Senior Philanthropy Manager

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About Us

Fundraising and Supporter Development (F&SD) provides a fundraising and alumni engagement function in support of King's College London and our associated health partners, including the King's Maudsley Partnership children and young people's mental health collaboration between the university's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.

Our work is underpinned and enhanced by a range of dedicated professionals in supporting areas covering proposition development, supporter engagement, supporter operations and business operations.

We have an impressive, well-established track record of success in securing support that allows the university and partners to deliver on their missions. This includes our global, award-winning World Questions: King's Answers campaign, which set the standard in the sector and enabled us to raise substantial funds to help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. Ambitious and innovative, the team has won awards such as a CASE Platinum Award for Fundraising and a CASE Gold Award for Donor Relations and Stewardship. We are strongly values-driven with a focus on sustaining an excellent and supportive culture, which we see as key to creating a successful team that can support the university and its partners in making a real and positive difference to the world we live in.

King's College London

King's College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through its commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, King's College London is creating positive change in its communities, both in London and on the world stage. The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King's College London's 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:

• Educating the next generation of change-makers;
• Challenging ideas and driving change through research;
• Giving back to society through meaningful service;
• Working with our local communities in London;
• Fostering global citizens with an international perspective.

King's Maudsley Partnership

The King's Maudsley Partnership will have its home at the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in south London, opening in early 2025. The partnership brings together clinical and academic excellence in a unique collaboration between the UK's largest NHS provider of specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), the leading child and adolescent mental health research team in Europe - with Maudsley Charity as its charity partner. Our mission is to find new ways to predict, prevent and treat mental health disorders for CYP and then maximise translation of research and evidence into improved services locally nationally and globally. The partnership is local, national and international in scale and ambition, serving a local population which is among the most ethnically, socially and economically diverse in the world.

About the role

This important and exciting role will generate major gifts for the new King's Maudsley Partnership using the power of research and clinical care to transform our understanding and treatment of young people's mental health. This is a powerful and ground-breaking joint initiative between King's College London College Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Maudsley Charity.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Philanthropy Manager (Major Gifts) for a maternity cover, who has excellent interpersonal and relationship development skills, with ambition and enthusiasm, a natural self-starter, and the ability to be a strategic and creative thinker - using all these skills to help transform the future for children and young people's mental health.

The postholder will inspire wealthy philanthropists in the UK and overseas about our work in children's mental health under the King's Maudsley Partnership umbrella with projects that align with their personal interests and enthuse these individuals to support our work on an ongoing basis.

This is a particularly exciting time to join our unique and life-changing fundraising partnership, uniting university, charity and hospital fundraising in one team, as we open the doors of the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in spring 2025 - at a time when children's mental health has never been more topical, or support more needed.

We have already raised almost £40m for the Pears Maudsley Centre capital project from leading philanthropists (trusts, foundations, individuals, corporates and research funding) and are now focusing on the funding required for the life-changing collaborative research and clinical work that will take place within and around the Centre to transform the ways we treat and prevent mental illness in children.

The post holder will work with the fundraising team at King's College London and Maudsley Charity to lead and deliver on major gift engagement.

This is a full time maternity cover post (with consideration for a four-day week for the right candidate) and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 January 2026. F&SD has a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of 40% of time in the office. Typically, this equates to two days per week, but we're very happy for colleagues to be in more frequently if they so wish.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. An understanding of the philanthropic landscape and what would motivate a prospect to give to KMP priorities on children and young people's mental health
2. Experience of securing 5, 6, and 7 figure philanthropic gifts as well as qualifying and cultivating new philanthropic relationships
3. Proven interpersonal, communication skills and ability to present a case convincingly in person
4. Understanding and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion to work with a diverse range of stakeholders including young people with lived experience of mental illness
5. Ability to plan strategically and implement those plans
6. Proven ability of demonstrating initiative and creativity to achieve desired outcomes
7. Ability to comprehend complex situations quickly and to provide creative solutions where appropriate
8. Ability to manage multiple projects, identifying conflicting demands and establishing clear priorities in order to meet agreed objectives and income

Desirable criteria

1. Knowledge of a Fundraising Database (e.g. Dynamics)
2. Sufficient knowledge of philanthropic motivations and current trends in major giving to be able to identify and exploit new opportunities

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements, including part-time, compressed hours and/or job shares, as appropriate.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit ' pages.

This roles with have two interview stages, a standard skills-based interview followed (for up to two appointable candidates) by a Core Values interview.

First stage interviews are due to be held w/c 9th December. Core Values interviews are due to be held w/c 16th December.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.