Development Manager

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The opportunity

Are you an experienced fundraiser who believes the world needs creativity? University of the Arts London (UAL) is recruiting an experienced Development Manager to support the delivery of its first ever comprehensive fundraising campaign. As an experienced fundraiser, you will have a successful track record, and the skills required to lead on managing a pool primarily consisting of individual major-gift prospects.

You will work closely with the Head of Campaign and Head of Major and Principal Giving to craft cultivation and solicitation plans for your portfolio of individuals, and will also work with Development colleagues including our Trusts & Foundations and Corporate Partnerships teams, Events, Alumni Relations, and Development Operations. 

UAL is a world-leading university for teaching and research in the fields of arts, design, and communications. We are rated 2nd in the world for Art and Design and offer a unique range of courses which annually foster the creative potential of over 20,000 students from across the world.

As a university committed to social purpose, we are dedicated to nurturing creativity  as a profound source of positive change in the world. To this end we are about to launch our first major fundraising campaign which aims to harness the support of our friends, alumni, and wider community to help deliver our aim to make the world a better place through our collective creative endeavour.

You will secure philanthropic support from individuals to help UAL fulfil its strategic objectives. From student support to academic posts, community-engagement programmes, and major capital projects including the London College of Communication’s new building, you will inspire a portfolio of major donors to invest in our vision, our students and our programmes.

About you

You’re great at building relationships with all kinds of people, cultivating those relationships through to a gift, and providing exemplary stewardship for your existing donors.

As a Development Manager, you’ll have excellent communications skills, and the ability to synthesise complex information into compelling fundraising language to share with supporters.  You’ll also have a demonstrable understanding of the creative arts and creative industries, and a passion for changing the world through creativity. 

If you’d like to know more about the role, please contact Colette Stevenson, Head of Campaign, at c.b.stevenson@arts.ac.uk, for an informal conversation.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Sahil Ibrahim, Resourcing Adviser via email at Socialpurposestaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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