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GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S CHARITY
44,795 per year
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Full-time
21st January 2026

Philanthropy Manager

Are you an exceptional major gifts fundraiser with a passion for securing philanthropic support for world-leading projects in children’s healthcare? Do you thrive on building high-value relationships and working closely with senior volunteers and philanthropists who want to make a profound difference?

Join one of the UK’s most successful philanthropy teams to help transform the lives of seriously ill children. This is a rare opportunity to work on a transformational campaign, inspiring major donors and influential supporters to help Great Ormond Street Hospital redefine childhood cancer care and treatment.

Salary:£44,795 per annum

Working pattern:Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, salaries are set using sector benchmarking. To ensure fairness for all, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own a personal target for fundraising, with a focus on securing five and six figure+ gifts and multi-year pledges from high-net-worth individuals and charitable foundations.
  • Proactively manage a prospect pool of existing and new potential supporters, ensuring your approach is based on donor and data insights, to ensure optimal supporter satisfaction and long-term engagement.
  • Support cross-team fundraising activity, events and donor visits.
  • Build excellent working relationships with donors and senior volunteers, to identify new prospects.
  • Develop detailed proposals, impact reports and stewardship materials tailored to the interests of each supporter or prospect.
  • Act as a passionate ambassador for GOSH Charity and the Philanthropy team, maintaining the highest level of professionalism at all times.
  • Contribute to the wider fundraising team, taking a proactive approach to working in a high-performing and collaborative environment.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • A demonstrable track record of securing five figure+ philanthropic gifts.
  • Experience managing relationships with senior volunteers, campaign boards or high-value fundraising committees.
  • Outstanding relationship-building, influencing and presentation skills.
  • A collaborative and supportive team player, committed to contributing positively to a high-performing culture.

About the Team

You will join our sector-leading

Philanthropyteam - widely recognised as one of the most high-performing and respected in the charity sector. We partner with some of the UK’s most generous and visionary philanthropists to transform the lives of seriously ill children.

Our talented and collaborative team of 20+ works closely with clinical leaders, researchers and fundraising colleagues to create inspirational opportunities for supporters. In partnership with senior volunteers and committees, we drive landmark campaigns including the £300 million

Build It. Beat It.appeal and the Tick Tock Club, with exciting plans for a major new research-focused campaign on the horizon.How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing date:21st January 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. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

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

https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/

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




Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.

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