£3 7,000 - £ 43,500 plus benefits
Directorate: Strategy & Philanthropy
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time 35 hours per week
Location: Alternating between Stratford & Francis Crick Institute. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office) .
Closing date: Sunday 30th August 23:55pm
Interview Process: Screening call followed by competency-based interview process.
Interview dates: Approximately w/c 7th September
Our sector leading Philanthropy team ha s an exciting opportunity to join as Prospect Research Manager . We are looking for a diligent, detail-orient ated individual with strong communication skills to join our well established and proactive Prospect Development team.
The Prospect Research Manager leads the delivery of a proactive, intelligence-led prospect development function across the Philanthropy Directorate, enabling Principal and Leadership Giving teams to identify, qualify and engage high-value prospects, including support for key fundraising areas such as the Francis Crick Institute and Trusts & Foundations.
Partnering with fundraisers across a range of portfolios and priority areas, the role identifies and develops high-value prospects tailored to specific funding opportunities. You’ll build and nurture strong relationships with fundraisers and stakeholders to ensure insight is relevant, actionable, and drives income growth.
The role is responsible for proactive and reactive research, strengthening the prospect pipeline, and supporting a structured approach to prospect identification, qualification , and engagement planning. This includes delivering high-quality research outputs such as biographical profiles, prospect ratings, portfolio allocation, network mapping and regular pipeline , and portfolio reviews.
As a part of the wider CRUK fundraising efforts, the Philanthropy Directorate is one of the largest and most successful high value fundraising teams in the UK. An ambitious and innovative team of 60 talented philanthropy professionals, our focus is the £400m ‘ More Research, Less Cancer’ (MRLC) campaign which has four key priorities: the Francis Crick Institute, Cancer Grand Challenges, Translation & Innovation, and our Future Leaders’ programme. We’ve recently reached the milestone of £200m.
This is a great opportunity for someone from a prospect research background, whether this is through major gift fundraising, sales, business development or academia. You’ll be curious, diligent , and analytical in your approach. In return you’ll join an award-winning team and have the chance to feel the impact of your work in our mission to beat cancer.
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