Business Development and Fundraising Lead

Business Development and Fundraising Lead

About the role

Are you an experienced business development and fundraising professional motivated by roles with social purpose? Have you delivered impactful results through a range of income generation opportunities supporting strategic vision? Do you have excellent networking and relationship building skills with a range of partners? If so, you could join Imperial’s Academic Partnerships Division to support the delivery of a new Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial (the Centre).

The Centre’s vision is to ignite curiosity for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB) in society through scaling and coordinating our institutional collaborations, activities, and communications, to drive societal impact, locally, nationally and globally. This new role - Head of Business Development for Societal Engagement – will be responsible for identifying and securing new funding and business opportunities to enable significant growth in this area of work. The role will join a team of public engagement and outreach professionals who have collectively delivered Imperial’s Strategy for Engaging Society – the foundations on which the Centre will grow.

What you would be doing

Join our friendly and professional team to:

• Develop strategically focused income generating initiatives
• Develop fruitful relationships with a range of corporate, philanthropic, and related sectors.
• Identify and target local, national and international funding opportunities for societal engagement from industry, sponsorships, foundations and philanthropic organisations.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a strategic and proactive individual to provide high-quality support for the Centre who can: 

• Deliver on proposal development for strategic, complex bids and large-scale awards.
• Collaborate effectively with Imperial’s Advancement Division, Corporate Partnerships Team and other key departments to ensure a cohesive approach.
• Enable the upskilling in proposal writing and fundraising across Academic Partnerships supporting an entrepreneurial culture within the Division.

What we can offer you

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution.
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days off a year).
• An opportunity to spearhead the next steps in societal engagement at Imperial.

Further information

This is a full time (35 h p/w) open ended role, based at our South Kensington Campus. 

The deadline to apply is 23:59 on Sunday 22 September 2024.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact:

Vicky Brightman-Hahn (v.brightman@imperial.ac.uk).