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About the Role

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Philanthropy Manager to join their Leadership Giving team. This role involves managing a portfolio of major donors, aiming to secure gifts ranging from £10,000 to £100,000 and beyond, contributing to the organization's 'More Research Less Cancer' campaign goal of £400m.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic, two-way, face-to-face relationships with new and existing supporters to build the portfolio of major donors making philanthropic gifts of £10k - £100k+
• Utilize campaign collateral and engagement programs, combined with creativity and interpersonal skills, to cultivate, ask, and steward philanthropic individuals.
• Invite and host donors at appropriate high value and philanthropy events, often working with the events team to create tailored events or group engagement opportunities.
• Present CRUK’s work to donors in an appropriate format based on their motivations, scientific literacy, and gift capacity.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of campaign priorities and scientific work of CRUK and engage expert colleagues to inspire support.
• Maximize potential support from each donor, for example as a senior volunteer, accessing their networks, expertise, or considering other avenues of support like a gift in their Will.
• Contribute to the on-going implementation of the Leadership Giving level strategy to grow income from gifts between £10k-£1m.
• Work on new projects such as Next Generation giving, spot opportunities, and take up new tasks as needed.
• Connect and build relationships with internal stakeholders across Philanthropy and beyond to increase the portfolio of major donors and drive success.
• Ensure donor activity, KPI, and financial information is accurate and up to date on the database for monthly performance monitoring and forecasting.

Requirements

• Proven experience of delivering income through securing new business in a commercial sales environment, including meeting or exceeding KPIs and financial targets over a sustained period.
• Proven experience of building effective long-term relationships with individual stakeholders, including delivering income from and through these individuals.
• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to work and communicate effectively and professionally with a wide range of individuals.
• Tenacious and self-motivated approach to work and performance; target driven.
• Exceptional listening skills and efficient written and oral communication skills; an inspiring and engaging communication style.
• Intellectual curiosity to understand and communicate complex scientific areas of research.
• Motivated and excited by the science and opportunity to be part of CRUK’s Philanthropy team and the More Research Less Cancer campaign.
• Must be eligible to work in the UK.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Skills

• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Relationship management
• Listening skills
• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Scientific communication

Location

• Stratford, London
• Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
• Travel in/around London once a week

Work Type

• Permanent
• Full time
• 35 hours per week

Experience Level

• Experience within major gift fundraising, raising five/six figure gifts would be beneficial but is not essential for this role.

Salary/Compensations

• £42,000 - £49,000

Benefits

• Generous benefits package
• Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
• High-quality tools
• Policies and processes enable work-life balance improvement
• Positive steps in career
• Achieve personal wellbeing goals

About the Company

• At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
• Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do: Bold, Credible, Human, Together.
• We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

Equal Opportunity

• We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.
• We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
• We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.
• We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.