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Job title: Fundraising Manager
Responsible to: Director of Business Development
Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum
Location: Penygraig, South Wales / Home Working
Hours: Full-time
As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities and we would be open to those interested in applying as a jobshare.
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Employer pension contributions of 3%
Introduction
Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
Key Responsibilities
Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a consultant who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising.
Management & Leadership
• To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.
• Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.
• Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met
• Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.
• Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.
Income generation
• Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets
• Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.
• Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.
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Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.
• Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.
• Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.
• Review grant agreements
• Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.
• Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.
• Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.
• Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved
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Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support.
Compliance
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To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation.
Person Specification
- At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector
- Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
- Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
- A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
- Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
- Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
- A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
- An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well.
- Experience of budget and financial management
- An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
- Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
- Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
- Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £36,000 + Competitive Benefits
Remote based: Post Covid-19 Travel across Wales will be required
About Volunteering Matters
Volunteering Matters is the UK’s leading volunteering charity that brings people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues though the power of volunteering. We engage over 20,000 volunteers every year through more than 100 programmes across England, Scotland, and Wales.
We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and ensuring young people can change.
Our local knowledge and energy is used to make action and progress, build stronger communities, and create a better future for all.
Volunteering Matters, in conjunction with BAME Recruitment are seeking applicants for a newly created and critical role for a Partnerships Manager – Wales.
The Role:
As the Partnerships Manager - Wales, you will play a significant role in developing our placed based business development strategy across Wales.
Our places and volunteers are crucial to us. They know their communities best. You will support our local Delivery teams in Wales to build new partnerships and grow our places. The role will also platform the voices of our volunteers to lead the development of our services. The role will be a key component of the UK Business Development Team.
Your core responsibilities will consist of developing and growing our place-based relationships for Volunteering Matters in Wales, helping to build a systematic relationship approach to income generation across the organisation. Influencing local relationships and systems through the power of volunteer and community voice, ensuring the voice of our volunteers and young people are always represented in our relationships.
You will have:
- A commitment to the values and mission of Volunteering Matters, especially platforming the voices of our volunteers and young people, as determinant to our work alongside and for communities.
- A pragmatism in understanding and working with the communities served by Volunteering Matters projects, and their respective local government and third sector services.
- An ability to influence local and national policy makers, by utilising the power of storytelling and advocating for the importance of youth voice, when lobbying for social change.
How to apply
Please submit your CV and a supporting statement. Your statement should be up to 2 pages long (no more than 900 words), answering the following questions:
1.What attracts you to work for Volunteering Matters and this specific role?
2.From what you know about the opportunity what experience and skills would you bring that would enable you to be successful in this role?
3.Could you share your best example in your career where you took on the responsibility of decision making and used your initiative to implement a significant change?
Diversity & Inclusion:
Volunteering Matters welcome all applicants and are keen to ensure their team to reflect the diversity of the UK and the communities they serve. They would like to encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments:
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please provide evidence in your application, which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the “Experience/Skills and attributes” section of this job description. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process, please state this in your application.
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TPP is currently partnering with a leading health and wellbeing charity to recruit for a Statutory Funding and Partnerships Manager focusing on Wales. The charity is well established and has been influential in breaking down stigma and providing quality care and support to service users. The role is permanent, paying £34,096 and you can work remotely anywhere in Wales with the option of working from hubs in Cardiff and Swansea.
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To be successful in this role you will have experience and knowledge of statutory funding, including bid development and understanding of local government. You will have experience of building relationships with key external stakeholders such as those mentioned above, and you will be confident at networking and presenting information about sensitive health issues to a range of audiences. You will also possess sound interpersonal and communication skills. Finally, you will be based in Wales or on the outskirts such as Bristol.
How to Apply
Closing date - Recruiting on a rolling basis. Candidates are advised to apply asap.
If you are interested in this role or wish to register with TPP to hear about future posts, please call Patrick on 020 7198 6040 or send your CV to [email protected]
Please note the internal job title is: Partnerships and Development Manager
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