Employer: ISF Cambodia

Application close: 19th April 2021

Commences: 1st June 2021

Contract Type: Full-time (following successful completion of a three-month probation period)

Remuneration: $16,900 - $19,500 per year, depending on experience + seniority payment and benefits

Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Please note that due to Covid-19, candidates not living in Cambodia may be allowed to work remotely, if needed.

About ISF

ISF Cambodia (ISF) is a Cambodian based charity with over 14 years of experience using education and sport to change lives.  Our aim is to make a fundamental and lasting change in the lives of some of the poorest and most disadvantaged children and their families in Cambodia.

Our Education Programme focuses on children living in the slums of the capital Phnom Penh whose extreme poverty means they have never gone to school or have had to drop out. We provide them with a quality education and healthcare whilst working closely in their communities to lift entire families out of poverty. Through our grassroots Football Programme, ISF works directly with 3,000 youth, promoting equality and providing opportunities to those marginalised by poverty, disability, HIV and gender.

Job Purpose

ISF is looking for a highly motivated individual who can fulfil the position of Grants and Fundraising Officer within the Development Team. The Grants and Fundraising Officer will be directly responsible for developing a pipeline of prospective funders and generating new income from trusts and foundations, companies and high net worth individuals, whilst building the profile of ISF through applications to relevant awards.

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser with a strong track-record of successful applications to charitable trusts, foundations, corporations and statutory bodies, and someone with the professionalism, energy, creativity and drive to seek out and make the most of funding opportunities.

The Development Team is a small and close-knit team, so you will need to be both self-sufficient and a team player. You will regularly collaborate with people across ISF, from social workers, to the finance team and operations, as well as our local and international partners. You will be an excellent communicator with a passion for ISF. You will able to articulate the impact we seek to achieve in a way that is accessible, accurate and compelling in order to ensure that ISF is in the best position possible to keep supporting those most in need to build a brighter future.

Accountability and Relationships

• Reports to the Development Manager
• Works closely with the Development Officer and the Senior Development Officer
• Part of the Development Team and wider ISF staff team

Responsibilities

• Identifying opportunities for funding
• Leading the proposal development processes; coordinating, collecting, drafting, and/or editing contributions and compiling inputs from the team
• Ensuring quality and timely submission of donor reports and communications
• Drafting budgets for proposals and reports
• Developing coherent and high-quality logical frameworks for projects, including the design of monitoring and evaluation plans, surveys and other M&E tools
• Providing guidance on and ensuring compliance with donor and ISF rules, regulations, and guidelines
• Ensuring quality information management related to grants, keeping comprehensive records of donations, grant funding and fundraising activities
• Proofing and editing communications and reports 
• Supporting with the coordination of events and campaigns
• Supporting the Development Team with ad-hoc fundraising functions and responsibilities, as requested

Skills and experience required

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a donor-facing role including fundraising, proposal writing and reporting
• Formal qualification or training in International Development or a related field
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, native English speaker, with strong attention to detail and ability to tailor messaging to a variety of audiences
• Successful track record in securing trust and foundation, corporate and institutional funding and major gifts
• Successful track record in writing high quality funding proposals, applications and reports
• Strong financial management skills to include budgeting, analysis and reporting
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor-funded projects
• Excellent time management, administrative and organisational skills with the ability to plan workload, prioritise tasks, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing circumstances
• Be self-motivated, solution-focused, outgoing, friendly and persuasive; able to impress and motivate ISF’s potential donors and partners

Desirable

• CRM (Salesforce) experience
• Experience of working in Cambodia

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 7 hours a day plus ad hoc events as required

Benefits:

• Remuneration $16,900 - $19,500 per year (before tax), depending on experience and seniority payment
• 18 days annual leave a year, plus mandated Cambodian public holidays
• Health insurance with emergency evacuation
• Training and professional development opportunities

Guide Dogs has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Veterinary professional to join us as a Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO).

As a world leader and largest breeder of working dogs in the world, the CVO helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by developing and maintaining national veterinary standards of care for a total population of around 8000 dogs of all ages. This role ensures that the national dog care and welfare service is delivered efficiently, effectively, and ethically, and that our dogs, of all ages and in all roles, benefit from the latest and best developments in veterinary care, health, and welfare to maximise their overall wellbeing.

You will join other senior leaders by acting as the ‘voice and face’ of Guide Dogs in your areas of expertise in dog health and veterinary science whilst proactively raising our profile through representation in key professional events, networks, and the media.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

National travel as required on ad-hoc basis.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, and provide help to those with sight loss, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• Appropriate Veterinary Medicine degree. 
• Recognised Management qualification.
• Membership of appropriate professional organisation.
• Solid and demonstrable experience as a practicing veterinary surgeon and previous experience in a supervisory role or as a principal of a vet clinic.
• Substantial track record of leadership at senior management level
• Experience with managing population health, infectious disease, and biosecurity protocols.
• Extensive current research based and operational knowledge of veterinary practice, health, and welfare.  Proven credibility to work with veterinary professionals. 

