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About the Role

The Guardian Foundation seeks a dynamic, well-organized, entrepreneurial, and relationships-driven fundraiser to develop and nurture a network of high-value supporters. This role combines hands-on delivery and strategic leadership, with the potential to grow the team.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth across diverse income streams, including trusts and foundations, statutory funding, individual giving, and earned income.
• Set and deliver strategy and annual work plans to meet fundraising goals.
• Launch new fundraising activities aligned with the Foundation's capacity, vision, and values.
• Manage income and expenditure budgets and provide reports to the Executive Director and Board.
• Optimize fundraising processes, systems, and CRM data for accurate donor records, budgeting, forecasting, and pipeline tracking.
• Produce timely, high-quality written communications for donors and funders, including proposals, grant applications, reports, and impact statements.
• Support the Executive Director in delivering the new business development strategy and cultivation plans for priority prospects.
• Lead and support high-level pitches and negotiations with prospective donors.
• Build a dynamic prospect pipeline across priority audiences using diverse outreach and networking tactics.
• Represent The Guardian Foundation externally with professionalism, credibility, and enthusiasm.

Requirements

• Significant fundraising experience in securing and stewarding high-value gifts from grant-making trusts and foundations, major donors, and/or corporate partners.
• Proven ability to develop and execute multi-year fundraising strategies that consistently meet or exceed income targets.
• Proven ability to personally lead and manage donor relationships across the full fundraising cycle.
• Experience managing a caseload/pipeline of donors, achieving KPIs and financial targets.
• Excellent research skills with the ability to prioritize and proactively take forward high-value opportunities.
• Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling pitches, proposals, and impact reports for diverse audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and influence senior stakeholders, board members, and high-net-worth individuals.
• Experience leading and delivering projects, balancing multiple priorities and deadlines.

Skills

• Fundraising
• Strategic planning
• Relationship management
• Pipeline management
• Prospect research
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Project leadership
• Emotional intelligence

Location

• Kings Place, London
• Remote

Work Type

• Permanent
• Part-time considered
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior level

Salary/Compensations

• £60,000 - £65,000 per annum

Benefits

• Inclusive employee forums
• Access to daily newsroom briefings
• Free yoga and pilates
• Corporate gym membership discount
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Professional development opportunities
• Support for vocational courses and qualifications
• Modern office space at Kings Place with excellent facilities
• 30 days annual leave plus 5 days purchase scheme
• Generous pension (5% employee / 8–12% employer)
• Life cover
• Income protection
• Enhanced family leave
• Specialist support policies (IVF, menopause, baby loss, trans equality)

About the Company

• The Guardian Foundation is a diverse and inclusive organisation promoting access to liberal journalism through news and media literacy and supporting aspiring journalists from underrepresented backgrounds.
• Their vision is a world where people have access to reliable information from a diverse range of sources, strengthening their ability to hold power to account.
• The Foundation works with programme participants including children and young people, and individuals underrepresented in the media industry, particularly those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ communities, and people with disabilities.
• They value lived experience and welcome candidates who bring this.
• The Guardian Foundation has a warm and people-focused culture and is ambitious about the impact of its work.
• They work hard, promote mutual accountability, hold each other to high standards, and welcome enthusiasm and ideas.

Equal Opportunity

• All roles at the Guardian Foundation are open for everybody to apply.
• They ensure support and comfort throughout the recruitment process, offering adjustments for application needs.
• They value and respect all differences in all people (seen and unseen).
• They aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience they serve.
• They ensure people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard, and they can contribute to the future.
• The Guardian Foundation actively encourages applications from candidates underrepresented within the media and not-for-profit sectors.
• They actively and warmly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, and candidates with a disability as they are currently under-represented.
• They also welcome applications from those with lived experience and nuanced understanding of the communities they seek to reach.