Major Donor and Trusts Manager - Band 6
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Join our award-winning charity team as our Major Donor and Trust Manager!
Cheltenham & Gloucester Hospitals Charity helps our local hospitals to do even more, funding projects over and above the NHS. Our fundraising makes a direct impact for local people with conditions such as cancer, heart disease and dementia, and for new babies with serious illness. Recent successes include £3Million raised through the Gloucestershire CT Appeal and our COVID-19 Appeal to make an impact on NHS Staff Wellbeing.
As the Major Donor and Trust Manager, you have an important role to play in enhancing the lives of patients and staff by developing and implementing a successful strategy to increase major donor and trust income for the charity. With your skills and experience, you will be helping coordinate the biggest capital appeal ever conducted in Gloucestershire. Collaborating with the Head of Income Generation you will cultivate and build exceptional relationships with High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) and trusts to support this transformative endeavour and the hospitals more widely. You have the freedom to shape your role and introduce innovative ideas and best practices and you will form part of the broader Fundraising Team.
Main duties of the job
Your communication skills and knowledge of major donor and trust fundraising will enable you to personally manage a portfolio of major donors and high level ambassadors, nurturing relationships, building a robust pipeline for the future and actively securing five and six figure gifts. Your written skills will also enable you to create a strong written case for support, helping to secure gifts from trusts and foundations.
You will work with the the wider fundraising team as they reach and exceed targets, deliver fundraising campaigns, create sustainable income streams and launch their largest ever fundraising appeal.
The post holder will report directly to the Head of Income Generation and will work closely with high level volunteers and supporters including our Capital Appeal Board, and with NHS Staff across Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
About us
Your passion to make a difference, experience and knowledge of income generation and willingness to go the extra mile will help you to lead our fundraising team to make an even greater impact in the local area. You'll join a team which has been recognised as the Charity of the Year at the Gloucestershire Business Awards 2022, and will benefit from being in an NHS Band 6 role with periodic pay increases.
You will be an employee of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, and one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
This role is advertised as full time, 37.5 hours per week, but if you are a candidate who wishes to work different hours then this will be considered - please let us know when applying for the post.
Date posted
24 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
318-23-R11377
Job locations
Trustwide
Gloucester / Cheltenham
GL1 3NN
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trustwide
Gloucester / Cheltenham
GL1 3NN
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