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Title: Fundraising Manager – Individual Giving
Location: Bristol, UK. Currently 1 day a week in Bristol office, option to work remotely for 4 days.
Contract type: Permanent, full time.
Hours: full time, 35 hours a week, flexible hours possible
Salary: £46,853 + competitive holiday + pension
Application deadline: 9am BST Monday 13th October 2025
Expected interview date: Tuesday 21st October 2025
About the role:
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Individual Giving Fundraising Manager to join our dynamic Fundraising and Communications team at a growing international development charity based in Bristol, delivering transformational change for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, living on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
You’ll work with a team of fundraising and communications managers to oversee the delivery of our strategy and you’ll manage an experienced team of fundraisers and supporter care assistants to set and deliver exciting fundraising campaigns to existing and new supporters through a variety of channels.
Main duties:
- Strategy and Budget Implementation: Develop annual plans and deliver the strategy to raise unrestricted income from individual supporters.
- IG Campaign Development: Work with the Fundraising Officer to plan and oversee the execution of individual giving campaigns to raise unrestricted income from existing and new supporters.
- Legacy, In-Memory and Community Fundraising: Plan and oversee the execution of legacy, in-memory and community marketing campaigns to warm and cold supporters, working closely with the Fundraising Officer who will deliver them.
- Supporter Care & donation processing: Ensure excellent delivery of Supporter Care for our donors, ensuring effective communication and stewardship, efficient reconciliation of donations, management of financial systems for donation processing and development of donations pages on the Tree Aid website.
- Compliance with regulations: Keep up to date and ensure individual giving activity complies with regulations.
- Team Supervision: Supervise Individuals Fundraising Officer, Database Officer and Fundraising Assistant
About you:
As our Fundraising Manager – Individual Giving, you’ll bring a wealth of fundraising experience to the role. You will be a passionate fundraiser with a strong results-oriented approach to your work, as well as excellent people management skills, effective writing skills and solid financial literacy.
You will also bring the following knowledge, experience and skills:
- A passion for fundraising and a results-oriented outlook with a proven track record of delivering against income targets and KPIs.
- Experience of people management, the ability to motivate teams and work effectively with colleagues at all levels of an organisation.
- Excellent project management skills, deadline-driven and ability to delegate effectively.
- Solid financial literacy, including experience in budget development and management.
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to provide effective constructive feedback.
- Commitment to, and alignment with, Tree Aid’s values (see below).
Benefits:
Optional benefits of working at Tree Aid include:
- A contributory pension scheme (you contribute at least 2% and we will contribute 6%)
- 33 days holiday (inc bank holidays) +1 more day per year up to 38 holiday days
- Flexible, hybrid working
- Quarterly social events
- Opportunity to take free weekly French lessons to support communication with our colleagues in West Africa
Key documents:
Fundraising Manager – Individual Giving description and person specification
How to apply: To apply, please send your CV and a supporting statement setting out how you meet the person specification to recruitment@treeaid.org
Our approach to recruitment:
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for. We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
Our Values
- We stand together and respect the people we work for and with
- We are bold, ambitious and determined
- We are professional. We work effectively and efficiently to a high standard and are experts in our field
- We have integrity. We are honest, transparent and accountable
- We are always learning. We review and adapt to maximise our impact for the people we support.
Why work at Tree Aid?
Everyone in our team plays a role in tackling poverty and the effects of the climate crisis in the drylands of Africa. Once recruited, we aim to support our people to succeed in their roles and grow both personally and professionally.
Our aim is to build a team who can work together to successfully deliver our strategy and be driven by our values.
Our approach to recruitment
We recruit with openness and transparency. We employ people on the basis of their ability to carry out the role being recruited for.
We ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment than any other on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, caring responsibilities or hours of work.
What we offer
We benchmark our salaries using independent surveys to ensure they are fair and competitive. All our people have 33 days of annual leave (including public holidays), rising to 38 days with length of employment. We provide a generous pension scheme in the UK, contributing up to 6% of salary. We offer enhanced maternity pay and are open to discuss flexible working options.
We provide all our people with the skills and opportunities to grow and realise their potential. We support a variety of formal and informal learning opportunities for staff, including time-off to attend training and assistance with training costs.
Our commitment to safeguarding
Tree Aid is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse. We have specific policies on this commitment, including standards of behaviour and whistleblowing. These policies outline the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, volunteers and other organisational representatives.
Any candidate offered a job with Tree Aid will be expected to sign our safeguarding policy and agree to comply with our procedures. Some roles require DBS checks/police vetting.
Tree Aid's Values
- We stand together and respect the people we work for and with
- We are bold, ambitious and determined
- We are professional. We work effectively and efficiently to a high standard and are experts in our field
- We have integrity. We are honest, transparent and accountable
- We are always learning. We review and adapt to maximise our impact for the people we are helping
