Database Manager
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract: Full time – Permanent
Location: Head Office, London, EC2A 2AH (Hybrid working available)
Reports to: Director of Finance
Line Management: x1 Senior Database Officer
Would you like to help families with seriously sick children in hospital stay together? Then join The Sick Children’s Trust as our Database Manager.
We have an exciting opportunity to support a super friendly, motivated and supportive Finance and Database Team.
The role is conveniently located near Liverpool Street and hybrid working is available.
You will report to the Director of Finance, line manage one Senior Database Officer and be responsible for managing The Sick Children’s Trust’s database, Donorflex, ensuring accuracy and integrity of data is maintained to a high standard. Your responsibilities will include ensuring that fundraising income is processed correctly and coded in line with organisational procedures, and that service user data is updated on an accurate and timely basis, ensuring GDPR-compliant records. You will be the first point of contact, alongside the Senior Database Officer, for day-to-day database queries, providing essential support to ensure the database is effectively managed and continues to meet the organisation’s operational requirements.
Duties will include:
- Overseeing the processing of all income transactions into the database on a timely basis
- Line manage, coach and support one Senior Database Officer
- Processing service user information into the database on a timely basis
- Responsible for all Gift Aid management
- Producing scheduled and ad-hoc data selections for mailings as requested
- Analyse and produce reports using database data to support other areas of the Charity in their strategic decision-making
- Responding to queries from staff in all areas of the Charity on database use, income coding and service user data
- Leading on developing and streamlining the database processes and use of the database across the whole Charity, managing integrations between the Database and Finance System
About you:
- You have experience of managing a CRM database and working in a finance and database team, ensuring you can hit the ground running. Your skills and knowledge ensure you are confident in carrying out day-to-day and monthly database processes and enable you to provide managers advice on these processes.
- You have experience of line managing and mentoring, supporting your direct report’s continued development and success.
- You have proficient IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel, and good working knowledge of database software are a given.
- You have strong organisational skills, an eye for detail to ensure accuracy and strong numerical skills.
- Just as importantly, you have strong interpersonal skills to support colleagues and to work as a good team member.
Benefits:
We can offer an attractive benefits package to all our employees to support a healthy work-life balance, including hybrid working, enhanced annual leave, family friendly policies and employee assistance programmes.
If you are interested in applying, more details about this role and The Sick Children’s Trust may be found in our recruitment pack below.
If you wish to apply for the role, please complete the questionnaire and submit along with your CV and cover letter to recruitment@sickchildrenstrust.org
Closing date 20 February 2026
We are reviewing applications as they are received, so early application is advised.
Database Manager Recruitment Pack
Database Manager Questionnaire
Development Manager – Corporate and Philanthropy
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Full time – Permanent
Location: Hybrid – with 1-2 days in Head Office London EC2A 2AH
Reports to: Director of Fundraising
Line Management: x1 Senior Corporate Officer
Grow Corporate giving, unlock high-value support and help families stay together when they need it most
When a child is seriously ill in hospital, families need to stay close. The Sick Children’s Trust provides free ‘Homes from Home’ near hospitals, giving families a warm, welcoming place to stay during one of the hardest times of their lives.
We’re looking for ambitious and strategic Development Manager – Corporate and Philanthropy to lead the growth of our corporate fundraising, build high-value partnerships, and work with our network of senior supporters to unlock transformational opportunities. With a strong foundation of mid-level corporate partners (typically £5k-£25k) and a skilled Senior Officer in place to manage and grow those relationships, you’ll be free to focus on securing new, higher-value partnerships and support.
We welcome applications from the commercial sector and those working in CSR, partnerships or business development roles.
If you are interested in this role, please submit your CV along with a covering letter (max 2 pages) explaining how your experience fits the role to recruitment@sickchildrenstrust.org
Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and therefore early applications are advised.
Closing Date: 27 February 2026
Development Manager – Corporate and Philanthropy Recruitment Pack
Senior Events Officer
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Full time – Permanent
Location: Flexible, with a minimum of one day per week in Head Office (London) (travel required for events)
Reports to: Events Manager
In collaboration with the Events Manager, raise income and awareness of the charity from potential and current supporters by project managing specific events, cultivating relationships, and contributing to the development of the Events programme.
Background and Scope:
The Events Team focuses on fundraising from special events and challenge events that appeal to all areas of our supporter base. The team will work to implement a varied portfolio of high-quality donor-focused events and activities that include gala dinners, ticketed events, sporting activities and a collection of challenge events.
In line with our fundraising strategy, we are looking to grow and diversify our events programme with an appropriate mix of special and challenge events that meet our supporters needs and meet our goal to grow income and for all events to achieve a 3:1 return on investment.
The Senior Events Officer will have the opportunity to shape the programme as it develops and will lead on their own portfolio of events, as well as supporting other initiatives.
For further information about this role please download the Recruitment Pack.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements to: recruitment@sickchildrenstrust.org
We will be considering applications as they are submitted so early application is advised.
Closing Date: 1 March 2026
Senior Events Officer – Recruitment Pack
