Overview
Provide leadership and strategic direction for individual high net worth fundraising activities focused on the UK market, ensuring the delivery of significant, multi-year resources for the IRC's global mission. Serve as the primary high-value fundraising partner to the UK Executive Director and a member of the UK Senior Management Team.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading a team of fundraising professionals focused on raising unrestricted and restricted contributions from High-Net-Worth Individuals.
- Managing a personal portfolio of significant donors and partners focused on securing six and seven-figure commitments.
- Facilitating cross-functional collaboration and ensuring coordination and alignment across all UK-based fundraising teams.
- Serving as the high-value fundraising representative on the UK Senior Management Team.
- Serving as the principal fundraising and partnerships lead for the IRC's UK Board of Directors.
- Overseeing key Board relationships and providing complex stakeholder management.
- Strategically leveraging Board members’ networks and influence to support fundraising.
- Directly driving the UK Executive Director's engagement in fundraising and external partnership activities.
- Interfacing closely with US-based and other international colleagues in External Relations to ensure global strategic alignment.
- Design and execute customised fundraising and partnership strategies for their personal portfolio.
- Travel and meet with donors and prospects across the UK and occasionally internationally as required.
- Achieve personal and team-wide goals and metrics related to visits, solicitations, gifts/pledges closed, and other critical key performance indicators.
- Lead and directly supervise a team of approximately 3 individuals across the UK-based Philanthropy team.
- Provide strategic oversight and Manage-in-Partnership the UK-based leads of the Foundations and Trusts and Global Corporate Partnerships teams.
- Provide comprehensive thought leadership for the Philanthropy team's efforts towards increased financial revenue and other modes of private sector engagement.
- Partner with the Senior Director of International Philanthropy to develop a strategic plan, including setting annual goals and key outcomes for the team.
- Collaborate as a peer with other UK leaders on the UK Senior Management Team.
- Proactively drive the UK Executive Director's fundraising activities.
- Interface and collaborate superbly with US-based colleagues in External Relations.
- Facilitate the deployment of IRC leaders throughout the donor life cycle to qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward five, six, and seven-figure commitments.
Required Experience
- Significant demonstrable years progressive experience or proven background of non-profit fundraising experience and expertise in high-net-worth individual fundraising, and/or foundation/trust/corporate partnership development.
- Demonstrated history of being an empowering and supportive manager to front-line fundraisers.
- Consistent track record of securing 6 and 7+ figure gifts/partnerships from a complex portfolio of diverse donors and prospects, including qualifying prospects and upgrading donors.
- Proven organisational leadership experience, for example on senior management teams.
- Experience in international organisational collaboration, including interfacing effectively with leadership and colleagues based in other countries.
- Proven experience leading and directly supervising front-line fundraisers.
- Experience in leveraging and managing a Board or high-level volunteer leadership for fundraising success.
- Ability to develop creative and multifaceted donor strategy often carried out in partnership with programme staff or senior leadership.
- Ability to navigate CRM systems.
- Dedication to fundraising for international development, humanitarian, human rights, gender and racial equality, social justice, and migrant communities.
