[Hiring] Fundraising Relationship Manager @Cancer Research UK (CRUK)

Role Description

We are looking for an ambitious, driven people person, passionate about raising vital funds to support Cancer Research UK. As a Relationship Manager you will inspire and motivate a wide range of supporters (including individuals, groups, and corporate partners) to develop strong relationships, maximising in-year fundraising opportunities and long-term value.

This is a home-based role with significant travel across the patch to maximise community engagement. There will be some out of hours working required such as supporter meetings and events, however you will get this time back via our time off in lieu policy.

What will I be doing?

• Inspiring, developing and managing supporters to achieve their goals through offering outstanding and tailored stewardship.
• Developing a prospect pipeline of opportunities and identifying and cultivating leads.
• Acquiring new supporters and income in collaboration with the Business Development team.
• Hitting fundraising targets and KPIs for CRUK's life-saving research.
• Supporting creation and delivery of relevant strategies that build better and longer lasting relationships to increase long-term income.
• Building strong working relationships with wider department team colleagues to effectively develop transitioned supporters.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as part of a high performing team, achieving KPIs and targets.
• Experience in business development/fundraising.
• Experience of working unsupervised with the ability to drive and generate own workload.
• Excellent networking and relationship management skills – and the ability to motivate and influence supporters or customers to reach targets.
• Ability to adapt style and approach, generate new ideas and to acquire new business.
• A strong solution-focused approach to enable supporters to overcome challenges and maximise their fundraising.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (face to face, written and phone).
• Great time management, prioritisation and planning skills.

Requirements

• You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
• Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles.
• All internal candidates applying for a secondment must have completed their getting started period and discussed their intention to apply with their line manager.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package.
• A wide range of career and personal development opportunities.
• High-quality tools to support your work.
• Policies and processes that enable you to improve your work-life balance.