Head of Relationship Fundraising

Head of Relationship Fundraising

Location: Hybrid working in London or home-working anywhere in the UK

Starting salary £51,045 per annum, rising to £55,841. If based in London, this role is eligible
for an additional London weighting of £3,655 per annum. We provide up to 6% pension
contribution, with life assurance for all those in the pension scheme.

Hours: Full time / 35 hours per week

Department: Engagement

Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date for applications: 11:59pm on Sunday 29 Sept 2024

Interview dates: Thursday 10 and Friday 11 October 2024

About SOS-UK

SOS-UK is the largest youth-led environmental action charity in the UK. We are a team of
experienced campaigners and organisers dedicated to helping young people succeed in tackling
the climate emergency and ecological crisis and delivering climate justice. We are campaigning
at pace to change the systems that are working against the futures of young people. Top of our
list is reforming the education system, which remains aligned with our linear economic systems,
not our circular ecological systems, and remains the root cause of our societal
unsustainability. Organisationally, we are phenomenally lucky to have amazingly talented and
committed team of staff that consistently deliver innovation, impact, and success. Our charity
has rapidly grown: from 16 staff upon founding in 2019 to 60 staff today; from £1.3m annual
income to £2.7m last year.

About this role

Due to our continued success, and alongside our highly ambitious campaigning and advocacy
plans, we are now looking for an experienced and successful relational fundraiser who has
entrepreneurial flair, creativity, and the ability to influence at the highest levels. If this
sounds like you, you will be joining a reputable organisation with exceptional leadership and a
growing network, where you will have the opportunity to expand and develop a dynamic team. This
is a hugely exciting new role, where your key responsibilities would include: developing,
leading and implementing a fundraising strategy focusing on unrestricted and core income
growth; cultivating and strengthening relationships with existing and new donors, with an
initial focus on corporate partnerships; managing fundraising campaigns and donor touchpoints,
providing excellent stewardship and cultivation.

Please read the full description of the role’s responsibilities and person specification in the
role profile.

Find out more about SOS-UK, who we are, and what we do, by visiting our website.

Equality of opportunity

We are passionate about climate justice and are proud to be driving inclusion across the
environmental movement through campaigns like The RACE Report. We’re totally committed to
equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their
age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation.

For this role, we particularly encourage applications from people of colour and people with
disabilities, as we are currently under-represented for both those protected characteristic
within SOS-UK generally and also at this level.

We are committed to taking positive action to improve the diversity of our staff team. If we
deem you to meet the minimum criteria for this role (at least 80% of the criteria in the person
specification) and you define as a person of colour, or someone with a disability, you will
qualify for a guaranteed first stage interview. It is important to note that this scheme
guarantees an interview for candidates who meet the minimum criteria and tell us that they’d
like to be considered under our guaranteed interview scheme by ticking that box in the
application form. Our final recruitment decision at interview will be based on the most
suitable candidate, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Find out more about how we are striving to be an inclusive and people-centred employer. If you
would like to speak to a member of SOS-UK staff not involved in the interview process about how
your experience might fulfil the requirements of the role, please get in touch, we would love
to hear from you!

How to apply

To apply for this role, please apply via our online application form. Sorry, we are unable to
accept CVs.

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