Volunteer Head of Major Donor Fundraising (MDF)
Empowering Vulnerable Children Uganda
We are a Christian charity providing a future, through education, for some of the poorest children in the world. We are seeking a Head of Major Donor Fundraising (MDF)
We are a Christian charity providing a future, through education, for some of the poorest children in the world. Where we work there is a great deal of suffering including AIDS, malaria, typhoid, cholera and malnutrition. Many children go to bed hungry at night. The families we work with have no running water or electricity. For the children we support education is their only route out of poverty and despair. Their needs are simply overwhelming. EVC funds their education and also builds classrooms, nurseries, dormitories, water bore holes for clean water and school materials. All funds raised for these purposes goes directly there, nothing is taken out for admin which is funded elsewhere. Volunteers manage the Charity in the UK and running costs are low. We are seeking a Head of Major Donor Fundraising (MDF). In the Role you will: • Create, manage, develop, nurture and lead a MDF team. • Create a MDF strategy, including targets/outcomes. • Seek new donor prospects, researching donor capacity and cultivating warm prospects. • Develop strategies for cultivating donors. • Ability to tell compelling stories of EVC`s impact in Uganda. • Cultivate relationships with high net worth people, leading them to donate up to 5 figure plus amounts. • Gaining introductions to high net worth individuals through finding and opening up networks. • Identify and engage with cold prospects. • Will lead on Marketing and identify our “ donor audience “. • Create compelling cases for support and outstanding funding proposals. • Coordinate and manage fundraising approaches to major donors. • Assess what donors’ values are and what they want to achieve through their philanthropy. • Listen carefully to donors’ needs and guide them. • Managing complex supporter or client relationships, meeting their needs and coordinating with colleagues. • Manage donor stewardship. • Constantly improve communication with donors and the quality of donor experience of EVC. • Work successfully with Trustees and other key volunteers on their fundraising, advising them on the fundraising they are involved in.
Fundraising
Evaluating & Reviewing, Good IT Skills, Negotiating, Research
• Have experience of leading a successful MDF team. • Good communication and inter personal skills. • Have an ability to build a long term relationship with donors/potential donors, Trustees and other key volunteers and experience of building relationships with donors to maximum potential. • Proven ability to ask for and secure large gifts up to 5 figure plus. • Proven experience of managing the full donor cycle from first donation to legacies. • Able to listen carefully to donors’ needs, hopes and values. • Able to put in place, manage and develop a Major Donor Database. • Understanding that MDF is a process and not a sales pitch. • Have understanding of and patience for the long game. • Show qualities of perseverance, determination, persistence and be able to deal positively with setbacks. • Have a proven ability to inspire trust and integrity. • Be a proven team member and leader. • Have a mindset that sees problems as opportunities for learning and personal development for both you and your team. • Possess a ‘can do’ attitude. • Have good IT skills. • Ability to use AI tools would be useful, but not essential.
Supporting some of the poorest children in the world.
Hours of work flexible and to be agreed. The role can be done remotely but must maintain good communications with the Team. Suggest 6 face to face Team meetings a year and the rest via zoom and or Teams. To be discussed and agreed.
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