Harris Hill are delighted to be working exclusively with The Royal British Legion to recruit an Interim Head of Poppy Appeal in order to cover busy period of 10 months.

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and manage the Poppy Appeal Community Fundraising department, ensuring that it achieves its 2022/23 income, expenditure, and contribution targets.
You will oversee all regional Poppy Appeal activity reporting into the Poppy Appeal programme as required.
By February 2023 you will compete a strategic review of the Poppy Appeal regional fundraising activity, to identify areas of improvement and change to enable the charity to optimise the deployment, support, coverage, capability and capacity for both the charity staff and volunteers.

You will ideally have:
Significant experience of leadership, management and development of large geographically dispersed teams
Experience of conducting strategic reviews of fundraising activity and delivering change, either as a senior manager or consultant
Proven experience of effectively planning and managing multiple projects and building strategies
Experience of setting and managing significant income and expenditure budgets (currently circa £40m annually)
Proven experience of developing and managing a mixed portfolio of income activity
Experience and knowledge of H&S legislation in relation to fundraising
Experience of working closely with key supporters and partners
Experience of implementing and managing significant change
Experience of monitoring effectiveness of activity through KPIs and other measurement tools
Confident public speaker who can represent the charity at events, in the media, and across the sector


If this role sounds of interest to you and you want to have a chat and review the full job description, please do contact Dagmara at Harris Hill on Dagmara.depaula@harrishill.co.uk or call 020 7820 7315.
Salary: £69,500- £75,000 per annum, pro rata
Contract type: 10 months FTC
Location: London, hybrid working
Deadline: on rolling basis
Start date: ASAP

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