Harris Hill are delighted to be working with Caudwell Children to recruit for a Director of Income Generation.
Are you a visionary income generation leader ready to drive real change?
At Caudwell Children, they empower children to live their best lives. The charity are now entering a new chapter with a transformational 5-year strategy launching in October 2025, and they're looking for a Director of Income Generation who can help the organisation make it a reality.
As the new Director of Income Generation, you’ll lead and shape a high performing, multi-disciplinary fundraising team across:
Grants & Philanthropy
Events
Corporate Partnerships
Community Fundraising
Individual Giving
With events currently contributing a significant portion of the income, your mission will be to diversify and grow our income portfolio, tapping into new charity, statutory and commercial funding streams, both in the UK and internationally.
As a Director of Income Generation you will be reporting directly to the CEO and work collaboratively across the charity to deliver long term, sustainable growth.
To be successful, you must have/be:
Demonstrable experience of developing income generation strategies including some streams from scratch.
Demonstrable experience of leading across all forms of voluntary income generation and specialism in numerous streams.
Demonstrable track record for setting and achieving significant income generation targets.
Demonstrable experience of creating and developing fundraising teams and staffing structures.
Demonstrable experience in managing relationships with high net worth/high profile individuals and companies.
Experience of charity retail is beneficial.
Experience of operating as part of a senior management team.
Computer literate, with strong competence in using the mainstream computing packages and products
Driven, proactive and productive self-starter
An enthusiastic, driven and sensitive team member - able to support their peers and encourage others for the benefit of the team
Well organised – able to prioritise and manage own workload
Confident, professional and friendly communicator with a hands-on approach
Salary: £80,000 + bonus (DOE)
Location: Hybrid (Staffordshire HQ) around twice a month
27 days’ annual leave, rising to 33 with service, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas shutdown
State-of-the-art workplace facilities and a supportive, inclusive team culture
Enhanced pension, sick pay, and Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunities for professional development, CPD support, and volunteering
If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!
Unfortunately, due to resource capacity, we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
