Legacy and Endowment Officer

Salary:

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £32,296 to £34,866 per annum with potential progression once in post to £39,105 pa

Background

The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) exists to support the University’s academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities.  The Office, which is comprised of five teams, is focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni, organisations and individuals who are passionate about changing lives, through funding various research trials, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students, and providing internships.

Role Summary

The Legacy & Endowment Officer role is your opportunity to join our excellent team at an exciting time as we enter our 125th anniversary year as a University. You will be passionate about the impact the University’s teaching and research has on the world and have enthusiasm for working in a higher education fundraising and helping the University achieve its charitable objectives. You will be an excellent communicator, willing to be in an external facing role, speaking regularly with our supporters and highly organised, thriving in a fast-paced working environment.

This role sits within the Philanthropy Team and reports to the Head of Legacies & Endowments, who you will work alongside to generate new gifts to the University and care for our existing donors. Legacy gifts, or gifts in wills, play a major part in supporting both students and research and you will require a broad skillset but a relationship centred approach to take on this varied role in which you will be well supported with training and development. We are ambitious to grow our legacy and endowment programmes substantially in the coming years and would relish your passion and enthusiasm to help us do that.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.  In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries. 

Person Specification

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications). Where no equivalent qualification is held, significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a similar role will be required.
• A passion for working in a fundraising environment with confidence and determination to succeed as an individual and as part of a team. An understanding of legacy and endowment giving is preferable but not essential if you have genuine interest and passion for this area of fundraising. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with a wide range of audiences including senior colleagues, donors, alumni, academics, students, and external organisations.

Informal enquiries can be made to Thomas Kay, email: t.a.kay@bham.ac.uk 

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working

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