The Trust and Foundations Officer will play a key role within the Partnerships and Philanthropy Team.  The role is focused on growing income from grant-making trusts and foundations, in support of our four change ambitions:

1. Farming That Works

2. Energy That Transforms

3. Cities Fit For People

4. Resilience That Protects

Scope

The role combines responsibility for income from two trust portfolios, with broad support for the overall delivery of both the Trust & Foundations Team’s and the Partnership & Philanthropy Team’s strategies.

The post-holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of our Small Trust Programme, which generates vital unrestricted funding via a regular appeal programme, including DfID Aid Match 

In addition, the post-holder will be responsible for developing our relationships with a portfolio of trusts giving between £5,000 and £25,000.

Alongside this they will be responsible for supporting the wider Trust & Foundations team to deliver significant growth through stronger donor research, proposal development, stewardship, relationship management and liaison with colleagues in the UK and international offices. 

The post-holder will also, on occasions, have the opportunity to support the wider Partnerships and Philanthropy team.

Key Working Relationships

The role reports directly to the Trust & Foundations Manager and will develop close working relationships with other Partnerships & Philanthropy colleagues, Marketing and Communications, International Programmes, Policy and Practice, Finance and field staff overseas, in addition to external relationships with donors and supporters. 

 JOB FUNCTIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES 

• Develop and deliver our Small Trusts Programme, strengthening relationships with our existing donors and researching and securing new ones.

• Develop relationships with a portfolio of existing trusts and foundations, ensuring all donors receive exceptional care, stewardship and communications.

• Strengthen the portfolio by researching, engaging and then lead the grant application process for trusts and foundations prospects capable of giving between £5,000 and £25,000.

• Work with the new Business Intelligence and Fundraising Coordinator to undertake and present research on potential UK, European and global trusts and foundations.

• Work with colleagues in the UK and overseas to develop high quality written communications, including Cases for Support, proposals, donor reports and appeals.Sometimes this will involve managing freelancers to support this work.

• Support the development and delivery of events, donor meetings, overseas visits and other engagement activities.

• Act as the Partnership & Philanthropy team’s internal representative on Aid Match appeals and other organisation-wide appeals where necessary

• Participate in meetings with existing and new donors as required.

• Manage, thank and acknowledge donations.

• Maintain our Raisers Edge database with up-to-date donor information

• Attend quarterly networking meetings on behalf of Practical Action

• Input into the Partnerships and Philanthropy team’s planning, budgeting and strategy development process.

PERSON PROFILE

To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Good knowledge and understanding of fundraising from trusts & foundations

• A degree is desirable but not essential

• A good understanding of fundraising principles and legal implications

Skills and Experience

• Must have some fundraising experience, ideally within a trusts team

• Exceptional written communication skills: you need to be able to proactively seek (often complex) information from a variety of sources, or colleagues, and turn this into engaging and inspiring communications relevant to the donor

• Ability to build relationships with people at all levels both internally and externally to win commitment, consensus and support

• Excellent research and prospecting skills

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  Ability to work well under pressure and to deadlines

• Excellent time management skills and attention to detail

• A proactive, independent worker with the ability to work as part of a small team

• Ability to make judgements and recognise when required decision is outside scope of responsibility

• A willingness to travel within the UK when required

• To apply for this role please apply direct to Practical Action.

This small charity based in Rugby is recruiting for a part-time Office Manager to join their team and undertake a very varied role with overall responsibility for ensuring that the charity runs smoothly. The charity provides pastoral care to the railway industry by supporting rail staff and their families, providing vital support to individuals through chaplaincy.

Based in the office, this is a permanent role working three days per week, and the post holder will be a key member of the team. Main duties within the role will include:

• Develop systems and processes for recording supporter data and maintain information on the database
• Ensure records and the generation of reports relating to work for individual Companies or Holding Groups are accurate
• Management of the charity website
• Process all income/expenditure utilising Sage Software, prepare monthly and annual reports for Executive Director and Board of Trustees
• Produce presentations, financial, and other reports as required to the board of trustees and Executive Director in user-friendly formats
• Any other tasks as directed by the Board of Trustees or Executive Director
• Act as GDPR Officer, 'Ensure all information is recorded in accordance with Data Protection Act and act as Data Protection Officer for RM' and ensure the charity remains GDPR compliant
• Maintain Supporter database
• Ensure communications are sent to supporters to agreed timelines
• Encourage and contribute to communications with Supporters including the regular issue of Newsletters, Press Releases, Annual Calendar and other literature
• Oversee and coordinate the activities of the Office Assistant
• Liaise with the Company Secretary in submitting annual returns to the Charity Commission
• Manage and review key contracts e.g. telephones to ensure the best value for the charity
• Keeping the filing system in order.
• Operating the charity's administration systems
• Use of a variety of office IT software such as spreadsheet, emails and databases
• Ensuring the office stationery supply is sufficient

