Senior Philanthropy Manager - Regional (42392-1223)

About the Role Responsible to the Head of Philanthropy, responsible for a Philanthropy Officer. In this role, you’ll lead the development of a portfolio of Major Gift prospects and projects from the Warwickshire region, and hold line management responsibility for a Philanthropy Officers, as required, who will support Development Office-led philanthropic priorities. In this role, you’ll be hybrid working within a hot-desking space within the Development and Alumni Engagement team on campus. We support the team to work remotely in accordance with our hybrid working policies. Our impact stretches far beyond the boundaries of Warwick’s campus: The University of Warwick was conceived, in part, by the ambition of the Midlands business community to transform the opportunities available to residents of the local area, and it is thanks to their early vision that the University is one of the most consistently high ranked in the UK. A study carried out by London Economics found Warwick’s impact on the UK economy in 2019-20 generates over £1.15 billion for the local economy, in terms of direct spending with local firms, the money spent locally by our students, and the productivity and output growth we help generate in local businesses. The University of Warwick was nominated for University of the Year by the UK Social Mobility Awards, in 2023. Warwick’s commitment to widening participation has been recognised for making strides and creating initiatives to advance social mobility within our own workforce or beyond it. A magnet for our region: Warwick offers one of the most ambitious Widening Participation (access to underprivileged students) programmes of any British university. We continue to increase the diversity of our student population and to remove the barriers to a Warwick education. Warwick was nominated for University of the Year by the UK Social Mobility Awards, 2023. Our researchers are world leaders in identifying solutions for climate change, pandemic research, conflict resolution, designing sustainable materials and environments. For instance, The University of Warwick is leading the research in behavioural science and climate policy. With our researchers investigating individual attitudes to climate change and combining interdisciplinary approaches to tackle one of the world's most urgent crisis. The Covid-19 research that Warwick has initiated was aimed at helping us prepare for future crisis, understand how to forestall future pandemics, and organize human behavior for our collective health and common good. Philanthropy and alumni support are vital to empowering our researchers to solve global challenges and making education more accessible. We’re planning an ambitious new fundraising campaign that will support this. If you can inspire and engage others with this vision, please get in touch for a chat. We’re seeking talented applicants who bring a range of skills and come from a variety of different backgrounds. We welcome experienced professionals and support and train those who want to transition from other careers. We welcome and embrace diversity and offer work flexibility. Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.