Research and Insight Executive

We're looking for a Research and Insight Executive to join a newly created team within our Fundraising directorate. The team have been created to work alongside the high value teams (Philanthropy and Partnerships) to provide them with the highest quality donor research, funding propositions and stewardship materials required to create transformative partnerships with businesses, high net worth individuals, trusts and foundations.

As a Research and Insight Executive, your role will play a crucial role, supporting our ambitious high value fundraising strategy and will be pivotal in the development of Prostate Cancer UK's first Major Appeal. You'll be identifying new prospecting and senior volunteer opportunities and providing insights to the high value teams.

You'll identify and research potential donors, creating detailed profiles to inform engagement strategies. You'll also develop strategic relationships and access routes to prospective supporters.

Your analytical skills will be essential for conducting financial and data analysis to inform our decision-making and strategy development. Additionally, you'll play a key role in streamlining workflows and enhancing efficiency by developing and implementing new processes.

What we want from you

We're looking for a curious, organised and enthusiastic person to work with our high value fundraisers to support them with research and insight on new and existing funding opportunities to support our ambitious growth plans.

As well as conducting research and creating research profiles, you'll work closely with the Research and Insight Manager to implement new prospect research processes and ways of working to maximise the effectiveness of our high value fundraising programme. You'll also run finance and KPI data reports for the Head of Philanthropy, Head of Appeal and Head of Partnerships to ensure that we have an understanding of fundraising performance.

You'll have experience of proactive prospecting, creating research profiles and network maps. You'll also have knowledge of high value fundraising principals. You'll have excellent relationship building skills.

This is a rewarding role where you'll be working closely with high value fundraisers to ensure they have the right opportunities and insights to build mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with supporters and ultimately, grow income to fund transformational work and achieve impact for men.

Why work with us?

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men - prostate cancer. It's a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

Please address the core/essential skills, experience and competencies required using real examples where possible and tell us in what ways you are a good match for the role.

This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experiences with the most important aspects of this role which will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

+ Specialist knowledge of high value fundraising.

+ Demonstrable experience of building compelling cases for support, bids and partnership concepts specifically for major donors, companies, and/or grant funders.

+ Ability to translate complex information into simple concise and compelling communications in a range of formats e.g. proposals, presentations, speeches, visuals, web copy.

+ Experience of interpreting financial and impact data.

+ An excellent communicator - who's confident and good at communicating complex technical information to high value and general audiences.

+ Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills and an ability to interact with stakeholders at the highest levels in a professional and appropriate manner.

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

+ Generous leave entitlements that increase with service

+ One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development

+ Enhanced contributory pension scheme

+ Life insurance and group income protection

+ Health Cash Plan

+ Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme

+ Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts

+ Loans for season tickets or cycles

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents and can advocate for the communities we support. We stand against discrimination and prejudice, and we champion tolerance, fairness and equality in everything we do. This makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. We're all here for the same reason: to give every man the power to navigate prostate cancer.

We're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men who are at double risk. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

Therefore, we're particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.

Our people networks

We're continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

+ Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues - and our allies - can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people

+ Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness

+ Multicultural - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Wellbeing and hybrid working

Our hybrid working approach combines the best of flexible working - a positive work/life balance, inclusive and accessible platforms, and online information at our fingertips. We understand that everyone has different needs, and we strive to create opportunities for relationship building, collaboration and social time.

Each of our teams has a team agreement outlining when and how often we're expected to be in our London Bridge office. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office four days month.