Individual Giving Manager
Passionate about making a difference? Join us at The Brain Tumour Charity and help fight for a world without brain tumours. Your impact matters.
The Brain Tumour Charity is leading the way in research, support, and advocacy for everyone affect by brain tumours. Our mission is simple but urgent: to accelerate a cure for brain tumours and improve life for everyone affected by this devastating disease.
This is a high-impact role focused on delivering exciting, multi-channel campaigns that attract new donors and builds lasting relationships. You’ll be at the forefront of our growth strategy, working collaboratively across teams and with external partners to deliver campaigns that are data-driven, insight-led, and emotionally compelling.
📍Location: While contracted to our office in Fleet, Hampshire, our team supports a blend of office and home working provided you have adequate broadband and IT capability, with an average of 2-3 days in the office each week.
⏰Working hours: This role is 37.5 hours per week, with some out of hours working.
💰Benchmarked salary: c.£46,150 (dependent on level)
We’re looking for an experienced Individual Giving Manager who can drive transformational change in IG fundraising, to achieve our ambitious fundraising targets. As well as being a hands on IG professional, you will manage a high performing team to deliver the entire journey from acquisition to stewardship.
- Lead the team to project manage and deliver acquisition campaigns across face-to-face, digital, prize-led, and direct marketing channels.
- Develop and deliver multi-channel strategies to attract, convert, and retain supporters.
- Champion innovation by testing new approaches, messaging, and formats to maximise reach and ROI.
- Collaborate with internal teams (Marketing, Community Experience, Data) to build seamless supporter journeys and ensure excellent stewardship.
- Manage external suppliers including creative agencies, fundraising partners, and fulfilment houses to deliver campaigns on time and on budget.
- Own the budget and performance: forecast, monitor, and report on KPIs, identifying opportunities for growth and optimisation.
- Use data and insights to inform targeting, segmentation, and campaign development.
- Be a CRM champion, using supporter data to drive decisions and track performance.
- Lead and develop a high performing team
- Champion individual giving across the charity and provide on-going training and support on these areas.
- Ensure compliance with fundraising and gambling regulations and best practice standards.
We encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all of the criteria.
- Demonstrate proven experience in individual giving, with a strong focus on acquisition and campaign delivery.
- Expertise in face-to-face fundraising, digital acquisition, and prize-led giving.
- An engaging individual who builds strong connections and drives internal collaboration across the organisation.
- A creative and analytical mindset, with a passion for testing and learning.
- Strong leadership and team management skills including the ability to influence colleagues and drive through new strategic initiatives.
- Excellent project management and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Confidence working across multiple channels and with external partners.
- A deep understanding of donor motivations and how to turn interest into long-term support.
- Solid understanding of and compliance with the principles of charity law and data protection regulations, including lottery fundraising.
Experience:
- Led multi-channel campaigns across both acquisition and development including face to face, digital, email, direct mail and telephone fundraising
- Proven ability to manage multiple fundraising projects simultaneously, delivering campaigns on time and within budget.
- Proven ability to manage multiple fundraising projects simultaneously, delivering campaigns on time and within budget.
- Experience in prize-led fundraising such as lottery and raffle programmes including gambling commission regulations
- Developed and delivered individual giving strategies, driving increased income from regular and one-off donors
- Managed donor stewardship programmes to enhance supporter retention and lifetime value
- Management of agencies and third party partners
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills and excellent written skills including strong copy writing
- Excellent project management skills and leading charity wide teams to deliver
- Familiarity with developing stewardship approaches and supporter journeys that maximise supporter loyalty
- Proficient in using fundraising CRMs for data analysis, reporting, and campaign optimisation.
- Proficient in using fundraising CRMs (e.g. Raiser’s Edge, Donorfy, Salesforce) for data analysis, reporting, and campaign optimisation.
- Some experience of having worked on legacy marketing or collaborated with legacy marketing colleagues
- Strong understanding of UK fundraising regulations, including GDPR and Fundraising Regulator guidance, with a commitment to ethical fundraising practices
*Please note that the responsibilities listed are not exhaustive and this job description may be subject to change as the role evolves over time.
You’ll be joining a collaborative, bold and innovative team of individuals who put our community first and are connected by a passion to make a real difference.
🏆Our amazing benefits:
The Brain Tumour Charity is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals belonging to minority ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented communities.
We strive to create a workplace that celebrates diversity and provides equal opportunities for all candidates and we encourage all individuals to apply even if they don’t meet all the criteria.
Whilst we'd love to have you on board, we want to be upfront as we’d hate to waste your time applying for a role where we can’t take you on. At the moment, we're unable to offer visa sponsorship for any of our positions. We're currently seeking candidates who are already authorised to work in the UK without the need for sponsorship, who can remain on a permanent basis.
Please apply by clicking the red ‘join our team’ button, attaching your CV and a covering letter explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours. We'd like to encourage you not to use AI to write your cover letter as we want to get to know you, the real you!
We are keen to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive so if you’d find it beneficial to submit your application in a different format, please drop us a line at careers@thebraintumourcharity.org.
Advert close date: 23rd October 2025
First interview date and location: 5th November 2025 over Teams
Second interview date and location: 10th November 2025 at our office in Fleet
The post holder will also;
- Contribute to achieving the objectives of The Brain Tumour Charity
- Live and breathe our values by beingbold, collaborativeandinnovative,with acommunity-firstapproach to everything you do
- Undertake any additional and ad hoc tasks as required
- Participate in team meetings and other meetings as required
- Monitor and evaluate activities and provide written reports
- Represent The Charity at external events in a professional manner
- Work within an equal opportunities framework
- Adhere to all The Charity’s policies, procedures and working
- Ensure all records are held in compliance with GDPR, The Fundraising Regulator Code of Practice and The Brain Tumour Charity policies.
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- Department
- Individual Giving
- Role
- Individual Giving Manager
- Locations
- Fleet
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Yearly salary
- £46,150
- Employment type
- Full-time
About The Brain Tumour Charity
We are The Brain Tumour Charity, the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally and the only charity in the UK taking on brain tumours on all three fronts: research, campaigning and support.
Our vision is for people diagnosed with a brain tumour to live longer and better lives. So, we’re moving further, faster to help every single person affected by this devastating disease.
We’re accelerating cures for all brain tumours, driving the best lifelong care and raising our global voices for change. So why not apply to become a part of the Brainy Bunch and help us make a real and lasting difference?
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