ROLE DESCRIPTION: Trust & Grants Fundraiser
SALARY: Grade 3 £25,555 per annum
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week – with some weekend and evening work on occasions. Part-time or job share will be considered for the right candidate(s).
REPORTS TO: Head of Fundraising
PURPOSE: To help maximise income from charitable trusts and foundations
Nature of the Role
The Together Trust currently employs around 850 staff and volunteers, across a number of care, education and community sites in the North-West and surrounding areas. The Fundraising team, based at the Together Trust Centre in Cheadle services the whole charity. The team currently comprises of a Head of Fundraising, a Trust & Foundation Fundraiser, Corporate Fundraiser, Community and Events Fundraisers (x 2) and a Fundraising Assistant.
The post holder will work in collaboration with other colleagues across the Trust. The Head of Fundraising guides the work of the fundraising team, however the post holder will be expected to prioritise and manage their workload and to work independently as well as being part of a team. All staff are expected to work in a flexible way and tasks that have not been covered in the job description may have to be undertaken. Time off in lieu is given for additional hours worked in line with Together Trust policy and with the prior agreement of the Head of Fundraising.
JOB PURPOSE
Based at our centre in Cheadle, Cheshire, you will be detail-orientated with excellent communication skills. You will be highly motivated, skilled and resourceful and will have experience of trust fundraising with a proven track record of success in this area.
Above all, you will be a creative and persuasive writer who knows how to communicate effectively by interpreting and translating the vision and needs of the charity. Within the small team, all staff are expected to work in a flexible way and tasks that have not been covered in the job description may have to be undertaken.
The successful candidate will:-
- Reliably understand the philosophy, activities and diversity of the Together Trust in order to enthusiastically and accurately promote its work
- Help deliver the fundraising strategy and promote the reputation of fundraising internally and externally to ensure it becomes understood, integrated, and appreciated at the Together Trust
- Work at all times in accordance with the Policies and Procedures of the Together Trust
- Understand that safeguarding children and vulnerable people is a priority for all employees.
Job role:
Internal Responsibilities
- To work with stakeholders to understand and develop a pipeline of projects which meet a known need in line with the Trust’s overarching strategy
- To work closely with operational and support colleagues to ensure the effective co-ordination and quality assurance of trust and foundation fundraising, supporting colleagues especially those in business development, fundraising and communications and marketing.
- To develop and manage a comprehensive programme of targeted proposals and applications which secure significant income from trusts and foundations in line with agreed KPIs.
External Responsibilities
- To manage a portfolio of relationships with key Trusts and Foundations
- To apply a stewardship approach to Trusts and Foundations, providing ‘over and above’ the minimum reporting required, to build long-term relationships with Trusts and Foundations
- To ensure that the Together Trust meets funders’ reporting and other requirements, using appropriate project management systems which will include effective monitoring, evaluation and timely and accurate reports
- To research, identify and prospect potential funders
Administrative and Strategic Responsibilities
- To triage industry bulletins with potential funding sources
- To keep accessible, accurate and up to date records in line with appropriate policy and regulation
- To develop a system for prioritising and approaching prospects, and ensure the wider team understand the system
- To work with the Head of Fundraising and the wider team to identify fundraising opportunities that can be supported by trust and grant fundraising
- To be accountable for grant recording, prospecting, and segmentation in line with team systems, Trust policy and GDPR best practice
General Responsibilities
- To undertake training as required
- To work to agreed targets and KPIs
- To take part in other fundraising activities to support the wider team, as required, which may involve some evenings and weekends for which time in lieu will be taken
- To work with the Head of Fundraising on larger fundraising projects as required
- To perform any other duties consistent with the nature of the post as agreed with the Head of Fundraising.
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Organisation: Lively Minds. UK Registered Charity 1125512
Position: Grants & Project Support Officer
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Jinja, Uganda (with some travel to Ghana and UK)
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
About us
Over 250 million children under 5 globally do not get the early childhood care and education (“ECCE”) they need, leading to poor health, poor education, lost life opportunities and poverty.
Lively Minds is an award-winning charity tackling this crisis in rural Ghana & Uganda. We believe that one of the main barriers to ECCE is that parents in remote resource-poor villages lack the information, education and aspiration to provide basic and affordable opportunities for their children.
We have developed an innovative behaviour change programme that empowers uneducated and marginalised Mothers in resource-poor communities to run educational Play Schemes for pre-schoolers and to provide better home-based care, using cheap local resources. Not only does this result in positive outcomes for child development, but also has positive impacts for the Mothers too.
