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As a charity we aim to follow the principles and practices associated with coproduction where all stakeholders are engaged in the designing, fundraising, delivering, monitoring, evaluating, and learning. In this way we are all accountable.
We are looking for a motivated, dynamic, passionate and experieinced person to join our team and take their seat at this table and take ownership of the fundraising function targeting the £10,000 plus market and by so doing, enable amazing change to happen.
Job Profile
Role Name: Trusts and Foundation Officer
Reports To: Managing Director, Livingstone Tanzania Trust
Hours 16 hours per week
Salary c£14,500 per annum (Full time c £34,000 per annum for 37.5 hrs per week)
Preferred Start date 13th January 2025
Location: Working from home, with occasional attendance in person
Summary
Livingstone Tanzania Trust (LTT) was set up in 2007. Our vision is to live in a world where every young person has access to a quality education. Our mission is to work in partnership with communities in Tanzania to address the barriers that prevent young people from accessing the quality education they need to reach their full educational potential. To achieve this, we focus on infrastructure and resource programmes, developing teachers’ competencies and addressing issues surrounding household poverty.
As a charity we aim to follow the principles and practices associated with coproduction where all stakeholders are engaged in the designing, fundraising, delivering, monitoring, evaluating, and learning. In this way we are all accountable.
In addition, as a charity, we aim to support our partners in Tanzania to reduce their dependence on us, which we achieve by building their skills to stand on their own feet. This requires us to share our knowledge and provide mentoring services as our partners grow
Working with a team of three LTT employees, as well as Trustees and supporters the key objectives of the Partnerships team is to:
- Support our ambitious vision: a quality, inclusive education for every child in Tanzania.
- Plan; manage; deliver; monitor and maintain oversight of LTT’s Trust and Foundation fundraising portfolio, activities and opportunities. Target is to raise in excess of £300,000 per annum from UK and International Trusts, Foundations, other Institutional Donors and individuals in 2025-6 and increase by £40,000 a year thereafter.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
This position will focus on sourcing and developing potential national and international funders who provide single and multi-year grants in excess of £10,000 including those who do not accept unsolicited grants.
Duties include:
- Develop and manage opportunity pipelines of prospective funders, planning introductions.
- Write compelling, concise, well-presented, tailored approaches and grant applications in Word and Canva.
- Liaise with the Operations team, to gather the relevant information for grant applications (e.g. data, case studies, imagery etc).
- Ensure systems are kept up to date with all details of grant application documents, progress and outcomes and any other interactions with funders.
- Work with partners in Tanzania to offer them support and guidance
- Draft programme reports for projects for which you have raised funds.
- Contribute with other team members to the organisational budgeting process, by producing a detailed breakdown of opportunities and likelihood of success.
- Contribute to production of key external documents which may impact Trust and Foundation fundraising e.g. Annual Report & Accounts, Impact Report.
- Attend team meetings at least twice a year
- Attend relevant third-party events/training as required.
- Attend and assist with some LTT fundraising events.
- Other related duties as required.
Key Requirements
- Knowledgeable and passionate about International Development/Education
- Understanding and respectful of cultural differences.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a grant fundraising role, with a successful track record of regularly securing 4 and 5 figure grants.
- Knowledge of funding databases and other sources of potential funders.
- Ability to absorb, collate and organise large amounts of information from different sources/channels.
- Ability to select and distil programme information to develop a core message for target funders, aligned to their specific interests.
- Persuasive writing skills – weaving powerful stories with clear evidence of programme impacts.
- Strong IT literacy and adept in making funding applications online.
- Experience of developing fundraising budgets.
- Excellent organisational/planning skills.
- Networking skills.
- Willingness for occasional travel for meetings and events.
Become Chance for Childhood's new Partnerships Manager!
Please note: This is a fundraising post.
Following a highly successful period of growth, Chance for Childhood has a fantastic opportunity to join our fundraising team.
