Senior Philanthropy Officer (Major Donors)

You will play a vital role in improving equitable access to quality treatment and care for children with cancer in under-resourced countries through your skills in corporate and philanthropy fundraising.

About World Child Cancer

Over 400,000 children worldwide develop cancer each year. Childhood cancer is most often curable, with over 80% survival rate in high income countries. However, in many low-and-middle-income countries survival rates are often 25% or lower.

World Child Cancer’s goal is to help redress that inequity and improve the chances of children with cancer to survive and thrive in under-resourced countries. We currently work with local hospitals in 13 countries in Africa, Asia and Mexico to enable children with cancer to have equal access to the best possible treatment and care through awareness raising on signs of childhood cancer, providing financial, logistical and emotional support to address barriers to access treatment, training of healthcare workers and advocacy.

Overview of the role

This newly created Senior Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager role will play a key part in raising income from companies, philanthropists and trusts to help achieve World Child Cancer’s mission.

You will be passionate about enabling children with cancer to have equitable access to quality treatment wherever they are born. We are looking for someone mostly experienced in corporate and philanthropy fundraising - and ideally in trusts fundraising as well, who is proactive, confident in engaging with high value funders, able to develop strong internal and external relationships, has strong verbal and written communication skills, a collaborative way of working and experience in developing new business.

You will join a small but ambitious and high performing team that contributes significantly to World Child Cancer’s annual income of c. £2m.

Reporting to: Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships

Location: UK-based hybrid role: Home working for the time being, with the provision for regular meetings in the office. Office attendance encouraged on Mondays (nr Fenchurch Street, London)

Employment type: 28-35 hours per week, with flexible working considered, permanent

Salary: up to £40,000 FTE per annum

How to apply: please email your CV and a supporting statement (maximum 2 pages) that addresses the “essential” criteria in the Person Specification to Domitille de La Gorce.

Closing date: 9th February 2024

Key responsibilities

·       To contribute to reaching or exceeding the Philanthropy and Partnerships income target

·       To develop and lead the implementation of strategic plans for corporate partnerships and philanthropy

·       To develop a range of benefits, products and engagement opportunities for high value funders

·       To undertake prospect research to identify new corporate and philanthropic funding opportunities

·       To work with the Charity’s Trustees, colleagues and supporters to identify leads and connections

·       To proactively engage with and cultivate relationships with new funders and steward existing funders

·       To work with the charity’s Programmes Team to match funding opportunities with the right projects and package these accordingly with robust proposals, monitoring systems and budgets

·       To create strong donor communications

·       To provide excellent account management and write update reports for some funders

·       To attend relevant networking events and meet with funders

·       To ensure all donor communications are logged on the CRM database (Raisers Edge)

·       To comply with Fundraising best practice and any relevant legislation at all times

Person Specification

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent

A proven track record in corporate and major gift fundraising with evidence of successful solicitation of six figure gifts and multi-year gifts

Excellent relationship-building skills with the ability and confidence to interact with new and existing high value funders

Experience of successfully developing cultivation plans to engage new funders

Ability to research and identify potential new funders

Ability to translate complex, specialist information into accessible and compelling pitches, proposals and reports

Ability to help develop and monitor project budgets

Experience of working on multiple projects at the same time and cross-departmentally

A positive and collaborative team player 

Ability to work on own initiative, prioritising workload with little supervision when needed

Passion to improve the lives of children with cancer

Understanding of project management 

Flexibility to work out of usual working hours when required

Strong IT skills

Desirable

Experience of working in the international development sector

Experience in trust fundraising

Experience of using networking events to prospect and steward funders

Experience with Raisers Edge or other CRM databases