These are exciting times for Lively Minds. Having proven the success of our programme at small-scale, we are now in the process of making a step-change and scaling rapidly. We are partnering with the Government of Ghana to scale to 67 education districts and 4,000 schools in Ghana (to reach over 1 million pre-schoolers). In Uganda, we are currently testing pathways to scale, implementing in one district (325 communities) and will develop our scale-up strategy in 2021.
Our main income source is through grants. Current donors include Global Innovation Fund, USAID, Omidyar Network, UNICEF, Grand Challenges Canada, Echidna Giving Foundation, and ELMA Philanthropies. We're looking for a Grants & Support Officer to help us manage our reporting obligations to these funders and who can provide general support for programme activities. The postholder will be in based in our Uganda office but will be working on activities for the whole organisation. This is a unique opportunity for anyone looking for a way to get involved in international development to be involved in all aspects of grant management, implementation and organisational support.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Work with our Head of Monitoring & Evaluation, Country Directors, project teams and finance teams, to generate high quality and timely donor reports to keep donors aware of and engage them in our progress, successes and challenges.
- Help share learnings and best practices across the organisation and contribute to regular “quality assurance” activities and audits.
- Support the development of a fundraising strategy and deliver fundraising activities through researching fundraising opportunities, contributing towards grant applications, and preparing pitches.
- Work with our Marketing Communications Manager to support the development of promotional activities and materials for grassroots, regional, national & international funders and stakeholders including videos, field visits, in-country conferences, impact and progress reports, presentations, speeches, blogs, and website content.
- Support general operations and project activities through writing lesson plans/training materials, conducting focus groups and research, and setting-up and coordinating multi-person conference calls and meetings across multiple time-zones.
- Ensure legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable donor requirements, and maintaining records.
- Assist with administrative and general office functions (e.g. responding to general email and phone enquires, donor and supporter queries, sourcing in-kind donations).
Experience/skills
You are…
We are looking for someone with the confidence and experience to work with all our teams, and with the communication skills to produce high quality written reports. You will be working in a multi-national, multi-disciplinary team that is spread across three countries.
To succeed in this role you must:
- be an excellent writer and communicator. You must be confident in producing donor proposals and reports, which are accurate, concise and compelling.
- be analytical. You will need to develop high quality reports and insights based on a sound understanding of donor requirements, and challenges/learnings/achievements/impact in the field.
- be hands-on. You will need to be out in the field to understand the programme and our impact.
- be able to deliver quality at pace. We have a very busy workload and strict deadlines. You need to be organised, proactive and outcomes-focussed.
- be innovative. We operate in resource-poor settings, with challenging stakeholders and with limited resources. You will need to adopt an excellent analytical approach and be prepared to test and learn in order to find creative and sustainable solutions and sustain high quality grant management and reporting.
- be a team-player. You will need to maintain regular contact with our global partners and work effectively with our Monitoring & Evaluation Team and project teams to source the information you need to develop reports and proposals.
- be a self-starter. You must be comfortable working with limited supervision and managing a complex and varied workload.
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Hours: 35 hours per week (37fte)
Salary: £21,189 (full-time-equivalent: £22,400)
Contract: Fixed-term until October 2021 (18 months)
Pension: 6% Employer Contribution
Holiday: 25 days fte
About Crawley Community and Voluntary Service
Crawley Community and Voluntary Service) is a charity which enables and supports volunteers, volunteer groups and charities in and around Crawley. We advocate for the voluntary and community sector with local government and other statutory authorities.
About Social Prescribing in Crawley
Managed by Crawley Community and Voluntary Service, social prescribing in Crawley sets out to improve the health and wellbeing of local people by supporting them to connect with community support and activities. We employ Social Prescriber Link Workers who support people referred by their GP Practice or Adult Social Care to access services, groups and activities that meet their social, emotional and practical needs.
Following a successful pilot in 2016/17, the Crawley and Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group commissioned Crawley Community and Voluntary Service to develop and expand ‘Prescription Plus’ across Crawley. The Project has been extended since then and we are now planning towards October 2020 when the service will align with West Sussex.
‘Prescription Plus’ aims to:
- Link clients with sources of social, practical and emotional support that can help improve their health and well-being and quality of life
- Promote self-management through the use of person-centred methods and an empowering approach that involve people in decisions about their support
- Provide a bridge between Primary Care and sources of health and well-being support offered by the Voluntary and Community Sector
We are recruiting Social Prescribers to join the team. The post-holders will be partnered with four GP surgeries in Crawley. They will be responsible for taking referrals, meeting and assessing patients, and supporting them to make positive changes to their lives by connecting them with community activities. You will be part of an expert team developing and expanding this project in Crawley.
Due to the nature of this role, it is essential that the post-holder has a full, clean driving licence and access to a fully insured vehicle.