Desirable

• Post graduate degree in specialist veterinary science, health, or behaviour
• Understanding of charity governance.
• Experience of strategy implementation and leading organisational and cultural change initiatives.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above. As part of your application ensure you provide to evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system does have a time limit, we would advise you to complete your answers and copy and paste into the online form once finalised. Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

Remember to refer to the attached job description and candidate pack for more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

This is a brand new position - an exciting opportunity to make your mark on a small dynamic charity with ambitious goals.

This pivotal role will suit an experienced relational fundraiser who excels at inspiring people to catch a vision and contribute through their donations. Read about SEED’s vision, mission, and pilot community resilience model in our strategy in the attachments. As the prime driver of income generation for SEED, you will proactively secure multi-year relationships with individuals, small businesses, trusts and foundations. You will also oversee all SEED’s other fundraising and communications, including fundraising appeals like the Big Give Christmas Challenge, newsletter, social media and website.

Initially the only employee of SEED in the UK, you will report directly to a Trustee, oversee our small group of committed volunteers, and liaise closely with our delivery team in Zimbabwe. Before long, we’re sure your efforts will create the need and funding to grow the UK team. Working in a very small charity, you will enjoy a varied, interesting role with opportunities to get involved in wider organisational priorities and effect change with minimal bureaucracy.

You will work from home, even after lockdown ends (SEED doesn’t have an office), with occasional travel to meet donors or trustees. Trustees are in London / Cambridge, but video calls would be considered if the best candidate was located further away. 

We will consider 2-3 days a week, and we support flexible working, so this role could fit around other commitments.

To apply, please prepare a tailored and concise covering letter explaining what attracts you to The SEED Project in general and to this role in particular, how you fit the person specification, and why you are confident you can help us to grow our funding base.Please submit this along with your CV.

Role: Fundraising Manager

Reporting to: Executive Director

Contract: Full-time

Location: Working from home with regular trips to our office in Longborough, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire

Salary: £35,000-38,000, according to experience

Longborough Festival Opera is seeking a full-time Fundraising Manager to join our team. The focus of the role is to tangibly increase the support we receive from Trusts & Foundations and to develop successful appeals for our opera productions, rural community projects, education programme, new commissions, and eventually a capital project. The role will suit someone who enjoys a varied workload and thrives in a small team.

The Fundraising Manager is a new position and represents Longborough’s ambition to increase our development capabilities, in particular nurturing relationships with Trusts, prospective donors and existing supporters. The Fundraising Manager will work closely with our Membership & Development Manager, jointly working to enable the charity’s artistic, community and organisational aspirations.

Longborough Festival Opera is a hidden gem of the Cotswolds: an intimate, 500-seat purpose-built opera house, set overlooking the spectacular views of the Evenlode valley, that every summer hosts an opera season that has gained an international reputation. Over more than twenty years Longborough has gone from strength to strength, and now welcomes audiences from far and wide.

The Longborough team is a small and committed group with a high work ethic and willingness to support each other. During the summer festival, additional staff members join us on site. 

Application Deadline: 5pm, Friday 16 April 2021

First interviews: 22-23 April 2021

Second interviews: Wednesday 28 April 2021

How to apply 

Please electronically submit your CV and a covering letter. In the covering letter, please explain your interest in the role along with relevant skills and experience in relation to the person specification. Thank you for including your current salary, notice period and the name of two referees. References will not be sought until the position is offered.

When you submit your application, please complete our anonymised equality monitoring form via our website.

Turner Contemporary is seeking a Trusts and Foundations Manager to join the gallery team. This role works with colleagues across the organisation and is pivotal to securing support from the gallery’s largest source of fundraised income.

The Trusts and Foundations Manager will sustain, nurture and grow relationships with trust and foundation supporters and prospects.  The postholder will meet income targets and ensure excellent stewardship, working within agreed priorities. The successful candidate will be organised and resilient, with a good track record in relationship cultivation and management.

Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 26 April 2021

Interviews will be held on Friday 14 May 2021 and will take place online

Applying for a position at Turner Contemporary
If you wish to apply for a vacancy, please download our application form and the full job description from the Turner Contemporary website, Trusts and Foundations Manager | Turner Contemporary.

Please note that we do not accept applications by CV.
 

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) to recruit their new Trusts and Foundations Manager.This is a wonderful opportunity to join a sector leading think tank and social consultancy that occupies a unique position at the nexus between charities and funders. NPC is dedicated to achieving better outcomes for the charity sector and consists of a superbly motivated team.

The Trust and Foundations Manager will support the growth of trusts and foundations income and will develop the strategy in this area, primarily focusing on creative, targeted funding applications to small, medium, and large funding bodies. You will identify, cultivate and secure trusts and foundations support to NPC's wider variety of programmes and activities. The Manager will also work across revenue streams where appropriate including with major donors and the Supporters Circle to ensure an excellent donor experience.

The selected candidate will be skilled at initiating and building relationships with new and existing trusts and foundations supporter via telephone, email, and in person when possible, ensuring the relationship that is built is beneficial for both NPC and the partner. You will have demonstrable experience of trusts and foundations fundraising and will enjoy remaining creative and consultative with your funding approaches. Crucially, you will understand the balance required between bespoke applications and the potential need for developing compelling proposals on a quick deadline. You will have a keen interest in the charitable sector in the UK and philanthropy, and will enjoy working with colleagues who are leading experts in their field.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application.

We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.