The successful applicant will have the following skills and experience:

• Office management and administration skills
• Competence in Excel, sage or similar accounts package
• Excellent organisation and time management
• Excellent IT knowledge E.g. Word, Excel, Sage
• The ability to use your initiative and to work independently when required
• The capacity to adapt to ever-changing workloads and responsibilities
• The ability to independently identify problems with systems and processes and suggest pragmatic solutions
• High-quality project management skills
• Well-developed written and oral communication skills
• An attention to detail, both accurate and methodical
• Strong interpersonal skills - demonstrable track record of working effectively with colleagues

This charity has a distinctive Christian ethos, working within a secular rail environment, sharing the gospel sensitively and in an appropriate manner, by word and deed. The charity provides professional, independent, impartial, confidential pastoral care and support that supplements the chain of care provided by the rail industry. This post has an occupational requirement for the post holder to be a practising Christian.

If you'd like to be considered for this role please apply online.

Please note, due to the number of applications we receive we aren't always able to respond to unsuccessful candidates.

Volunteer Co-ordinator (Contract)
The Peepul Centre, Leicester (office/field-based, with travel throughout Leicester)
£15,821 per annum Plus Mileage Allowance (reimbursed at 45p per mile)

If you have experience of working with volunteers and/or volunteer-led support groups, this is an incredible opportunity to take on a rewarding contract and make a positive impact in your community.

Royal Voluntary Service is an innovative charity that focuses on inspiring people to give the gift of voluntary service to support the NHS and older people at home and in the community. We are now seeking a Volunteer Co-ordinator to join us on a contract until the 31st March 2020. This role is available on a full or part time basis.

Within a welcoming and supportive environment, you will have the chance to help grow important services that are reducing isolation, enriching communities and enabling people to make a real difference through volunteering.

As a Volunteer Co-ordinator, you’ll support the volunteer recruitment and training processes for our services in the Leicester area.

Working alongside Service Managers and their teams, you will:

- Develop and implement a volunteer recruitment and retention plan
- Recruit, train and motivate volunteers
- Interview volunteers and ensure they are placed in the most appropriate volunteering role
- Co-ordinate and facilitate regular volunteer meetings and training sessions
- Liaise with other organisations to identify potential sources of volunteers
- Carry out a range of administrative tasks

To be considered, you will need:

- Previous experience of working with volunteers and/or volunteer-led support groups or similar experience
- The ability to proficiently use industry standard IT systems (e.g. Microsoft Office, email, the internet, etc.)
- A valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle

Organised and results-focused, as a Volunteer Co-ordinator, you’ll be an adept multi-tasker who can lead, inspire and engage others. You’ll also be enthusiastic and proactive with a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

This role is available on a full or part time basis, working up to 35 hours per week. This role may involve some evening and weekend working, so a flexible approach is key.

The closing date for applications is the 24th November 2019.

To apply for the role of Volunteer Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown.

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Additional Keywords: Volunteer Co-ordinator, Contract, Service Co-ordinator, Service Delivery Co-ordinator, Community Services Co-ordinator, Community Support Co-ordinator, Charity.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and Investor Relations in this exciting newly created role, you will be working with the Investor Relations Manager to contribute to the expansion of Reall’s funding base.  This will be achieved by attracting new finance from major institutional donors (amongst others) and managing the relationships you build.

We develop, refine and share innovative housing models that unlock the political will, capital investment and end-user finance needed to create the conditions for hard- working families in Africa and Asia to secure their own home.  

We do this because affordable homes not only provide a fundamental human right, they unleash unimaginable human potential to shape a future of gender parity, climate resilience, clean water and air, renewable energy and socioeconomic justice. We believe that the best way to realise this future is by working in open collaboration using an open-source approach, so that the best ideas can be adapted and adopted around the world. You will be part of building an affordable homes movement that will improve the lives of 100 million people across Africa and Asia by 2030.

