We are looking for a Trusts and Grants Fundraiser

Based at Fair Havens (remote working possible)

Salary £30,000

Are you looking for a role that makes a real difference within your community? Do you have a flair for writing that inspires?

We are looking for a Trusts and Grants Fundraiser to join our Income Generation Team. This role is dedicated to generating income from existing and potential charitable trusts & foundations in accordance with Havens Hospices Fundraising Strategy.

The ideal candidate will be initiative, creative and demonstrate excellent organisation. With a proven record of:

• Writing and delivering successful funding applications.
• Meeting financial targets within a defined timescale
• Account/ project management and liaising with both internal and external stakeholders
• Writing and delivering successful Statutory Applications, ideally in social care or health environment

Havens Hospices cares for adults and children diagnosed with serious, life-limiting illnesses. We aim to make their journey – and that of their families – as comfortable as possible, creating special memories along the way. Our care is free of charge but that can only continue happening thanks to our special team. Our patients and families are grateful for the specialist and free care they receive at Havens Hospices. By making the most of every day you work, you will be helping us to Make Every Day Count for those who need us most.

Havens Hospices Staff Benefits

• 33 days annual leave (pro-rata) rising to 38 days with length of service (Including bank holidays)
• Perkbox retailer discount scheme
• Salary sacrifice scheme for pension and annual leave purchase
• Competitive pension schemes and NHS pension for continuing members
• Learning and Development team committed to personal and professional development, offering a number of education opportunities
• Life Assurance
• Employee referral bonus

I am working on behalf of the Diocese of Westminster who is looking for a new Trust officer to join their Fundraising department on a permanent basis.

In this role, you will be responsible for building relationships with grant makers to generate income for Caritas Westminster. To research, identify and apply to trusts and foundations and other grant-making bodies across the UK, which are likely to support the varied work of Caritas Westminster.

Key Responsibilities:

-Identify potential new partners for inclusion into the Trust & Foundations fundraising programme.
-Produce, submit, and manage all communications with target funders
- Draft, submit and successfully manage the progress of funding applications for priority projects
- Establish and monitor progress of applications
- Develop a new stewardship programme for Trust & Foundation donors
- Working closely with the Development manager, regularly review the strategy to maximise and renew income from trusts and foundations

Essential Criteria:

-Minimum of two years trust fundraising experience
-Experience of maximising opportunities from researching prospects to generating meetings, and securing income to achieve targets
-Strong proposal writing skills with high attention to detail
-The ability to develop strong relationships with new and existing donors
-Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and good, accurate typing skills
-Solid organisational and time management skills; ability plan and prioritise own workload
-Able to tackle challenges constructively, and find creative ways forward

For a full job description please get in touch with Natalie at Harris Hill by emailing [email protected]

The Clothworkers' Foundation was set up by The Clothworkers' Company in 1977, and aims to improve the lives of people and communities, particularly those facing disadvantage. They award capital grants to charities registered in the UK and to not-for-profit organisations that work across one or more of their defined programme areas. They also award non-capital grants through their Proactive and Regular Grants Programmes. Since they were established, the Foundation has awarded grants of more than £140m.

Prospectus are delighted to be working with the Foundation to recruit a Grants Officer on a 12 month contract (maternity cover) to join their small team. Reporting to the Head of Grants, you will provide essential support to the Grants Officers currently managing the Foundation's open grants programmes. You will contribute to the effective and efficient grant-making of the Clothworkers' Foundation, without having direct responsibility for a portfolio of grants. Key responsibilities will include assessing grant applications, processing declinations and liaising with applicants prior and post assessment. Other duties will include maintaining accurate records on the Gifts Online database, processing and reviewing reports and accounts, as well as managing the Foundation's website

To be successful you will need to have recent experience working as a Grants Officer or within a similar role, as well as an understand of the grant-making process. You will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the interpersonal skills to allow you to deal with a range of people from different backgrounds. Experience of managing a capital grants programme would be useful if not essential, as would proficiency on the GIFTS database or similar. Based in a small, friendly team, the contract would be a great opportunity for the right person to gain further experience in an established grant making organisation.

In order to apply, please submit your CV in Word format in the first instance.

INTRODUCTION

Unsafe surgery is one of the fastest-growing health crises of our time, and Lifebox is the leading nonprofit working to address it. Our mission is ambitious and urgent: make global safe surgery and anaesthesia a reality for every patient around the world.

Lifebox is dedicated to improving surgical safety in low and middle-income countries and is registered as a charity in the USA, UK and Ethiopia. Founded in 2011 by the authors of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, Lifebox works to ensure that surgical teams around the world have the tools and training needed to provide the safest care possible for their patients. Our work focuses on three key areas or pillars: anaesthesia safety, reducing surgical site infections, and improving teamwork in the operating room. 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To contribute to maintaining effective financial processing and control, and the production of financial information across Lifebox globally. This includes recording all income and expenditure accurately and performing monthly reconciliations. To support the management of donor grants and submission of timely grant reports to donors

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure transactions are properly recorded and entered into the accounting system (currently using QuickBooks Online);

• Maintain financial files and records including electronic copies of all contracts, invoices and relevant documentation;

• Manage and reconcile the accounts payable and accounts receivable;

• Process invoices and staff expenses;

• Reconcile the monthly bank statements across UK and USA;

• Assist with the annual statutory audit.

• Contribute to and manage appropriate internal reporting systems in order to effectively manage and report on expenditure on a project by project basis;

• Collate financial information and prepare reports for donors in accordance with their individual requirements;

• Maintain electronic files of funding agreements, contracts and relevant expenditure;

• Support compliance of grants with financial and other policies;

• Ensure compliance with donor requirements;

• Produce reforecasts where required by the donor with input from grant budget holders.

Other responsibilities may be added depending on experience and need.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Working towards a qualification in bookkeeping or accountancy such as ACCA, CIMA;

• Minimum 3 year's recent exposure in relevant comparable roles within the UK and/or US charity sector;

• Working knowledge of donor reporting and compliance requirements (institutional donors such as FCDO and foundations), as well as restricted/unrestricted grants management;

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel;

• Previous experience of QuickBooks accounting software (or similar) and openness to learning new systems;

• Comfort with working in multiple currencies;

• Willingness and ability to work from home as Lifebox is currently reviewing its office arrangements.

APPLICATION PROCESS

To apply please email with your CV and a covering letter, detailing how you meet the selection criteria. Please include details of two referees with full contact details. 

We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis for this position. 

Interviews will be held via Zoom during September 2020.

Only those with the right to work in the UK will be considered for this position. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Lifebox is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

This is a new role created to work closely with and in support of the Director in the core function of delivering an effective and efficient grants programme. The Grants & Development Officer will liaise with grant holders,applicants and other stakeholders, complete the grant assessment process, prepare papers for Trustees and support the Director in the development of new strategic funding models and programmes. 

Fundraising Manager – Grants Partnerships

Our client is looking for a well organised, capable and collaborative Grants Partnerships Manager (maternity cover) with exceptional written and verbal communication skills to join their high performing Grants Partnerships team. The team are on track to raise £5m in 2020, from a range of trusts, foundations and statutory organisations in partnerships with their Programmes teams.

Position: Grants Partnerships Manager (Maternity Cover)
Location: Flexible, with some travel to our clients main office near Salisbury and to London
Job type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (we will consider part time hours (min 22.5))
Salary: £30,025 to £38,435 (incl. London weighting, if applicable). 

About you:

In the role of Grants Partnerships Manager (maternity cover) you will generate significant income by identifying and approaching a wide range of trusts and foundations, relevant to our clients cause. You will be comfortable building and managing major relationships (£100k plus), building on their support through timely and high-quality written proposals, reports and face to face meetings. To be successful in this role, you will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, the commitment and drive to deliver against deadlines, a can-do and collaborative working approach and a genuine passion for our work. You will also need to be self-aware, well organised and able to work autonomously and able to thrive within a culture which is solution-orientated, agile and has integrity, courage and excellence at its heart.

Our clients staff continually tell them what they value about working there: its open, friendly culture; the support and the flexibility they receive and the opportunity to be part of a fantastic cause that is changing the lives of children and bringing awareness to the lifelong effects of growing up in an institution.

About our client:

Children always belong in families. They need protection, encouragement, play, laughter and love. They need somewhere to call home and someone who will always look out for them. Children never belong in orphanages. Orphanages don’t protect children they harm them. With your support they can keep families together, reunite families and build new families. Help children grow up in families where they belong. Always families. Never orphanages.

Our client actively encourages equality and diversity and they look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity, and background as they believe diversity brings them closer to their mission of eliminating orphanages.

