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Fundraising Research & Data Insights Lead

Turning data into impact. Turning insight into income

Closing Date: 25th May 2026

Interview Date: 5th June 2026
Location:   Hybrid working with multi-site working
across both Hospice sites, Selly Park and Erdington.  Some travel and occasional event support will be part of the role.
Hours:  37.5 hours per week
Salary: Corporate Band E   £35,423 – £41,403per annum
DBS Requirement: Basic

 

If you’re someone who loves spotting patterns, uncovering opportunities, and turning data into decisions that make a difference—this could be your next move.

We’re looking for a Fundraising Research & Data Insights Lead to help inform the future of our fundraising. This is more than dashboards and spreadsheets (although you’ll love those too). It’s about using data and intelligence to unlock new income, build stronger relationships with supporters, and ultimately help us provide vital care to people when they need it most.

Why This Role Matters

You’ll sit right at the heart of strategy and storytelling—combining analytical thinking with real-world impact. One day you might be identifying a future major donor, the next you’re sharing insights into campaign that reaches exactly the right audience at exactly the right time.

What You’ll Do

  • Hunting down new funding opportunities across trusts, grants, corporates, and major donors
  • Building rich prospect profiles and helping shape a powerful major donor strategy
  • Digging into CRM data to uncover trends, behaviours, and untapped potential
  • Creating dashboards and reports that people want to read (and act on)
  • Helping teams target smarter, engage better, and raise more
  • Tracking campaign performance and turning “what happened?” into “what next?”
  • Keeping us ahead of the curve with sector insights, trends, and competitor activity
  • Championing data quality, compliance, and best practice across the team

We’re looking for someone who:

  • Gets a buzz from data, detail, and discovering the “why” behind the numbers
  • Has experience in fundraising, nonprofits, or a similar insight-driven environment
  • Is confident with CRMs, Excel, and visualisation tools like Power BI
  • Can turn complex analysis into clear, compelling stories
  • Juggles priorities without dropping the ball
  • Builds great relationships and enjoys working across teams

And just as important…

You’ll bring curiosity, initiative, and a genuine motivation to make your work matter. This is a role where your insights don’t sit on a shelf – they drive real change.

What We Offer

  • The opportunity to shape and grow a brand-new income stream.
  • A collaborative, supportive working environment.
  • The chance to make a real difference in supporting hospice care for local families.
  • Puts patients, families and people first
  • Flexible and inclusive ways of working
  • Competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement
  • Wellbeing programmes, Reward Gateway retail discounts & financial tools

For further information or an informal chat, please email: katie.west@birminghamhospice.org.uk

For more information, please read the  job description

"The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make."

SallySally, People Team Manager at Birmingham Hospice, has worked here for seven years.

“I love my job as it’s very varied – one day I can be meeting our new starters at our induction day, another day I can be supporting a wellbeing event and then on another day I can be testing our HR and Payroll system as part of an upgrade. There are lots of opportunities to get involved.

“The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make in the People Team to our colleagues, volunteers and the patients we support.”

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim.

We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.

Kindness
Togetherness
Positivity
Openness
Respect
Innovation