Fundraising Manager

Family For Every Child; Auckland; Remote; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Family for Every Child seeks a Fundraising Manager to lead the Individual Giving Team in New Zealand, maximizing net income for our NZ fundraising programme. You will grow the existing giving stream while diversifying into trusts, foundations, legacies and events, and help strengthen our UK support base.

You will work with the global fundraising team and Sustainability Director to plan long-term strategies, forecast ROI and LTV, manage budgets, and lead a high-performing team across borders and

Qualifications

• Graduate degree level or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of fundraising techniques including online cultivation and events.
• Extensive experience with Salesforce or other CRM databases.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting ROI and LTV.
• Ability to work across borders and time zones in multicultural settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Individual Giving Team in New Zealand and coordinate with global fundraising.
• Develop and deliver long-term fundraising strategies to grow income.
• Diversify the programme into trusts, foundations, legacies and events.
• Forecast ROI and LTV, manage budgets and income targets.

Skills

Fundraising strategy

Team management

Forecasting ROI & LTV

Stakeholder communication

Cross-cultural collaboration

Education

Graduate degree in relevant field

Tools

Salesforce

Google Apps

Job description

We’re seeking a passionate, ambitious and talented Fundraising Manager to lead our Individual Giving Team in delivering our fundraising activities, to maximise the net income of Family’s New Zealand fundraising programme.

This includes both growing the existing individual giving programme as well as diversifying the programme to include trusts and foundations, legacies and events. The role also includes developing and strengthening Family’s existing UK support base.

In this role, you’ll lead our Individual Giving Team in New Zealand, and work closely with the wider global fundraising team and the Sustainability Director to help ensure we can fund our local and global work for children and families.

If you’re a collaborative professional with experience in Individual Giving, forecasting (including calculating ROI and LTV) budget management, developing and delivering long-term fundraising strategies, team management and delivering to income targets – we’d love to hear from you!

Person Specification

• Several experience of broad fundraising experience
• Experience of developing and delivering fundraising strategies
• Graduate degree level of education or equivalent professional qualification within a relevant discipline
• In‑depth knowledge of fundraising techniques. Specifically: strategic development, project management, copy editing, data briefing, online cultivation, face‑to‑face fundraising, door‑to‑door fundraising, private site fundraising, print, advertising, analysis and modelling in New Zealand
• A sound understanding of Supporter Care techniques, and regulatory obligations
• Extensive experience of working with Salesforce, or other CRM databases
• Experience of using online platforms and social media platforms for fundraising
• Experience of effective communication at all levels across an organisation
• Experience of operating in an organisation in which a facilitative and consultative style of working is appropriate
• Experience of working in a multicultural setting
• Experience of working remotely or with remote‑working colleagues and of working as part of an international team
• Understanding of New Zealand Fundraising regulation, UK Charities Act and legislation in relation to fundraising, including tax effective giving
• Experience of working within a network organisation
• Experience of managing remote teams
• Basic experience of working with Google Apps

Skills and personal attributes

Role specific skills

• Ability to work independently and across multiple portfolios and subject areas at the same time
• A high level of skill in building and maintaining clear communication and effective working relationships across borders, time zones, organisational boundaries, cultures and languages.

The following skills and personal attributes are expected of all staff

• Flexible and adaptable; willing to contribute to other streams of work and across teams
• Highly skilled communicator, in different formats, and capable of respectfully working across diverse languages and cultures (using translation and interpretation support as relevant)
• Flexibility to work outside typical working hours and across time zones, especially in relation to line management responsibilities and to support cross team working
• Highly organised and self‑motivated, able to manage and deliver on multiple concurrent tasks
• Competent IT proficiency across a range of packages, able to learn quickly and troubleshoot problems independently
• Ability to use initiative and work without close supervision, working both as part of a team and as an individual
• Excellent command of English (oral and written) is a must, but working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, or French is appreciated to broaden the range of language skills within the Secretariat

Travel

Limited travel, only if required for the role.