Head of Fundraising (maternity cover)
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About the Role
Fundraising plays a vital role in the sustainability of The Brilliant Club and will be central to delivering our ambitions over the coming years. The Head of Fundraising will be a senior member of the Philanthropy team, supporting the Director of Philanthropy to deliver the charity’s fundraising strategy and secure over £1.4 million annually in support of our mission.
The role will lead the day-to-day management of fundraising activity across trusts and foundations, corporates, major donors and individual giving, identifying new funding opportunities while ensuring excellent stewardship of existing supporters.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, the Head of Fundraising will develop compelling funding propositions, oversee a pipeline of prospects and funders, and support the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of key relationships.
The role will also line manage and develop two Fundraising Officers, helping to build fundraising capacity within the team and ensuring income targets, supporter engagement objectives and reporting requirements are met.
The successful candidate will bring significant fundraising experience, strong relationship management skills and a track record of securing income from trusts and foundations, corporates and/or major donors. They will be a strategic thinker with excellent organisational skills and a commitment to advancing educational equity through The Brilliant Club's work.
The role will lead the day-to-day management of fundraising activity across trusts and foundations, corporates, major donors and individual giving, identifying new funding opportunities while ensuring excellent stewardship of existing supporters.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, the Head of Fundraising will develop compelling funding propositions, oversee a pipeline of prospects and funders, and support the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of key relationships.
The role will also line manage and develop two Fundraising Officers, helping to build fundraising capacity within the team and ensuring income targets, supporter engagement objectives and reporting requirements are met.
The successful candidate will bring significant fundraising experience, strong relationship management skills and a track record of securing income from trusts and foundations, corporates and/or major donors. They will be a strategic thinker with excellent organisational skills and a commitment to advancing educational equity through The Brilliant Club's work.
About You
The role will best suit someone who
- Has a demonstrable passion for furthering The Brilliant Club’s mission
- Has significant fundraising experience and a track record of securing income from trusts and foundations, major donors and/or corporates.
- Has experience developing and managing fundraising pipelines and contributing to fundraising strategy.
- Is a confident relationship builder, with experience engaging and stewarding senior stakeholders.
- Has excellent written communication skills and experience producing successful funding applications, reports and other donor communications.
- Has experience managing projects and competing priorities, with strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Has experience line managing, mentoring or developing colleagues.
- Is able to adhere to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual and complete information security training
Working for Us
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, flexible working with 10am – 3pm core hours, some evenings and weekends required.
- Benefits include: 36 days’ holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 41 days, employer contribution to pension, interest-free season ticket loan, five professional development day allowance, BUPA health cover cash plan.
- We’re happy to talk flexible working. We have offices in Leeds and London.
- We expect you to be connecting face-to-face with colleagues on at least one day per week. In your first month, we may ask you to be in offices a little more regularly than this to make sure you’re getting to know your key colleagues and feeling connected to the organisation.
Application
How to apply:
To ensure your application can be fully considered, please complete all of the steps outlined below. Unfortunately, applications that do not include all required information cannot be progressed.We recommend having your CV and cover letter ready to upload before starting the application form. This will help prevent any issues if the form times out before your documents can be attached.
1. Please complete the applicant demographic survey by clicking here. The Brilliant Club voluntarily conducts and publishes an annual ethnicity pay gap report alongside its mandatory gender pay gap reporting. Completing the demographic form helps us understand the diversity of applicants applying for each role. This information supports our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of the communities we work with, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families.
2. Please upload your CV under the 'CV' file attachment.
3. Please upload a cover letter in 'Cover Letter' file attachment. Please note: the cover letter should be no more than one side of A4 (max. 20 MB in total). Your cover letter should include:
- Your motivation for applying to work at The Brilliant Club and for this role
- How your skills align with the role
- Relevant examples of professional experience
About us
About The Brilliant Club
In the UK today, being brilliant and working hard is not enough. Where you are born and your family income are still the strongest predictors of the career you will have, how much you will earn and your future health and happiness.
Attending a leading university is the most effective way of opening up opportunity, but it is a route too often out of reach.
This is fundamentally unfair to young people and detrimental to society as a whole.
Now is the time to start backing brilliance. Our vision is of a society where every child has a fair chance to unlock their brilliance, regardless of where or how they grow up, and where positions of influence are open to everyone, not just the most advantaged.
We support young people to access and thrive at leading universities by working with schools, parents and the broader education sector. Between 2026-29, we are focused on three key goals:
The Brilliant Club has three core values that underpin how we work. We look for people who share these values:
We mobilise the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of the communities we work with, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families.
In the UK today, being brilliant and working hard is not enough. Where you are born and your family income are still the strongest predictors of the career you will have, how much you will earn and your future health and happiness.
Attending a leading university is the most effective way of opening up opportunity, but it is a route too often out of reach.
This is fundamentally unfair to young people and detrimental to society as a whole.
Now is the time to start backing brilliance. Our vision is of a society where every child has a fair chance to unlock their brilliance, regardless of where or how they grow up, and where positions of influence are open to everyone, not just the most advantaged.
We support young people to access and thrive at leading universities by working with schools, parents and the broader education sector. Between 2026-29, we are focused on three key goals:
- Supporting 55,000 students to develop university learning skills through The Scholars Programme, boosting GCSE attainment and university access where social mobility is at its lowest.
- Growing our work with parents and carers through Parent Power, to enable 8,000 parents to become partners in their child’s education and leaders of educational change in their communities.
- Bringing the voices of young people and parents into policy discussions, and shaping systemic change through our research, evaluation and place focused partnerships.
The Brilliant Club has three core values that underpin how we work. We look for people who share these values:
- We get to a solution
- We seek and act on the best data available
- We understand that little things go a long way
We mobilise the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of the communities we work with, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families.