This is an exciting time to join. Our reach is increasing thanks to the success of multiple bids with trusts, foundations and institutional grantmakers. With enhanced sectoral credibility and a strengthened brand, we are now in a strong position to widen our operational presence and attract new funders for projects that will transform the lives of thousands more children in vulnerable situations. We need your skills and expertise to help us secure these funds and make a real difference to our beneficiaries.
Role details
- £40,000 salary
- Remote-based, with one day per month in our London office
- 28 days annual leave pro rata (three to be taken during the Christmas office closure)
- Birthdays off
- 5% employer’s pension contribution
- Flexible working as standard
- Potential for exciting international travel depending on budget
Who we are
Chance for Childhood believes that no child should have to fight for a safe, happy childhood.
We exist to ensure that every child in Africa can thrive from their early years through to adulthood. Together with partners, supporters, children, and their communities, we protect, educate and create lasting change for every child threatened by violence, neglect and conflict.
We work in five African countries (Ghana, the DRC, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda) and we are carving out a niche as experts in inclusive education and safe spaces for children facing multiple complex vulnerabilities.
In 2022, we launched the #OverExposed campaign to advocate for ethical imagery and storytelling in the fundraising and marketing materials of international development charities.
Duties
The role will involve a combination of stewardship and new business, helping us to secure support from more trusts, foundations and businesses who share our passion for transforming the lives of children in the communities with whom we work.
Key duties will be to:
- Prospect and research potential grantmakers and businesses who share our strategic objectives
- Take a relationships-based approach wherever possible, establishing warm relationships between partners and Chance for Childhood
- Provide input to the 2025-2030 fundraising strategy, using your experience and knowledge of the fundraising landscape to help us devise an ambitious but sustainable plan to safeguard our work for the next five years
- Maintain a strong pipeline of funding opportunities
- Draft compelling, creative and persuasive funding proposals
- Secure four, five and six figure grants from trusts and foundations
- Manage a small portfolio of trusts and corporate partners, maintaining an accurate calendar of reporting and stewardship expectations
- Write and submit accurate reports to funders’ deadlines
- Beyond meeting formal reporting requirements, provide outstanding informal stewardship to funders, developing strong relationships and increasing the chances of repeat funding
- Communicate skilfully across borders with our brilliant in-country programmes team to maintain a flow of information, stories and data for fundraising and reporting
- Accurately record communications using our fundraising CRM (Beacon) and enable reporting on expected income
- Work effectively within our small, supportive and mighty fundraising and marketing team to ensure strong dissemination of ideas, and fidelity to our organisational brand in communications
- Stay well informed of existing and new fundraising legislation and adhere to the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising best practice as well as relevant fundraising and UK GDPR requirements
Person specification:
A highly organised, detail-oriented self-starter who engenders credibility and trust with stakeholders, you will have good working knowledge of corporate and trusts and foundations fundraising, and very strong written and verbal communication skills.
To be the right fit for this role, you do not need to have a degree. You do not need experience in international development fundraising, although this would be an advantage.
We are looking for someone who is:
- A knowledgeable, confident and experienced professional. We’re looking for a fundraiser who loves fundraising
- Committed to the values of Chance for Childhood, including ethical storytelling and shifting power to local communities
- Motivated by working towards a wide range of positive outcomes for children in vulnerable situations, including facilitating access to physiotherapy and rehabilitation for children with disabilities, educational opportunities for displaced and conflict-affected children, and developing sustainable livelihoods for families in poverty
- A natural planner, organised and efficient and capable of supporting the planning of Chance for Childhood’s trusts and foundations and corporate partnerships operations
- An excellent written communicator, experienced at writing persuasively and emotively
- A compelling verbal communicator, able to build rapport with donors and stakeholders at multiple levels
- A meticulous researcher; capable of finding and using relevant data to underpin credible proposals
- Able to manage multiple competing priorities and work flexibly as part of a fast-paced and ambitious team
- Energetic and proactive; able to make decisions independently and manage your own workload
- Engaging and approachable
- Skilled in collaborating with colleagues, and building relationships with prospective and existing grantmakers
- A flexible, open-minded and solutions-focused thinker who is ready to take risks and try new things in pursuit of our fundraising goals
Application process
To apply, please send the following documents:
- Your CV
- A letter of no longer than 2-pages illustrating how your skills and experience make you the right person for the role
- A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
Timeline
Deadline for applications: Thursday 26th September 2024
- Shortlisted candidates contacted by Friday 4th October
- First stage: Online 45-minute interviews held w/c 14th October. Interviewees will also be asked to provide an example of their writing they are proud of.
