Award-winning Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity, is seeking an outstanding individual for the newly created post of Trust Fundraising Officer. This will be an exceptionally rewarding role for a first-class and bright individual, who has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Working alongside the Philanthropy Manager and the Trust Fundraising Executive, this position will be responsible for building upon the established pipeline of grant making trusts, writing compelling proposals, successfully researching, cultivating and stewarding donors, and growing The Grand Appeal’s support from trusts and foundations to facilitate future support.

This role will be based at Grand Appeal HQ in the charity’s newly renovated building on Upper Maudlin Street opposite the Bristol Children’s Hospital, close to the beautiful Bristol Harbourside and the range of shops in Cabot Circus and Quakers Friars. 

The Grand Appeal works in partnership with Aardman Animations to support Bristol Children’s Hospital and the region’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.  With a multi-million pound programme of investment in the hospital, from research to family accommodation to patient, family and staff wellbeing, and a growing supporter base, The Grand Appeal is expanding fast.  The Grand Appeal is the charity behind the internationally successful and multi award-winning Gromit Unleashed and Shaun in the City art trails which are now part of the fabric of the city and which have brought millions of visitors to Bristol from all over the world. 

Based across 6 sites in Bristol, The Grand Appeal offers a dynamic, supportive and rewarding workplace for its approx. 50 staff.  The bedrock of our organisation is its strong team culture in which all staff play an important part.  Our staff are talented, creative, ambitious and The Grand Appeal’s most important resource.  If this sounds like the right workplace culture for you, you have the required skills and experience, and you are looking for a new challenge, please do get in touch. 

Work for The Grand Appeal and you’ll do more than just a job. The work we do really makes a difference to sick children, their families and the staff who care for them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Together, we help save lives.

Part time - 21 hours (3 days) per week

Action for M.E. is dedicated to ending the ignorance, injustice and neglect experienced by people with M.E. Despite being the largest M.E. charity in the UK, we have a small staff team and are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Fundraising Administrator to support our planned growth and the exciting changes on the horizon.

"I'd been thinking about Fundraising for a while and Walk with M.E. seemed like the perfect fit. I can join in with the small amount of steps I can do, and my family and friends can be a part of it as well. Fundraising like this really helps people to realise there is something really important they can do to help."

This is feedback from Holly, who has M.E. Our unique team sponsored Walk with M.E. campaign is just one of the projects you'll be working on when you join our team as Fundraising Administrator. You'll have some experience of fundraising - or bags of interest and enthusiasm in learning fast - and be able to work independently, as well as part of our creative and committed team. You'll be supporting the team across a range of different fundraising streams, from community fundraising to trusts and foundations, so the ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload is a must. 

If you'd like to join the only UK charity that supports both children and adults with M.E., and help us reach even more people living with this non-visible illness, please download the application pack or contact us for more information.

Background information on Grief Encounter South West: 

We are the Bristol branch of a nationally renowned children's bereavement charity Grief Encounter, who are based in London. We are pleased to be expanding and are now looking for a proactive, versatile professional fundraiser to join our team and assist with growth.

Job Description

Overall Job Purpose:

To help provide an effective fundraising function to support the delivery of the organisations therapeutic objectives. This involves primarily Trusts and Grants applications alongside developing relationships, helping organise events and working to support the fundraising structures and staff in place. You will working alongside and supporting a Fundraising Manager in the Bristol office.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Manage and develop a portfolio of trusts, foundations and grant-making organisations, identify new funding opportunities and submit high quality applications
• Help plan, organise and attend fund raising events
• Research new potential funders and grant opportunities
• Build and nurture long-term relationships with new and existing funding sources through regular communication to maximise value and duration of support
• Assist in managing incoming community and general fundraising enquiries
• Help identify relevant companies for charity of the year partnerships
•  Assist with talks, events and cheque presentations etc to maintain the public profile
•  Meet fundraising budgets and targets as agreed each year
•  Work within legislation and guidance from the Institute of Fundraising to maintain standards
•  Maintain systems for donation processing, Gift Aid claims, data management and donor stewardship and ensure the database is kept up-to-date
• Monitor and report on fundraising activities monthly, as requested
• Liaise with other staff eg clinical about fundraising content, including ‘shopping lists’ and examples of our work or fundraising lead on work plans and tasks
• Build relationships which promote the charity and its aims
• Promote legacies and memorial giving where time allows
• Operate in accordance with the organisation’s employment, Health and Safety, equal opportunities, all legal requirements, organisational practices, policies & procedures.
• Help develop and maintain voluntary fundraising roles to support growth
• Ensure sound book keeping and accounting for all fundraising
• Any other reasonable duties requested to achieve organisational aims.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience

Essential

• Preparing and delivering written fundraising applications & budgets.
• Creating and developing strong and successful relationships with funders
• Two years’ experience of charity fundraising with Trusts and Foundations
• Track record of generating income opportunities
• Experience of using fundraising databases

Desirable

• Corporate fundraising
• Demonstrable  strategic planning / development to increase funding
• Confidence with Etapestry

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Relevant qualification
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and take the initiative to solve problems
• Good organisational skills, with attention to detail
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines and to balance planned work with reactive pieces of work that arise
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and phone manner
• Computer literate and familiar with using common IT programmes
•  Presentation/ public speaking skill

Desirable

•  Fundraising qualification
•  Educated to degree level or equivalent
•  Strong operational and organisational skills.

