Fundraising Manager

British Safety Council

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

British Safety Council is a trusted voice in health, safety, and wellbeing. For over 65 years, we have been working to protect lives and improve workplace wellbeing in the UK and worldwide. As a not-for-profit membership organisation, we campaign, educate, and influence change, supporting organisations of all sizes to achieve the highest health, safety, wellbeing, and environmental management standards. Our vision drives everything we do, so that no one should be injured or made ill through their work.

About the role

We are seeking a motivated and experienced fundraising manager to lead the diversification and growth of our income sources. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and implement fundraising strategies across individual giving, corporate partnerships, events, trusts, and foundations. This role will be key to building meaningful relationships and ensuring sustainable income to support our mission.

Responsibilities

Primary Purpose Job:

• Drive the set-up of BSC’s new charitable funding programme.
• To seek out, bring on board and manage relationships with charitable partners and other grant providers across the UK and internationally (excluding India), driving income to fund the BSC charitable impact programme, including corporate patronage and sponsored research programme.

Brief Description of Tasks:

• Lead and manage the set-up of BSC’s new fundraising programme, including associated budget, implementing systems for monitoring impact in the context of the UK and internationally.
• Put in place the infrastructure and best practice policies for a range of fundraising activities.
• Drive the launch and development of pooled funding from partner organisations, developing a portfolio of major donors, identifying and cultivating relations.
• Develop and implement a successful and integrated donor relations programme, taking the lead on establishing trusting and transparent donor relationships, to position BSC as the partner of choice for future funding.
• Track donor relations and fundraising activities in Salesforce to enhance relationships and increase the likelihood of continued contributions.
• Continually analyse programme risks, implementing mitigation measures.
• Plan, support, and attend key stakeholder consultation, co-creation, campaign and community events.
• Work with the Research Officer on the development of the sponsored research programme.
• Identify new funding opportunities in order to meet our ambitions to extend our charitable impact.
• Oversee donor income, contracts and agreements, including reporting against income and outcomes thereof, managing income and expenditure for each funding stream, ensuring they align with strategy and budgets.
• Work alongside commercial colleagues, the Policy & Communications team, Marketing team and Trustees to deepen BSC's reach and charitable impact across traditional and non-traditional core BSC sectors.
• Write compelling and professionally written funding applications as required.
• Facilitate charitable knowledge sharing within BSC on ways of working with charitable partners, ensuring colleagues across the group understand and work within defined charitable guidelines, around delivery, reporting, and due diligence requirements and that BSC’s reputation for excellence in donor management is maintained.

Health & Safety:

• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and of other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work; and to cooperate with British Safety Council so far as is necessary to enable it to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all its employees.
• To ensure that risk assessments are carried out in line with the British Safety Council’s procedures and report any issues to the Health and Safety Representative.​

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Skills & Qualifications Essential:

• Sound understanding of the charity sector in the UK and its range of cultural dynamics.
• Able to influence across different teams and levels of staff.
• Self-starter, able to work on own initiative and drive projects forward.
• Strong blend of programme implementation and relationship management expertise.
• Impact-oriented with strong analytical ability.
• Sound understanding of different types of fundraising.
• Skilled in identifying, managing and escalating risks.
• Skilled at communicating complex and sometimes highly sensitive grant management issues with donors and other external stakeholders.
• Able to clearly articulate strategies that support the delivery of impact and respond to donor priorities.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong written English skills
• Strong project management skills.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Use of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.

Experience Essential:

• Senior, strategic fundraising experience, including with complex, high-value awards from large organisations.
• Experience in fundraising programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
• Experienced in building and managing strong donor relationships with external stakeholders.
• Experience managing compliance, performance and risk.
• Experience negotiating changes to contracts and agreements with donors.
• Experience building networks or coalitions, ideally across diverse cultural contexts.
• Project management experience with budget responsibility.
• Budget administration and expenses management.
• Communication with a range of stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Some technical understanding of health, safety, and well-being
• Salesforce (CRM) experience
• International charity experience
• Working with international clients and stakeholders.

Behaviour Competence:

• Commitment to achieving important social change
• Ability to think systemically
• Understands time-critical activities and the importance of work to clients and stakeholders
• Aware of the importance of good presentation
• Commercially astute
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach, and enjoys challenges
• Communicative, responsive, supportive, flexible
• Good judgement, able to appreciate different sensitivities, decisive
• Diplomatic, persuasive, excellent interpersonal skills, team player
• Open to ideas, keen to learn and continually improve
• Company behavioural framework, Teamwork, Communication, Leadership, Enhancing Performance, Creativity, Change, and Personal Effectiveness

Required Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications or equivalent experience within a recognised charity.

Compensation & Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave, with holiday buying and selling option
• Health cash-plan benefits upon joining
• Private medical and dental cover on completion of the probationary period
• Flexible working
• Attractive family-friendly policies
• Training and Development opportunities
• Life Assurance cover

Working locations

• Home-based

How to apply

• If you are interested in this role, please apply online to read a more detailed job description and explanation of the benefits package. You will then be able to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV along with a covering letter explaining why you think you are the right candidate for this role.

Policies

We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please highlight this clearly in your cover letter.

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