Director of Fundraising

Job Title:                     Director of Fundraising

Accountable to:         Chief Executive Officer

Responsible for:        Fundraising, Events

Salary:                         £90,000 - £100,000 per annum commensurate with experience

Location:                    Based in Broadway House, Stanmore

Hours:                         35 hours per week 

Contract type:          Permanent

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) at Norwood, a leading Jewish Charity as Director of Fundraising, where you’ll collaborate with the Chief Executive Officer and other Directors in providing vision, leadership and direction across the organisation, ensuring Norwood achieves its strategic priorities, with particular responsibility for growing the fundraising capability.

You’ll have a clear approach to developing and implementing new and ambitious goals, ensuring alignment between the organisation’s priorities and bold fundraising strategy to step-change voluntary income and impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support cultural change and role model a collaborative and enabling approach to leadership.
• Develop a new, ambitious fundraising strategy and deliver the long-term fundraising income growth target, by finding opportunities to accelerate progress, optimise opportunities to exceed projections as well as inspiring and retaining income supporters. 
• Be a positive ambassador for Norwood, providing representation to external bodies and supporting the development of strategic partnerships.
• Lead the fundraising directorate, as well as associated fundraising campaigns, events, data and databases, cultivating a positive culture of inclusion, continuous improvement, high performance, and engagement.
• Lead the development of fundraising best practices to drive efficiencies and effectiveness including by improving systems and processes and donor engagement and care.
• Work closely with the Marketing and Communications directorate to ensure effective strategies are in place to support fundraising activities.

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategies and at senior leadership level that have achieved growth
• Track record of securing high levels of income
• Experience of leading, developing and motivating multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of working in a challenging, complex and changing environment

Knowledge & Skills:

• Deep knowledge of the Jewish community and an ability to work across its different denominations
• Ability to think commercially and act strategically, developing innovative solutions to address key corporate priorities
• Highly developed communication, influencing and networking skills with a strong ability to develop trusting relationships across Norwood, its stakeholders and partners
• An appreciation of fundraising in the charity sector

Attributes:

• An entrepreneurial character who’s highly motivated and resilient
• A champion of Norwood’s mission, vision and values
• Strong customer focus and a commitment to high standards of quality and performance
• Sensitive to the Jewish context in which Norwood operates and its community
• Personal and professional credibility and integrity to command the confidence of trustees, leadership, senior managers, staff, the local community, external partners and other stakeholders
• Excellent leadership skills demonstrating inclusion, collaboration and empathy, with the ability to lead change successfully

Benefits at Norwood:

• The opportunity to work for a leading UK charity
• Competitive salary: £90,000 - £100,000 per annum commensurate with experience
• Competitive benefits package
• Hybrid working and 1pm finish on a Friday
• 21 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays and Jewish festivals

Norwood Values: 

Kindness, Respect, Belonging, Empowerment

If this opportunity interests you, please apply before the closing date with an up-to-date CV via the careers site.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Due to the high number of candidates who apply to our roles at Norwood, please note we can only provide feedback following an interview, if shortlisted.

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