programme funding manager
Programme funding managers take the lead in developing and realizing the funding strategy of the programmes of an organisation.
programme funding manager programme funding managers take the lead in developing and realizing the funding strategy of the programmes of an organisation. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include funding methods, find grants, lead a team, manage grant applications, apply strategic thinking.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £50,330 a year for Finance and investment analysts and advisers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £36,872 to £70,665 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2422). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only programme funding manager, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 2. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Administration and Management
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administrative
- English Language
- Sales and Marketing
- Economics and Accounting
- Communications and Media
- Personnel and Human Resources
What you'd actually do
- Develop strategies to encourage new or increased contributions.
- Manage fundraising budgets.
- Develop fundraising activity plans that maximize participation or contributions and minimize costs.
- Plan and direct special events for fundraising, such as silent auctions, dances, golf events, or walks.
- Establish goals for soliciting funds, develop policies for collection and safeguarding of contributions, and coordinate disbursement of funds.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, government officials, and media representatives and use these relationships to develop new fundraising opportunities.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does programme funding manager do?
Programme funding managers take the lead in developing and realizing the funding strategy of the programmes of an organisation.
What skills does programme funding manager need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include funding methods, find grants, lead a team, manage grant applications, apply strategic thinking. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace programme funding manager?
Our AI-durability model gives programme funding manager a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.