Philanthropy Manager (Trusts & Major Gifts)

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Philanthropy Manager to join our team.

It’s a great time to join the hospice. As well as celebrating our 45th anniversary, 2025 will see the launch of our new five-year strategy. At the heart of this, is the need to challenge perceptions and build greater awareness of what hospice care is today. We want to help people to understand how they can access St Margaret’s and benefit from our outstanding range of services.

This is where you come in! Joining our exceptional team of fundraisers and communication professionals, you will play a key role in engaging with funders and supporters who are passionate about safeguarding hospice care for the local community. You will steward our existing brilliant supporters, raise awareness of the hospice’s work, and generate vital funds for our clinical services

What can you expect to be doing? 

As our Philanthropy Manager, you’ll take the lead in developing a compelling case for support. By telling the hospice’s story and articulating our new five-year strategic plan, you will help to secure five and six figure multi-year funding.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Managing grant funders.
• Cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals.
• Maximising existing relationships and giving potential across our high value income streams, namely Trusts, Foundations and Major Donors.
• Researching opportunities and securing new funding.

What can you expect to be good at?

You will be:

• Adept at building relationships, both internally with hospice colleagues and externally with target funders.
• Skilled in project management and have the financial acumen to develop powerful grant applications.
• Able to network and collaborate with a range of potential funders, with the ability to articulate and report on the impact their support is making.
• Comfortable making funding requests and have a good grasp of what makes a compelling ask.
• Experienced or willing to organise and host solicitation and supporter events.   

Benefits 

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme
• Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice 

And more.

• Life assurance cover – 2x salary
• Health Cash Plans - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
• Blue Light Card – Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities