Fundraising Manager

Hope and Homes for Children is looking for a Grants Partnerships Manager to join us and make families, never orphanages the new narrative. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our friendly, experienced Grants Partnerships team and would be perfect for someone looking to gain more experience in international development fundraising from trusts and foundations with a focus on child protection and the SDGs. We are looking for availability to start towards the end of 2021 and will be offering this role on a 12 month basis. One of our team members recently said this about working in our Grants team:

“Working in the Grants Team at Hope and Homes for Children is a fantastic experience, and one which offers great opportunities for developing your skills, knowledge, and career within Fundraising and International Development. The team are highly skilled, welcoming, and collaborative, and this combined with strong and experienced leadership, ensures you’re always supported to perform at your best. HHC is a vibrant and dynamic place to work, and it’s an incredible exciting time to join the charity, which has ambitious goals across the coming years. Working in the Grants Team will enable you to support this and offers you the chance to have tangible impact on the lives of children globally. I cannot recommend the team highly enough”.

Fundraising Manager Responsibilities:

Working with our team of 7 grants fundraisers you will play a vital role in securing and growing our grant making income. You will develop new and existing relationships with grants makers, put forward compelling proposals, produce reports and updates, monitor income for your own portfolio and ensure grant making activity is accurately captured in our database.

Fundraising Manager Requirements:

You will need knowledge of international development and the grants fundraising environment and have strong communication skills and an eye for detail. You will be naturally collaborative and able to manage a variable workload with tight deadlines.

About Hope and Homes for Children:

Orphanages don’t protect children, they harm them. Put simply: the last thing an orphanage can provide is the first thing a child needs - someone to love them.

Science shows what we all know, that the bond between a child and their family is vital for their development. Decades of evidence proves that orphanages harm children, subjecting them to high levels of sexual and physical abuse, as well as extreme neglect.

Children always belong in families. They need protection, encouragement, play, laughter and love. They need somewhere to call home and someone to love them. You can help us make this a reality for children.

You will be joining a brave, can-do organisation and an ambitious, collaborative and multiskilled team. You’ll be encouraged to think and act big and you’ll be mandated and supported to do what’s needed to achieve our mission. You’ll work with dedicated, passionate champions who are ready to take bold steps to inspire change - advocating for our cause, engaging individuals, communities and organisations across the globe in the foundational importance of family love for children. As the world reels from the impact of Covid, there is increased risk of families experiencing the poverty, lack of support and desperation that drives children into orphanages. There is vital work to be done in ensuring this does not happen. If you believe every child belongs in a family, join us as we consign orphanages to history.

Location: London or Salisbury, with a high degree of flexibility and home working options.

Contract Type: Interim – maternity cover (12 months)

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week with flexibility

Salary: £30,000 - £35,695, or up to £39,396 with London weighting, where applicable, per annum depending on experience plus competitive benefits

Closing date for applications: 17th November 2021

You may have experience of the following: rants Fundraiser; Grants Executive; Grants Fundraising Manager; Trusts and Foundations Manager; Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser; Grants Partnerships Fundraiser; Grants Partnerships Manager; Grants Partnerships Executive, etc.

Ref: 103 798

We are recruiting a Fundraising Manager to identify and secure new funding from charitable trusts and foundations, and help ensure the sustainability of our work.

What you’ll be doing

You will be responsible for building and managing a range of multi-year, five and six-figure grants, working with some of the UK’s leading charitable organisations. You will research and target those whose criteria match our aims and activities, coordinate your pipeline with other members of the trusts and statutory team and ensure our work is sustainable and impactful.

Based in our development department, you will also work closely with programme managers and other members of staff across the organisation, including the senior management team.

What we’re looking for

You will be passionate about our work and support our values and ethos. You will be skilled at building new relationships with charitable trusts, foundations and other institutional funders to secure both single and multi-year grants, and have experience of managing and increasing grant giving among a portfolio of existing funders. You will be used to working to demanding income targets and able to manage multiple projects, identify conflicting demands and establish priorities to meet objectives.

Why our work is so vital

Poor literacy and resulting inequality is not inevitable. The National Literacy Trust improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.

We make society fairer. Poor literacy creates social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor literacy earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.

We enable social mobility. A child without literacy skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.

Our work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of literacy. We support thousands of schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners like the Premier League and the nation’s best publishers who bring literacy alive. We campaign to make literacy a priority for our nation’s leaders. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions.

What we offer you

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

While you will be based in our office in London, this role can be peformed primarily from home, and you would only be expected to attend for all staff days (approximately 3 per year), team strategy days (around 2 per year) and any in-person training or induction, and any in person funder meetings as required.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so don't wait to apply

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and talented fundraiser who can help us ensure that our unique organisation continues to expand its reach to women who want to turn their lives around. 

Working Chance is a trailblazing, award-winning charity helping women with convictions – many of whom have been in prison – to build a career they can thrive in.

It’s a great time to join us. Our team and our profile have been steadily growing over the last couple of years, and the topics we focus on are never far from the headlines: championing gender equality, reforming our criminal justice system, and determining how to create a fairer and more inclusive employment landscape, especially as the economy reopens after Brexit and Covid-19. 

You’ll have the track record and confidence to thrive in this standalone role, but will benefit from support from your comms colleagues and input from our Chief Executive. You'll be able to think and plan strategically but equally be happy to get stuck into the nitty gritty of fundraising and to try new things. 

Our finances and funding pipeline are healthy (with around three-quarters of our funding coming from trusts and foundations) so you’ll have a really strong base to work from, which will give you time to get to know our funding landscape and get stuck into managing our corporate partnerships and implementing our individual giving strategy, alongside our comms team. 

The ideal candidate will have a strong sense of what makes funders tick, and the ability to communicate our case for support through exceptionally high-quality written work and in meetings. You will have significant experience of successful fundraising for a charity, including researching prospects, meeting with funders, writing successful applications and funding reports. 

We are deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants with lived experience of the criminal justice system. 

Fundraising and Communications Manager

Magic Me is the UK’s leading provider of intergenerational arts activities, working with care home residents and other people most impacted by covid. We are looking for an experienced, confident, fundraising and communications professional to establish this brand-new role, for an initial 12-month contract, to start as soon as possible.

The arts have a vital role to play in post-pandemic community building, and this is a crucial and exciting time in Magic Me’s development. Join us and lead the creation and delivery of a new fundraising strategy to continue this vital work, including a major bid to Arts Council England for NPO funding in early 2022.

Can you:

• Write, lead and deliver a clear fundraising strategy for Magic Me, in partnership with the Director and Programme Director?
• Conduct prospect research to identify potential new funders, whilst nurturing relationships with existing supporters?
• Develop and write compelling, successful bids with a focus on trusts, foundations and livery companies?
• Lead the writing of bids, including an NPO bid to Arts Council England.
• Review and update Magic Me’s communications, our messages and channels, e.g. social media, newsletters.
• Oversee Magic Me’s website, writing copy and working with colleagues to create new content.

Salary: £28,000 pa, 28 hours per week for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract (pro rata £35,000 Full-time role) Interested in applying for this role as a freelancer? Please contact us.

We welcome and encourage applications from disabled people, Black and Asian candidates, and those from other minoritised ethnic communities. Our board and staff are actively working on a new anti-racism strategy. We believe by improving the diversity within our organisation and our leadership, we will improve the quality of our work.

HOW TO APPLY 

Please read the full Application Pack and complete the Personal Details Cover Sheet and Monitoring information Form.

You are required to send the following: anonymised cover letter, anonymised CV and the accompanying forms (more details of this is found in the application pack) to our email address. Please ensure you follow the directions on the forms carefully, so your application can be processed fairly and anonymously.

NB To ensure the shortlisting process is anonymous and fair, please do not include your name on your CV or covering letter. Instead, please include this information in the Personal Details cover sheet. The selection panel will not see your Personal Details or Applicant Monitoring Information when shortlisting applications.

Deadline for applications: Send your application to us by 9 am on Thursday, 4th November. We will not be able to consider applications received after this deadline.

RECRUITMENT TIMELINE

• MONDAY 11 OCTOBER – Adverts out and recruitment starts.
• THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER – Deadline for applications.
• FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER – Shortlisting and candidates notified.
• WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER – Interviews. Decision.
• START DATE – As soon as possible.

Do you want a rewarding career where you can really make a difference?

Are you an experienced direct marketing professional with strong digital skills that would benefit a leading mental health charity acquire new donors?

If so, you may be the person we are looking for.

We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”

We have a new exciting opportunity for a Supporter Fundraising Manager to join our established and friendly Fundraising team. You will join us on a permanent contract working full time, 35 hours per week.

This role is agile; meaning you shall partly be based in our offices in Vauxhall London, coupled with remotely working from home.

In everything we do, we seek to demonstrate our values: Passion, Commitment, Openness, Hope, Expertise and Understanding. If these values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for developing and delivering activities across a broad number of channels, but primarily digital and telemarketing, to acquire new individual donors to give on a regular or ad hoc basis. This is to maximise income generation to both Rethink Mental Illness and Mental Health UK, our UK-wide charity of which Rethink Mental Illness is 1 of 4 founding members.

You will work closely with the rest of the Fundraising team, external suppliers and colleagues elsewhere in the organisation to develop fundraising strategies and communications for recruiting different audiences, to maximise lead conversion, ROI and lifetime value.

Over time, dependent on initial success and building the case for investment, you may be supported by 1-2 officers to help you deliver an expanding portfolio of recruitment activity.

You will also be:

• Overseeing the overall acquisition plan for the year to ensure campaigns are delivered on time and budget

• Product innovation, proposition and audience development.
• Advising teams on digital best practice.
• Managing supporter journeys and appeals for Mental Health UK
• Optimising data capture, processing and tracking

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Strong experience of managing and delivering digital marketing campaigns (ads, search, social and email), as well as in some other channels such as telemarketing and direct mail. Being able to manage complex multi-channel campaigns and journeys for different products, ideally in fundraising will be key.
• Experience of audience targeting, segmentation, testing and response analysis and associated impacts on budget monitoring and forecasting.
• Proven experience of working to and exceeding targets and KPIs
• An effective communicator in both oral and written English able to communicate sensitive issues clearly to non-specialist audiences, a confident copywriter and editor, and an eye for design
• Team player, establishes good working relationships and works confidently with a range of professionals; values and works effectively in a diverse environment
• Experience of procuring and working with external suppliers and stakeholders
• Sound understanding of relevant fundraising regulations and data protection regulation

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the chance to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development and a range e-learning courses. You will also receive:  

• Salary of £35,722.24 to 39,273.67 per annum (Incl. of London Weighting) 
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and employee assistance programme
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days plus bank holidays
• Your "Rethink Day" - 1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flexible working  

Fundraising Manager: Job description

Introduction

Clore Social Leadership is one of the UK’s most respected leadership development providers for the social and non-profit sector. Since 2010, and throughout the 2020 crisis, we have supported thousands of social leaders who are changing the world and serving disadvantaged and underserved communities across the UK and globally.

Since 2015, we have been on a mission to democratise social sector leadership and make it accessible to every social leader in the UK. Key to this agenda is the provision of low-cost online leadership development opportunities, which Clore Social is now offering along with our longer guided programmes. We are now looking for a creative, agile and enthusiastic Fundraising Manager to ensure our sustainability and growth moving forward. 

Job purpose

The postholder will work with the Chief Executive and senior management team to develop and secure the capacity and sustainability of Clore Social Leadership. The postholder will develop and execute our fundraising strategy, maintain relationships with our current donors, and grow our fundraising pipeline.

This is an exciting and varied role, with the opportunity to fundraise for two innovative new projects supporting UK third sector leaders, as well as Clore Social’s guided leadership development programmes: SharedPurpose, an online community platform for anyone working for positive social change, and the Social Leaders YOUniversity, a collection of accessible online leadership development products.

This role is best suited for someone who is self-motivated, creative and enthusiastic; and who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You should have demonstrated experience of fundraising from trusts and foundations and/or major donors. For the right person, this role has the potential to grow into a senior management position along with the organisation’s growth.

Main responsibilities

Fundraising

• Work closely with the Chief Executive Officer to design and deliver an ambitious fundraising strategy to raise funds from a broad range of funding streams.

• Conduct prospect research to identify and cultivate key trust and foundation, statutory and corporate partnerships, and major donor relationships.

• Write compelling applications to funders to generate income for projects that support the strategic goals of Clore Social.

• Support the Chief Executive Officer to develop and maintain relationships with existing and new funders.

• Ensure reporting requirements are met and that funders are kept informed of how their support has enabled the charity to continue its work.

• Work with the Director of Operations to prepare financial reports and budgets.

• Carry out other duties appropriate to the post as requested by the Chief Executive Officer.

General

• Prepare fundraising reports for regular trustee board reports.

