How to apply - Submit a CV detailing your relevant skills & experience together with a covering letter (one page only, please!) telling us why you’re the right person to join the LGMC family. Call Alisdair at School Staffing with any queries.

Reporting to the Board through the Chair of the Development Committee, you will take a leading role in devising our development strategy, delivering robust and sustainable fundraising programmes to help us expand our work over the coming years.

As we move our way of working to focus more on project-based initiatives, you will seek both project funding as well as operational funding.

You will work closely with the Board and its Development Committee and staff to establish new funding relationships with high net-worth individuals, companies, charitable foundations and other donors who align with our values, as well as develop individual giving and legacy schemes to grow our income sustainably and guarantee the long-term stability of the Chorus.

You will be a self-starting and experienced fundraiser, with demonstrable success in securing major donations from individual, corporate and trust donors and sponsors, as well as a wider understanding of other income streams. Your ability to build a compelling case for support and present this to a range of and sponsors in an engaging way will be central to this role.

Key Experience & Skills:

Demonstrable experience securing and stewarding high-value relationships with supporters.

Excellent presentation/pitching skills.

Proven success in achieving challenging fundraising targets and meeting deadlines. Experience using a CRM system/donor database.

Key Attributes:

Ability to work effectively and efficiently with a board of Trustees and its committees.

Showing you are a self-starter who can work with a high degree of autonomy.

Good at managing priorities and remaining calm under pressure.

Enjoying being part of a committed and hardworking team working in alignment with the values of the LGMC.

Engagement Status: Negotiable but a self- employed contract is anticipated. Terms and Conditions will be in line with those of other employees or consultants, depending on the nature of the agreement.

Salary: The total annual budget for this role is £32,000 to £40,000, dependent on hours worked and experience. We anticipate a regular monthly invoice.

Hours & Location: Negotiable, but we anticipate 2-3 days per week. You will be working from your own home-based office, and attending London-based meetings either face-to-face or online when appropriate.

You will manage your own time and the hours worked will vary from month to month, to be averaged out over the year, to include occasional evening and weekend work.

Your responsibilities:

The priorities of the role at any one time will be agreed upon once a fundraising strategy and specific targets have been formulated, but we anticipate that at some stage all of the following will come into play:

Major Donor Fundraising Corporate Funding Relationships, Sponsorships and Donations Charitable Foundation and Livery Company Funding

Government and Lottery Funding

Individual Giving Events

School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion