Major Gifts Fundraiser

Closing date: Sunday 10 May 2026

Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Predominantly home-based with regular travel to locations across the UK. Office facilities are available at our Newark office at The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark, NG24 1WT, for those within easy travelling distance.

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We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Major Gifts Fundraiser with exceptional relationship
building, communication and storytelling skills, and a commitment to inspiring philanthropic support for
nature’s recovery.

In this influential role, you will be instrumental in expanding our network of high-net-worth supporters.
Working closely with our Head of Major Donor Fundraising, Chief Executive, Senior Leadership Team
and our Wildlife Trust colleagues, you will focus on identifying and cultivating meaningful, long-term
relationships, that delivers transformational support for nature’s recovery in the UK.

You will be a confident, compelling communicator, and engaging Major Gifts Fundraiser, with the ability
to express The Wildlife Trusts’ case for support in tackling the nature and climate emergencies, both
through our work on nature’s restoration on the ground to driving change through policy, influencing
and campaigning. You will be highly experienced in inspiring donors by connecting their values with our
mission to tackle the climate and nature emergencies.

With a track record of securing significant
restricted and unrestricted income, you will be skilled at initiating and developing mutually beneficial
relationships, motivated by ambitious targets and driven by the opportunity to make a genuine
difference for nature.

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 945,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities