Deputy Director, Fundraising – Individual Giving and Legacies

• Salary: Circa £56,000
• Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Reports to: Director of Fundraising & Marketing
• Direct reports: One Fundraising Officer – additional delivery for fundraising is provided from relevant cross-organisational teams
• Department: Fundraising & Marketing
• Main Place of Work: 181 Oxford Street (3rd Floor), London, W1D 2JT

Application deadline: 5pm Thursday 8th January 2026

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional, creative fundraising leader who can bring your knowledge and skills to build on a successful fundraising programme to deliver long-term transformation for a truly unique cause and organisation.

As we move closer towards assisted dying law change across the UK, this role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a high-profile campaign and sister charity. It is critical for us to develop our Individual Giving, Membership, In Memory and Legacy programmes, ensuring they are audience-led and can deliver the income growth that our future organizations will need. 

This role is integral to achieving our aims – leading the strategic development and management of all our individual giving income streams.

To succeed in this role, you will understand the power of data and insight to help us improve our understanding of our audiences, develop new products – and increase income from individual giving and legacies. You will work collaboratively with senior leaders across the organisation on strategic cross-organisational projects, at the same time helping to build a culture that recognises and reflects the importance of fundraising for long-term and sustainable income. You’ll also inspire and lead a busy, fast-paced cross-organisational team (finance, operations and database, digital and social media) to meet targets; and set, monitor and report on team budgets.

This role offers an opportunity for a highly experienced and ambitious fundraising leader to join a supportive team, within a purpose-driven and focused organisation. As we reach a pivotal point in our campaign, we’re looking for someone who brings innovative thinking and can adapt confidently to a fast-evolving environment.

Documents

• Job description and person specification
• Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

How to apply

Please send a CV (max two A4 pages) and a supporting statement addressing how you meet the criteria in the person specification to Louise.Darbon@dignityindying.org.uk by 5pm on Thursday 8^th January 2026.  

Candidates are also asked to send a completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form with their application (optional).

First interviews will be held initially on Teams on 15th January, with second interviews in person in central London on 29th January.