FUNDRAISING MANAGER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Published: Mar 18, 2025 – The Fundraising Manager has extensive experience leading and expanding donor networks within NGOs, with a strong background in sales and fundraising management. This position requires proficiency in database systems, donor retention strategies, and analytical tools to optimize fundraising efforts. The manager has strong interpersonal skills, a results-driven mindset, and the ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across all levels.
Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Fundraising Manager Resume
- Fundraising Strategy
- Budget Management
- Grant Writing
- Event Planning
- Sponsorship Development
- Donor Identification
- Proposal Writing
- Business Development
- Campaign Monitoring
- Financial Reporting
- Relationship Building
- Team Leadership
- Networking
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Donor Retention
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Community Engagement
- Board Support
Summary of Fundraising Manager Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BA in Social Work with 1 year of Experience
- Proven experience in budget setting, monitoring, and re-forecasting, including making recommendations on areas for investment.
- Good understanding of direct marketing principles and techniques
- Experience in briefing and interpreting analysis
- Very competent in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Good understanding of the charity sector
- Up-to-date knowledge of Gambling Commission legislation
- Good understanding of Gift Aid
- Experience in effective new product development
- Experience in online marketing
- An energetic, efficient, motivated, and resourceful self-starter
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
2. BA in Philanthropy Studies with 4 years of Experience
- Project management experience in a multi-discipline/multi-stakeholder environment
- Experience in fundraising and marketing for NGO or other Charity environments
- Marketing production, social media, and events management experience
- Experience in systems of oversight for the receipting of donors.
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to communicate complex information in a simple yet compelling way.
- Demonstrated success in collaboration and building strong, respectful, and robust relationships with donors and collaborators’ fundraising teams.
- Experience in designing and maintaining an accurate donor database (ESSC uses Microsoft Dynamics).
- Sound judgment and proven ability to exercise autonomy as appropriate
- Experience in homelessness or human services NGO, particularly in NSW and Sydney.
- Independent, organized, meticulous, analytical, and creative
- Good problem-solving skills
- Team player with excellent oral, written, communication, and interpersonal skills
3. BA in Communications with 5 years of Experience
- Strong commitment to the organization's mission.
- Successful experience in nonprofit fundraising, including cultivation, soliciting, and stewarding donors.
- Relationship builder and manage its by influence.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to work independently and collaborate effectively.
- A strong track record as an implementer who thrives on managing a variety of key initiatives concurrently.
- Self-starter, able to work independently, and enjoys creating and implementing new initiatives.
- Strong attention to detail, effective time manager, able to consistently meet deadlines.
- Take knowledge, transform it into exciting and useful messages, and disseminate it to the right audiences
- Be a problem solver, learn software functionality quickly, be flexible, and develop systems that evolve with a growing team and organization.
- Excellent writing/editing and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Raiser’s Edge or other donor database technologies.
- Excellent computer skills including MS Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet applications.
4. BA in Social Work with 3 years of Experience
- Experience working in a managerial or supervisory role specializing in Sales or Fundraising.
- Excellent written and oral skills
- Good understanding of current environmental and conservation issues.
- Must understand the workings of a database system and have experience working with databases.
- Extensive experience with a proven record of accomplishment in leading and driving the growth of donors/supporters within an NGO
- A mature individual who can work with minimal supervision and is resourceful.
- Experience managing sales teams, particularly F2F and Telemarketing, and hands-on fundraising work.
- Good analytical thinking and the ability to use analytics tools and theories to develop appropriate donor retention programs.
- Pleasant disposition with good interpersonal skills, result-driven, hardworking, innovative, team player, and committed.
- Sales oriented, target driven and number sensitive.
- A good team player who can work alongside colleagues at all levels
5. BA in Business Administration with 8 years of Experience
- Experience in developing new fundraising event ideas.
- Experience leading the organization of fundraising events.
- Track record of using a fundraising database such as Raisers Edge, ThankQ, Progress, or Sales Force.
- Proven track record of successful income generation from within the community and events fundraising sector and or able to demonstrate transferable skills from the commercial sector, meeting sales targets.
- A track record of identifying, establishing, and retaining effective new supporters and fundraising committees/groups.
- A track record of working with business communities and regional social networks.
- Experience working as part of a team and contributing to team plans and activities.
- A track record of managing successful fundraising events and achieving event targets, ensuring a good ROI.
- Able to develop, implement, and monitor plans, present budgets, and interpret financial information.
- Able to research, assess, and initiate new opportunities from start to finish.
- Able to recruit, encourage, develop, support, motivate, and manage individuals and groups to maximize their fundraising or their event success.
- Written communication skills and a high level of numeracy to be able to produce a range of work, e.g. event plans, evaluations, event marketing materials, press releases, letters, and presentations.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, able to build strong relationships, make supporters feel appreciated, and deliver more formal presentations.
- Able to work as part of a team, to see and understand the big picture, and contribute effectively to team plans and goals.
- IT literate – use of word-processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and databases (Ideally some knowledge or experience of managing digital campaigns and donations)