Philanthropy officer

Closing date for applications: 26 August 2025 at 9.00am

Salary: £36,900 to £40,850 including Inner London Weighting

Are you passionate about fundraising and supporting an inspiring programme of artistic events, learning activities and community work?

As we enter an exciting new stage of the Barbican’s life, there couldn’t be a better time to join us. Focussed firmly on the future, we’re working on ambitious plans to create better access to the arts, transforming our building and reimagining what an arts centre can be. Through our work on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, we’ll ensure the Barbican becomes a place where everyone belongs – where creativity, enterprise, and learning coexist, and everybody can achieve their fullest potential.

We are seeking a philanthropy officer to play a key role in supporting and delivering excellent stewardship for our patrons and most generous individual donors. From dance and film, to music, theatre and visual arts the philanthropy team works across the whole of our ambitious and joyful cross-arts programme, giving you the chance to share the best of the Barbican with our closest supporters.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone eager to build on their experience of relationship management and develop their career in fundraising while contributing to the work of an exciting multi-arts venue at a key point of change for the organisation. The successful candidate will be supported to gain experience across all aspects of individual giving, and to develop themselves as an ambitious and high-achieving fundraiser. The Barbican offers an excellent range of staff benefits full details can be found on our website.


Responsibilities

The philanthropy officer will be the main point of contact in the philanthropy team, primarily account managing our lower-level patrons and supporting the stewardship and recruitment of higher level donors. Alongside the delivery of our patrons scheme, they will lead on all individual giving events and manage the philanthropy team’s participation in development-wide events such as exhibition private views. The philanthropy officer also provides key administrative support to the philanthropy team, keeping track of financial reconciliation, preparing invoices, and managing accurate income data in our customer relationship management (CRM) platform Spektrix.


Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Experience of developing great donor or stakeholder relationships, both in person and in writing
• Ability to manage income and expenditure budgets, especially toward financial reconciliation
• Professional and persuasive written and verbal communication skills (on the phone and in person) including ability to prepare concise written or financial reports
• Ability to take on new systems/databases to record and analyse data, especially in a CRM context
• Good attention to detail with and strong organisational skills
• Energised and flexible attitude toward working with colleagues and stakeholders in all types of interactions and ability to work calmly under pressure
• Ability to demonstrate discretion and confidentiality
• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding and interest in fundraising and the arts
• Experience of planning and delivering events

Desirable

• Experience of working in a fundraising or marketing team
• Experience of working with Box Office or ticketing systems
• Understanding of GDPR, UK Gift Aid rules, the Data Protection Act, VAT rules, and other relevant legislation concerning fundraising
• Experience of Patron programmes in the arts or fundraising for education

Additional information

Our core values are: inclusive, connected, sustainable, joyful and daring. 

As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of staff within the Barbican we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from groups that are currently underrepresented, including people from the Global Majority and D/deaf and disabled people. We want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We are members of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who would like to be considered under this scheme and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

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