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Head of Fundraising

  • Full time or Part time
  • £46,350 – £51,500
  • Hybrid: Edinburgh (2-3 days office based)
  • Closing 27th October 2025


  • Advertised from 8th October 2025
  • Most applicants would be expected to start at the bottom of the salary scale. Permanent. 35 hours but will consider part time.

Role

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With over 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

About the Role

The Head of Fundraising role is a new role will lead our fundraising across multiple income streams including trusts and foundations, community fundraising, major donors and partnerships. They will lead a team of 3 fundraisers, develop and implement a fundraising strategy that meets the organisation’s goals and creates excellent Return on Investment. The fundraising team sits within the Development Division, where we are building an exciting enhanced fundraising and business development function within the charity and we want you to be an essential part of this exciting process.

We want you to have an entrepreneurial attitude, one where you are excited about the prospect of building and delivering new and exciting income streams for the charity that not only provide us with greater income but also enhance our mission to make sure that no one has to face mental ill health alone.

This role is both strategic and operational. We will need you to work closely with the Director of Development to help set the priorities and develop our fundraising strategy but you will also need to support the Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Manager and the Community Fundraising Manager. We believe in mucking in and that might mean that you take on a trust and foundation application or help organize and attend a community fundraising event. You yourself would help identify where you could add the most capacity and help the whole team achieve any fundraising targets.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Creates and implements an innovative fundraising strategy that generates new income for the charity.
  • Helps sets and achieves ambitious fundraising goals
  • Ensures high quality stewardship of donors
  • Lead a team of fundraisers to ensure that we are utilising the most productive income streams for the organisation and are getting excellent return on investment.
  • Co-ordinate and manage fundraising comprising; community, trust, corporate, major donor and digital fundraising, across the organisation
  • Build powerful and long-lasting relationships with funders, staff, people we support and members
  • Develop and lead our traded income propositions including our training and consultancy business and potential future retail/hospitality opportunities
  • Build and enhance our different fundraising functions, working closely with communications to develop and implement a marketing strategy.
  • Is a senior leader across the charity, taking ownership of our development and ensuring that we have the plans and resources in place to match our ambitions.
  • Solve problems as they arise and coach your team to do the same
  • Analyse the fundraising systems, processes and ways of working and maximise their impact
  • Build and develop new fundraising streams including mass events and legacy fundraising

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