You may have experience of the following: Grants Partnership Manager, Partnership Manager, Fundraising Manager, Grants Manager, Fundraising Officer, Fundraiser, Charity, Third Sector, NFP.

Ref: 94220

We launched our Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund on 18th March 2020. To date we have raised over £1 million and distributed over £730,000 in emergency funding to people across our county in the most vulnerable and needy situations. Now, more than ever, we need to strengthen and build resilience in our communities and we need a new team member to help us do that.

We are an accredited member of the UK Community Foundation Network and have been supporting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough since 2004. Last year we awarded £2.8 million to support our local communities and address need across our county. This year we need to do much more.

Description:

As Maternity Cover 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 and attending donor panels
• To take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of certain programmes
• To build specialist knowledge of CCF's 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
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office and proven experience of using databases

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.

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.

Please send your CV and cover letter to the email address below.

Due to the amount of response 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.

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Role: Trusts and Foundation Fundraiser

Location: Finsbury Park, London.

Contract: Part-time, permanent. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

An exciting opportunity has opened up to join Maytree’s Income Generation team. We are looking for an exceptional Trusts and Foundation Fundraiser to take the lead on written funding applications and reports ahead of our impending Manchester replication.

Candidates should have experience of successful 5-figure applications, will possess excellent writing skills and a thorough knowledge of UK Trusts and Foundations. Not least, the successful candidate should have an interest in mental health issues.

Please read the attach brief and if you would like to be considered for the role, please send your CV with a supporting statement via Charity Jobs  Your supporting statement needs to address each point in the person specification, and be no more than two sides of A4 page.

Please note that due to the high volume of applicants not all candidates will be responded to.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date for all applications is Friday 9th October 

Interviews will be held on Monday 19th of October.

Age UK Sutton is seeking a Home From Hospital officer on a 12 month fixed term maternity cover contract, to join its highly effective commissioned service, assisting older people at the point of discharge from hospital.

Age UK Sutton’s (AUKS) pioneering Home From Hospital Service provides practical support on discharge from hospital.  HFH is a service funded by the NHS through the South West London Clinical Commissioning Group. The service supports older people (65+) in Sutton in order to:

•  Reduce number of readmissions to hospital

•  Aid discharge

•  Increase motivation, confidence and social integration after a hospital stay

•  Reduce unnecessary hospital admissions

The recruited post holder must have the skills to work across the service and quickly establish credibility with health and social care practitioners, patients, and their families. The right candidate will have a background in health, social care or voluntary sector provision, excellent communication skills, personal resilience combined with a passion for working with people in later life to enable them to set and reach meaningful personal goals.

Our Home from Hospital Service is delivered by a team of staff and skilled volunteers, led by the Head of Health and Care and working closely with our specialist Health and Social Care team, Home support social enterprise and wider staff and volunteer team.

Age UK Sutton works closely with partners including GPs, Pharmacists, Hospital Staff and Sutton Health and Care to ensure that we work collaboratively to deliver patient centred services.

A great opportunity to support the diversification of a portfolio of institutional funders, as part of a brand new strategy.

This position is critical to the development of strategic relationships for the organisation, focussed on accelerating climate action. The income stream has been crucial to the organisation in recent years, forming the largest proportion of their income and their ambition is to build on this by continuing to invest and grow this area.

Job specification

As Institutional Donor Manager you will:

• Proactively identify new institutional funding opportunities and support pipeline development with short-, medium- and long-term plans
• Use various communication channels to engage with key government agencies
• Manage proposal development, including work plans and coordination with internal departments
• Secure long-term funding through the creation of six- and seven-figure proposals and concepts for a variety of institutional funders

Person specification

The role would best suit:

• A candidate with demonstrable institutional fundraising experience and a proven track record of securing six- and seven-figure grants
• Someone comfortable working in a fast growing organisation in a start-up environment
• An individual with a strong understanding of institutional donors such as SIDA, NORAD, UK BEIS etc.

                                     

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Naomi Carruthers at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

Do you have connections in the London refugee and migrant sector, combined with outreach or community work experience? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Senior Outreach and Community Officer (Refugees and Migrants) 
eference: 704/SOCO
Location: Groundwork London Chiswick and Islington offices, with a requirement to work across London, primarily in Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster (from home during Covid-19 social distancing measures
Contract: Fixed Term until Dec 2022
Salary: Circa 26.5K
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Groundwork London’s innovative integration programme is growing. Our projects aim to support migrants and refugees to integrate into life in the UK, through a programme of holistic activities including, language, employment support and cultural / community activities. We are seeking a Senior Outreach and Community Officer to join our team to co-lead both outreach and community activities in West London.