For an information pack, please click on the Prescription Plus drop box link
Closing date for applications: 5pm, Friday 27 March
Interviews: week commencing 6 April, 2020
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salford Foundation is currently expanding its income generation team to meet its planned service development, business growth and business plan priorities for the future. This is an exciting time for our organisation as we approach our 30th birthday anniversary. We plan to continue to raise our profile and build relationships with funders and commissioners to diversify our income streams.
We wish to appoint a fundraising bid writer with at least 2 years’ experience of researching, preparing and submitting successful grant funding applications and bids to Trusts, Foundations and Statutory agencies. Ideally, you will have a professional fundraising qualification, a background in the Voluntary and/or Public sector of securing core and project funding for children’s, young people and/or adult services. You will be passionate about creating better futures for people and have the following essential bid writing skills:
- Be pro-active, highly organised and able to plan and prioritise your workload
- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build rapport with funders and commissioners
- Ability to write concisely, creatively and persuasively to engage audiences and tell a compelling story
- Have high levels of numeracy and confidence in working with statistics, budgets and financial information
- Ability to develop project proposals for different target groups
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Leading on implementing Trust and Foundations funding strategy, planning, preparing and submitting grant funding applications for Trusts, Foundations and Statutory agencies
- Supporting the Business Development Manager and fundraising team with the preparation and submission of other grants applications, bids, proposals and pre-qualification questionnaires, as agreed
- Contributing to the development of Salford Foundation’s Funding and Income Diversification 3 Year Strategy 2020/21-2022/2023 and annual funding plan
- Researching and identifying external funding opportunities that meet Salford Foundation’s strategic business plan priorities
- Meet income generation targets
- Preparing and delivering funding briefings to Senior Management Team and Salford Foundation staff on pipeline and current funding opportunities and contributing to “bid kick” off meetings
- Preparing and submitting accurate and timely budget and financial information, using full cost recovery to support grant funding applications and bids
- Developing collaborative working relationships with external statutory, VCSE, public and private sector partners and agencies to support service development and partnership bids
- Researching, obtaining, collating and presenting beneficiary, project and contract data internally from Salford Foundation staff to support the evidence of need
- Supporting the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of grant funding applications and bids
- Submission of monthly and annual progress reports including , grant/bid pipeline opportunities, planned and submitted bids, success rate and fundraising income performance against targets to the Senior Management Team and Line Manager
- Contributing to the ongoing marketing and promoting of the Foundation’s services to external stakeholders using social media, website and other communication updates
- Attending supervisory sessions, relevant subject based training, briefings and networking events to keep up to date with legislation, policies, practice and technology
- Implementing and complying with all Salford Foundation’s policies including Safeguarding Policy, Health and Safety Policy, Data Protection and Confidentiality.
- Undertaking any other tasks of a similar level of responsibility as requested by the Senior Management Team or Line Manager
Knowledge
- Good working knowledge and understanding of Trust, Foundation and Statutory funder requirements and expectations
- Knowledge and understanding of social exclusion and poverty and the impact on children, young people and adults
- Knowledge and understanding of the education, employment, training, health, or criminal justice sectors
- Knowledge and understanding of social value policies and social value measurement
Experience
- Experience of working in the VCSE/public sector in a fundraising or bid writing role
- Recent experience of researching, preparing and submitting Trust, Foundation and Statutory fundraising grants and bids opportunities nationally and/or regionally
- Experience of working collaboratively with staff across an organisation to develop proposals from initial concept through to project start
- Experience of using online funding and e-tendering portals
Skills
- Ability to write accurately, creatively and persuasively to engage the target audience
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to use own initiative, plan and prioritise workloads with minimum supervision
- Ability to research, analyse, interpret and present complex data concisely
- Excellent ICT skills and proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Values and Attitudes
- A desire to help people from all backgrounds and treat them with dignity and respect
- A non-judgemental open mind
- A ‘can do’ attitude focused on solutions and continuous improvement
- Commitment to equality and diversity
- Commitment to maintaining personal and commercial confidentiality
- Commitment to Salford Foundation’s core values
Special Conditions
- Use of a car is desirable but not essential for this role
- Be able to travel across Greater Manchester to attend external meetings and briefings
Staff Benefits
As a valued member of our team, you will enjoy a number of benefits including 6% company contribution into your pension scheme; 23 days holiday per year increasing yearly to a maximum of 30 days plus 8 bank holidays; access to our programme of social, health and well-being events and staff discounts. Please refer to our 'Welcome to our Team' document for more details.
If you have the relevant experience and essential skills and want to be part of our team, please submit a completed application form which can be found below no later than 12 noon on Tuesday 31st March 2020. Interviews will take place on Thursday 16th April 2020.
Please note that only completed application forms will be accepted.
Previous applicants need not apply.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.