About the Charity

Proud to stand out from the crowd, Heart Research UK is the charity dedicated your heart. We inspire and invest in pioneering medical research, ground-breaking training and education, and in communities to improve their heart health for themselves. They are things we’re proud to have done for over 50 years and we want to do much more.

The Heart of Scotland is a fundraising appeal to raise and spend money in Scotland on vital medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease.

Purpose of Role

We are looking for a dedicated senior fundraiser in Scotland to be responsible for the overall management and coordination of the Heart of Scotland fundraising appeal.

We are looking for a passionate, motivated and organised individual who is an excellent communicator with proven experience of corporate and community fundraising as well as event management and is used to exceeding targets. You will be responsible for managing some exciting existing partnerships as well as developing new ones.

To apply:

Please send a CV and covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification by midnight on Sunday 3rd November 2019

Shortlisting will take place on Monday 4th November 2019.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 12th November 2019 and candidates must be available on this date.

Home-Start Trafford, Salford and Wigan, (one of Greater Manchester's leading family support charities), is looking to appoint a Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising Manager. This is a new, but vital role, as the charity seeks to diversify it's income streams.

In an ideal world, a charity like Home-Start would not be needed, all parents would be able to bring up their children free from stress and strain. But for many parents, coping with issues such as poverty, poor mental health and family breakdown has a severe impact on their parenting. And this is where Home-Start steps in. A network of locally trained volunteers, with parenting experience, visit families each week in their own homes offering tailored-made emotional and practical support. A simple approach that makes such a difference. 

Home-Start Trafford Salford & Wigan are about to commence a three year growth strategy and are looking to engage an individual who has a sound knowledge of the local business community and who will be able to engage corporate partners in helping us to deliver on our fundraising and volunteer targets. 

This role will suit an individual who is highly motivated and well connected with a proven track record in developing and achieving fundraising results, and with a passion for improving the childhoods of children living in local communities.

Job title Senior Trust & Foundations Fundraiser           

Department Fundraising

Reporting to  Head of Fundraising & Philanthropy

Overall Purpose of the job: We are looking for a talented and ambitious individual to generate income for The Mix through the development and implementation of a Trust & Foundations strategy. This will involve the planning and writing of funding bids, reporting on previous grants and the research of new funding opportunities.

Key areas of responsibility:

• To lead on the development and implementation of a Trust & Foundations Strategy.
• Work closely with other teams in the fundraising department to achieve the overall fundraising target and succeed in achieving the charities long term growth strategy.
• Write successful Trust & Foundation bids.
• Develop strong relationships with key funders.
• Ability to write accurate and clear reports.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Understanding of how to develop compelling proposals, combined with the ability to demonstrate clear outcomes and impact
• Good understanding of where to source information on Trust & Foundations, with the research skills to identify new funding opportunities
• Understanding of fundraising/knowledge of fundraising practice and standards
• At least 2 years’ experience developing funding bids in the charity sector
• Demonstrable success in securing funding from Trust & Foundations
• Experience of setting and working to budgets, meeting financial targets and completing plans

Desirable

• Knowledge of Trust & Foundations in London and across the UK
• Knowledge of the UK voluntary sector preferably with some understanding of youth charities
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Training in Safeguarding Children
• Experience ins securing funding in excess of £50k
• Experience of working as part of a small team within a charity
• Experience with the Institute of Fundraising
• Ability to work independently and use own initiative

Salary: £27,000 per annum pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract: Permanent

Location: The Mix, 8 Glentworth Street, NW1 5PG

Pension: 4% employee contribution secures 4% employers’ contribution to stakeholder pension scheme.

Hours: This post is full time Monday to Friday with 35 working hours a week. Occasional evening and weekend work will be required for which time of in lieu will be given.

Annual leave: You will be entitled to 35 days of holiday pro rata, which includes the 8 Statutory Bank Holiday during each year.

Benefits:

• Flexible and remote working available
• Eyecare vouchers
• Life assurance
• Weekly staff socials, plus Summer and Christmas Party
• Colleague of the month  – awarded half a day extra annual leave
• Central London location
• Clinical supervision offered for front line services staff
• Coaching Environment
• Learning, development and training options

To apply, please send a CV and a covering letter addressing the attributes outlined in the Job Description and Person Specification

The well-loved St Christopher's Hospice are looking for a Senior Events Fundraiser to join their busy fundraising team.

Proudly celebrating 50 years, you will ensure the Hospice continue to provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across 5 boroughs. In supporting the Community and Event Fundraising manager you will contribute to the 1 million raised annually through fundraising events.

You will utilise your previous event fundraising experience to hit the ground running and manage the performance of events fundraising activities.

Your fantastic experience of mass participation events will ensure you successfully recruit, steward and retain dedicated supporters.