- Second stage: In-person interviews held in London w/c 21st October
- Appointment made by end of October
We can be flexible with the above schedule if necessary; it is provided as an indication of our planned timeline.
Chance for Childhood
Chance for Childhood is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities in employment.
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Chance for Childhood.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. A Police criminal record check will be required for this post, as part of Chance for Childhood's commitment to child protection, as outlined in our Safeguarding and PSEA Policy, which all staff are required to sign and adhere to.
Thank you for your interest in Chance for Childhood!
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CALP Donor Relations Manager (2119)
Location: Oxford based (with flexibility to work from home within our hybrid working arrangements)
Hours: 36 hours per week
Salary: £36,826-£48,136 per annum
Job Type: Open ended
Closing Date: 1 October 2024
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
We are looking for the right person to lead the evolution of CALP’s fundraising. The role combines strategic leadership, internal and external coordination, and lots of hands-on development of funding applications, reports and much more. It's a pivotal role, helping to ensure the financial sustainability of CALP.
The role holder will manage and cultivate strong relationships with donors and members of the network, including the funding teams in our host organisations through whom funding flows. They will lead in identifying new funding opportunities and sustaining effective relationships with existing donors. This includes the development of consistently high-quality proposals and reports, whilst also ensuring compliance with contractual requirements. The role involves work across the whole CALP team, serving as an expert for CALP on strategic fundraising and donor relations.
Working as part of a globally dispersed team, this position is UK based and open to applicants with existing right to work in the UK. The role can be home based anywhere in the UK or work from an office in Oxford.
If you have passion, expertise and experience in the field of donor relations, and believe in people-centred humanitarian assistance, then we’d love to hear from you.
About CALP
CALP is a dynamic global network of over 90 organisations engaged in the critical areas of policy, practice and research in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and financial assistance more broadly. Collectively, CALP members deliver the vast majority of humanitarian CVA worldwide.
We envision a future where people are enabled to overcome crises with dignity, by exercising choice and their right to self-determination.
The purpose of the CALP network is to maximise the potential that humanitarian CVA can bring to people in contexts of crisis, as one component of broader financial assistance. To do this we catalyse the power, knowledge and capacities of our diverse global network, alongside other local, national, regional and global actors, all of whom are seeking to secure better outcomes for people living in crisis contexts. Our role as a collective is to generate alignment in the approaches and actions of those within and across our network, in order to help optimise the quality and scale of humanitarian CVA.
What makes CALP unique is its diversity. CALP members currently include local and international non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, donors, specialist social innovation, technology and financial services companies, researchers and academics, and individual practitioners.
As a CALP team, we work with and for the CALP network – keeping our vision front and centre. Working impartially, we engage with the network to generate evidence, we facilitate dialogue, we challenge and question, we draw together good practices and promote their uptake. We play a key role in creating the impetus and means for thought leadership and convene network members to generate futures-thinking agendas. We mobilise the membership and the wider network to look for collective solutions to collective problems.
The Role:
The Donor Relations Manager leads and develops CALP’s fundraising strategy and activities to enable CALP to finance its overall strategy. The role holder manages and cultivates healthy relationships with donors and network members, and shares compliance responsibilities depending on contractual requirements.
This role has strong inter-relations within realms of strategy, programmes, operations, planning and monitoring, and serves as an expert for the CALP team on strategic fundraising and donor relations.
