Interim Fundraising Manager
The focus of this role will be to cultivate and manage a portfolio of donors, provide leadership for the fundraising team, support them to achieve their goals, and ensure the organisation's income targets are met.
Reporting to: Chief Executive
Type of Contract: Fixed term for 6 months
Hours and location:
Full-time located at the Crann Centre, Ovens, Co. Cork
The Crann Centre (a registered charity) based in Ovens, Cork, is a specialist community-based disability service for children, adults, and families, living with neuro-physical disabilities.
Crann's transformative 2 Generation (2Gen) Model of Care, delivers comprehensive, integrated health and social care supports across the lifespan, addressing key clinical issues and the broader social determinants of health. Our community-based team support better health & wellbeing outcomes and increased opportunities for participation in education, employment, and leisure for both children and adults, and their families.
We wish to recruit an Interim Fundraising Manager to cover a period of extended leave. The focus of this role will be to cultivate and manage a portfolio of donors, provide leadership for the fundraising team, support them to achieve their goals, and ensure the organisation's income targets are met.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Manage the Crann Centre's fundraising portfolio and support systems,
2. Set and achieve income targets across all fundraising channels, in particular developing strategies to maximise unrestricted income.
3. Lead and manage the team, providing support to achieve high performance that delivers agreed outcomes.
4. Prepare progress reports for Chief Executive, Fundraising Sub-Committee and Board of Directors meetings and attend as required.
Corporate Partnerships
5. Managing the Crann Centre's corporate partnerships and creating opportunities for multi-year strategic partnerships and support.
Community Fundraising
6. Support the Community Fundraiser to plan, communicate and deliver the programme of Community Fundraising initiatives.
7. Ensure all fundraising initiatives are evaluated and volunteers/ donors are supported and feel valued.
Individual Giving
8. Support the development and implementation of our Individual Giving Programme and a donor stewardship programme.
Trusts and Foundations
9. Manage a portfolio of Trust and Foundation prospects and donors to develop and maintain strong lasting partnerships.
10. Lead ongoing research and an outreach to build new relationships and successful engagement.
11. Together with our Grants Coordinator monitor opportunities, support the developments of winning applications for grant and effective engagement with grantors/funders.
Skills and Competencies
12. Experience of leading the fundraising function and team
13. A proven track record of managing the high value fundraising cycle, specifically corporates, major donors and trusts and foundations.
14. Experienced people manager with a proven track record of motivating and empowering people to reach their potential and exceed goals.
15. Knowledge of the Irish charity/voluntary sector market and the environment in which The Crann Centre operates.
16. An understanding of fundraising performance metrics
17. Experience in working with CRM fundraising databases preferably Salesforce.