Your positive track record of fundraising event management will ensure you successfully develop, deliver and manage a portfolio of fundraising events including bespoke and mass participation events.

Your driven and motivated nature will ensure you work well within this busy and collaborative team.

Salary: £31,892
Location: South London
Contract: Permanent

This is a fantastic opportunity for an Events Fundraiser to join a successful team, and make a real difference for an impactful and well established organisation.

For more information please email a copy of your CV to [email protected] Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please get in touch ASAP to avoid disappointment. Please note only successful applicants

About us

St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating more than 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Your new role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Fundraiser to join our busy Fundraising Team who currently raises £1 million annually through community fundraising and bespoke fundraising events and projects.

The Senior Community Fundraiser role will be strongly focused on bringing in new community partnerships and account managing both these and existing relationships. Specifically, the post holder will work with the Community and Event Fundraising Manager to develop and deliver a strategy to increase the level of community support and income through the pro-active engagement and management of local groups, clubs, organisations and individuals across the five boroughs we support and build long term relationships with these partners; to be a representative for St Christopher’s at external events; recruit volunteers to represent the hospice at community events and at our own events such as Open Gardens and to build support of St Christopher’s from other organisations through research and submitting applications to be selected as the fundraising beneficiary of third party events. All this will fit within the overarching Fundraising Strategy and the Community and Events Strategy.

We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and driven individual who has a sound understanding of community fundraising with excellent relationship building skills. Someone who works well in a busy environment developing, managing and delivering a portfolio of initiatives, who is a team player but also able to work on own. You will be able to demonstrate a successful track record of delivering against targets in community fundraising with experience of volunteer management and growing community fundraising groups. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who is able to interact with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships and partnerships.

To succeed in this role

You will be solutions focussed and a great team player. Additionally, it is just as important to us that you have the following skills;

• Self-starter with strong team working ethic who is willing to take the initiative and pro-actively engage with community supporters;
• Have the ability to communicate empathetically with patients and supporters around sensitive issues such as bereavement;
• Be confident, articulate, outgoing and with excellent customer service skills;

What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community. In addition you will benefit from access to excellent training and development opportunities, a number of health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free off street parking nearby and an onsite staff canteen at our Sydenham site.

Closing Date:  20 October 2019

Interview Date:  28 October 2019

About us

St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating more than 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Your new role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Event Fundraiser to join our busy Fundraising Team who currently raises £1 million annually through bespoke fundraising events and projects.

The Senior Event Fundraiser role will lead on all bespoke fundraising events, delivering outstanding event management, stewardship and marketing to inspire and motivate event fundraisers. Specifically the post holder will work with the Community and Events Fundraising Manager to develop, deliver and implement a strategy to maximise income and support the short, medium and long-term sustainability of the organisation. This will fit within the overarching Fundraising Strategy and the Community and Events Strategy. They will manage the performance of event fundraising activities to ensure that ambitious targets are achieved through delivery of the current programme and introducing new, exciting projects to expand St Christopher’s event portfolio.

We are seeking an experienced, target-driven events fundraiser who is ready to take the next step in their career to help us continue to grow income and deliver our ambitious targets. You will have previous experience of community and events fundraising and supporter care. You will be able to demonstrate experience on working on a mass participation event and developing, implementing and successful delivery of fundraising events. You will be comfortable building relationships to secure support and raise awareness of the organisation and have proven experience to recruit, steward and retain dedicated supporters. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who is able to interact with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships and partnerships.

To succeed in this role

You will be solutions focussed and a great team player. Additionally, it is just as important to us that you have the following skills;

• Self-starter with strong team working ethic who is willing to take the initiative and pro-actively engage with community supporters;
• Drive and enthusiasm;
• Confident, articulate, outgoing and with excellent customer service skills;

What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community. In addition you will benefit from access to excellent training and development opportunities, a number of health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free off street parking nearby and an onsite staff canteen at our Sydenham site.

Closing Date:  20 October 2019

Interview Date:  29 and 30 October 2019

Barons Court Project seeks an experienced Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser. Your work will change the lives of people who are homeless or living with mental health issues. You will be responsible for writing funding bids and managing grants, including submitting monitoring reports. You will have targets to achieve to help us become more sustainable and also expand the service we offer to meet increasing need. We are a small day centre in Hammersmith and Fulham with big ambitions. We need an exceptional candidate to help us grow and deliver more. We are flexible in terms of work location and whether this is a full time or part time role. We are a small friendly team with lots of creativity. If you have a passion to make a diference to our guests then we would love to hear from you.

Senior Fundraiser - Trusts and Foundations
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (Dependant on experience)

Here at Eden Brown I'm delighted to be supporting a fantastic charity with an incredibly long heritage their main objective, to save lives and prevent or relieve human suffering, advance education, advance citizenship, and promote civic responsibility and volunteering. The charity is looking to appoint a Senior Fundraiser (Trusts and Foundations) who will be responsible for the Trust and Foundations income target in addition to the fundraising strategy in collaboration with wider fundraising colleagues.

