Fundraising Director

Trees for Cities

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000

Location: Hybrid, 2 days in London office

Hours: Full Time

Closing Date: 11 June 2023 *Role Closed*

Trees for Cities is the only national charity dedicated to improve lives by planting, protecting and promoting urban trees. We do this by working closely with communities, landowners, partners and funders to deliver transformational change in towns and cities across the UK and overseas. We plant trees in schools, streets, estates, parks and open spaces to create nature-rich urban woodland, hedgerows, orchards, avenues and playgrounds. 

Our 2022-2025 strategy – The Turn of Trees – sets out plans to increase and diversify our income including through multi-year funding partnerships. Our current strategy coincides with the government’s Nature for Climate Fund and a surge of public support for action against climate change. 

This new role has been created to boost the leadership of our fundraising, bringing together the grant and corporate fundraising teams to ensure effective collaboration of our fundraising efforts and generate income to fund operations in line with our strategic and business plans. The Director will form an integral part of delivering our strategy so that we can scale up our operations to plant and establish urban trees, engage and involve communities, and inspire a new generation of urban tree professionals. 

To read more about the role, including our new strategy and Theory of Change, please download the full appointment brief below.

To apply to become our Fundraising Director, please complete and send your CV and supporting statement (no longer than 2 sides), outlining why you are interested and how you meet the points on the Person Specification to jobs@treesforcities.org with the subject heading “Fundraising Director”.

To have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact Sylvia Linton, Head of HR at Trees for Cities on sylvia@treesforcities.org 

Closing Date:11 June 2023

Short initial zoom conversations with longlisted candidates:16-21 June 2023

Informal phone conversations with the CEO for shortlisted candidates:26-27 June 2023

Panel Interview Dates: 29 and 30 June 2023