrading.
• Develop donor-specific cases for support and make confident, data-informed asks for appropriate unrestricted, restricted, multi-year, planned and non-cash gifts.
• Mobilise the CPO, Directors, Boards, senior leaders, programme colleagues and volunteers around priority relationships when needed.

Segmented Moves Management And Donor Experience

• Integrate events and leads, mass, mid-level, major and principal donor pathways so every active relationship has a named owner, current stage, next action and expected date.
• Embed consistent gratitude, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, renewal, retention, upgrading and reactivation practices.

Planning, Systems and Performance

• Own the market income plan, phased forecast, pipeline review and performance narrative, escalating opportunities, risks and variances early.
• Maintain strong CRM discipline, accurate relationship records, timely activity logging and compliant data handling.
• Work with the Philanthropy Data and Project Manager as well as Finance so dashboards, definitions, forecasting and income records are consistent and decision-ready.
• Use leading indicators monthly and lagging indicators annually to coach choices, allocate support and improve performance.

Communications, Governance and Risk

• Adapt cases for support, proposals, events and stewardship for UK and European audiences, while maintaining relevant UK fundraising regulation, data protection, Gift Aid, charity governance and local donor expectations.
• Maintain high standards of ethical storytelling, safeguarding, due diligence, restricted funding oversight and reputational risk management.

All Roles

Understand and uphold the standards set out in Hope for Justice safeguarding policies, acting with due care to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns where they arise.

Key Results Areas

• A clear market plan translates global strategy into local priorities and donor-growth pathways.
• A healthy major and principal donor pipeline is personally created and advanced.
• Each specialist lane has clear ownership, objectives, coaching, rhythms, and metrics.
• Donor movement and handoffs across events, leads and donor segments are timely and visible.
• Forecasts, CRM records, next actions and performance reporting are accurate.
• Income, retention, upgrading, referrals, conversion and year-over-year growth improvements.
• Fundraising remains ethical, compliant, safeguarding-aware and donor-centred.

Soft Skills

• Strategic and entrepreneurial leadership.
• Warm, credible relationship building.
• Coaching, accountability and talent development.
• Collaborative influence and cultural intelligence.
• Resilience, discretion and sound judgement.
• Clear, compelling and ethical communication.

Technical Skills

• Major and principal gift fundraising.
• Prospect research and qualification.
• Portfolio strategy and moves management.
• CRM, segmentation, dashboards and forecasting.
• Budget, pipeline and income planning.
• Country-relevant compliance, due diligence and risk.

Experience & Education

• Significant senior fundraising or development experience, including a demonstrable personal record of identifying, cultivating, soliciting and securing major or principal gifts.
• Proven people-leadership experience, including coaching fundraisers and managing performance against relationship and income outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of UK philanthropy and experience relevant to European donor markets.
• Experience working with executives, Boards, Directors, volunteers and networks to open doors and advance complex donor relationships, including Christian circles and church networks
• Experience using CRM data, portfolio analytics, forecasting and performance reporting to improve fundraising decisions.
• Relevant degree, professional fundraising qualification or equivalent experience.
• Empathy with Hope for Justice's mission, values and faith-informed heritage, with a commitment to ethical, survivor-centred and safeguarding-aware fundraising.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

• Hybrid and Flexible working environment.
• 28 days Annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing annually up to 30 days (prorated based on start date and hours worked).
• Company Sick Leave.
• Birthday Day.
• Marriage Leave.
• Dependent leave.
• Enhanced paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Pension contributions (5% employer, 5% employee).
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to our Reward Gateway for discounted offers.

Location:

London/Southeast Region (United Kingdom), with regular travel across the UK and occasional day in Manchester home office

Job Type: Full time

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience

Closing date: 23rd October 2026

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy - to view this please . Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants' previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures. Personal data of the selected candidate(s) may be transmitted to INTERPOL for a security check for the purpose of identifying threats the candidate could pose to children and vulnerable persons in regard to a sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment offences. We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.