Research Manager

To implement a strategic programme of research activities that supports the F&E team to enable them to meet their income targets. The post holder will be responsible for identifying the appropriate resources for research, using their own initiative in carrying out research and to define new areas of investigation. The key elements of this strategy will be:

To regularly and proactively identify new potential supporters, collaborators and prospective donors through a range of prospect identification techniques to expand the prospect pool and feed into the prospect allocation and staging process, in the UK and US and in all areas of F&E activities: philanthropy, trusts and public sector grant-making, Higher Education, international training, corporate and business partnerships.

To proioritise prospects with the capacity to become major donor/grant givers, or large businesses with multi-year partnership potential (six and seven-figure potential).

In particular, to initiate a proactive piece of research and network mapping of the film and tv sector for the purposes of identifying and prioritising cultivation pipelines; this will be followed by adjacent industries inc VR, XR, gaming, etc

To be a key player in planning and building a healthy pipeline for a major capital campaign

To meet with key stakeholders including Governors and Executive colleagues to ascertain their areas of influence and networks and prioritise cultivation plans in association with relevant F&E team members

To provide timely, accurate, detailed and objective-led profiles and biographies on prospective donors, Trusts and Foundations and commercial partners and to oversee the production of briefings for a wide range of events, trips, meetings, giving guidance, feedback and monitoring follow-up as necessary