Personal attributes

Essential

• Good relationship builder with strong inter-personal skills
• Able to work effectively in a team
• Ability to work independently, proactively and under own initiative
• Ability and willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends
• Access to own transport

Desirable

• Sense of humour
• Calm under stress
• Ability to multi task and prioritise

Terms and Conditions of employment

Salary: dependent upon experience, approx £23-26,000 pro rata

Conditions of employment: Part time contract approx 2days per week initially (tues & wed)

Probationary period: This post is subject to a probationary period of 12 months. There will be a staff review at 6 months and again at 12 months.

Application deadline: Monday 12th March

Interview Dates: W/C Monday 16th March

With a view to Start Asap

The National Eye Research Centre (NERC) is a fundraising charity that funds eye research teams across the UK to find the causes of eye disease to develop new prevention methods and more effective treatments. We fund research in all eye diseases affecting both children and adults.

We are seeking a dynamic and organised team player with strong administration skills and a confident customer service approach. You will make an essential contribution to NERC’s growing team and will enable the organisation’s strategic development by providing excellent administrative support to a number of areas including fundraising, grant making, financial processes, and general office management. The job is initially devised as a part time role (either 3 or 4 days a week) and can be worked flexibly across the week. There is scope for the role to grow to a full time equivalent (or job share).

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Donations processing and records management

• Processing all postal and online donations on the charity’s CRM (Donorfy).
• Ensuring that all recurring donations are updated on Donorfy on a monthly basis and new instructions are set up in a timely fashion.
• Thanking postal and online donors using agreed existing templates for communications and within the charity’s stewardship turnaround times (48 hours).
• Regularly reviewing Gift Aid declarations and chase any that are out of date or incorrect by running the relevant, pre-prepared database queries on Donorfy.
• Running a weekly query from Donorfy to identify new donors and donors over £250 and provide the list to the CEO for bespoke stewardship.
• Ensuring that all relevant donor communications are recorded on Donorfy.
• Ensuring that donor records are kept up to date and any changes in communication preferences are adequately and timely recorded on Donorfy.
• Maintaining any relevant paper and digital donation records that might be required for auditing purposes.
• Ensuring that shared electronic files (e.g. relating to the charity’s operations, grant management, finances, etc.) are organised and maintained in a systematic fashion.
• Informing the CEO (Data Controller) of any complaint received by donors or other supporters.

Financial operations support

• Supporting the day to day financial operations of the organisation, including banking of donations and logging of incoming donations and outgoing payments.
• Paying suppliers and grants invoices.
• Carrying out monthly bank reconciliations.
• Maintaining accurate and up to date financial records in preparation for regular audit reviews .
• Running database queries to provide the CEO with financial information in preparation of quarterly management accounts and annual audited accounts.
• Providing the CEO with monthly updates on grants payments made and flagging any unexpected changes or delays on the part of grant holders.

NERC Grants Co-ordination

• Supporting the CEO in liaising with applicants, the Scientific Advisory Committee, and NERC Trustees to provide a list of fundable major projects at the charity’s annual grant making round.
• Supporting the CEO in liaising with applicants, advisory panel, and Chair of Trustees to provide a list of fundable seed grants at the four grant-making rounds per year. 
• Communicating with successful and unsuccessful applicants on the outcome of their applications using existing templates and forms.
• Issuing successful applicants with grant award contracts and terms and conditions.
• Supporting the CEO in maintaining an up to date database of peer reviewers.
• Keeping up to date records of all existing grant commitments, including all relevant financial information on each grant.
• Within agreed procedures, ensuring that quarterly invoices from grant holders are received on time and for accurate amounts.
• Issuing payments of grant holder invoices.
• Within agreed criteria and procedures, ensuring that all projects progress reports are received on time and with a satisfactory level of detail.

Legacy administration

• Supporting the CEO in all aspects of legacy administration with guidance and under supervision.
• Logging all correspondence with estate executors on Donorfy and maintain up to date paper records of estate administration correspondence with executors suitable for auditing.
• Maintaining up to date financial records of all estates in administration to enable legacy income forecasting.
• Alerting the CEO of any unexplained estate administration delays incurred by executors by regularly reviewing all estates in administration.
• Supporting the CEO in liaising with the next of kin wherever possible for stewardship purposes and to gathering information on the donor which could be used for legacy marketing purposes.