This role will be based in Coventry, though it may require occasional international travel. You will be working 35 hours per week, with a 1 hour unpaid lunch break, and office hours are 9am to 5pm.  We are open to flexible working patterns, subject to the objectives and outcomes of the role being met.  We are a small team (35 people) who achieve big things!

For more information please visit Reall's website.

Key Responsibilities:

• Secure new large-scale finance through researching and progressing funding opportunities
• Programme and proposal design, bid writing, pitching and developing performance measurements, in line with the wider fundraising strategy
• Initiate, develop and maintain strong relations with potential funders
• Manage funder due diligence assessments, monitor progress against agreed funder targets, fulfil funder reporting requirements, and ensure compliance with other contractual obligations
• Monitor trends and opportunities across institutional donors, major foundations and the impact investing sector
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of stakeholder needs within the institutional donor, major foundations and impact investing space
• Contribute to the ongoing development and revision of Reall’s fundraising and funder relations strategy
• Lead on designated networking and presenting opportunities
• Develop, maintain and update effective CRM / management information system

Person Specification:

Education:A relevant degree or equivalent professional qualification

Experience:At least four years’ experience in major fundraising and funder relationship management within the international development space

Key Competencies:

Essential

• Experience of securing funding from and working with major institutional donors, large foundations and/or multilateral bodies
• Proven experience of proposal development, bid writing and pitching, grant contract management, funder reporting and monitoring
• Effective relationship manager
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent computer literacy including word-processing, databases, spreadsheets
• Strong research skills
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Good numeracy skills and ability to analyse and report on financial performance
• Understanding of and experience in the international development sector

Desirable

• Understanding of the social enterprise and impact investment space
• Experience of financial services products

Personal Qualities:

• Great communicator
• Systematic and thorough 
• Learning attitude
• Conscientious and responsible
• Constructive, flexible and helpful 
• Culturally sensitive
• Works well under pressure
• Innovative and entrepreneurial
• Able to work with minimal supervision, use initiative and drive results
• Able to prioritise own workload and to see a task through from start to finish

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 35 hours a week

Location: Can be based in either Birmingham, Luton, Nottingham or Leicester

We are seeking a talented individual who is up for a challenge, areal hands-on digital marketer who is passionate about helping young people to live, learn and earn.

This role is exciting, varied and rewarding and will include working with the national marketing team, regional colleagues, third party organisations and the young people we support. We are looking for candidates who can apply creative thinking to develop and deliver digital marketing campaigns, mainly using paid social media but also employing other digital tactics. The successful candidate will create rich content themselves and also inspire and coach colleagues,agencies and young people to create content.

As working at The Trust is varied, an understanding of traditional media tactics is also desirable.

The successful candidate will possess excellent digital marketing skills, be comfortable to edit relevant pages on our website using our CMS,have strong communication and coaching skills and have the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.

Experience of running digital marketing campaigns is essential and experience of working in the charity sector or with young people is desirable.

>  For further information, please contact our Talent Acquisition team.

>  Closing date for applications is Monday 18th November and interviews will be taking place, week commencing the 25th November.

>We will be unable to accept any CVs sent to directly to us so to apply for this vacancy, please complete the online application. To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince's Trust Behavioural Framework.

About The Prince's Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince's Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we'd like a helping hand. We'll be in touch if we need you.

Do you share our unswerving passion for serving God’s mission in the Arab world as the gospel is shared in word and deed among Muslim people? Are you a strategic thinker with experience in articulating a vision and developing plans to see the vision established? Have you been gifted in communication and honed your public speaking skills to motivate listeners to action?

AWM-Pioneers is looking for a National Director who will have responsibility for giving a strategic and visionary lead to the organisation as it mobilises the UK Church to join in God’s mission among Arabic-speaking Muslims wherever they are in the world.

About us

AWM-Pioneers is a Christ-centred organisation serving around 90 long-term Christian workers involved in cross-cultural ministry.

These workers are supported by a hard-working and gifted team based either in the Loughborough office or remotely working from the UK in areas of: recruitment and training, communication and support raising assistance, sending church partnerships, finance and administration support and ongoing member care.

