Job Details

In recent years, the Development team has continued a successful high-value philanthropy programme that has leveraged the Society’s unique convening power and reach.

There is significant potential to achieve more, and they are now seeking an experienced practitioner to lead the revamp of their development operations and help to evolve their approach and outcomes as the team enables the Society to galvanise philanthropy in support of their founding mission: to promote excellence in Science for the benefit of humanity.

As the Development Operations Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the income management, reporting, due diligence, and prospect research at the Society.  You will work closely with the Head of Development to design the fundraising strategy, analysing data and reporting on insights, while benchmarking the team’s activities across peer institutions.  This framework will underpin the success of the Society’s philanthropic efforts, and ensure that smooth and efficient processes are in place to optimise their workflows and maximise donor engagement and impact.   This is an opportunity to bring a fresh lens to how they do what they do, knowledge of best practice, trends and insights in fundraising, and be excited by the scope to build on the Society’s fundraising potential.

Key to your success in this role is your ability to think and act strategically,  and develop strong relationships across organisations.  You will bring experience of working with or developing performance metrics in fundraising, and in mapping supporter journeys and the necessary processes and operations around these to ensure successful engagement.  Your superpower is your puzzle solving ability, coupled with your knack in finding and designing innovations and collaborative solutions that create efficiencies in fundraising operations.

If this sounds like the sort of challenge that you are looking for next in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 9:00AM ON MONDAY, 20 JANUARY 2025