Fundraising Projects and Planning Manager

This is an exciting role that needs an experienced and collaborative planner to deliver two critical areas of work over the next 18 months: 

• Deliver the Neverland Art trail in summer 2027. This will involve leading a multidisciplinary team to plan and deliver this ambitious new campaign to deliver a target of £1million net, towards the Build it. Beat it. Appeal.
• Lead planning and prioritisation initiatives for the fundraising directorate. This will include- creating and maintaining a directorate-wide fundraising activity roadmap that outlines priorities, operational commitments and strategic initiatives. It will require close collaboration with GOSH, enabling teams to streamline processes and improve ways of working across the charity.

Please note this position is an 18 month fixed term contract.

Salary

The salary for this position is £42,227 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

• To project manage the Neverland Art Trail during planning and delivery due to the end of the project in late 2027, including leading project group meetings, to drive work and performance from the Art Trail Coordinators leading on their specific areas, i.e. sponsorship, digital, content, etc, to hit a target of £1m net income.
• To act as key liaison between GOSH Charity and external stakeholders for the project, including our partner- Wild in Art, Camden council and other public bodies, and to oversee project communications and reporting for the campaign.
• Develop and maintain a directorate-wide fundraising activity roadmap that clearly outlines priorities, operational commitments and strategic initiatives. Translate strategic priorities into clear operational plans that align activity across teams and directorates.
• Consolidate and prioritise requests from fundraising teams to enabling directorates. Improve and maintain visibility of project pipelines, delivery & cross team dependencies.
• Improve visibility of fundraising performance through enhanced reporting, dashboards and KPI frameworks.
• Spearhead the change to long-term fundraising planning- translating the 10-year fundraising strategy into an 18-month rolling tactical plan.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong project management and organisational skills with experience in common project management tools and tactics.
• A strong understanding of different fundraising areas- with the ability to identify areas that will deliver the greatest impact within a fundraising campaign.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to build relationships across all levels and navigate senior stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capability

About The team

This role will sit within the Fundraising Strategy & Integration as a project and planning specialist. Our team provide project management expertise and insight support to the Fundraising Directorate. We’re a team that helps make fundraising clearer, more joined-up and more effective. We bring people, ideas and data together so we can focus on what works best—growing income and creating better experiences for supporters.

The role will have a dotted line report to the Senior Partnerships Development Manager, who oversees Neverland.

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How to apply

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How to apply

19th April 2026.
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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status. 

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

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