Are you ready to make a powerful impact? Join our passionate team at Rosa – the UK’s only women and girls fund. We’re a bold, values-driven organisation committed to gender equality, anti-racism, and diversity. At Rosa, we envision a future where all women and girls are safe, healthy, and equal – and we’re taking steps to make that vision a reality every day.
About Rosa
Rosa is the only UK-wide funder exclusively dedicated to supporting women-led organisations working to transform the lives of women and girls. Through funding and support, we invest in the critical services, campaigning and advocacy that women and girls need. Rosa’s work supports thousands of organisations that make up the women and girls sector - a network of primarily small, specialist charities led by women, and deeply embedded in communities across the UK.
Since 2008, we’ve raised and distributed over £11 million, impacting the lives of over 364,000 women and girls. Our work covers 3 main areas:
• We distribute grants to empower women-led organisations to continue their crucial work.
• We strengthen the sector through training, networking opportunities, and advocacy support.
• We conduct research to enable investment and engage more funders to support women and girls.
Without an endowment, we fundraise for every penny we spend. We have a strong portfolio of committed funding partners from the charitable, corporate and philanthropy sectors. We have a history of working with a range of high-profile crowd-funding campaigns, including #TimesUp (the UK arm of the #MeToo movement) and Reclaim These Streets to help address systemic misogyny and male violence.
About the role
The Philanthropy Manager will lead the major donor programme at Rosa. You will be taking over a committed portfolio of funders and a promising prospect list that has the potential to grow significantly, under your leadership.
You will be working alongside an engaged board of Trustees, an established fundraising committee and an operational team with a strong fundraising culture. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships, Philanthropy and Communications, you will be responsible for developing the current major donor programme and launching a new giving circle, The Thrive Network.
We are looking for a special relationship fundraiser to drive Rosa’s ambitions to make the UK safer, fairer and more equal place for women and girls This role will help secure income to support grant making, capacity building and research work, giving you the opportunity to play a part in driving real and lasting change for women and girls across the UK.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and implement the Major Donor Strategy, focusing on retaining and uplifting existing donors and cultivating new donors with the ability to give 4, 5 and 6 figure gifts.
- Work alongside Rosa’s Fundraising Committee, Chief Executive and Head of Philanthropy, Partnerships and Communications to identify and engage new major donor prospects.
- Personally manage a portfolio of Major Donors, including leading face to face meetings, creating, updating and implementing individual relationship management plans.
- Develop and deliver Rosa’s new giving circle, The Thrive Network, including a launch event in Autumn 2025.
- Craft and present creative funding proposals.
- Keep supporters up to date with Rosa’s work through newsletters, written reports, events and meetings.
- Ensure accurate, timely and thorough correspondence, acknowledgement and record-keeping at all stages of the donor journey on the CRM system.
- Respond to ad-hoc partnership opportunities with corporate organisations.
- Manage the donor journey for individual donors and events fundraisers.
Application
Accessibility is incredibly important to us here at Valued Recruitment and at Rosa. If you would like any accessibility amendments or support throughout the application and interview stage, please don’t hesitate to let us know. No question or request is too big or too small. We want this process to be comfortable and enjoyable and a chance for you to bring your best self to the process.
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to anna@youarevalued.co.uk
The closing date is 5pm on Monday 28th April.
Pre work checks: In the interests of transparency, we want to be clear to applicants for all roles at Rosa that, for candidates who are offered a role following interview, we carry out referencing in two different ways: Formal referencing: we request that candidates supply us with two referees - one of them must be your most recent manager / point of accountability and one must be a peer or someone you manage; Social media checks: in line with our anti-discrimination principles, we also check candidates’ social media profiles for further information on alignment with Rosa’s commitment to anti-racism and our values. We will ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
