Senior legacy officer

Senior Legacy Officer

Location:

London, Greater London, GB
Postcode: EC2V 8

Start Date:

Contract:

Contracted to our Peterborough office with the flexibility for hybrid working
Salary: £29,000 - £34,000 FTE depending on experience

Hours:

Full time, 37.5 hours per week (part time considered, minimum 30 hours per week with office attendance at least every 2 weeks)

Contract:

Permanent

• Flexible working
• Generous annual leave
• Private Medical Insurance, including dental and optical
• Pension Scheme
• Sick Pay
• Death in Service
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike Loan Scheme
• Cycle2
  
  Work Scheme
• Eyecare
• Discount Portal

Be a part of an energetic and vibrant team who are driven by the desire to improve the lives of people living with kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease. As a senior legacy officer, you will play a key role in delivering our legacy and in-memory programme, helping to amplify this significant area and drive income growth for the charity.

• Deliver and develop our legacy and in-memory giving programme, helping to grow this significant area of our fundraising income
• Plan and deliver acquisition and stewardship campaigns for legacy and in-memory supporters across a range of channels
• Build and maintain strong relationships with supporters, family members and colleagues, handling sensitive and personal conversations with care and professionalism
• Monitor, analyse and interpret campaign results, using insight to make recommendations for continuous improvement
• Work closely with colleagues across Individual Giving and the wider organisation to ensure a joined-up approach to legacy and in-memory marketing
• Ensure all activity is delivered in line with best practice, relevant regulations and Kidney Research UK's values

• Proven experience of delivering acquisition and stewardship campaigns across multiple channels within legacy and/or in-memory fundraising
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to interpret data and results to inform decision-making
• Strong relationship-building skills, both internally and with external supporters and stakeholders
• Confidence and sensitivity when handling emotive or personal conversations with supporters and their families
• A collaborative, proactive approach and the ability to manage multiple projects at once
• A genuine commitment to Kidney Research UK's mission and values

Kidney Research UK is the leading charity in the UK focused on funding research into the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease and for more than 60 years the research we fund has been making an impact. But kidney disease is increasing, as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity, making our work more essential than ever.

At Kidney Research UK we work with clinicians and scientists across the UK, funding and facilitating research into all areas of kidney disease. We collaborate with partners across the public, private and third sectors to prevent kidney disease and drive innovation to transform treatments. Over the last ten years we have invested more than £71 million into research. We lobby governments and decision makers to change policy and practice to ensure that the estimated 7.2 million people living with all stages of kidney disease in the UK have access to the most effective care and treatment, and to make kidney disease a priority.

Most importantly, we also work closely with patients, ensuring their voice is heard and is at the centre of everything we do, from deciding which research to invest in to how we plan our priorities and our work across the charity. Those patient…