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We are looking for a manager to lead on increasing revenue for Families Need Fathers.

You’ll work towards agreed fundraising plans and devise a longer-term strategy for sustainable income for the charity. You’ll be responsible for increasing our membership, legacy and donor income and seek new streams of corporate, enterprise and grant funding. You’ll maintain communications and databases as necessary with all funders and individuals and create and assist with the creation of the charity’s PR communications to raise its profile. You’ll build relationships to maximise income generation and secure repeat support.

You’ll identify where volunteer support is needed amongst our branch and membership network and maintain communication and training as necessary with volunteers.

As a charity with a small number of staff, you may be required to manage other operational or administrative matters as required by the CEO.

About you

You will have demonstrable experience of meeting targets and KPIs, with proven success at sales and business development. You’ll have a track record of managing and developing relationships with individual and/or corporate donors or customers and be committed to building good internal and external relationships. You’ll be self-motivated to achieve objectives and probably have a background in sales or fundraising.

You’ll often be taking steps to achieve new fundraising support, so you’ll have experience of identifying, pitching and securing new support and strong presentation skills. You’ll have basic knowledge of fundraising as a professional discipline.

You’ll have excellent administrative, organisational and planning skills and be able to prioritise your workload and work independently. You’ll work with a few IT systems to manage administration and reporting so you’ll be IT literate.

You’ll have a passion for charity work and a strong commitment to the aims of the charity.

What we offer 

· A permanent, full-time role

· Remote working though with possible hybrid work with London office location.

· Competitive salary

· Reports to CEO

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.

Application Instructions

Please email sam.morfey@fnf.org.uk (subject “FNF Income Manager Application”) with:

· Your CV (setting out your full education and employment history)

· Names and contact details of two referees (who won’t be contacted prior to interview)

· A supporting statement (max. 2 sides of A4, 12-point font) that sets out how you meet the candidate requirements and how your career to date and your prior experience has prepared you for this role.

Closing date: 6pm 26th January 2024. We request no contact from agencies or media sales. Please note this vacancy may close earlier depending on the number of applicants.

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A new study tracking 8500 families find one in 14 children are cared for by their fathers reports the  Independent. The full report can be found here (LINK) 

New Homeless figures released this month show homeless children in temporary accommodation are at a record high say the BBC (LINK). Homeless charity CRISIS describes homelessness in part due to separation or divorce (LINK). 

Melanie Gill was the psychologist appointed by CAFCASS to a recent case which on appeal prompted Sir Andrew McFarlane to review the appointment of experts in family court cases. Here she presents a comprehensive review of how to nip False Allegations in the bud (LINK) 

A useful compendium of articles about managing children’s behaviour from experts in the US. Empowering Parents (LINK).

Dr Childress, the grandfather of Parental Alienation research, discusses Spousal Abuse in the family courts (LINK).  

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1. Remember to put the kids first. Even though you are missing them do not put your distress ahead of their enjoyment. Encourage them to look forward to the next time they are with you.

2. Try and negotiate with your former partner at least a phone call with your children on Christmas Day so they know you are thinking about them and sharing their excitement.

3. Try and agree with your former partner that it is fair for the children to have Christmas Day with each of you on alternate years or just give them another Christmas on another date. They will love it.

4. If you do have them this year do not go overboard on arrangements. Think ahead. What will they enjoy rather than what is expensive. It is time together that counts in the long run.

5. Do not compete on presents with your former partner. Overspending will create friction especially if money is short for both of you. When you have limited time with your children it is often tempting to try and compensate by extravagant gestures. Don’t. Good cheer now will pay off in the New Year.

6. Keep in mind that your children will remember the time they have with you. Don’t worry that they don’t give you a second thought when they’re not with you. That’s what kids are like.

7. If you don’t have any contact with your kids at all, sit down and write them an upbeat letter. Even if you never send it’ll be your time with them this year.

8. Don’t let yourself get miserable or lonely at home. Make sure you see friends or think about volunteering with some of the organisations that look after others at Christmas.

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MATCHmothers website's LINK

Please also sign a petition supported by MATCHmothers on parental alienation (LINK). It’s important to get this recognised as not only a father on mother accusation.

MATCHmothers provides personal support for mothers facing divorce and family breakdown, parental alienation, false allegations of harm, child abductions, SGO's, public law proceedings, private law proceedings just like FNF. We know when fathers get control of their children, they can treat their children’s right to a relationship with their mother no better than some mothers do with the father. If such cases are brought to us, we support the mother, to re-establish shared relationship with her children. But mothers need support from other mothers too. That’s where MATCHmothers comes in. They often suffer more stigma in these situations, as it more likely to be thought that they must have done something wrong, or they are failures. 

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