A fantastic opportunity for an experienced and ambitious candidate to help build LIFT’s unrestriced income and raise awareness of LIFT’s all year-round work through fundraising events and communication with donors, sponsors, and funders in the lead up to LIFT 2024. You will be able to suggest relevant new routes to money and be able to identify and seize new business opportunities.
This is an opportunity to help deliver first rate experience for LIFT’s members and donors’ mission of bringing landmark international theatre experiences to Londoners.
LIFT’s dedicated fundraiser, with support from a development intern and volunteer festival placement, you will be led by a senior executive team with bags of experience raising money and building on opportunities, who are in turn supported by a well-connected, engaged board of trustees. This role is a combination of practical on the ground working and a dash of strategic contribution.
If this sounds like something you can help us with, we’d love to hear from you!
HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT
Job title: Head of Development
Reports to: Executive Director
Responsible for: Development Assistant
Working Relationships: Head of Audiences and Communications, Head of Finance, Artistic Director/ CEO, General Manager, Creative Producer, Fundraising Sub- Committee and External Consultants
Salary: £45,000 pro rata
Hours: Full-time assuming a minimum of 35 hours per week, with occasional evenings and weekends
Contract: Full-time Fixed Term until July 2025 (with possibility of extension)
Application deadline: Sunday 2 July 2023
Interviews: w/c 10th July
Details of how to apply – along with a role description, person specification and further information about LIFT – can be found in the recruitment pack. We accept CV & video applications as well as CV & cover letter applications.
If you would like to have an informal, confidential conversation about the role, please contact recruitment@liftfestival.com
If you would like a plain text version of the application pack, please email recruitment@liftfestival.com
LIFT is committed to being a truly inclusive organisation – from our Trustees and team members to our audience and participants. We treat all job applications equally, regardless of race, age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from groups who are underrepresented in the cultural sector including working class people, disabled people, and people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Our organisation has a flexible and adaptive environment that allows our small, dedicated team to flourish. We are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, remote working, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours.
We will explore this with candidates at interview stage.
LIFT is based at Toynbee Studios in East London. The building and office are fully accessible to wheelchair users.
As a Disability Confident employer, LIFT will offer an interview to all disabled applicants that meet the essential criteria.
Travel costs for all candidates invited to interview will be reimbursed.