Philanthropy Manager

CHEM Trust

London / Hybrid
£50,000 FTE
Full or Part Time • Permanent
Closing on Mon, 18th Aug 2025

Policy & Campaigning


CHEM Trust is a highly respected environmental and health charity dedicated to preventing synthetic chemicals from causing long-term harm to wildlife and human health. CHEM Trust works tirelessly to ensure these harmful substances are regulated, replaced with safer alternatives, and removed from everyday products. Its work focusses on and influences EU and UK chemical policy at the highest levels and ensures safety remains a priority for governments, regulators, and businesses. CHEM Trust now seeks a Philanthropy Manager, and Prospectus is leading the search.

Philanthropy Manager
5 or 4 days per week
Permanent
Hybrid
£50,000 FTE

CHEM Trust is seeking a proactive Philanthropy Manager to join its successful Fundraising Team and lead the organisation’s first-ever major donor programme. This new role offers the opportunity to shape how CHEM Trust engages with high-net-worth individuals from the ground up. Reporting to the Director of Fundraising, the postholder will develop and implement a new major donor strategy and cultivate long-term relationships with major donors. The role will also involve working closely with senior leadership, subject matter experts and trustees to identify and engage prospects, host donor events, and steward high-value supporters.

The ideal candidate will be a confident and hands-on fundraiser with a strong track record in major donor giving. They will be skilled at building meaningful relationships and crafting compelling communications that inspire support. With excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, they will thrive in a small but ambitious team and be passionate about CHEM Trust’s mission to protect people and nature from harmful chemicals.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process, then please contact Femke Vorstman at [email protected].

If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.

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About CHEM Trust

CHEM Trust is a small, dynamic and influential environmental NGO.CHEM Trust is a collaboration between CHEM Trust, a UK registered Charity and CHEM Trust Europe eV, which is a charity based in Germany. Both legal entities work closely together on projects under the name CHEM Trust. Our overarching aim is to prevent synthetic chemicals from causing long term damage to wildlife or humans, by ensuring that chemicals which cause such harm are substituted with safer alternatives.

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