• Maintain orderly fundraising records and files, which are housed on our Google Drive system.

• Keep colleagues informed of current fundraising activities.

• Consistently demonstrate the values of the Clore Social Leadership in all its activities.

Skills and experience - (E=essential, D=desirable)

This role will suit someone with a strong track record of fundraising and developing relationships. You will be a confident and charismatic individual who is highly professional and hard working, with great attention to detail.

• Demonstrable experience of successful fundraising in the third sector with a focus on trusts and foundations (E)

• Track record of managing relationships with funders to secure 5- and 6-figure grants (E)

• Experience of preparing budgets and financial reports for funding applications and reports (E)

• Excellent communication and customer service skills (E)

• Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and to work to deadlines (E)

• Strong project management and administrative skills (E)

• Strong attention to detail with a solid focus on quality, completion and consistent delivery (E)

• Experience of other fundraising methods, such as corporates, philanthropic individuals (HNWI), or crowdfunding (D)

• Demonstrable understanding of how charities demonstrate impact (D)

• Experience in a results-driven, professional environment with an ability to articulate and focus upon key performance indicators at all times (D)

Reporting Relationships

The CEO will be the line manager. The Fundraising Manager will also work closely with the senior management team, which currently  includes 5 directors.

Hours and place of work

This role is to be fulfilled over a 35-hour week and normally within office hours (Mon-Fri, 9.30am–5.30pm). The position will initially be offered on a short-term contract of six months, with the possibility of extension. It is currently partly remote-based, with attendance at our current co-working office space in London (Better Space, 127 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3DA) required once a week and at other events (sometimes in addition to normal hours) as necessary. We are open to discussing this further with the successful candidate.

Pay and benefits

Salary for this role will be £32,000-£35,000 per annum, depending on experience. The post holder is entitled to 25 working days’ holiday each year in addition to statutory holidays. Full time only considered.

Application process

Clore Social Leadership is committed to a policy of equality and diversity. We actively encourage applications from people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Please send a covering letter and CV.

(The cover letter should be no longer than one page and should illustrate your suitability for the role.)

Applications will not be reviewed without a covering letter.

Application deadline: Sunday 31 October 2021 at 11:59pm

1st round interviews: Thursday 4 November - Friday 5 November 2021

2nd round interviews: Tuesday 9 November - Wednesday 10 November 2021

Registered charity number: 1136727

Duchenne UK are seeking a Fundraising Manager to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to join our young, ambitious charity.

You will play a central role in growing fundraising to enable more investment into research, advancing treatments and supporting the DMD community.

You will drive the stewardship strategy and oversee the supporter journey at every level to create a long term, sustainable fundraising model. You will develop relationships with our supporters and the DMD community, ensuring they are supported through education on impact and outcomes. You will also be proactive in seeking new opportunities to achieve ambitious fundraising targets.

You will lead in the development and delivery of key events and fundraising campaigns throughout the year. You will also support in the delivery of our signature annual London to Paris 24-hour bike ride, The Duchenne Dash.

You will be a part of our small, but dynamic fundraising team and will work closely with the CEO, MD, Head of Fundraising and Marketing and Communications Manager. You will line manage the Fundraising Assistant.

We are looking for someone who is a driven self-starter, who thrives working in a small team environment and who is passionate about helping Duchenne UK achieve our mission, to end Duchenne.

What is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

DMD is a devastating muscle wasting disease and is the most common genetic killer of children worldwide.  The disease is caused by a lack of the protein dystrophin in the body which acts as a shock absorber, and without it, the muscles are damaged by everyday use.  Diagnosed almost always in boys, usually before the age of five. Children often lose mobility by their teens and are unlikely to live beyond their thirties.  In the UK there are around 2,500 boys affected and around 300,000 worldwide. There are limited treatment options and no cure.

Duchenne UK

Duchenne UK has one clear aim – to end Duchenne. Our heart and soul, and our reason for carrying on, are our boys, men and rare girls living with DMD. 

We are the largest funder of DMD research in the UK. We connect leading researchers with industry, the NHS and families to challenge every stage of drug development to make the incurable, curable. Together, we will find treatments for this generation of patients with Duchenne.

