Head of Fundraising, Communications and Marketing

Southampton, City of Southampton, UK (Hybrid)

£44K/yr – £50K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the integrated fundraising, communications and marketing agenda for Solent Mind, leading a small team to grow income, deepen supporter relationships, and raise awareness through user-informed storytelling.

  • Lead and develop a team (4 direct reports) to deliver income growth and enhanced funding partnerships.
  • Oversee annual income, communications and marketing plans that drive engagement and access to services.
  • Build stakeholder relationships and use user-informed storytelling to boost awareness across Hampshire and beyond.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • This is a key new leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering Solent Mind’s fundraising, communications and marketing activity.
  • You will lead a high-performing team (4 direct reports) and volunteers to grow sustainable restricted and unrestricted income, strengthen supporter and partner relationships, and raise the organisation’s profile across Hampshire and beyond.
  • You will develop and deliver annual plans for income generation, communications and marketing.
  • Working with your team, you will use insight, strong relationship-building and compelling, service user-informed storytelling to increase engagement, generate leads, improve awareness of mental health, and support more people to access Solent Mind’s services.

Requirements

  • strong leadership experience in fundraising, communications and marketing, with a track record of delivering income growth, developing successful campaigns and building long-term relationships with funders, donors, partners and stakeholders
  • excellent communicator, confident using digital channels and CRM systems, and comfortable managing budgets, targets and performance reporting
  • Most importantly, you will share Solent Mind’s values and be motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
  • We are looking for someone who can think strategically, inspire others and uphold a clear, consistent brand and tone of voice.
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Solent Mind

Solent Mind are one of the local Mind's serving Hampshire including Southampton, Portsmouth, Eastleigh, Southampton and the New Forest.We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. We work with our partners, mental health professionals, service users and members to ensure we deliver and support high quality mental health services and campaigns.We are part of a network of 100+ local Minds in England and Wales, which are independent charities but are affiliated to Mind, the national mental health charity. We have our own Board of Trustees and raise our own funds. We tailor our support to the needs of people living in Hampshire. Email our Workplace Wellbeing Training Team to discuss your business's training needs on training@solentmind.org.uk.Email our Fundraising Team to discuss how you can support us on fundraising@solentmind.org.uk.

Founded in 1962
Southampton, England, GBR
223 employees (5 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.8%
Direct
33.4%
Referral
6.4%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~223

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (2% of company)