What we are looking for:
We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also have:
Key Accountabilities
- Share whole team leadership as a manager
- Strategically lead CALP’s fundraising vision, approach, strategy and plans; build partnerships and broker relations with current and new donors as part of CALP’s longer-term fundraising ambitions.
- Develop the long-term funding vision and strategy, and develop and lead its implementation to ensure funding of CALP’s plans now and in the future
- Research and prospect for new donors and funding streams.
- Engage at the strategic level in proposal development and reporting; plus carry out operational work in terms of reviewing and editing proposals and reports
- Represent and manage CALP’s relationships (from a funding perspective) with donors
- Work with CALP grant managers and the Operations Team to ensure understanding of compliance as per grant agreements; communicate with donors to clarify any compliance queries
- Manage the funding relationships with host agencies
- Coordinate overall funding across grants
- Provide quality assurance of funding proposals and reports and ensure compliance with donor agreements
- Provide management support for and foster personal development of the Donor Relations Officer
- Accountable for CALP’s reputation with donors from a funding perspective
Essential Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
- Degree or equivalent qualification in an appropriate technical field, or equivalent level of professional experience.
- Significant, proven experience of generating substantial funding including proven ability to develop funding strategies, plan effectively and deliver complex funding applications and donor reports.
- High level experience and knowledge of key humanitarian and development donors such as: ECHO, BHA/USAID, GFFO, FCDO and European government donors.
- Knowledge and experience of working with consortium-based funding.
- Proven strategic design and management skills including good programme development ability and proven knowledge of M&E at project and programme levels.
- Significant experience with budgeting, financial reporting, including managing and reporting on complex programme budgets.
- Ability to develop and manage complex relationships.
- Proven experience of funding management systems/databases.
- Very strong conceptual and analytical skills, including excellent facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English - report writing, and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely and to motivate and persuade at high levels.
- Diplomacy, good interpersonal skills and ability to remain calm under pressure while not losing sight of strategic priorities.
- Proven initiative, flexibility and ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines across multiple time zones.
Desirable attributes
- Strong understanding of the humanitarian sector.
- Experience working with foundations and philanthropy
- Fluency in Arabic, French or Spanish, in addition to English
- Experience of working in a virtual network or remote team
- Staff management experience
We offer:
We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.
From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
Flexfam:
We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.
How to apply:
As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
A thriving diverse Oxfam:
It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.
To do that:
- We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
- We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
- We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.
As Fundraising Coordinator you will play a key role in Viva’s Fundraising & Engagement team, building relationships with and providing exceptional supporter care to our donors – including individuals, churches and community groups. Your high level of organisation, strong administrative skills and love of engaging with a variety of people will ensure that Viva’s supporters have an excellent and personalised giving experience. Through all this you will play a vital role in supporting Viva’s core mission of effectively responding to the needs of vulnerable children around the world.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporter engagement – personally engaging with donors by email, letters, phone or in person
- Supporter care administration – ensuring accuracy in reporting and recording donations
- Coordination of Fundraising & Engagement team – supporting team communication and the Director for Fundraising & Engagement in team administration
- Operations and office support – ensuring Viva’s UK office runs smoothly
This role will suit you if you:
- enjoy engaging with supporters and building relationships
- are highly organised, thrive on accuracy and have a keen eye for detail
- are quick to learn and engage with systems and data, including financial software and information
- would love to join a welcoming, creative, supportive and international team
This is a full- or part-time role for Viva, located at our Oxford office in the UK with the option to also work at home: some working time will be needed in the office on a weekly basis but the exact split of office/home working time can be decided in conversation between the successful candidate and line manager.
Take a look at the full job description and person specification in the information pack and, if this is you, then apply today to be part of this incredible work, making a real and lasting difference for children.
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 pages explaining why you are applying for the role and how you are suitable for it. The person specification in the information pack will help you in this.
Please do let us know if you need any assistance or adjustments made as you apply for this role, and we would be happy to help.
The closing date will be midnight on Sunday 22 September 2024 and interviews will be held in Oxford in the week commencing 30 September 2024.
Life in all its fullness! That's what we want for children everywhere.
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