Job purposeThe Philanthropy Manager will steward existing and develop new relationships with charitable trusts, foundations, and philanthropic individuals or entities to contribute to raising funds to achieve Saferworld’s strategic aims.Working closely with the Head of Funding and Programme Development and the Funding Officer, you will play a lead role in coordinating across Saferworld to implement our strategy to grow non-institutional income to support preventing violent conflict and building a safer world.Your focus will be charitable trusts and foundations, where you will manage a portfolio of current funding partners, cultivate other priority relationships in collaboration with senior staff, and identify new funding partnership opportunities that are aligned with our values. You will also ensure Saferworld is well-positioned to receive philanthropic funding from high-net-worth individuals or via wealth advisors or Donor Advised Funds in the future.Working with project and grant managers, you will ensure we submit high-quality proposals and reports to our philanthropic funders. Working with colleagues in Communications, Regional Programmes, Policy and Advocacy, and the Senior Operations Team, you will identify and maximise opportunities to strengthen funding relationships and widen our networks in person and online.A much smaller proportion of your time will be spent overseeing individual donations with the Funding Officer and colleagues in Communications, and stewarding higher-value givers as required. You will also lead on managing a small number of gifts in wills.Responsibilities and duties1. Lead on philanthropic incomeDevelop, implement and evolve a delivery plan, aligned with Saferworld’s wider Funding Strategy, to grow philanthropic income, with a focus on quality and unrestricted funding.Take responsibility for delivering agreed key performance indicators for philanthropic income generation, monitoring progress and adapting approaches as needed.Work with programme and policy teams, partners and donors to co-create funding opportunities that reflect shared priorities and long-term impact.Conduct prospect research and prioritisation to build a robust pipeline, with an emphasis on five- and six-figure grants and multi-year funding.Ensure the Gift Acceptance Policy and Ethical Checks Process are followed, completing proportionate due diligence on potential donors as necessary.Develop cultivation strategies for funding partners and support the Senior Operations Team, CEO and other colleagues to deepen relationships in a coordinated way.Work closely with the funding, policy, communications and Senior Operations Team to ensure that learning, communications, influencing and fundraising are coordinated and support each other to achieve overall department objectives.Develop cases for support suitable for philanthropic funders, including writing thematic proposals to maximise access to flexible, multi-year and unrestricted funds, in coordination with the Head of Funding and Programme Development.Represent Saferworld externally at events, convenings and networks; proactively build relationships with philanthropic funders, advisors and sector peers; and confidently present and pitch Saferworld’s work to secure and grow funding partnerships.Contribute to the overall fundraising strategy, working closely with the Head of Funding and Programme Development.Steward high-quality relationships with philanthropic funders.Work with grant managers and relevant staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality and timely reports, informal updates and communications that demonstrate the transformational impact of unrestricted funding and quality funding.2. Individual givingOversee gifts in wills, liaising with solicitors and/or the executor of the will and thanking the family as appropriate. This is, on average, one gift per year.Oversee individual donations to Saferworld, working with the Funding Officer and identifying high-value gifts for stewardship. This process is largely automated.Work with the Funding Officer and Finance team to submit Gift Aid claims once or twice a year.Oversee donations through JustGiving and Benevity. These are largely automated processes.3. Contribute to shared team activitiesContribute to shared team activities such as events, social media and team planning.Maintain detailed records of all fundraising activities on the CRM database, CiviCRM, alongside comprehensive electronic and paper files.Assist the Funding Officer with monthly reporting on income and pipelines.Stay up to date with funding trends in peacebuilding and locally led approaches, including flexible and participatory funding and trends in philanthropic funding.Stay informed of best practice from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and the Fundraising Regulator, ensuring all activities are conducted within legal and regulatory requirements.Champion and integrate Saferworld’s commitment to locally led, partner-led and decolonial approaches into fundraising practice, ensuring funding relationships and proposals reflect equitable partnerships and shift power to local actors.Key working relationshipsInternalRegional directors, country managers, country and policy teams: Working together on proposal development, including multi-country concept notes, to enable the implementation of country and regional strategies.Funding and Programme Development Team: Regularly coordinating to ensure country and regional resource mobilisation plans are connected to global outreach and donor cultivation plans; ensuring approaches to donors are coordinated with other parts of the organisation; leveraging donor research support; and supporting global efforts to diversify Saferworld funding.Communications team: Helping to raise our profile among philanthropic and other donors, and ensuring we demonstrate our impact as an organisation to that audience.Grant managers: Working closely together to ensure donor reporting is of the utmost quality and demonstrates impact.Finance team: Working collaboratively to develop proposal budgets, ensuring effective cost recovery and budget sharing with partners. Assisting with Gift Aid claims and management of our Stripe and PayPal accounts.ExternalPhilanthropic funding partners and prospective partners: Building and maintaining relationships based on shared values and strategic aims.Scope and accountabilityDecision making and limits of authorityThe post-holder will lead the philanthropic income stream and support the management of individual giving. This includes engaging in prospect research, ensuring the Gift Acceptance Policy and ethical checks processes are followed, developing donor cultivation plans, and ensuring programme impact and quality in the proposals and reports written.The post-holder is expected to show considerable leadership within the organisation and a high level of analytical thinking, creative thinking and problem-solving. This includes developing systems and processes to meet new needs as required; identifying and applying appropriate approaches to new funding opportunities; collecting and analysing a range of information from different sources; and developing new ideas and approaches to designing and securing funding from philanthropic donors.Financial resourcesNot applicable.Other resourcesResponsible for cross-regional and organisational information-sharing and lesson learning on fundraising areas.Responsible for information management around philanthropic funding, including the CRM database.People managementThere are no current people management responsibilities.Technical supervision and supervision and oversight responsibilities may be assigned to this post-holder, including but not limited to consultancies and/or dotted line management of staff.Within the team, line management of programme design coordinators, officers or interns may be a possibility.Legal, regulatory and compliance responsibilityThe post-holder will support internal and donor compliance as part of programme design and proposal development support.The post-holder should have awareness of Saferworld’s responsibilities as a member of the Fundraising Regulator.
