Senior Programme Development Manager, Institutional Funding & Partnerships
- Location: Fauna & Flora’s Cambridge Office, UK
- Salary: £50,775 (0.8 FTE considered)
- Contract period: Permanent
- Start date: As soon as possible
If you’re a skilled institutional fundraiser who wants to get closer to the conservation work your funding makes possible, this could be the role for you.
As Senior Programme Development Manager, you’ll be a key member of Fauna & Flora’s Institutional Funding & Partnerships team, taking ownership of a portfolio of donors and leading those relationships, pre-positioning and bid development that turns funding opportunities into secured income.
Reporting to the Head of Institutional Funding & Partnerships and working closely with the conservation programme teams across four regions, you’ll develop high-quality proposals, manage donor compliance and share intelligence that strengthens the quality of bids across the organisation. You’ll also play a hands-on internal role, building tools, delivering training and helping colleagues engage more effectively with institutional funders. It’s a role that combines strategic thinking with real delivery, sitting close enough to the conservation programme to see the difference your work makes.
You’ll be someone who finds real satisfaction in the craft of institutional fundraising: building the relationship with a donor over time, spotting the right opportunity, pulling together a bid that genuinely reflects the conservation work behind it and seeing it land. You’ll have solid experience securing funding from bilateral and multilateral government donors and a strong grasp of what different funders need, how they think and what makes a proposal stand out. You’ll be a skilled writer who can take complex technical conservation work and turn it into something compelling, accurate and donor-ready.
Equally important is how you work with others. You’ll be comfortable operating across different geographies and cultures, supporting programme colleagues who are experts in their field but may be less familiar with donor requirements and building trust quickly with people at all levels. You’ll bring genuine curiosity about the conservation mission behind the funding and ideally, some experience in an international NGO environment. We’re looking for someone comfortable working at the pace of a values-led, consensus-driven organisation.
Fauna & Flora moves thoughtfully and collaboratively and if that resonates with you, you’ll thrive here.
Above all, you’ll share Fauna & Flora’s values of integrity, collaboration, commitment and have a genuine respect for the people and communities you work with.
Please visit Peridot to apply
The closing date for applications is Monday, 1 June 2026.