Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications

The British Asian Trust is a unique organisation, established in 2007 by His Majesty The King when he was the Prince of Wales, together with a group of British Asian entrepreneurs and business leaders. They wanted to address poverty, inequality and injustice in South Asia by creating a different kind of organisation - embracing partnerships with the private sector, disrupting the traditional development agenda through impact investing and social finance, to bring about systemic and sustainable change at scale.

Our annual turnover has increased from £1m to over £20m. In recent years we have launched a $50m Child Opportunity Fund, a £30m innovative finance instrument on education and a mental health initiative reaching over 100m people. Following our merger with Elephant Family, a Royal conservation charity, we are developing an exciting and ambitious conservation strategy to sit alongside our programmes in mental health, child trafficking, livelihoods and education.

We now expect to enhance our trajectory of success by growing our income streams and increasing our impact. To help achieve this we are now seeking an exceptional and highly accomplished individual to be our first Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications - a strategic leadership position, reporting to the CEO. This is a distinctive opportunity for an experienced senior leader, who can engage and influence at all levels and create a best-in-class integrated function.

You will bring strategic judgement, excellent leadership and drive integrated working so that our fundraising arm is fully supported and amplified by our communications strategy, to increase our global income streams. You will provide ambition and vision to our income growth strategy, our influence and our positioning, bringing a systemic approach to driving delivery, and be able to work at pace in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment.

With excellent interpersonal skills, and credibility at Board level, you will be skilled at leading through change. Finally, as a self-starter, you will have a high capacity for self-reflection and strong resilience.

Wherever you are now, this is an unrivalled opportunity to work with a fast paced and committed team in the pursuit of tackling poverty and injustice in South Asia.

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Closing date: Monday 14 th July 2025