Individual Giving & Legacies Manager

Come join us at this exciting time and help us bring our new and ambitious fundraising aims to life!

Helen & Douglas House provides outstanding palliative care to children and their families throughout Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties. The Fundraising team needs to raise around £4 million from the public every year to ensure that these vital services can continue. You can play a pivotal role in making this happen!

About the job:

We have a wonderful opportunity to join our Fundraising Team as our Individual Giving & Legacies Manager., Lead on the development and delivery of the charity's supporter acquisition and retention strategies to maximise the number of active supporters on the database and their lifetime value.
Plan, execute and evaluate individual giving fundraising campaigns to recruit and retain individual donors across a range of offline and digital channels, including direct mail, door drops, inserts, face to face, telephone, radio, email and social media.
Help to develop and deliver our new legacy marketing plan to cultivate and retain confirmed legacy supporters.
Lead, manage and inspire the Individual Giving Executive, ensuring that they are effectively trained, developed and motivated., You will report to the Senior Individual Giving & Legacies Manager and line manage the Individual Giving & Legacies Executive. Your team is part of the wider fundraising team of which there are 16 individuals across the various income streams. You will also work closely with our Data Insights Manager, Data Support Officer and Marketing team.

You will have a minimum of 1 year's experience in an individual giving, legacies or marketing role, and you will have experience managing complex projects., The successful candidate will have experience in an individual giving, legacies or marketing role, including managing campaigns across a range of digital and traditional channels, and a passion and commitment to the work and aims of Helen & Douglas House. They will be a strong communicator with excellent organisational skills and the ability to develop and prioritise their own workload, working well under pressure and to deadlines.

This is a permanent position, ideally full-time but we would welcome a conversation around part-time / flexible hours. This is a hybrid full-time role with 2 day per week spent working in our office in Cowley, Oxford., 27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, rising to 28 days after 3 years, and 29 days after 5 years of service.

- Flexible Annual Leave: buy or sell up to 5 days of Annual Leave per year.

- Life assurance x4 your annual salary.

- Group Personal Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution.

- Eye care voucher scheme.

- Cycle to work scheme.

- Octopus electric vehicle leasing scheme.

- Occupational sick pay and maternity pay.

- Enhanced maternity leave and shared paternity leave.

- A flexible working environment.

- Investment in your Continuous Professional Development.

- Employee Assistance Programme.