Key Responsibilities:

• Creates and implements an innovative fundraising strategy that generates new income for the charity.
• Helps sets and achieves ambitious fundraising goals
• Ensures high quality stewardship of donors
• Lead a team of fundraisers to ensure that we are utilising the most productive income streams for the organisation and are getting excellent return on investment.
• Co-ordinate and manage fundraising comprising; community, trust, corporate, major donor and digital fundraising, across the organisation
• Build powerful and long-lasting relationships with funders, staff, people we support and members
• Develop and lead our traded income propositions including our training and consultancy business and potential future retail/hospitality opportunities
• Build and enhance our different fundraising functions, working closely with communications to develop and implement a marketing strategy.
• Is a senior leader across the charity, taking ownership of our development and ensuring that we have the plans and resources in place to match our ambitions.
• Solve problems as they arise and coach your team to do the same
• Analyse the fundraising systems, processes and ways of working and maximise their impact
• Build and develop new fundraising streams including mass events and legacy fundraising

• Act in accordance with Data Protection legislation.  Ensure all records, personal, staff and client data are managed in line with Data Management and Information Governance policies 
• Comply with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 
• As with all employees, workers and volunteers; to encourage people to join Change Mental Health as a member, donor or activist 
• To act in accordance with the charity’s Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies and to notify your line manager promptly if there are any concerns 
• To participate in regular supervision and appraisal and undertake any relevant training as appropriate to the role 
• To work in accordance with the charity’s national policies and local operating procedures and those of external regulators or professional bodies.
• Comply with any other reasonable request by the organisation

Essential Criteria:

• You are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives and about the difference that high quality, integrated fundraising strategies can make to the impact of an organisation.
• You are an innovative leader who takes people with them and builds strong trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, you look for new and exciting opportunities and are positive about future possibilities. 
• You have demonstrable experience of creating and delivering on ambitious fundraising strategies.
• You can demonstrate leading fundraising projects and activities from inception to completion, creating new income streams and raising revenue. 
• You have experience of managing a range of fundraising activities and team members and integrating them into a cohesive offering.
• You are comfortable writing and developing bids. Some experience of corporate fundraising, bidding for statutory tenders and community would be advantageous. 
• Experience of Line management
• Experience of working on more than one kind of fundraising stream
• A strong background in fundraising and the ability to demonstrate impact on a fundraising function
• You have excellent communication skills both written and orally 
• You build positive powerful relationships and can give examples of doing so
• You are ambitious about what you, your team and the organisation can achieve. You see a challenge as an opportunity to improve and deliver outstanding service and support. You are a changemaker.