Overview
The Global Legacy Fundraising Lead will serve as the senior global expert on Gifts in Wills, leading the creation, evolution, and global roll-out of the organisation’s Legacy Strategy to drive long-term unrestricted income.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation and ongoing evolution of Save the Children’s Global Legacy Strategy.
- Establish an Executive-level Legacy Acceleration group.
- Provide global guidance on pipeline forecasting, ROI analysis, investment planning and long-term growth modelling.
- Identify high-potential markets and provide targeted strategic support.
- Lead the global community of legacy practitioners.
- Develop or refine data-mining and prospect-identification tools.
- Maintain a global repository of best practices.
- Track global and market-level legacy performance.
- Collaborate with Philanthropy and Donor Development Leads.
- Represent Save the Children in global fundraising networks.
Required Experience
- Significant experience in strategic legacy leadership roles in large fundraising organisations.
- Experience of leading the development and implementation of large-scale legacy strategies and strategic initiatives that require deep stakeholder engagement in complex international organisations.
- Proven experience of delivering legacy fundraising with a demonstrable record of success in securing pledgers and developing a legacy pipeline.
- Experience in doing this in multiple markets is an advantage or at the global level in an international team.
- Ability to analyse complex data sets across multiple channels and markets to identify actionable insights.
- Adept at understanding market trends, consumer behaviour and competitor analysis to inform strategic decisions.
- Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships and work effectively in a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment respecting diversity.
- Strong personal organisational and self-management skills with the ability to lead and work in teams and to motivate others.
- Desirable: Experience of running successful Mid-value Fundraising Programmes.
Qualifications
- A degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Nonprofit Management, or related and/or equivalent relevant experience to a senior level.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and fundraising software.
- Knowledge of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and data analysis tools.
