Fundraising Manager - Yorkshire (maternity cover 12 months) in Knaresborough

Company Description

Henshaws is a northern charity supporting people living with sight loss and a range of other disabilities to go beyond expectations. We believe that, wherever they are, everyone has the right to an independent and fulfilling life. Our support, advice and training enables people and their families build skills, develop confidence, help each other and look forward to a more positive future.

Position

We are looking for a Fundraising Manager to join our team and provide maternity cover for 12 months. We need someone capable of building on existing relationships and developing new income‑generating partnerships with corporates and donors. This role focuses on North Yorkshire and includes joint initiatives and events with the Fundraising Manager for Greater Manchester. Good fundraisers come from all walks of life, and we encourage people from minority backgrounds or with transferable skills to apply. Your positive approach, proven track record in cultivating relationships, resilience and perseverance when circumstances are challenging are key to the role. You will be part of a supportive team, including a Senior Fundraiser who will report to you. This is an exciting and varied role.

A day in the life of a Fundraising Manager:

• Generate income from individuals and corporates
• Promote appeals and events to prospective supporters
• Join forums and networking events to cultivate new income‑generating relationships
• Meet with supporters in person, online and by phone
• Collaborate with colleagues in service teams to identify funding needs
• Recruit and work with volunteers, including corporate volunteers
• Thank donors and supporters and ensure they feel valued – we love creative ways to say thank you
• Use creative ways to say please and generate new fundraising ideas
• Contribute to team meetings and collaborate with fundraising colleagues
• Line‑manage the Senior Fundraiser

To be a successful Fundraising Development Manager you’ll need:

• Bags of enthusiasm and a commitment to our cause
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Tenacity and the ability to prioritise
• Effective and persuasive communication skills
• Planning and budgeting skills and the ability to understand and summarise financial information
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong, productive working relationships with internal and external contacts
• Direct experience of regularly monitoring KPIs for team activities and key corporate partnerships and projects
• Sales/marketing experience
• Line‑management experience
• Experience of building strong and effective donor/customer relationships at all levels

Requirements

• Ability to assimilate and analyse financial and statistical information, including budget monitoring, management, and financial control
• To devise operational plans and deliver them effectively, and proven experience of planning and managing income‑generating activities and events
• Excellent selling, negotiation and relationship building skills with proven experience of forming new partnerships with corporates and philanthropists
• Excellent time‑management skills and a problem‑solving approach – constructing and customising solutions and making plans
• Experience of working with senior/high‑profile volunteers, e.g. patrons and trustees

Location

Arts & Crafts Centre (Gingerbread House)

Contract: Permanent, 52 weeks

Hours: 35 hours a week

Salary: £20.54 per hour

Total annual salary: £37,382.80 per annum

Holidays: 5 weeks annual leave plus 10 bank holidays

Benefits:

• 5 weeks annual leave plus 10 day bank holiday (pro‑rata for part‑time and term‑time staff)
• Option to buy one week extra annual leave (52 week contracts)
• Up to 3 days paid emergency domestic leave (after one year of service)
• A paid wellbeing day (after one year of service)
• Company sick pay after completion of probationary period
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Enhanced paternity pay
• Company pension scheme
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working
• On‑site free parking
• Access to trained mental health first aiders
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Wellbeing programme
• Employee discount schemes (e.g. blue light)
• Paid training
• On‑the‑job training
• Professional development support
• Access to further qualifications
• Career progression opportunities

Other information

Henshaws Society for Blind People aims to employ a diverse workforce and is committed to equality of employment and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Henshaws is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults. It is a criminal offence for people barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group – e.g. vulnerable adults, children or both. An Enhanced DBS with barring and reference checks will be sought from the successful candidate. Henshaws reserves the right to check social media accounts of all successful applicants. Registered Charity No: 221888