Events

• Providing logistics support to the organisation of donor engagement and stewardship events.

General office management

• Acting as the first point of contact for the charity by handling inquiries by phone, email, and post.
• Ensuring that all relevant reports are updated on the Charity Commission’s website and updating information whenever necessary.
• Keeping up to date folders on Trustees information.
• Supporting the CEO with the planning and running of Trustees Board meetings, including distribution of papers and typing of meeting minutes.
• Booking meeting rooms and catering for internal and external meetings.
• Maintaining adequate stationery supplies to ensure the smooth running of the office.

The postholder may also be expected to carry out other duties, which may be reasonably requested. As such, the job may involve occasional evening and weekend work, for which time off in lieu can be claimed.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge, experience and qualifications

Essential:

• You have a University degree or equivalent OR Business and Administration Level 3 Certificate (NVQ).
• You have at least 2 years’ experience working in a public facing administrative role.
• You have demonstrable experience of office management, committee servicing, budget monitoring, creating and maintaining reporting schedules, updating databases and using them to produce reports.
• You have a solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, especially Word and Excel.

Desirable:

• You have worked in a fundraising charity.
• You have worked in a grant making organisation.
• You have experience of bookkeeping and you have a working knowledge of Sage and Xero.
• You have experience of administering a grants to external organisations, including monitoring expenditure on grants awarded by the organisation, and creating and updating schedules for grant holders to report back to the organisation on grant expenditure and project outcomes.

Skills and attributes

Essential:

• You are polite, courteous and customer focused.
• You have excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• You are able to work with minimum supervision, are proactive and take initiative, e.g. by identifying problems, proposing solutions and escalating issues appropriately.
• You have a flair for implementing efficient systems and processes and continually seek to improve operational procedures.
• You have strong organising skills, you are meticulous and have excellent attention to detail.
• You have a positive team ethos and are keen to contribute to the overall success of the charity.
• You are able to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• You are resilient and able to adapt to changing priorities.

General

• You maintain high standards of personal appearance, conduct, respect for company property and reputation.
• You work within the appropriate company policies and procedures including health and safety.
• You maintain confidentiality of information about customers, suppliers, contracts, tenders and other commercially sensitive matters.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This position has a 6 months’ probation period.
• 30 days paid annual leave (pro rata) plus public holidays. 
• Up to 5% matching employer’s contribution to the charity’s workplace pension scheme (NEST).
• Flexible working considered.
• Free onsite parking at the Almondsbury site.

HOW TO APPLY

Closing date: Wednesday 26th February  

Invitations to interview:           Friday 28th February

Interviews:  Wednesday 4th March

Job Title:  Chief Executive Officer
Hours:  Full time / permanent
Salary:  £70k
Location:  Bristol

We are working in partnership with The Royal Photographic Society (RPS), a prestigious charity which has been at the forefront of photography since 1853. The RPS exists to increase the knowledge and understanding of photography, to promote the highest standards of achievement in photography, and to encourage the public appreciation of photography.  Educational activity is central to their charitable status, and recent investment in new state-of-the-art facilities with a 200m2 gallery and 100-seat auditorium demonstrate their renewed commitment to greater public engagement and impact. The RPS has over 11,000 members globally, who enjoy opportunities to share knowledge, meet and learn from one another through over 600 events held every year.

The RPS is undergoing significant and exciting change and is looking to appoint a passionate and highly capable Chief Executive Officer to lead and develop the increasing impact of the organisation.

You will be an inspirational leader with the ability to quickly gain the trust and support of stakeholders, staff and volunteers, and a strategic thinker who can understand and manage complexity and competing demands to achieve tangible outcomes.

The successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Clear leadership with a compelling vision for the RPS
• Extensive transformational and change management experience
• Proven track record of developing and implementing effective strategic and business development plans, including overseeing income generation strategy
• High levels of business acumen and commercial awareness
• Experience of working with and supporting a Board of Trustees

The post holder will be a highly-motivated, entrepreneurial and innovative individual with excellent communication skills who is adept at building lasting relationships both internally and externally. 

You will be resilient, forward thinking and demonstrate strong influencing skills at all levels. A true belief in the ethos of the charity and the services they offer is essential and a background of working within the visual arts sector, charity sector or other relevant area is desirable.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a charismatic and ambitious leader.  If you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role, we very much look forward to hearing from you.

Please submit your CV with a supporting statement, to Jenny Warner, Managing Director of Charisma Charity Recruitment quoting our reference JO1739.

Closing date for applications:  24th February 2020
1st Interview date:  9th March 2020