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Feb
2025

Alder Hey Children’s Charity – Philanthropy Fundraiser

Deadline: Thursday 20 March 2025.

Posts available: 1.
Contract: Permanent.
Term: Full Term.
Salary: 29,338 – 36,446.
Hours per week: 37.5 hours.
Reporting to: Philanthropy Manager.
Location: Alder Hey Children’s Charity, East-Prescot Road, Liverpool, L14 5PT.

Employer Bio

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 450,000 patients and families they care for every year.

The charity helps to fund a range of activities and projects that are designed to enhance and improve the lives of their amazing young patients. This includes the funding of specialist medical equipment to ensure their brilliant surgeons and clinical staff have the most up to date and cutting-edge technology available and funding hi-tech distraction equipment designed and proven to reduce pain and anxiety in their patients. They also fund a range of programmes and special projects such as their ward musicians, their on-site magician and the play specialists they have on every ward.

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Philanthropy Fundraiser to join the Charity team here at Alder Hey, the UK’s busiest Children’s Hospital.

They’re looking for someone who loves building relationships and is passionate about high value fundraising. You will have relevant charity fundraising experience with exceptional writing skills to create compelling applications and proposals for funding. You’ll also be self-motivated, proactive and an excellent collaborator. If you’re excited by the sound of this, theye’d love to hear from you!

In this role you will have a mixed portfolio of high value trusts, grantmakers and major donors, to support the implementation of the Philanthropy strategy to reach new audiences and increase sustainable income growth. You will contribute to their capital fundraising campaigns and the development of ‘wow’/special? projects under their fundraising pillars: Magic, Equipment, Campus and Community, Research, Innovation and Education, and Advocacy.

You will also manage a wide variety of internal stakeholder relationships with senior colleagues in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

Interviews: Monday 31 March 2025.

Contact Details: hrcharity@alderhey.nhs.uk / 0151 252 5716.

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