PROSTATE ACTION
62,250 - 67,300 per year
London
Full-time
28th September 2025
  • Region
  • London
  • Vacancy Type
  • Permanent/Full Time
  • Job Summary
  • Head of Individual Giving£62,250 - £67,300 per yearPermanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge OfficeWhat the job involves

    Are you a strategic leader with a passion for building lasting relationships with supporters? We're looking for a Head of Individual Giving to join our amazing Fundraising team.

    It's an exciting time to join the fundraising team at Prostate Cancer UK as we deliver on a new strategy. We've seen an upward trend in our fundraising income over the last decade and we're anticipating further growth in the next five years. We're introducing new roles to transform how we work and intentionally integrate our individual giving with our work across fundraising, brand and health awareness. You'll play a vital role within our successful mass fundraising function, helping us strengthen our propositions to acquire new supporters and secure long-term support.

    In this key role, you'll be at the forefront of developing and delivering our individual giving strategy. You'll lead on the acquisition of new supporters and work to diversify our channels based on supporter insights. A crucial part of your work will be to create and deliver engaging supporter journeys across all touchpoints, ensuring our donors are at the heart of everything we do.

    You'll oversee our legacy marketing program and review our legacy stewardship, strengthening long-term relationships with people who intend to leave a gift in their will. Working with both internal teams and external agencies, you'll develop and deliver high-quality, compelling propositions.

    As a leader, you'll provide guidance and support for the Individual Giving team, helping to deliver our ambitious fundraising strategy. You'll also be responsible for business planning, forecasting, and monitoring income and expenditure to ensure sustainable growth. This is a chance to make a significant impact by putting supporters first and driving long-term loyalty.

    What we want from you

    We’re looking for an experienced leader with a strong track record of growing income from individual supporters. With expertise across a range of individual giving techniques and channels, you’ll know how to use supporter insight to shape campaigns that deliver meaningful engagement and lasting results. Experience in legacy marketing and stewardship will be particularly valuable as we continue to grow this vital area.

    As a people manager, you’ll inspire and motivate your team, creating a supportive environment where great ideas thrive and excellent results are achieved. You’ll also be confident working with senior stakeholders, using your clear and persuasive communication style to build strong, collaborative relationships across the organisation.

    We’re seeking someone who is both strategic and hands-on, comfortable with business planning, budgeting and forecasting, while also using testing and analysis to refine approaches and improve performance. You’ll be skilled at managing budgets and suppliers effectively, with a sound understanding of data protection and fundraising regulation, ensuring all activity is delivered to the highest standards. You’ll have experience of managing risk and navigating challenging situations, like how to develop supporters beyond being a one-off donor. You’ll bring a reliable voice as the subject matter expert for individual giving.

    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.

    What we offer

    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

    The advertised salary range is up to the midpoint of the pay band, and we will make an offer within that range. After 12 months’ successful service all colleagues are paid at midpoint so those appointed below that point will have their salary increased. The midpoint salary for this role is £67,300.

    We operate national salaries that account for our contractual base being our London office. We also pay a working from home allowance at the HMRC tax free rate of £312 per year.

    Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

    At Prostate Cancer UK we’re committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. 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. To make this happen, we're dedicated to being an inclusive, proactive organisation, as we strive to be Allies to Black communities. We’ll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We're also working to be Allies to each other, not only protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Allyship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identify as an Ally.

    We've signed Business in the Communities Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.

    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
    • Culture Club – 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
    How and where we work

    Our hybrid working approach is based on guiding principles and combines

    choicearound where you work effectively most of the time withclear expectationsonconnection time, usually at our London Bridge office (SE1 2QN).

    We are all expected to be in the office

    4 days a month(pro-rata for part time colleagues) to work with and alongside colleagues in our immediate team and beyond tobuild connectionsand strong working relationships. Wevalue that face-to-face timefor relationships, projects and decisions.We trust our colleaguesto work in this way with theflexibility to juggle personal commitmentswith work.We aim to balancethe needs of individuals, teams and the charity.We are committed to creating an inclusive workplaceand will make reasonable adjustments for colleagues with a disability, neurodiversity or long term physical or mental health condition.

    For this role we expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office at least four times a month. There will be some additional in person attendance for training and induction in your first few months to enable you to get to know your new role and colleagues.

    Next steps

    For more information on the role, please download our job description (job profile document) and read the ‘How to apply’ section (below), to see the key points to refer to in your application. To apply, go to:

    https://prostatecanceruk.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vacancyThe closing date is Sunday 28Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.thSeptember 2025.Interviews:By arrangement. Currently first round interviews are scheduled for the week ofMonday 6and second round interviews scheduled for the week ofthOctober 2025Monday 13thOctober 2025.How to apply

    To complete your application, you’ll be asked to upload your CV and complete the supporting information section through our application portal. Please fill in parts one and two of our application for your personal statement, both have an 8000-character limit. You may wish to use a method such as the ‘

    STAR’ technique or similar. When completing the statements please ensure you clearly provide a full and relevant example of how the criteria apply.PART ONEPlease 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:

    • Experience of managing and developing individual giving strategies including wide experience across channels
    • Experience in integrating campaigns across fundraising, brand, and health awareness.
    • Proven track record of growing income from new and existing supporters (including non-financial supporters)
    • Excellent analytical skills with a proven ability to use insight and testing to refine approaches and improve outcomes through a supporter-focused strategy
    • Experienced people manager, able to motivate a team in delivering excellent results
    • Experience of engaging with a range of stakeholders internally (including senior level) and externally (including agencies)
    • Experience of legacy marketing and stewardship
    PART TWOPlease provide us with any further supporting information that you feel will benefit your application. You may want to reference the values and behaviours sections.

    This provides you with a great opportunity to further support your application, showcase your understanding of the role and how you feel you’ll be able to contribute to the success of Prostate Cancer UK.

    Apply via the apply now link at the top and bottom of this page where you’ll be taken through to our career portal.

    Got a question?Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements or any other questions – we’re here to help:hr@prostatecanceruk.org

    We look forward to receiving your application!

    Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.

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Head of Individual Giving - PROSTATE ACTION | Work In Charities