As a Senior Fundraiser you will continuously seek out all available income sources from Trusts and Foundations and to prepare and submit high quality funding applications while positively contributing to the small fundraising team by giving appropriate support, adding value, assisting with meeting key performance indicators and offering strategic direction and guidance in your area of expertise.

To be considered for this role you will come to us with experience and ensure you have excellent knowledge of the charity's services, understand how they are funded, and ensure your fundraising practices are current, effective, 'driven and dynamic' and follow best practice.

Your principal role is essentially to explore and maximise possible income from Trusts and Foundations - in essence, you'll own and be the main driver of improving income generation from this sector. You will work closely with everyone to fulfil fundraising team outcomes, engaging and working with members to ensure all are well informed.

To register your interest, or to hear more about this fantastic opportunity, please contact Shabnam on [email protected] / 0113 2207 540.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Snr Major Donor Fundraiser

London

£40,000-£45,000 pa

• Are you an experienced fundraiser who has worked in face to face cultivation of support which could be within Community, Corporate or Major Donor Fundraising roles?
• Do you have proven success in relationship building- taking a prospect through to a Major Donor status?
• Are you degree educated (or eqv)

If so, a faith based media organisation may be interested in talking to you.

Your duties will include Prospect/Donor Engagement and Reporting and Pipeline Development.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced fundraiser who would like to work with a faith based media organisation reporting directly into the Director of Fund-raising.

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Are you a community fundraiser looking for your next challenge working for a charity leading the way in type 1 diabetes research? If so we would love to hear from you.  JDRF are looking for a new fundraiser to join their Scotland office, and help continue the growth of fundraising in the region.

JDRF’s supporters range from adults with type 1, to parents of children recently diagnosed, and more long term supporters who have lived with type 1 diabetes in their lives a while. Once they have the connection to type 1, they can become lifelong supporters, so your role is important to keep them involved, supported and part of the JDRF family.

Ideally you will have previous experience of fundraising, organising events, sales and marketing or a connection to type 1 diabetes.

You will be a team player, who enjoys working within a small but busy team, have superb written and verbal communication skills, be digitally literate and skilled at using various social media channels. You’ll have excellent creative, time management and planning skills.

You will steward third party supporters in Scotland, thanking them for their hard work, offering help with their fundraising endeavours, and strengthening existing relationships, and creating new ones.

As a regional fundraiser you will help identify and develop corporate partnerships across the region.

You will work as part of a team on our core events such as JDRF One Fun Run and One Walk and the Aberdeen Gala Ball.

In return we offer you flexible working, generous annual leave entitlement, and an employee assistance programme. We have strong, positive values and friendly culture where we support you in developing your career aspirations.

To apply please visit our website

Closing date: Monday, 21 October, 10.00am

Interview dates: 29 or 30 October (TBC) in Aberdeen

JDRF is the type 1 diabetes charity in the UK.  We are committed to eradicating type 1 diabetes and its effects for everyone in the UK with type 1. We:

• Fund our world-class research which is approved and administered by our international research programme to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes
• make sure research moves forward and treatments are delivered as fast as possible
• give support and a voice to people with type 1 and their families

We are an ambitious and changing organisation.  Be part of the change and help find a cure for type 1 diabetes.  We’d love to hear from you.

Talented corporate fundraiser needed to drive existing and new strategic partnerships and shape the corporate strategy.

We are delighted to work on this exceptional role within a leading international development charity, as they navigate through their exciting new strategy to double income, largely through corporate partnerships.

We are looking for a talented partnerships fundraiser to work creatively and proactively to drive existing (£450k) and new partnerships, focusing on creative, strategic and sustainable growth.

The role would suit someone ready to hit the ground running with some established, exciting partnerships, with a keen ability to identify and win new business, whilst working collaboratively with the Head of Fundraising to develop wider corporate strategy.

The charity offers great benefits, and there is scope to develop and grow within the team.

Person specification

• Three years of corporate fundraising / partnerships experience
• Creative and hard working, with excellent communication skills
• Confident working multiple projects at once, utilising cross-team relationships
• Experience working with international partners (desirable)

Flexible hours, potential for home working, personal development plans, 28 days holiday, season ticket loan.

                                       

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Liam Huse 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.

Head of Corporate Engagement

35 hours per week.

£43,697 per annum with annual progression to £48,552

Location: Flexible

In 1881, a young Sunday School teacher called Edward Rudolf reached into the City of London and called on business to join forces with the local community to create a new society for vulnerable disadvantaged children. The Children's Society. Over 100 years later, and more than 1 million children's lives positively changed, we continue to build powerful partnerships with companies, communities and young people themselves to create a better society for children.

