Director of Development
The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions. It exists to present great cultural experiences that bring people together, creating a space for artists to create and present their best work. They look to take people out of the everyday, every day. Stretching back to 1951, the Southbank Centre site has an extraordinary creative history, made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, and Hayward Gallery, as well as being home to the National Poetry Library and the Arts Council collection.
The Southbank Centre was looking for highly experienced and dynamic Director of Development to work closely with an entrepreneurial CEO and highly influential board to create a sector leading fundraising function that matched the artistic, educational and creative learning ambitions of this bold, diverse and vibrant arts organisation.
The Director of Development needed to bring significant experience and a tenacious and strategic attitude to solicit their own transformational gifts as well an ability to motivate and support a team to do the same. As a key member of the Executive Team, the post holder would also contribute to the wider strategic objectives across the organisation.
The successful candidate is a career fundraiser and has worked on a wide range of projects since 1993 ranging from charities, hospitals, museums, theatres, cathedrals, to political think tanks. They had considerable experience of raising funds across all the main fundraising platforms and their particular area of expertise is securing major gifts from individuals and corporations.