About the role

For this full-time role, you will:

• Have a love for the Lord and His work among Muslims of the Arab world.
• Have a strong biblical grounding, and wholeheartedly embrace our doctrinal statement, values, aims and goals.
• Be a strategic thinker with the ability to articulate your vision clearly and develop plans for implementation.
• Be an inspirational communicator with recognised public speaking skills.
• Be able to ensure there remains a strong relational connection between AWM-Pioneers and field teams, area leaders, international leaders and other sending offices in the Pioneers family.
• Be willing and able to travel as required throughout the UK, Arab world and internationally to fulfil the role.
• Have a proven track record in financial acumen and be familiar with profit/non-for-profit organisational operations.
• Have a relational approach to leadership, with interpersonal skills, self-awareness, the ability to motivate people and a track record of team building.
• Report to the UK Council (board of trustees) providing information, keeping them informed on strategic matters and enabling their governance function of the charity to be fulfilled and ensuring our duty of care, legal obligations and organisational policies are followed.
• Participate with the daily prayer meeting and monthly prayer days.

In order to perform this role, it is essential that the post holder is in full sympathy with the aims and goals of AWM. It is an occupational requirement that he/she must be a committed Christian [able to agree with the organisation’s statement of faith] and able to fully participate in spiritual activities whilst carrying out the responsibilities of National Director. 

Application deadline

The application deadline is Friday 29 November 5pm (GMT).

Recruitment details

Shortlisting is currently scheduled for mid-December onwards with interviews being held in mid-January 2020.

Subject to screening, references and other HR/legal requirements the successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally from February 2020.

Purchase Ledger Clerk

You will join our client as a Finance Officer - Purchase Ledger Clerk on a full time permanent basis, based within their Rugby office.

Purchase Ledger Clerk Responsibilities:

You will be working closely with the Finance Manager to deliver the tactical objectives for the function within the role you will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the purchase order log. Actions from this will include supplier invoices, staff expenses, and bank payments onto their accounting system. You will then complete these transactions ensuring authorisations are in place and providing follow up reporting when required.

Purchase Ledger Clerk Requirements:

Ideally you will have qualifications at A-level or demonstrable experience to match this. You will have experience working within a Finance function and show a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Proficiency in Microsoft applications and being able to use Accounting systems effectively will be important in this role. They would also like you to have a genuine interest in working for them and display their values of Courage, Creativity and Compassion.

TAAS is an inclusive working environment where Equality, Diversity and Human Rights are guiding principles, individuals are respected and a value of having a diverse workforce is recognised. The recruitment, employment and development of people are based on qualifications and experience to do the job, eliminating personal bias or prejudice.

About our client:

They provide two very important functions, Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and The Children’s Air Ambulance which provides paediatric transfers across the UK. Their objective is to save lives, utilising specialist pilots, doctors, and paramedics and with their work centred on saving lives, improving clinical outcomes and being able to react quickly and efficiently to emergencies. They are at the forefront of innovative clinical care and they challenge boundaries. None of this can be achieved without a hugely dedicated team of colleagues, volunteers and the general public.

Location: Rugby, CV21 3RQ

Job type: Full Time, Permanent; 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £19,000 - £21,000 per annum

You may have experience of the following: Senior Finance Officer, Finance Officer, Finance, Housing Association, Accounts Assistant, Financial Administrator, Credit Controller, Accounts Officer, Accounts, Finance, Rent Ledger, Reconciliation, etc.

Ref: 90092

Community Fundraiser - Health Charity
Permanent - full time
Salary: £25,000 - £28,900 per annum
Location: Nottingham
Eden Brown is currently supporting a fantastic health charity based in Nottingham in their search for a Community Fundraiser. The role of Community Fundraiser will be to increase income by working closely with local communities, groups, associations, churches etc. You will lead and inspire them to organise their own fundraising activities on behalf of the charity, as well as taking part in a plethora of organised events and challenges. The role will launch the charity's first regular giving scheme and have the full support of the Fundraising team and their network of community shops which they see as launch pads for local action and fundraising. This is a new post and you will work alongside the existing Community, Corporate Fundraisers and be supported by their Events and Fundraising Co-ordinators.
To be considered for this role, you will have the ability to communicate, interact and negotiate with people at all levels. You will need to be flexible, have excellent organisational skills and the ability to work well under pressure in order to meet strict deadlines. You will also be required to have a proficient knowledge in Microsoft Office.

As part of an experienced and highly motivated fundraising team, you will support the ambition to increase the profile of the charity and grow income to help provide more support to those who need care.

Closing date: Mid-day on Monday 11th November 2019
Interview dates: Monday 18th & Tuesday 19th November 2019

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.