About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: Essential criteria • A sustained track record of securing six figure gifts and achieving financial targets as a major gifts fundraiser. This includes a demonstrable ability to recognise and progress funding opportunities. • Experience of managing a high-performing major gifts team and an understanding of how to motivate, inspire, and empower fundraisers in a constructive and collaborative way to achieve stretching targets. • Experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategic plans to deliver philanthropic income for agreed priorities, and experience of proposal writing and case for support development. • Experience of working with senior academics and/or clinicians (or equivalent) and managing effective relationships. Diplomatic, persuasive, and credible at a senior level, possessing the professional gravitas that will engender the respect of key stakeholders including the academic community and potential donors. • Sound grasp of charity law, fundraising techniques, and donor recognition and stewardship programmes. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well good analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to work with a range of numerical and other data. • Ability to handle multiple deadlines, shifting priorities and rapid change with ease, while maintaining focus on the most important priorities for achieving success. • Experience of using a complex donor/client relationship database, e.g. MS Dynamics, Raiser’s Edge, Salesforce. Desirable criteria • Experience in a comprehensive philanthropy campaign • Experience of identifying and developing fundraising priorities and propositions. • An understanding of universities and/or charities as complex public sector organisations is desirable, as is an interest in and knowledge of factors affecting health and clinical research and university funding sources.

About Fundraising & Supporter Development

Fundraising and Supporter Development (F&SD) provides a fundraising and alumni engagement function in support of King’s College London. We are proud to work with colleagues across the university and its health partners to help them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare. Our work also includes a partnership with the Maudsley Charity in support of children’s mental health initiatives between the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust. We are a committed team that brings together fundraisers working across different channels, alongside colleagues who promote King’s College London’s engagement with its worldwide alumni community. 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.

The King's Maudsley Partnership

The King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People will transform understanding and treatment of young people’s mental health through a unique collaboration between specialist clinicians from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and leading academics at King’s College London. These experts lead the world in approaches to mental health – with the largest group of mental health scientists and clinical academics in Europe. There is no other collaboration in the world with this breadth of skills and ambition. Through this unique partnership, clinicians and researchers will collaborate even more closely to find new ways to predict, prevent and treat mental health disorders. This will benefit children locally, nationally, and across the globe.

To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London jobs page and submit the application form, along with the following: • a concise statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skills and experience which you feel you would bring to the role (two pages maximum) • a curriculum vitae

Applications will be longlisted and interviews conducted by a selection committee drawn from across both King's College London, The Maudsley Charity and the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This role with have two interview stages, with stakeholder engagement for shortlisted candidates prior to final interviews. Shortlisted candidates will also be invited to attend a Core Values Interview as standard for all F&SD recruitment. Interviews will take place in March 2025 (exact dates TBC). 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. In F&SD we want to build a diverse team, which represents the communities served by the organisations we support. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented. 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.