Application Guide
How to Apply for Fundraising Lead (JR010)
at Nhs Charities Together
🏢 About Nhs Charities Together
NHS Charities Together is the national charity supporting over 230 NHS member charities across the UK, uniquely positioned to coordinate fundraising that benefits the entire NHS system. Working here means contributing to a collective mission that amplifies local healthcare fundraising while maintaining national impact. The remote, part-time structure offers flexibility to drive meaningful change in healthcare philanthropy.
About This Role
As Fundraising Lead (JR010), you'll develop and implement a simplified individual giving program focused on donor retention and legacy conversion, while creating scalable white-label fundraising products for member charities. This role directly enables NHS charities to increase income and deepen supporter engagement through strategic leadership and team empowerment. Your work will strengthen corporate partnerships and ensure donor-centric fundraising excellence across the network.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might involve strategizing donor retention approaches for the individual giving program, collaborating with member charities to adapt white-label fundraising products to their local needs, and nurturing corporate partnership conversations to support NHS-wide initiatives. You'd likely be leading virtual team meetings to ensure donor-centric excellence while analyzing campaign performance data to optimize fundraising approaches across the network.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Nhs Charities Together Is Looking For
- Holds a Fundraising Qualification or Chartered Institute of Fundraising certification with proven success meeting/exceeding financial targets across individual giving, legacy, products, and corporate fundraising
- Has experience developing white-label or scalable fundraising products/campaigns that multiple organizations can adapt, with specific examples of increasing income through such programs
- Demonstrates diplomatic relationship management with senior external stakeholders and corporate partners, showing ability to build credibility in healthcare or charity sectors
- Has led teams in donor-centric fundraising with empathy, particularly in remote or distributed environments, with experience in donor retention and legacy conversion strategies
📝 Tips for Applying to Nhs Charities Together
Quantify your fundraising achievements specifically in individual giving, legacy conversion, and corporate partnerships - NHS Charities Together needs to see concrete financial results
Highlight any experience with 'white-label' or scalable fundraising products that multiple organizations can use, as this is central to their member charity support model
Demonstrate understanding of NHS charity ecosystem by referencing how your work could benefit member charities across different regions and hospital trusts
Address the part-time remote nature directly - show how you've successfully managed fundraising teams or projects in flexible/remote settings
Connect your qualifications explicitly - if you have CIoF certification or equivalent, state it prominently and explain how it informs your strategic approach
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your specific experience developing and delivering fundraising strategies that increased donor retention and converted legacy gifts, with quantifiable results', 'Examples of creating scalable fundraising products or campaigns that multiple organizations could adapt, emphasizing how this approach benefits a network like NHS charities', 'Experience managing corporate relationships in healthcare or charity sectors, highlighting diplomatic stakeholder management', "How you've empowered teams to deliver donor-centric fundraising with empathy, particularly in remote or flexible work environments"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Explore NHS Charities Together's current fundraising campaigns and how they support member charities - understand their existing individual giving approaches
- → Research their 230+ member charities to grasp the diversity of organizations you'd be creating products for - note different sizes and specialties
- → Review their corporate partnerships and current corporate supporters to understand relationship landscape and potential growth areas
- → Study their recent impact reports to understand how funds are distributed across the NHS charity network and what priorities they emphasize
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Applying with generic fundraising experience without specific examples in individual giving, legacy conversion, or scalable product development
- Failing to address the unique aspect of supporting 230+ member charities through white-label products - treating it like a single-organization fundraising role
- Not demonstrating understanding of NHS context or healthcare charity fundraising specifics - this isn't a general nonprofit fundraising position
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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