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Head of Campaign Management

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Jun 14, 2018

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Sector
Pharmaceutical, Sales
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
University and College
Jobseeker Type
Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')

Job Details

Job Purpose

Are you an excellent project manager who enjoys being creative and building great relationships? Do you want to be part of the largest fundraising and volunteering campaign ever undertaken in the Midlands? We are now in the planning stages of our next campaign. Inspired by our founder, Joseph Chamberlain, it will aim to change lives locally and globally. It will be unique and ambitious and will place Birmingham as one of the leading fundraising and volunteering universities in the world.

We are now recruiting a Head of Campaign Management, a new post which will be fundamental to the successful planning and execution of our next campaign. Reporting to the Associate Director (Campaigns and Local Partnerships) but working closely with the Director of DARO and the DARO leadership Board, the Head of Campaign Management will oversee the overall project management of the campaign. They will be responsible for the campaign projects themselves, ensuring the rest of the team have access to the necessary project information and managing the relationships with related key internal stakeholders including academics and senior leaders within the University. As part of the wider DARO Leadership team you will join a group of enthusiastic and dedicated individuals which advises on DARO strategy and manages the key day-to-day activity across the office.

Our University has a long and proud history of philanthropy stretching back to its foundation in 1900. With a clear vision of changing the lives of the citizens of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain raised the funds required to build the University from philanthropists and corporations based locally and around the globe. Since then philanthropy has continued to play an important role in shaping the University. There have been a number of fundraising campaigns including a £1m urgent capital appeal after the Second World War, a £1.4m campaign to fund the Vale ‘student village’ in the 1960s and, more recently, the Circles of Influence Campaign, which raised £193 million and was the largest HE fundraising campaign outside Oxbridge and London.

The University has global reach, including several partnerships with other leading universities around the world, and is grounded in its local community, having opened the first fully comprehensive University secondary school in the country in 2015. We are an ambitious and successful research-intensive University (one of the top 100 research-led universities globally) and have produced 11 Nobel Prize winners. Our students come from nearly 150 countries and our flagship outreach programmes mean that almost 25% of our student population come from disadvantaged backgrounds, one of the highest proportions in the UK.
The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) exists to support this academic and student community by engaging and inspiring alumni, individuals and charitable funders who can give their money, time and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities. The Office is particularly focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni and individuals who are based locally or globally and who are passionate about changing lives, whether by funding cancer research trials, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students or providing internships.

 

Person Specification

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Project management

  • A strong track record of managing complex and ambitious projects with competing demands and multiple stakeholders.
  • The ability to think and plan strategically, both in the short and long-term.
  • Experience of delivering ambitious targets.
  • The ability to work with initiative, to take decisions, and think creatively and laterally.
  • Proven problem solving capability and ability to prioritise.


Academic research

  • A good understanding of research in academia, and the pressures and needs of the academic community.
  • Ability to build strong working relationships with senior academics within the institution.
  • Intellectually curious with an interest in the broad range of research taking place at the University.
  • Required to be educated to degree level or equivalent. Preferably Masters level qualification or equivalent experience.


Stakeholder management and communications

  • Extensive experience of building successful partnerships with senior individuals to deliver complex projects, including the ability to negotiate and influence.
  • The ability to represent the University internally and externally with confidence, diplomacy and authority.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues within DARO, particularly the Leadership Team, communications team and fundraising team, and colleagues around the University.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Express complex ideas coherently through a variety of media: primarily to campaign stakeholders and, on occasion, to a wider audience.
  • Ability to find, store and disseminate critical project information which could support fundraising and volunteering.


Organisational Understanding

  • Experience of working in a large, complex organisation.
  • Awareness and understanding of University activities and objectives.
  • Passion for, commitment to, and knowledge of higher education and the role of philanthropy and volunteering.
  • Understanding of and empathy with the vision and mission of the University of Birmingham.



General

  • Strong sense of professional integrity and ethics.
  • Good all-round IT skills including competence with all aspects of MS Office, email and the internet.
  • The ability to work effectively and effectively, both in a team and independently.
  • The flexibility to work unsociable hours (evenings and weekends) when required.
  • Some travel within the UK.

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