We’re doing this by funding research that’s focused on getting treatments to those affected now – as well as pushing as far as we can for effective treatments in the future. And we’re here to support every family affected and ensure that they receive the best possible care. We aim to not only improve quality of life, but stop the disease in its tracks. We’re doing it faster, too, because this generation of patients can’t wait.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser with a background in securing income from charitable trusts and foundations to join our team. Groundswell has rapidly grown over the past few years; our #HealthNow campaign alongside the expansion of our Homeless Health Peer Advocate (HHPA) services and research consultancy across the country has grown our brand, networks and impact. Our turnover is just over £2million, bought in by a small but effective team generating income from a range of voluntary and statutory sources. Within Fundraising and Communications, we have a Director and a Communications Officer; yet colleagues across the organisation generate income from statutory sources and our social enterprises (research and training). We’re always working together to be as effective as possible.

This is an incredibly exciting time to join Groundswell – the value of taking a health approach to the homelessness crisis combined with our unique insight into the lived experience of homelessness is generating interest and opportunities. Nevertheless, we know that with the impact of COVID-19 on the economy, changes in commissioning and competition amongst charities who have had to change their fundraising approaches, means the future is unknown.

Working at Groundswell brings you a busy, positive, and enthusiastic environment which you’ll benefit from no matter where you are based. There is no shortage of dedicated staff and volunteers full of ideas on how to overcome homeless health inequalities and influence the sector to use the insight of lived experience to develop solutions to homelessness. You will be a crucial part of the team, working closely with the Senior Management Team, particularly the Fundraising and Communications Director to maintain relationships with our network of existing funders and grow Groundswell’s income. You will be experienced in trusts and foundations but enjoy variety in this role, for example engaging with corporate or individual supporters or assisting SMT with a statutory funding process. You will be a flexible worker with strong organisational, research and written communication skills. You will pride yourself in collaborative working to ensure the most successful chance of securing income, whilst being a self-starter who can manage their own workload effectively.

Application Process

1. Application

To make an application, please submit your CV along with a cover letter which explains:

• how you meet each of the areas outlined in the person specification contained in the job pack below and
• why you are interested in doing this job.

We are taking applications on a rolling basis and will consider them as they come in. Please submit your application via the link above or as contained in the job pack.

Interview

If you are shortlisted based on your application, we will invite you to an interview at Groundswell.

If you would like an informal chat about the role before applying, please email Becky, the Fundraising and Communications Director, via the details in the job pack and they will get back to you.

We’ve been supporting local, older people in Croydon for over 25 years and we’ve built up an amazing network of likeminded organisations and contacts.  We’re now looking to develop those relationships to increase awareness and opportunity for Age UK Croydon across the borough.

The Community Fundraising Manager will help us generate unrestricted income through local corporate and community fundraising.  Initially, fundraising efforts will be focused on the capital appeal, generating funds for the redevelopment of our Brigstock Road community hall.  In the long-term the Community Fundraising Manager will continue to build new relationships as well as maintaining strong loyal ones that maximise income and opportunities.

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of local, older people and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to improve, then we would love to hear from you.

Key skills we are looking for:

• A track record and experience in corporate and community fundraising
• Locally-based
• Confident in presenting/communicating daily to large and smaller audiences and individuals regarding fundraising
• Good organisational skills

Closing date for applications: Friday, 22nd October 2021

Interview Date: Thursday, 28th October 2021

Anticipated Start Date: Wednesday, 1st December 2021

WR Fundraising Recruitment is proud to be working with a children’s and young people’s disability charity looking to grow and expand – they are on the search for an experienced, Trust Fundraising Professional to source funding from small, medium and large Trusts, including some Statutory Funding.

At an exciting time of development, we are looking for an experienced Trusts Fundraiser with a solid track record in trust and foundations to develop restricted and unrestricted funding.

Trusts Fundraising Manager

Full Time, Permanent

Hybrid Working – 2 days in office

28 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays

London

Salary - £38,000 - £40,000

Duties will include:

• Sourcing new funding to support the charities cost and delivery projects
• Contribute to the Trust and Grants team overall fundraising strategy.
• Support the team in prospect research approaches.
• Manage a portfolio of relationships with Trusts and identify new funding partnerships.  
• Ensure donors have an excellent experience due to high quality support and stewardship.
• Develop the monthly income budget within agreed guidelines, monitor income providing monthly reforecasts and set and measure performance against KPI’s
• Keep accurate records of applications and successful bids

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven track record of maximising income from Trusts  
• Experience of developing successful applications to a range of Trust funders and management of funding relationships
• Experience of fundraising from The Big Lottery or similar
• Experience and skill in developing strategy and plans for Trust fundraising
• Experience of fundraising from a variety of Trusts and Foundations and of personally securing 5-6 figure Trust donations. 