As someone with outreach or community engagement experience, you will have a strong understanding of the challenges refugee and migrant communities face in London. You will have proven experience of building strong relationships with refugee and migrant communities and other organisations and service providers that are supporting migrant communities in London.

The postholder’s role will introduce, register and support clients throughout the individual’s time on the project, and design and facilitate cultural and community activities, to support social integration. These activities will be varied and could include arts & crafts, cooking, gardening and online social activities.

You will be an excellent written and verbal communicator, who enjoys working within a multi-disciplinary team to support the project clients. You will have experience in working towards targets and deadlines and will excel at managing your own workload. Attention to detail, secure data management and understanding of confidentiality are all essential to the role.

Closing date for applications: 9am, 5th October, 2020
Interview date: 12th October 2020 (Interviews will be conducted on Zoom or Teams.)

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the job description and application form.

Postholders will be considered to be working in a Regulated Activity as set out in Schedule 4 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006; appointment to this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Scheme Criminal Records Check.

Groundwork London is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

No agencies please.

Role description:

About Us

‘Nicodemus’ is a Christian Charity that bridges the gap; rescuing and restoring young people. Some may have once been sponsored or supported by other agencies, but have now found themselves living back on the streets while others have become impoverished and face difficulty due to the generational cycles of poverty. Helping them to rebuild their lives by empowering and equipping these same young people as community leaders transforming and rebuilding their communities, promoting community development, sustainability and leaving a lasting legacy of positive world change...

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to build a career in fundraising and to make a huge impact on the lives of marginalised young people, as well as the growth of an amazing charity. We are looking for a Fundraising Administrator to enhance our sustainable income generation. The post holder would be expected to work from the office or from home during COVID as agreed. They will need to attend regular meetings and participate in discussions with colleagues in the office. This is a new role as part of our future investment in fundraising. This investment will enhance our strategic and operational ambitions in line with our three-year plan.

Reporting ultimately to the Operations Manager you will be responsible for supporting with the development of our trust fundraising capability; that will include but not be limited to, investigating, researching and constructing applications for new funding. You must possess excellent communication skills, to ensure we demonstrate a strong case for support.

To be successful in this role, you will have experience and excellent capabilities in writing and undertaking research, with the ability to present information concisely to a wide range of audiences. You will have good communication and relationship development skills and will be capable of working with a small, yet, dynamic team that are used to taking both initiative and responsibility. 

During the first 6 - 12 months, the successful candidate will be expected to establish themselves in the new role and some early income generation will be anticipated from established strategies and contacts.

Post this establishment period, an annual fundraising target will be proposed and agreed with the Trustees. Fundraising Administrator is a key member of the Charity with responsibility for developing and delivering our fundraising strategies.

In particular, the post holder will take overall responsibility for:

• Self-motivated fundraising, achieving financial target on an exponential programme.
• Planning, delivering and supporting to develop the fundraising functions.
• Promoting effective collaborative team working and a culture of professionalism, learning and development.

The post starts at £18,000 per annum, with the opportunity to progress to Trust and Statutory Fundraiser, after six months earning £21,000 per annum. 

We are seeking a skilled and passionate fundraising and comms superstar to help us continue our vital work supporting asylum seekers and refugees in Bristol.

This role is a true one-off and has huge potential. Working with our team to raise funds in our community for some amazing projects and managing our already well-established comms output, the right person in this position can make a huge impact to ABC and will be supported to hit the ground running from the off.

As we head into this post-pandemic world, the experience of displaced people in the UK is more disjointed and worrying than ever. ABC's goal is to enable a better life for all of our community and ensure the most vulnerable receive not just the basic goods for living but as warm a welcome as possible.

Aid Box Community exists for the Relief of Poverty and Financial hardship of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom for the public benefit by providing free and essential living Items. Promoting the integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers through the signposting of partner services for practical help in Housing, Legal Advice and Medical Help.

Our vision is a world where every refugee and asylum seeker is given the opportunity to start a new life.

Our mission is to uphold the basic rights of refugees and asylum seekers by providing practical aid, support and direction and, by doing so, making their daily lives a little easier.

Our Values: Aid Box Community welcomes displaced people with open arms into the ABC family. Together, we will provide choice, love, hope, advocacy and a space where everyone belongs, and everyone is important.

