Legacy marketing manager

Legacies bring around 15% of Christian Aid’s voluntary income. Do you share our ambition to grow this figure significantly? Do you have the understanding of international development and church based, community supporters that will enable you to effectively lead our legacy marketing team as we expand our work with churches, supporter groups and our regional teams?

We have just brought our legacy team together with our individual fundraisers to ensure the legacy message is embedded in the team. You will be a hands on and proactive manager, capable of both new thinking and of getting the best from existing structures and networks. The geographically dispersed parts of your team provide great reach into our supporter networks, encouraging both legacy and in memory giving. You will have particular responsibility for leading our work with Will Aid to capitalise on its exciting growth.

You will have substantial fundraising experience with a track record of working on legacy, community or major donor fundraising; detailed understanding of legacy giving; significant experience of developing and implementing fundraising; significant experience of public speaking and strong presentation skills.

You will also have the ability to devise, implement and manage budgets and strategies, with good database analysis skills and be able to devise, implement and manage creatives for brochures and advertising and possess good copywriting skills.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Strive for improvement

Please tell us about a time when you demonstrated your openness to new and radical ideas to address an issue.

Realise potential

Please tell us about a time when you coached or mentored someone in order to help them develop.

Steward resources

Please give us an example of a time when you found ways to achieve more effective outcomes by using existing resources in a new or different way.

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

You will be required to have a standard disclosure check from the CRB.

As this post is UK based, non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.

Download the role profile (113 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed UK & Ireland application form to: recruitment@christian-aid.org (quoting the reference number). Alternatively, your completed application form, can be printed out and posted to us at:

Christian Aid
35 Lower Marsh
Waterloo
London SE1 7RT

Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

Job reference: 278/OK

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 11 May 2012

Interview date: Thursday 17 May 2012

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.