Strategic Legacy Engagement Manager

About us

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue. The RNLI depends on Gifts in Wills to fund two thirds of our lifesaving services.

We're looking for a Strategic Legacy Engagement Manager to lead our team of legacy stewardship specialists. This is a new role leading an established, home based team working across the UK and Ireland. This team is key to building our long term legacy income. It is responsible for stewarding our legacy pledgers, delivering a range of engagement events and embedding our legacy messaging within our community networks.

Your role

As the Strategic Legacy Engagement Manager, you'll be focused on:

• Driving innovation and development of the wider legacy strategy as part of the legacy leadership team
• Leading a team responsible for stewarding high value individuals, growing our portfolio of legacy supporters and delivering our programme of legacy events
• Collaboration and coordination with fundraising stakeholders across the organisation to deliver the legacy strategy in support of the wider fundraising strategy
• Identifying and growing talent within your team

About you

You'll be passionate about legacy stewardship and understand the importance of delivering exemplary supporter engagement experiences balanced with supporting business goals and outcomes.

More specifically, you'll need:

• Proven track record and experience in relationship management or stewardship, ideally with high level legacy supporters
• Experience in leading and motivating teams and building cultures that bring out the best in individuals. A confident people manager with experience of coaching and supporting others to develop and achieve results
• A great communicator with extensive experience of effectively engaging with supporters and influencing stakeholders at all levels in a business
• A strategic thinker, who looks and plans ahead, with ability to identify appropriate change and to deliver it while keeping their team and all stakeholders engaged
• Demonstrable ability to use and understand trends and insights to positively influence development and delivery of activities
• Problem solving skills to overcome challenges and a passion to deliver the best possible results for our customers, volunteers and supporters

So, if you have a passion for fundraising and are looking to lead a successful legacy team who have ambitions grow further this could be the role for you.