Now we are looking for you to join us for the next great era of corporate engagement, as we embark on an exciting new plan to create new strategic partnerships with businesses that share our mission and passion to help more children than ever before.

You are an exceptional people person - someone with proven experience building impactful relationships with companies and key stakeholders to achieve change. In this role, you'd be responsible for leading on our portfolio of corporate partnerships, while working with other senior managers in the High Value team to ensure we always take a one-team joined-up approach, that focusses on relationships and impact for children (not siloed targets or a short term dash-for-cash).

If this sounds like the next challenge you have been looking for then we want to hear from you.

The closing date for applications is 23:59pm Wednesday 30th October.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 14 November.

We are growing!  Matrix, a Christian Youth Work Charity, has an exciting programme of development over the next few years, and so we're looking for an experienced Trusts and Grants Fundraiser to become part of the Matrix family.

You need to be able to hit the ground running, so we're looking for someone who already has success in writing funding applications.

This is a vital role, taking the lead in raising core and restricted income from charitable trusts, grants through research, proposal writing, cultivation and stewardship of relationships and reporting. 

If you want to be part of an innovative organisation that helps young people make the most of their lives, then this could be the opportunity for you!

Email us for an application pack and a full job description, or visit our website to find out more.

What are we looking for in a candidate?

• Ability to initiate, deliver and manage multiple applications with a high degree of attention to detail

• Able to demonstrate success in researching, managing, delivering and writing compelling grant applications, e.g. lottery, trusts, foundations and statutory funders

• Understanding of budgeting and financial management 

• Track record of working towards and achieving financial targets, using own initiative to reach them

• Confident written and oral communicator, as well as strong copywriting skills 

• Highly-organised with the ability to work well under pressure, including managing and delivering multiple projects 

• Enthusiastic, positive and professional attitude.

• Strong negotiating and influencing skills 

• Can demonstrate experience in achieving set income targets, preferably in a major gift fundraising role 

• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail 

• Excellent IT skills 

• Awareness of GDPR and data protection issues

• Agrees with, and is able to support the ethos of the Matrix Trust

• Confident in developing new relationships and able to liaise with staff, volunteers and external partners

DESIRABLE

At least two years’ experience of writing funding applications or a proven track record of successful fundraising from charitable trusts 

• Proven ability to clearly convey complex information to a variety of audiences

• A degree level qualification 

• A member of the Institute of Fundraising
  Understanding and experience of the youth or education sector 

• Charity Fundraising experience

• A full UK driving licence

A unique charity positioned at the heart of original, cutting-edge medical research, we are currently looking to appoint an experienced Corporate Partnerships Manager.

Genesis Research Trust, founded by Professor Lord Robert Winston in 1978, is the largest collaboration of reproductive health researchers in the UK. We fund life-saving research into female infertility, miscarriage, late pregnancy loss, preterm labour and stillbirth as well as reproductive cancers (ovarian etc.). We have strong ties with the Faculty of Medicine and are based in the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology (IRDB) at Imperial College’s, Hammersmith Hospital Campus.

Job Title: Corporate Partnerships Manager
Salary: £35,000 to £42,000
Location: Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus
Hours: Full Time 5 days (4 days per week pro rata also possible)

This is a superb opportunity for an experienced corporate fundraiser to join our growing team of fundraisers.

• Our IRDB building is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary
• Scientifically, we are consistently on the cusp making major breakthroughs
• We have a strong track record of success
• We regularly welcome new supporters
• Trustees are accessible and highly involved in our projects and strongly support of our fundraising goals
• Our social media influence is expanding its reach

Fancy helping a women and babies medical charity?

We are seeking a pro-active, self-starter with experience creating and supporting national partnerships. It is your chance to make a difference where your voice, ideas and input matters to the team and to the agenda.  We need people like you.

You will become involved with a variety of corporate fundraising activities in prestigious London venues and world class research that has a real global impact on hospitals, doctors, research on maternal health baby loss. You will liaise with partners on the valuable impact of their donations to deliver high value partnerships. There is also a creative scope for new business development.

You will manage your own portfolio of partners who will also join us at key medical conferences. We have long standing medical education, fertility and public education conferences with a loyal following for over 25 years.

You’ll be joining a small, versatile development team where you will be developing new income pipelines to fund vital research to help prevent baby loss and save women’s lives.

You will cultivate and build relationships with UK and International companies.  This will include obtaining corporate sponsors for priority areas such as studentships and fellowships where we fund vital female fertility and related medical research. You will also work with our Challenge Events Leader and Conference Managers to secure sponsors.

Closing Date: Monday 11/11/2019

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply for this position, after reading the attached Job Description please click the apply button and attach your CV and covering letter, it will be sent automatically to us.

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