Royal Museums Greenwich
Prospect Research and Database Officer
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About Us
Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.
The Role
The Development Team secures vital funding to support core programming and public engagement, exhibitions, collections care and major capital projects at Royal Museums Greenwich. We work with philanthropists, companies and trusts & foundations, building a community of generous and loyal supporters from our Patrons Circle and legacies to major grants and corporate partners. Our current focus is to secure a team target of £2M revenue income in this financial year, and deliver the funding needed to deliver First Light, a landmark capital transformation of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
This is an exciting time to join this busy, tight-knit fundraising team, to work across all fundraising disciplines and to play a vital role in our future success.
Reporting to the Senior Manager: Development Business Operations, and working with all our fundraisers, the post holder will play a vital role in creating action led prospect pipelines.
Key responsibilities
- Identification and assessment of new prospective donors to increase Royal Museums Greenwich's donor pool - based on a solid understanding of current projects and priorities.
- Prospect pipeline activity will be supported by detailed research profiles and due diligence, ensuring that fundraisers are informed and focused and to ensure prospect cultivation actions and deadlines are regularly recorded, kept on track and on target.
- Maintaining the department's systems, processes and data - always aware that effective management maximises income generation and donor engagement and always seeking improvement in these areas.
- Responsibility for day-to-day management of, and training on, the fundraising database: Blackbaud’s RE NXT.
- A good understanding of data protection law and how it is applied will play a large part in this role.
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Requirements
- A track record in successful research.
- An interest in the heritage sector.
- Strong writing and analytical skills.
- Ability to work on their own initiative.
- Understanding of the importance of data management and how process improvement can lead to more efficient working.
Benefits
- A generous pension scheme
- 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 after 1 year) plus bank holidays
- 40% discount in our cafés, 30% in our shops
- Interest-free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
- Free Life Assurance Scheme covering you for 2 times your annual salary
- Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation
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Salary
£31,400 per annum.
EDI
Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.
We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.
Application Details
Prospective candidates are encouraged to read the attached Job Description and Person Specification before applying.
Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.
Please also note that due to our commitment to internal opportunities for current staff, internal candidates will be considered first for this role.
The application deadline is Tuesday 29 September at 23:59. Interviews are pencilled in for w/c 5 October.
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