Head of Fundraising

Are you an experienced fundraising manager with a passion for wildlife, who can inspire support for
a cause from a wide range of people and support colleagues in securing the funding they need?

Avon Wildlife Trust has exciting plans for nature’s recovery in the Bristol and Bath city
region. We want to create and restore habitats, enable people to take action for wildlife, and
secure more land for nature in our local area.

We are looking for a Head of Fundraising who can galvanise support for our work from funders
and donors, develop a high-performing fundraising team, and support colleagues in developing
fundable projects to restore habitats, engage people and bring wildlife back. If this is you,
we look forward to hearing from you.

Fundraising

Fundraising underpins everything we do as a charity. We are fortunate to have a strong
membership base supporting our work and a range of trusts, foundations and grant-making bodies
funding projects to engage people and restore wildlife. We have ambitious plans underway,
including:

• Acquiring land where we can restore habitats and develop facilities to engage and inspire
  more people to take action for nature,
• Extending the reach of Team Wilder to inspire and support more people to take action for
  wildlife and help reach a social tipping point where this becomes normal
• Developing new landscape-scale projects and partnerships to engage landholders and
  communities in restoring habitats and bringing wildlife back.

The role of Head of Fundraising will include:

• Inspiring support for our work from donors and funders, both directly and through your team
• Leading and supporting your team to grow income from a wide range of fundraising channels
• Supporting colleagues in delivery teams to develop and secure funding for highly impactful
  projects

We are seeking to grow, develop and diversify our fundraising in a number of areas, including:

• Inspiring more support from major donors and corporate partnerships – growing our capacity
  to cultivate and secure major gifts through land acquisition campaigns, relationship-building
  and capital appeals,
• Increasing unrestricted income from individual giving, through membership recruitment &
  retention initiatives, development of non-member supporter offers, digital campaigns, In Mem,
  Gifts in Wills and legacies
• Further developing statutory funding, partnership bids and grant income to secure funding
  for projects to deliver our impact objectives

To support this, we are investing in improving the operation of our CRM system, including
establishing data integrations, improving data hygiene and developing reporting to provide
better donor segmentation and insight.

Team Development

We are seeking to grow our fundraising team, both in the short-term to support land acquisition
and capital appeals, and in the longer-term to develop our fundraising channels based on
businesses cases on potential return on investment in areas such as corporate fundraising and
legacy marketing.

Closing date: 11:59pm, Wednesday 8th May 2024

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a first interview on Tuesday 21st May 2024.

Leading candidates may then be asked to attend a second interview, anticipated to be on
Wednesday 29th May 2024