Senior Major Donor Fundraiser - London, United Kingdom - Aspire Personnel Ltd

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Description

Our client has unique opportunity for a talented fundraiser, to expand their experience in an exciting media environment which will involve relationship building with high-net-worth individuals and through prestige events.

This role will work within a smallbut dynamic fundraising team to build their client Major Donor supporter base.

This role is Hybrid working


Prospect/Donor Engagement:

  • Be an engaging, empathetic and effective ambassador
  • Contribute to the development of effective cases for support and wider fundraising materials to ensure integration of core messaging and strategic objectives Implement agreed Major Donor fundraising strategies
  • Manage a portfolio of donors & prospects, in order to generate major gifts and multiyear pledges, through a mix of facetoface and deskbased (phone) relationship building
  • Achieve donation targets by growing support from existing Major Donors, as well as identifying and securing new Major Donors.
  • Participate in cultivation events e.g., online events such as webinars and Zoom conferences, as well as in person events which could include parliamentary networking events and music events community awards ceremonies and a wide variety of conferencingevents throughout the UK, with the aim of leveraging the events programme and content production to build a strong portfolio of relationships and/or in support of the wider fundraising programme
  • Establishing a pipeline of opportunity and delivering all aspects of the donor journey including research, cultivation, briefing, ask and stewardship phases for each prospect either in person or by the CEO, other senior colleagues, Board members or volunteerambassadors
  • Help organise and manage regular cultivation events for prospective donors
Essential skills

  • Experience working in facetoface donor cultivation which could be within Community, Corporate or Major Donor fundraising roles
  • Good demonstrable experience in target driven roles
  • Proven success in relationship building and creativity in approach, taking a prospect through to Major Donor status
  • Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Institute of Fundraising accreditation (desirable but not essential)
  • Familiarity with Raisers Edge (desirable but not essential)

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