To apply or for further information, please email a copy of your up to date CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

We are pleased to be working with a children’s charity who are looking for a Digital Fundraising Manager to join their evolving team. This is a fantastic charity whose aim is to improve wellbeing during a child’s illness. You will be responsible for maximising the effectiveness of their current digital fundraising strategy to identify potential supporters and develop relationships with them.

The charity is looking for an experienced digital fundraiser with a passion for fundraising and engagement. The ideal candidate will be able to lead on the charity’s community and digital acquisition products, working across the Public Fundraising Team to recruit individual donors, fundraisers and community groups. You will also be responsible for line managing two experienced coordinators in community and events fundraising.

You will need:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of digital fundraising techniques and of running digital fundraising campaigns
• To have worked on lead generation programmes (telemarketing, email, surveys etc)
• To devise and implement digital fundraising activities and initiative to increase income
• Experience working across multiple teams internally as a project team member or manager

Deadline: ASAP

Salary: £36,000-£38,000

Location: West London (2 days a week in the office)

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call Christina on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

An exciting opportunity to fundraise from charitable trusts and major donors for education, healthcare and interreligious projects which benefit people of all faiths and none in the Middle East, Horn of Africa and India.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Fundraising Manager – Trusts & Major Donors – is a job share (full-time or part-time, with flexible working from home & office)  which is responsible for identifying, developing and managing a pipeline of grant-making trusts, foundations, institutional donors and individual major donors, preparing funding applications for donors in the UK and overseas and securing gifts and grants in support of the charity’s work. 

ABOUT THE CHARITY:

Fellowship and Aid to the Christians of the East (FACE) is a Christian charity which draws on 170 years’ experience of helping Eastern Christians to remain in their homelands, where Christianity was born and first spread. FACE enables people of all faiths and none in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and India to free themselves from a life of poverty, inequality and injustice. Together with the local Christian communities, we aim to bring lasting change to those regions through education, healthcare and interreligious projects.

FACE enables the Eastern Christians:

• to rebuild their homes and communities
• to educate their children
• to create employment opportunities
• to secure the maintenance of their churches, schools, hospitals and care homes
• to promote ecumenical and interreligious relations
• to be peacemakers and mediators in their multi-faith communities

KEY DELIVERABLES:

1. SECURING GRANTS FROM TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

• Developing and managing a pipeline of grant-making trusts, foundations and institutional donors
• Developing and managing cultivation plans to trusts and foundations
• Preparing and submitting high quality funding proposals in line with strategic objectives and the funder’s requirements in order to sustain and increase income from trusts
• Researching potential new trust and foundations supporters
• Initiating and building relationships with current and new grant-making trusts and foundations face-to-face and by phone and email
• Identifying suitable projects that match with donors’ interests and funding requirements
• Delivering own financial targets as well as contributing to team annual income targets
• Preparing and submitting timely and compelling narrative and financial reports to funders that demonstrate the impact of the work that has been funded

2. DEVELOPING SUPPORT FROM MAJOR DONORS

• Identifying, researching and evaluating prospective major donors and developing individual cultivation strategies for the top prospects
• Initiating and building relationships with prospective major donors in order to sustain and increase income from major donors
• Soliciting gifts at face-to-face meetings, sometimes involving trustees or influential stakeholders
• Providing swift and reassuring feedback to donors that meets their needs and expectations; providing timely and compelling reports as required and thanking promptly as soon as gifts are received
• Assisting with the organisation of donor cultivation and stewardship events

3. SYSTEMS

• Ensuring that donor transactions and communications are promptly and accurately recorded on the supporter database and in compliance with data protection legislation
• Ensuring that FACE’s policies are adhered to and that all activities are undertaken in line with FACE’s policies and procedures.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience of managing a prospect pipeline of trusts, foundations and major donors
• A track record of securing major grants and gifts from trusts, foundations and high net-worth individuals at a five and six figure level
• Experience of organising donor events or attending as an active member of the ‘home team’
• Knowledge of the current funding landscape in the UK and of trends in philanthropy
• Experience of using relationship databases and Microsoft Word and Excel

