With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Philanthropy Manager

Salary:               £ 36576 per annum plus good range of benefits

Contract:           Permanent – 36.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday

Based:                Milton Keynes – Hybrid

World Vision UK: World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organisation dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice. Through advocacy, emergency relief, and long-term development projects, we empower communities to thrive. At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to transform lives and demonstrate God’s unconditional love for all people. 

Our vision is for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

Fundraising and Marketing Directorate: As part of the newly formed Integrated Fundraising and Marketing department you will support our one of our leading fundraising products Philanthropy, as we ensure a maximised income potential from the pool of donors we hold, as well as pursuing growth in our supporter base for new donor opportunities.

Job Purpose:

The Philanthropy Manager will play a pivotal role in maximising high-net-worth relationships to drive transformational income opportunities for World Vision UK. This role will focus on cultivating and stewarding long-term donor relationships to generate strategic income and working closely across World Vision Internationals Global Philanthropic Alliance.

The role will have a Year 1 income target of £150k, with the ambition of scaling this to £500k annually by Year 3. The Philanthropy Manager will ensure that commercial acumen is central to all activities and contribute to building a sustainable and mission-driven future.

This role emphasises a UK-wide reach, collaborating across teams to share portfolios, refine segmentation strategies, and deliver tailored donor experiences that align with World Vision’s mission.

This pivotal position requires a strategic, innovative relationship manager who combines operational excellence with spiritual maturity, inspiring internal teams and external partners to achieve transformative outcomes. Being comfortable and able to pray with donors is a critical aspect of the role, alongside being able to relate with donors of all and no faith.

Key Responsibilities:

Actively seek opportunities to create new relationships and partnerships through networking and attending external events.Explore and lead new philanthropic approaches such as new giving clubs or circles, maximizing peer-to-peer approaches, and events.Explore new approaches and opportunities to increase emergency/humanitarian giving from philanthropists.Personally deliver £5m of income annually, through securing seven-figure gifts to support WVUK’s mission to help the world’s most vulnerable children.Manage a portfolio of between 60 and 80 existing and new donors and relationships, ensuring progress through the stages of identification, cultivation, ask, and stewardship, and providing the highest standards of relationship experience.Develop and implement strategic, culturally relevant, creative, and bespoke donor plans.Produce high-quality written proposals and reports and verbal presentations tailored specifically to inspire and captivate donors.Lead international field visits

Requirements:

Educated to degree level or significant experience in a relevant role.Significant experience in major donor fundraising or other relevant roles.Proven track record of securing £m+ gifts.Experience working in the international development sector fundraising.Experience in managing six-figure income portfolios.Evidence of continuous improvement in role.Self-starter with high motivation.Ability to work independently and balance travel to face-to-face donor meetings with other priorities.Active Christian faith is required.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations. Inspired by our Christian faith, we serve alongside children of all faiths and none through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy in almost 100 countries.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including, Pension, generous holiday entitlement, Length of Service Awards and free parking (MK only). 

  

Please upload your CV of full employment history. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in this advert.

Closing Date for applications: 7th March 2025

Interviews: TBC

**Please note that you MUST be holding the Right to work in the UK documentation as unfortunately this role is not sponsored**

We reserve the right to interview candidates and close the ad ahead of the closing date should a strong candidate be identified.

World Vision UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people representing all sections of the community. Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be

requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see: The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (misconduct-disclosure-scheme.org)

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