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Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie’s dedicated NHS charity raising £5M each year in donations to fund cutting-edge equipment, support for our incredible staff, patient care and vital research. We are currently fundraising for a surgical robot and are in the early stages of fundraising planning for a brand new Children’s Hospital, and a state-of-the-art Cancer Hospital, both due to open in 2025.
We are looking for an incredible Community Fundraiser to provide maternity cover for 12 months. You will need to be an experienced and dynamic fundraiser who is great at building genuine relationships, able to inspire a small team of three and have a keen eye to spot new opportunities.
Our charity is a special place, full of incredible talent and brilliant colleagues. You will also get the chance to work with amazing clinical teams across Addenbrooke’s; from nurses to matrons, surgeons, and consultants – to senior hospital leaders and Trustees.
This role is a wonderful opportunity to make a huge impact on the treatment and care offered to patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and help us plan exciting campaigns for the
The closing date for applications is Sunday 4 July 2021. However, we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received or a successful candidate is found.
Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT) is the only registered charity (no 1048868) dedicated to supporting innovation in patient care... Read more
Up to £20.5k (depending on experience) Closing Date: 28th June 2021
(Full-time – 35 hours per week)
Line Manager: Grants & Operations Manager
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation (CCF) is a registered charity that has taken a leading role in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. In just eight months CCF created the Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund, which raised and dispersed over £1.3m to projects tackling the impacts of the pandemic. This has felt like ‘our moment’ and we have been honoured to be able to enable something so positive during a very difficult time for Cambridgeshire.
Our response to the pandemic has been in addition to our ongoing work. Our unique approach is based upon empowering communities to identify how to enact positive change from the ground up. Located in Cambridge, we work all over Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and are part of worldwide network of Community Foundations on a mission to improve lives and communities in their local areas. In our latest year 2019/20 we awarded 750 grants totalling £2,427,000. The grants support community-focussed organisations helping people from across our county.
This vacancy offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in our growing team.
Description
CCF aims to deliver a successful grant-making programme that encourages strong applications from voluntary groups and charities, critically assesses them and makes recommendations to Donors to distribute funds.
As Grants Officer you will play a pivotal role in the programme team – assisting with marketing, planning, delivering and reporting on our grant-making programme to ensure targets are met.
Job Specification
- To identify groups and input marketing ideas to reach programme and fund spend targets
- To process/ oversee the processing of grant applications including advising applicants, scrutinizing accounts and governing documents, assessing applications, preparing paperwork, creating reports, evaluating monitoring and attending donor panels
- To take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of certain programmes
- To build specialist knowledge of CCF database
- To take an active role in continuous improvement and best practice initiatives
Profile
Our Grants Officers require:
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven customer-facing skills
- Confident numeracy skills
- Commitment to quality
In addition the successful candidate will have:
- Proven eye for detail - be able to produce, analyse and proofread reports/communications to a high standard of accuracy
- Experience of planning, organising and prioritising workloads effectively
- Demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Office (and 365) and proven experience of using databases
The successful Grants Officer will be a positive and focused individual who can take the initiative as well as follow prescribed processes. Flexibility, enthusiasm and a commitment to our lively and ambitious team are key to our future.
CCF’s office is based in Cambridge but our approach is a blend of office and homeworking. In order to access the office, which is on Marshall’s airport site, all staff must complete DBS and security checks in order to obtain a security pass.
Some travel to meetings across the county (some rural locations) is required as are occasional evening meetings and events. Driving license and access to a vehicle is desirable.
Salary will rise to £22,500 upon completion of successful 6 month probationary period.
All staff receive 25 days holiday per annum and all staff are auto-enrolled in CCF’s pension scheme provided by NEST.
Apply
To apply either download an application form here or email Grants and Operations Manager Viv Atkinson to request one.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Due to the volume of responses we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give feedback to individuals. If you have not heard back within 7 days from the application deadline please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for.
We treat everyone equally.
To apply download an application form here or email Grants and Operations Manager Viv Atkinson to register your interest and request one.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Grants and Trusts Officer
Salary: £26,000 – £29,000 per annum pro rata dependent on experience
Hours: Part - time (15 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Arthur Rank Hospice, Shelford Bottom Cambridge (with an option to work from home)
About Us:
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity has an outstanding reputation for excellence in palliative and end of life care. We support people in Cambridgeshire, who are living with life-limiting illnesses and advance conditions. Our positive and practical services deliver care, counselling and education, helping patients to live well and their families to live on.
About the role:
The is an exciting opportunity for a Grants and Trusts Officer to help secure significant income through building relationships with and applying to Charitable Trusts, Foundations and Non-statutory Funding Bodies to fund general and specific hospice projects. You will be researching and identifying appropriate funders whose criteria match hospice needs for development, preparing cases for support and submitting compelling written bids and complex grant applications as appropriate. You will be the key to helping the hospice grow it’s income in a sustainable way to continue its abilities to supporting families throughout Cambridgeshire.
Main duties include:
- Developing a strategy for how the hospice can maximise income generation from Charitable Trusts, Foundations and Non-statutory Funding Bodies.
- Monitoring the Grants and Trusts sector to ensure all sources of available funds are maximised.
- Analysing and managing the research into who to approach so that the hospice can have the best chance of securing income including analysis of the hospice’s databases. This will require extensive research, analysis and relationship building.
- Developing a calendar so that the hospice can plan for bids and meet all external submission deadlines.
- Preparing bids for submission ensuring they present an effective case for support and provides all relevant information requested by the prospective funder.
- Maintaining an accurate, effective database on the hospice system of all contacts and relationships with supporters.
- Providing evaluation reports for Trust and Grant bodies to update on progress.
What we need from you:
- Ability to fundraise from charitable trusts and foundations and statutory bodies
- Ability to produce in depth, motivating and inspiring proposals and funding reports
- Excellent bid writer, with experience of winning a variety of grants and trusts and building relationships with funders or stakeholders
We know we wouldn’t be able to do any of this without our amazing staff, so we offer a range of benefits including:
- Personal Pension Plan (with ability to retain membership of NHS Pension Scheme subject to qualifying criteria)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Study leave
- Lease cars (eligibility criteria applies)
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Staff Survey and staff Forum
- Access to Occupational Health Services
- Flexible working
- Ongoing training
- Payroll Giving option
- Group Life Assurance
- Long Service Awards
- Social events
- Christmas savings scheme and staff discounts to our in-house Bistro and Salon HD.
Closing date: Sunday 4th July 2021
To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to find out more about this position, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website where you can download the job description and application form.
We are committed to inclusivity, respect, fairness, engagement and equality of opportunity for our patients and their families, our staff and trustees, our volunteers and our supporters.
We value the strength that comes with difference and the positive contribution that diversity brings to our community. Therefore, candidates with a disability that meet the minimum criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
We are also working to increase diversity throughout the organisation and we particularly welcome applications from BAME people who are currently under-represented.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
No agencies please.