The Highs and Lows of managing a larger research team. Researchers in Fundraising 2012 Helen Carpenter
The Highs and Lows of managing a larger research team. Researchers in Fundraising 2012
Dec 30, 2015
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The Highs and Lows of managing a larger research team.
Researchers in Fundraising 2012
Helen Carpenter
• How I got here – individually • How we got here – as a team • Are we really so big? The context of
Information and Knowledge Management at the NSPCC• The highs • The lows – or let’s call them the
challenges and what we’ve learnt and do to turn them into highs
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Becoming a prospect researcher…..
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Information + Prospect research
= Information and Knowledge
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One ManagerTwo Senior Researchers
Four Researchers
CURRENTLY: TWO Prospect Researchers to 80 Major Gift or
Corporate Fundraisers
AIM: THREE Prospect researchers to 80 Major Gift or Corporate Fundraisers
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The Highs
Team of passionate prospect researchersShare the workload and bounce off ideas
Dual role of team brings opportunityLots of fundraisers to meet and learn from
VarietyOpportunity to progress within specialism
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The Challenges
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Being more single minded in quest to get to 50:50
Being bold - telling fundraisers what they need!
Saying NO to a reactive piece of information to enable us to say yes to doing a proactive piece of research.
Saying NO to new areas of work to take on – I have said yes before and need to stop that!
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Being aware of ratios, hours, resources and timings to be able to communicate clearly
Prioritising – “we just can’t do everything” – where do we add most value
We are a specialist resource - being clear that we aren’t an extra admin resource
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Layers of Management……………
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Define Projects Joint ownership of our objectives – In particular meeting our aim to get to 50:50!
Helping everyone to feel like a specialist – not a jack of all trades
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On that note……………
Please contact Helen Carpenter on 020 7825 2961
Or anyone else in the team!
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