National Fundraising Policy and Compliance Lead
Employer: Church of England
Location: Remote Working, United Kingdom - Ability to travel, on occasion, for work purposes across England.
Temporary: This is a fixed-term contract role for three years
Working hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £61,499
Closing date: 23/04/2026, 09:00
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About the Giving Directorate and Net Zero Carbon Programme
The Church of England ministers to every community in England, and our mission and ministry is sustained and expanded through a culture of generous giving.
The Giving Directorate plays a vital role in equipping dioceses, parishes, and clergy with the tools and confidence to encourage generosity. Through strategic leadership, innovative resources, and collaborative partnerships, we aim to inspire giving that enables the Church to flourish in every community. We lead major funded projects that strengthen giving across the Church, ensuring that generosity is central to mission and ministry.
The growing department has four teams: Innovation & Insight (leading on innovations, the parish share project, data analysis and marketing); Parish Giving Scheme (giving mechanisms and technology); NZC Fundraising (including policy, philanthropy and gifts in wills) and Learning & Development (delivering training, mentoring, and equipping clergy and diocesan giving advisors, national and regional conferences, and developing online learning resources for parishes).
You will sit within the Net Zero Carbon Fundraising team which leads the strategy to coordinate and support the plans being developed by our dioceses, churches, cathedrals, schools, and departments to secure the significant additional funding needed to decarbonise the Church of England.
What you’ll be doingAs the National Fundraising Policy and Compliance Lead you will be the strategic lead for ensuring a strong culture of fundraising compliance and best practice within the Church of England. You will work within the Net Zero Carbon Fundraising team, which co-ordinates the biggest national fundraising programme within the Church of England, to support them to raise significant funds for the Net Zero Carbon Programme in an ethical and compliant way. You will also work with the Giving Directorate to ensure compliance across all their activities. You will create guidance, tools and resources that dioceses and local parishes can use to ensure they are compliant with key fundraising regulations, and create and deliver the training and case studies to support them. You will proactively advise the Head of Net Zero Fundraising on emerging topics of fundraising policy, such as the use of AI in fundraising and changes to key regulations.
This is a fixed-term contract role for three years, and interviews will take place week commencing 27 April.
We are hosting a webinar on Wednesday 15 April 2026 from 12-12:45pm where you can find out more about this role. To sign up, please click here.
Responsibilities
• Leading on promoting and fostering a strong culture of compliance and excellence in giving at every level of the Church of England.
• Create a Giving Compliance Framework for the Church of England, including updating and writing policies, guidance, tools and resources (including case studies and the Church of England’s website) and delivering training to promote best practice at national, diocesan and parish level.
• As the lead for fundraising compliance, act as a key point of contact for queries related to giving and fundraising compliance and policy for NCI colleagues, dioceses and parishes.
• Represent the Church of England with key agencies such as HMRC, Charity Tax Group (CTG) and the Fundraising Regulator and play an active role in external working groups such as CTG’s Gift Aid work group.
• Advise project leads within the NZC Fundraising team and Giving Directorate on benefits and risks of our activities and advise on the best course of action.
• Contribute to NCIs risk management processes to ensure that fundraising compliance risks are well understood and effectively managed.
• Stay up to date with best practice, emerging trends (e.g. use of AI) and compliance requirements and regulations that affect the work of the NZC Fundraising Team, Giving Directorate and the dioceses, parishes and other bodies that make up the Church of England. Regulations include the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice, GDPR/UK Date Protection Act 2021, Charity Commission guidelines, HMRC Gift Aid guidelines.
• Contribute to government and key agency consultations on legislation that affects fundraising within the Church of England.
• Report on progress to relevant Boards and Giving Directorate Senior Leadership Team
• Conduct periodic reviews to ensure compliance procedures within the NZC Fundraising Team and Giving Directorate are followed and fit for purpose.
Key working relationships: Director of Giving, Giving Directorate, NCIs Legal team, NCIs Faith & Public Life team, NCIs Audit and Risk teams, dioceses across England.
About You
The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups.
Essential
Knowledge/Experience
Extensive experience advising fundraising teams on compliance and policy
Strong understanding and familiarity with the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice, GDPR/UK Date Protection Act 2021, Charity Commission guidelines, HMRC Gift Aid guidelines.
Experience of writing policies and procedures
Experience creating training materials and effectively delivering training
Experience of working within a large and complex organisation
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent communication skills in person, in writing and online
Ability to understand and interpret complex legislation, regulations and guidance and communicate it in a simple way to others
Strong influencing skills with the ability to build effective relationships with senior colleagues as well as with volunteers and those with limited or no experience of fundraising
Willingness to learn new things and adapt thinking as fundraising practices and external regulations evolve
Strong project management skills
Problem solving skills and ability to see alternative solutions to overcome barriers
Ability to work collaboratively across a diverse and geographically dispersed organisation
Ability to travel, on occasion, for work purposes across England.
Qualifications & Training:
We expect to see evidence of continued learning in relation to fundraising policy and compliance. This could be evidenced through training courses or conferences, workshops, or seminars attended.
Desirable
Experience of working with volunteers
Understanding of the Church of England’s structures
About Us
The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.
We Include. You Belong.
Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.
Living out our values in all that we do, we:
Strive for Excellence
Show Compassion
Respect others
Collaborate
Act with Integrity
We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we would like to hear from you.
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