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• Integration of database, prospect research and gift processing functions into new Systems & Operations team• Reorientation of data provision and prospect research function to greater customer focus and much increased demand for services• Design and implementation of SKY API to manage data flow from student information system (SITS) to Raiser's Edge, enabling transfer of further data points, more quickly and with reduced staff overhead• Providing advice and guidance to DARE team and other colleagues on impact of and compliance with relevant legislation including GDPR, Fundraising Code of Practice• Design and provision of regular management information reports, for performance management, strategic insight, and onward reporting to University management• Transitioning Raiser’s Edge users to RE NXT webview; providing training and documentation, reviewing processes to suit the different functionality• Budget holder for all fundraising income lines, monitoring and managing disbursements

• Launched KUBacker, a crowdfunding platform for student projects, which raised more than £13k in the first six months of operation• Led the department’s response to changing legislation around data protection and fundraising. • Built cross-university relationships to ensure capture of all philanthropic income and relevant alumni and prospect engagement data.• Developed Raiser’s Edge as a resource for the identification and management of major and mid-level prospects.• Provided strategic advice on fundraising projects and prospects.• Completed all internal & external reporting, including Ross-CASE benchmarking study.• Managed Annual Fund Postgraduate Scholarship selection process.• Solicited and closed a gift of £80k for postgraduate scholarships

• Identified and researched potential individual and corporate major gift prospects, expanding prospect pool from 120 to over 1600 prospects.• Developed and implemented systems for prospect management, including rating of propensity, closeness and capacity and moves management tracking• Introduced procedures for due diligence research on prospective major donors and honorary graduates• Produced insightful reporting including financial, moves management, donor profiling, data visualisation• Supplied timely and accurate advice on solicitation strategies to senior management, supporting fundraising initiatives across the University• Contributed to development of Raiser’s Edge alumni/prospect database structure and procedures• Improved quality of data for whole donor pipeline, from annual giving upwards

Teacher of Chemistry at AS (Salters) and GCSE (Edexcel).

Full-time teacher of English as a Foreign Language teaching students with a wide range of abilities from ages 9 to 15.

Developed and implemented a fundraising strategy for the Annual Fund Solicited new, existing and lapsed donors to the Annual Fund by means of face to face meetings,organisation of fundraising events, assisting with the creation of fundraising literature and management of regular mailingsPlanned and managed a telephone fundraising campaign, including recruitment and supervision of a team of 13 student callersStewardship and recognition programmes for high level and loyal donors to the Annual FundEngagement and management of year group volunteers acting on behalf of the College

Line management of Development Office staffStrategic and organisational oversight of annual fund and other direct mail appealsIntroduced systematic procedures for the identification, research and tracking of major gift prospects, and carried out in depth screening of the alumni and parent databaseResearched in detail alumni, parents and friends of the Dragon School, and charitable trusts, using online research tools such as Lexis Nexis, Fame (BvD) and Plum (ICC) Provided prospect profiles and briefings for governors and senior staff and advised on appropriate solicitation strategiesOversight of the Donor Strategy database including training of development office staff Established practices & procedures to systematically improve the quantity and quality of data held including annual questionnaires and data screeningResponsible for all financial and other reporting including writing custom SQL reportsImproved donor stewardship programme with a donor book and donor reportDeveloped e-communications strategy including introducing ODNews, a termly email newsletter

Primary responsibility for managing the College's annual fund, and for alumni relations with recent graduatesAuthored a plan to increase the level of engagement with graduates of the last decadeEstablished a fundraising strategy for the college rowing club

Line managed Alumni Relations & Database AssistantIdentified new major gift prospects, carried out further research on them using online databases such as Lexis-Nexis and Fame and tracked solicitation activity with those under cultivationWrote briefings on constituents for senior members of Christ ChurchManaged the Raiser's Edge database and segmented it appropriately for direct mail and telephone campaignsProvided strategic, organisational, and administrative support for direct mail and telephone campaignsAdministered donor reciprocation strategies including producing an annual statement for each donor, and other individually planned donor stewardship initiatives