Development director

Closing date for applications: 17th March 2025 at 6pm

We are on a mission to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music – do you have the fundraising skills to help us? 

After ten successful years of growth, underpinned by a strong mission, clear artistic vision and successful fundraising, the Chineke! Foundation is looking for a Development Director to lead fundraising and stakeholder management. The Development Director will play a vital role in helping the Chineke! Foundation fulfil its potential.

The Development Director will be responsible for fundraising from all sources, including trusts and foundations, public funders, corporate sponsors and individuals. Reporting to the Managing Director and working as a part of our small, dynamic team of management staff, Chineke!’s Development Director will play a vital role in securing funding for projects including concerts and tours by the Chineke! Orchestra and Chineke! Junior Orchestra, and our Learning & Participation programme. You will work closely with colleagues to gain an in-depth understanding of all projects, including budgets, which will enable you to make applications to carefully targeted potential sources. 

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Managing Director and in coordination with the MD, Artistic Director and Learning & Participation Manager, you will work to identify and understand all future Chineke! projects and their funding needs. 

• Research appropriate Trusts, Foundations, Individuals and Corporate sponsors to whom you will make written applications
• Meet with potential supporters to understand their giving criteria
• Write applications which meet our funding needs and the giving criteria of potential donors, and submit applications either by post or on-line
• Attend Chineke! projects as necessary to gain an in-sight into their success
• Write post-project reports to major funders, as required
• Attend Chineke! board meetings to report to the trustees on fundraising progress including applications made and their outcome, and applications planned
• Ensure that donors’ funding requirements are met, for example inclusion of name and log in concert programmes, mention in Chineke! audited accounts
• Work in co-ordination with the Managing Director on applications to Arts Council England
• Maintain a database of all applications made and their outcome
• Organise fundraising events to attract support particularly from individual donors
• Contribute to the Development Plan by writing a Fundraising Strategy which will inform and guide Chineke!’s fundraising activities over the coming five years
• Contributing to a supportive and collegiate culture within the Chineke! Orchestra 

If you have any queries, or wish to apply for the post, please send your CV and covering letter to Annabelle Baik, Concert Coordinator via the 'Apply' button. Interviews will take place in March/April 2025.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.