Desirable

• Experience of working with trustees and influential stakeholders
• Experience of working with an international development and/or faith-based charity
• An understanding of the Catholic Church and its networks
• Some knowledge of the socio-economic situation of the Greater Middle East

SKILLS, ABILITIES AND BEHAVIOUR

Essential

• Polished writing skills with the ability to articulate complex issues persuasively and to adapt the style of writing to different types of funding applications and communications
• The ability to meet application deadlines and to manage conflicting priorities effectively
• The acuity to make decisions on when and at what level to make the financial ask, sometimes involving trustees or peer-to-peer senior volunteers
• Good negotiating skills and an ability to ‘close the deal’
• The ability to understand and interpret the salient points in a financial budget
• The ability to scan the external environment to keep up to date on giving trends and best practice in fundraising
• Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to work collaboratively as a member of a small team on all aspects of FACE’s fundraising and to ‘pitch in’ willingly to help when needed.

Location: Central London – with flexibility for home working 

Contract type: Permanent or contract – job share

Salary:  £35,000 per annum (pro-rata, for part-time)

Hours per week: Full-time or Part-time 

Holidays: 28 days per year including public holidays (pro-rata)

INTERVIEWS FOR THIS POST WILL BE CONDUCTED ON A ROLLING BASIS  AS AND WHEN SUITABLE CANDIDATES APPLY. 

Closing date: 12th November 2021

Maternity Cover for 1 year only

Haven House Children’s Hospice supports hundreds of families, looking after children and young people who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Our mission is to provide the highest quality palliative and holistic care services to children and their families in our local communities. Since the hospice began it has gone from strength to strength in both the care we provide to families as well as ensuring our audience is inspired by our work to support us.

At Haven House the focus within the Income Generation and Marketing Team is to put the supporter and donor at the centre of everything we do, ensuring they feel inspired by our work and the children and families we support; engaged and committed to our cause and ultimately make a commitment to do something amazing.

Our Events Manager is going on maternity leave at Christmas and we are looking for someone to replace her as we head into the exciting new year 2022.

We’re looking for an individual who is ambitious and able to hit the ground running to proactively develop and drive our events portfolio. The role will take the lead on all our events including third party challenges, individual challenges, staff-led events, supporter-led events and virtual and digital events.

You will manage the events budget and be able to deliver first-class supporter stewardship journeys.

If this role sounds right for you, please download the job description from the website and return to the resourcing email address.

Benefits
As an employee you will be entitled to the following range of benefits:

• Free onsite parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension scheme (company matches contribution up to 7%)
• 27 days' annual leave

Hours
35 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

Closing date: Thursday 21 October 2021 at 12pm

Interview: w/c 25 October 2021

We are looking for an Individual Fundraising Manager to be responsible for delivering appeals and new products, inspiring donors to give and stay with the charity.

The Charity
This wonderful well known health charity have a very supportive organisational culture where agile ways of working, collaboration and a digital environment are the norm. In the role you'll work with great people from across the charity to deliver a fundraising programme driven by a test-and-learn culture and a desire to grow a sustainable programme.

The Role
The Individual Fundraising Manager is a key role, responsible for delivering appeals and new products to supporters, inspiring donors to give and stay with the charity.
Maximising lifetime value through a range of products to recruit, retain and reactivate supporters, currently including Cash Appeals, Membership, Regular Giving, Payroll Giving, and In Memory.
Developing new products which inspire donors to give, stay and advocate for the cause.
Creating, testing and iterating new products, you will be comfortable in developing audience profiles and propositions to support these products.
Identifying and activating supporters, you'll use evidence and insight to deliver an audience-led programme driven by a test-and-learn culture.
Managing supporter data to ensure compliance and maximise effectiveness of campaigns.
You will work with colleagues across the charity, maximising opportunities and bringing people together to generate income and engagement by partnering with appropriate teams.
Building excellent relationships with external suppliers ensuring best value and impact for supporters.

The Candidate
Are you passionate about engaging, inspiring supporters and raising funds through cause-led giving products?
Do you enjoy delivering engaging & inspiring appeals that raise income while helping supporters understand the incredible difference they make to peoples lives?
Are you excited by the idea of being part of a team who are immersed in the cause, need and emotions of donors to create meaningful and lasting relationships?

IMPORTANT NOTE

This client is reviewing applications on a rolling basis so apply ASAP to not miss out.

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.