Regional Fundraising Manager

Alzheimers Society

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity, and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by providing help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be. Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. Our values ensure that our focus remains clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead, reminding us of what we all stand for.

About the role

At Alzheimer’s Society, we are advisors, supporters, fundraisers, researchers, influencers, communicators, technical specialists, and so much more. We are volunteers, we are employees, and together we are here to make a difference to the lives of people with dementia and their carers. As the Regional Fundraising Manager (RFM), you have overall responsibility for the management and development of your team in a defined geographic area. You will manage your team to achieve and exceed an annual income target, deliver exceptional supporter stewardship and acquisition of new business, through driving a high-performance culture.

You will need a strong understanding of regional fundraising and opportunities in your area to build and drive dynamic plans for maximising the potential of both income and the team. With a real focus on corporate, organise your own events and groups and clubs, you need to be able to shift between these income streams and lead by example through demonstrating relationship fundraising with some of the highest value supporters in your area. 

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Directly accountable for the management and increasing the performance of their team in accordance with the Society’s policies and procedures, including due diligence and compliance.
• Translate the Regional Engagement Strategy into an operational action plan for a defined geographic area to deliver income targets and KPIs.
• Accountable for the delivery, reforecasting, reporting and monitoring of the team's target, providing detailed analysis and relevant commentary as requested.
• Accountable for ensuring their team reaches a set target for new business acquisition, demonstrating excellence through networking, prospecting, and personally securing new partnerships.
• Responsible for delivering higher-level bespoke stewardship and key account management for an agreed number of supporters.
• Support the team to ensure opportunities with their existing high-value partnerships and supporters are maximised.
• Proactively seek opportunities to personally deliver additional higher-level stewardship and recognition when appropriate, to increase income and retention.
• Proactively network internally and externally to develop and cultivate key relationships.
• Guide, motivate and challenge the team to create and deliver their action and supporter plans.
• Ability to travel across your patch regularly to deliver stewardship, acquisition (pitches), presentations, and to support your team when needed, including working occasional evenings and weekends.
• Attend face-to-face departmental meetings and other events, which may include overnight stays.
• Contribute to other areas of work which enhance the Regional Engagement or Income and Engagement wide strategies
• Undertake any other duties or projects appropriate to the nature and grade of this post as required

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Skills & Knowledge:

• A Regional Fundraising expert with strong and diverse knowledge of community income streams - risks, opportunities and potential growth
• Significant experience in providing strong line management to a team, empowering them to problem-solve independently
• Strong experience in developing, monitoring, delivering and reporting on budgets and non-financial targets
• Ability to influence and negotiate at the highest level, regionally, internally and externally 
• Proven experience in new business acquisition and excellent account management 
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver multiple concurrent activities, delegating where necessary, with minimal support needed 
• Experience in developing regional action plans from strategic objectives for the team to deliver
• Strong local knowledge and the ability to combine this with organisational data to inform plans and decisions
• Ability to work remotely, independently and travel, including occasional overnight stays, evening and weekend work as required 

Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively and remain solution-focused throughout your areas of work
• Strong interpersonal and interpretation skills will allow you to have open, jargon-free conversations with the business
• Excellent organisational and timekeeping skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Be a team player, supporting colleagues when there are deadlines, and know when to ask for help themselves.
• Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated

Compensation & Benefits

• Paid dependants leave
• Paid compassionate and bereavement leave
• Paid time off work to support
• Annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 30, plus bank holidays
• Career breaks of up to 3 months
• Flexible working
• Wellbeing leave
• Values Hero and Society Legend Awards
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Scottish Widows - with up to 8% employer contribution rate
• Life Assurance Scheme - two times your annual salary
• Health Cash Plan
• Home Allowance of £312 per year
• Discounted gym membership with Society Plus
• Mental health app and unlimited therapy
• Women in Leadership Development Programme
• Leadership development programme
• Financial support towards relevant professional qualifications, enhanced family leave - 16 weeks paid for all parents
• Paid time off work for fertility treatments for both partners, paid carers leave

Conditions of employment

• You must have the right to work in the UK

Working locations

• Home-based
• Able to travel across your sub-region (Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hants, East Dorset) to meet supporters and attend internal meetings at locations across the country, including our flagship offices (London, Birmingham, Warrington and Belfast)

How to apply

• Apply directly online
• We will be holding an information & Q&A session for this role on the 7th of January 2026 at 12:30. To receive a link to this or for further information, please get in touch with the Talent Acquisition Team for further support at [email protected].

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We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment, or health condition, or individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.  

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society. Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy here, along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups, helps us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people. 

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