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London, Greater London (On-site)
£40,891 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

This is a challenging and rewarding position within a friendly and fast-paced charity, with clear growth amibitions and a determination to make a real impact on the employment prospects of young people with the most barriers to entering work.

You will bring ambition, ideas, clarity and consistency to income generation functions across the organisation. You will lead on bid-writing, as well as relationship building, cultivation and stewardship of local and national grant makers.

You will also help to develop new income streams for the charity, including building and mobilising a network of supporters and donors, to drive individual giving, sponsorship and fundraising activities.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Experience

•A track record (over three years) of securing income from trusts and foundations.

• A track record of securing income through individual giving and fundraising activities.

• Managing the full funding cycle, from prospect research, through to relationship stewardship and reporting.

• Managing a pipeline of multiple funders and donors.

• Managing multiple deadlines and a varied pipeline.

• Use of data and CRM systems to manage and track activity.

• Implementation of digital fundraising campaigns and donor journey tracking (desirable).

• Working within the education, charities and/or the voluntary youth sector (desirable).

Skills

• Exceptionally strong writing skills, with the ability to produce compelling funding applications and funder reports.

• Engaging communication skills, with the ability to adapt language and messaging to different platforms and audiences.

• Excellent numeracy and budget building skills.

• Accuracy and meticulous attention to detail.

• Very strong relationship-building and communication skills.

• Creativity with the ability to make connections between themes and pull together engaging content to feed into fundraising activities.

• Highly organised, with an attention to detail.

• Excellent project management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Attitude

• Positive and solution focussed.

• Self-assured, with a ‘can-do’ approach and the confidence to bring ideas to the table.

• Thrives in a fast-paced and busy environment.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently.

• Welcomes feedback, with a desire to continuously improve and develop.

• Passionate and enthusiastic about improving young people’s lives.

• A commitment to our organisational values - empowerment, collaboration, reliability, quality, and learning.

WHAT WE OFFER

• £40,891 per annum

• 28 days leave (inc. 3 days between Christmas and New Year)

• 2 volunteering days

• 1 life event day

• Matched pension contributions (up to 6%)

• Flexible working (our core business hours are 10am to 3pm)

• Life insurance (5 x annual salary)

• Canada Life WeCare employee support package

Application resources
Application Instructions

PLEASE ONLY APPLY AFTER READING THE JOB PACK.

APPLY WITH A CV AND A COVER LETTER (OF NO MORE THAN 2 PAGES) ADDRESSING THE PERSON SPECIFICATION

Organisation
Youth Careers Collective View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 11 - 20
Youth Careers Collective logo Play
Posted on: 16 April 2026
Closing date: 11 May 2026 at 09:00
Tags: Campaigns, Fundraising, Advocacy, Partnerships, Community Fundraising, Events / Activities, Trusts / Foundations, Digital Fundraising, Grants

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