Job title: Development Manager
Location: Delfina Foundation, 29/31 Catherine Place, London, SW1E 6DY
Salary: £35,000 per annum
Contract: Full time, 5 days per week, 12 months fixed term contract
About
Founded in 2007, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming, with a special focus on international collaboration. As London’s largest international residency space, we host over 40 artists and curators each year.
Delfina Foundation is largely privately funded and in addition we generate earned income and receive public support for specific projects. The Development Manager is a new position created to work alongside the senior team to consolidate and grow this support towards realising Delfina Foundation’s future plans. There is scope for this post to grow with the organisation over time to become a senior role.
Role description
Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Director, Deputy Director and Board of Trustees to develop and implement a fundraising strategy to maximise fundraising income from individuals, trusts and foundations and corporate sponsors.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive and proactive approach to meet targets by:
- Managing and developing existing relationships with individual donors, particularly supporting senior colleagues in this regard
- Building relationships with potential donors
- Help diversify Delfina Foundation’s funding through the pursuit of more public and corporate support.
- Work closely with the team to identify new opportunities for project-specific fundraising.
- Research, identify and prepare applications to Trusts & Foundations, with a particular focus on project specific fundraising.
- Develop the CRM database, ensuring it holds comprehensive, up to date information on patrons and donors and support Delfina Foundation’s team to effectively utilise the database.
- Oversee and draft communications going out to individual supporters.
- Work with the Director of Operations to monitor progress against targets, ensuring fundraising costs stay within budgeted expenditure.
- Stay abreast of developments in the market and legislation as they affect philanthropy, especially tax efficient giving.
- Ensure that the foundation carries out its commitments and delivers benefits to funders/partners, including appropriate acknowledgements.
- Oversee the reporting to donors, foundations and corporate sponsors.
- Support the engagement and development of Delfina Foundation’s board of trustees, patron groups, and advisory groups.
- Work with the Director and relevant staff to consider how public programme activities can be strategically utilised for development purposes.
- Support the development of programme partners for the residency and public programme, which may include opportunities for in-kind or matched support.
Relationship management:
- Build and maintain partnerships and close working relationships to maximise resources.
- Interface with artists-in-residence.
- Interact with visitors at the foundation, ensuring utmost hospitality and a unique experience.
Team management:
- To work as part of the team in the day-to-day running of the Foundation, taking on tasks that might be outside this specific job role when needed.
- To upward-manage the Director and Board, ensuring that objectives and deadlines are reached within the appropriate context.
- To deputise for junior and senior-level colleagues as needed.
- To line manage any temporary or junior staff, including interns, in specific areas.
- To prioritise work that has ‘knock-on’ effect on others in the team and to organise duties around other competing tasks.
General administration:
- To take lead on administrative affairs related to this post, including CRM input, donor tracking, renewals, etc.
- To contribute to all necessary reporting on the work of the foundation such as annual reports, financial reports, etc.
- To record work processes and maintain a ‘data trail’ of work in keeping with good practice.
- To coordinate and research information and evidence to inform decision making by the Director and Board of Trustees where delegated.
Person specification
- 5+ years of previous experience working in an institutional context
- Experience of working within the arts sector
- Experience of managing a patrons scheme
- Previous success in fundraising from trusts and foundations
- Ability to represent Delfina Foundation at all levels including high-level patrons, Board of Trustees, staff and members of the public
- Experience of planning and managing events
- Familiarity with fundraising databases and CRM systems
- Understanding of best practice in fundraising standard
- Highly effective administrative and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Ability to form effective working relationships
- Highly self-motivated
- Able to produce accurate work under pressure
- Ability to grow professionally in this role through new challenges and opportunities
- Holder of a UK passport or current UK work visa with the right-to-work.
- Preferred: international experience
- Preferred: proficiency in more than one language
Special conditions of the post
- Flexibility with working hours, as the role will include some out-of-office-hours activity, such as evening and weekend event/projects, etc.
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally
How to apply
Please send a CV and a personal statement (500 words max.) in one document in PDF format to info@delfinafoundation.com with ‘Development Manager’ in the subject line.
Please name your PDF document with your name in this format: surname, firstname.
In the body of your email, please do not include any text of significance as the emails will not be reviewed by the panel, only the PDF document.
Application timeline
Application deadline: Monday 28 November 2022, noon Interviews: Week commencing Monday 5 December 2022 Preferred start date: Monday 30 January 2023
Equal opportunities and access
Delfina Foundation is actively seeking to employ people currently underrepresented in the creative and cultural sector. We welcome people from diverse backgrounds or experience to be part of our team, be this regarding ethnicity, religion, age, gender, or gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Please contact our Head of Operations on gillean@delfinafoundation.com to discuss in confidence any adjustments you might need, either as part of the application process or for employment.
