Regional Development Manager

Employment type: Full time

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Job Description

We are looking for a self-motivated and organised individual to join as Regional Development Manager. You will play an important part in enabling us to raise money to fund life-saving research and support for the blood cancer community by supporting the product development of our DIY events portfolio alongside managing fundraising operations support for the wider Regional Relationships Team. As part of this ambitious and supportive team, you will help maintain and grow our network of supporters across the UK. This an excellent opportunity for an ambitious fundraiser to take the next step in their community fundraising career.

This role is full time or part time 4 days, 28 hours a week.

Key Responsibilities

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To achieve growth across our DIY product portfolio by leading product development and implementation of supporter journeys
To lead on management of fundraising operations and central processes and communications to help grow the number of regional supporters across the UK and maximise income.
To work alongside the Involvement & Engagement Manager and Volunteer Experience Coordinator to ensure regional volunteer needs are represented in the development of the central volunteer framework.
Line management of Regional Relationship Coordinator post
To identify and implement new digital ways of working across the Regional Relationships Team and supporter network to support our Digital Transformation strategy.
To ensure CRM processes enable best practice to be applied across the Regional Relationship Team.
Contribute to the Regional Relationship’s team planning and the Public Fundraising & Individual Giving Division’s strategic plans and provide information to feed into management reports as required.
Be an ambassador, supporting the delivery of Blood Cancer UK’s vision and ensuring that the charity’s profile and reputation are enhanced.
Champion regional relationship engagement and activity to ensure that organisationally we are maximising our interactions most effectively for the greatest return.
Be open to innovation and improvement in all areas through research and development and horizon scanning for new opportunities.

THINGS WE ALL DO

Promote Blood Cancer UK’s vision, mission and core values
We’re all fundraisers. This is slightly different for all roles, and your team will have fundraising KPIs and objectives we all work to
Attend and assist at Blood Cancer UK events and activities as required (NB this involves evening and weekend work)
Be an effective ambassador for Blood Cancer UK at any activity you attend
All staff are expected to adhere to Blood Cancer UK’s policies and procedures
Do any other reasonable things your manager needs you to do

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience in one or more of the following: community/regional fundraising, mass participation product fundraising; challenge event management, regional corporate fundraising

Project management experience, particularly relating to fundraising product development or supporter journey development

Ability to write compelling copy and communications to share information with and influence mass audiences across all channels.

Experience of managing fundraising products/campaigns, from conception to delivery and control.

Excellent interpersonal, networking and relationship building skills and ability to represent the charity externally.

Experience of using a charity CRM and reporting system (knowledge of Dynamics 365 and Power BI reports would be desirable)

Understanding of digital fundraising tools and best practice (or willingness to develop knowledge in this area)

Understanding of blood cancer issues (or willingness to develop knowledge of these issues) and the ability to deal sensitively and empathetically with these issues in practice

Ability to work well within a team and independently, undertaking own tasks and managing priorities as required

A commitment to equal opportunities and diversity and the aims and values of Blood Cancer UK

Benefits

We welcome conversations about part time working, job shares, and all forms of flexible working right from application stage. You can get in touch with us at recruitment@bloodcancer.org.uk if you want to ask us anything about flexible working.

Benefits:
We think our benefits are brilliant, and the majority start from day 1. These are just a few of them:

30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, as well as study leave and a day off to move house
Wellbeing is a priority for us, we offer a wide range of individual and team support in our Wellbeing Hub
Our Academy is our in-house Continued Professional Development (CPD) learning and development programme, including an internal mentoring scheme. We have organisation-wide focus days, which are days set aside for you to focus on your own development, without being interrupted by emails and meetings.
Cycle to work and season ticket loans
Opportunity to take sabbaticals

You can find full details about our benefits on our website.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees

Open to job sharing

Open to compressed hours

Sabbaticals

Enhanced maternity leave – Our maternity/shared parental/adoption offer is 12 weeks at full pay, 12 weeks at half pay, followed by 15 weeks at the statutory rate.

Enhanced paternity leave – Our paternity leave offer is 6 weeks at full pay.

Adoption leave

Shared parental leave

Work from anywhere scheme – For the vast majority of our roles, there is no requirement to work from one of our offices. We meet up as an organisation at 2-4 in-person events each year, such as all-staff away days.

30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced sick pay – Our enhanced sick pay offer is: Up to two years’ service: 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay After two years’ service: 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay