Dementia UK
Senior Manager, Individual Giving
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This is an exciting time to join Dementia UK. We're making significant investment in our fundraising programme as part of an ambitious new five-year strategy, creating two brand-new senior leadership roles that will play a pivotal part in growing sustainable income and helping more families access specialist dementia support.
Role Overview
As Senior Manager, Individual Giving, you'll lead the development and delivery of an ambitious strategy that grows sustainable income through inspiring campaigns, appeals and supporter experiences. You'll lead a talented, high-performing team, build a culture where people can thrive and work collaboratively across the organisation to maximise impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of a strategy that grows sustainable income through inspiring campaigns, appeals, and supporter experiences.
- Lead a talented, high-performing team.
- Build a culture where people can thrive and work collaboratively across the organisation to maximise impact.
Requirements
- Substantial experience of leading a successful Individual Giving programme, with expertise across acquisition, retention, and supporter development.
- A strong track record of delivering sustainable income growth through multi-channel campaigns, developing long-term strategies, and managing significant budgets.
- Understanding what motivates supporters and knowing how to create engaging experiences that build loyalty and lifetime value.
- Experience in creating an inclusive, positive team culture where people feel supported, motivated, and empowered to achieve ambitious goals.
- Comfortable leading through change, bringing people with you, and helping teams adapt, grow, and succeed during a period of transformation.
- Ability to build strong relationships across the organisation and with external partners.
- Confident challenging constructively, influencing senior stakeholders, and working alongside fellow leaders to deliver shared objectives.
- Fresh thinking, encouraging innovation, and using insight and data to identify new opportunities and continuously improve performance.
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Benefits
- Salary: £50,000 - £53,000 per annum
- Contract: Full Time, Permanent
- Location: Hybrid working, one day per week in our Aldgate, London office
Closing date: Thursday 3rd September 2026 at 11.59pm
Annual leave: 33 days (plus eight bank holidays)
Additional Benefits:
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
- Family-friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva)
- Life assurance cover at 3 x annual salary
- Health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
- Confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
- Access to a wellbeing app
- Flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more
- Learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Commitment to employee health and wellbeing. We have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer
Our Culture
In addition to offering a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a workplace culture that looks after our people to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
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Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation lead and positively contribute to our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Our supportive and nurturing workplace culture has recently earned us recognition as the Sunday Times Best Place to Work in the non-profit and charities sector 2025 (big organisation).
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We celebrate differences and individuality and encourage everyone to feel comfortable being themselves at work.
Dementia UK is a Disability Confident employer. If you would like support to make an application, contact recruitment@dementiauk.org.
By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK.
*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs
If you would like to find out more about the role, or have any queries, please get in touch with recruitment@dementiauk.org.
Interview dates for this role are: 16th and 17th September
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