Aid Box Community currently works with over 600 refugees and asylum seekers living in and around Bristol.

We run a free shop and connections service as well as an active women's group. We have ambitious plans for growth over the next three years and are looking for a brilliant communications and fundraising coordinator to complement our existing team.

 Alongside your skill, experience and enthusiasm, you will join the CEO, our Founder / Director of Operations, our volunteer coordinator, our aid coordinator, bookkeeper and grants writer as well as an active trustee team and literally hundreds of volunteers in supporting some of Bristol's most vulnerable members of the community.

Job Description:

This role requires a strong background in charity events fundraising as well as individual giving,The Fundraising and communications coordinator will report to the CEO and work with our grant's fundraiser and bookkeeper. your specific role will include management of our local events, crowdfunding, individual giving and legacy campaigns as well as develop our database of supporters. With the support of volunteers, you will also be working closely with trustees to develop a communications strategy to support our ambitious plans for the years ahead, as well as day to day management of our social media platforms and quarterly newsletters.

Key Duties:

Fundraising

• Build on the development and delivery of an ABC events programme both online and in the community; direct and third party. (some evening / weekend work required)
• Develop and increase our supporter base via individual giving, crowdfunding and legacies.
• Monitor and analyse performance of website, using Google Analytics, and social media channels.
• Working to targets & ensuring Aid Box Community’s financial targets for fundraising is met
• Developing and maintaining our supporter's database.
• Assist in the preparation of fundraising reports to CEO & Trustees in time for Trustees meetings

Communications

• Contribute to the development of the ABC  communication Strategy
• Managing the growth of Aid Box Community’s online presence through social media
• Managing and develop Aid Box Community’s website
• Creation of Quarterly update mailers for Aid Box supporters.
• Development and collation of key impact material to be used by Aid Box, including website content, case studies and other content for use on social media.
• Develop press contacts and seek media publicity.
• Ensuring all communication to donors is timely, professional and accurate

Experience, qualifications and requirements

You will have a strong track record of fundraising for charities, with experience of running events, regular giving, legacy and crowdfunding campaigns.

First class communications and IT skills are required for this role as is a strong working knowledge of maximising social media presence.

You will have experience of:

• working or volunteering with NGOs or charities essential.
• IT and word processing skills essential.
• Experience of organising events essential.
• Experience of marketing and communications essential.
• Excellent written and communication skills essential.
• Experience of working with websites desirable.
• Experience of working with volunteers essential.

At Aid Box Community, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate it. We know that by having a diverse and welcoming team, we really can help share hope and love to people from all over the world. Aid Box Community is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

this role requires the undertaking of an enhance DBS. 

HOURS: 22.5 -30 hours a week (0.6 FTE by default, but up to 0.8 FTE for the right candidate, see below)

CONTRACT: 12 month fixed term (maternity cover)

SALARY: £27,000 pro rata (28,500 pro rata for the right candidate, see below)

REPORTS TO: CEO

BASED: St Agnes Lodge, St Paul’s, Bristol (with some homeworking required during the Covid-19 pandemic)

The Green House provides free therapy to children, young people, and adults affected by sexual abuse at any point in their lives. With over 30 years of experience working in this area, we have built up a strong reputation for making a difference to the lives of those who have experienced trauma, through the delivery of quality services with proven outcomes.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and committed person to join our staff team as our Trusts & Foundations Fundraising Officer.

You will be a skilled fundraiser with a proven track record of winning and maintaining grant income. Your knowledge of the current funding environment and your clear eye for new opportunities will assist you as you implement The Green House’s fundraising strategy.

You will have the opportunity to learn about the lifechanging impact of our services, and from this explore and develop new ways of fundraising for The Green House that amplify and honour the voices of survivors.

Although not essential to the role, if a candidate also has the experience and skill to manage communications over social media and curate effective content on our website the hours and salary will be uplifted to reflect this. 

Applications can be made by emailing your CV and a Letter of Application
The letter should be no longer than 2 sides of A4 evidencing

1. Your suitability for the role and how you meet the criteria listed in the Person Specification.
2. Your philosophy and approach to creating a pipeline of grant funding from trusts and foundations

Please also include the names and contact details of two referees who know your work well – one should be a current or recent employer.

For questions about this opportunity, please email Tom Owen

The closing date for applications is 9am Monday 12th October 2020.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 20th October 2020.