SANE is looking for an entrepreneurial Senior Fundraising Officer with at least 2 years’ experience of developing and implementing trusts proposals and reports. In addition this role will write our two annual appeals and supporter report to individuals. 

This is a new role within in a professional team of 6 which manages the full spectrum of fundraising, marketing, website and social media activities. The successful candidate will join a hard working and fun department which generates on average £1m per year.

The successful candidate will:

• be creative and determind with a focus on trusts and individual appeals
• be self-motivated, flexible, diplomatic, assertive, with good relationship management skills
• have the ability to work well within a team and independently, undertaking his/her own administrative tasks as required;
• have excellent written, verbal and presentation skills

This is an office based role.

The Mulberry Centre (TMC) is an award-winning cancer information and support centre and an independent charity, based on the grounds of the West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, West London. It has been open for over 18 years and has provided services and support to more than 15,000 people.

The Mulberry Centre plans to grow and diversify our income, particularly from unrestricted sources, to sustain and develop our work.  We are seeking a Fundraising and Communications Manager role to work closely with the Executive Director and the Fundraising Committee.

The Fundraising and Communications Manager will develop and deliver an integrated and effective fundraising and communications strategy to grow income and to raise our profile in the community. You will have specific role/portfolio responsibility for relationships with trusts and foundations, HNWIs, corporates, community supporters and volunteer fundraisers. You will also line manage a part-time Fundraising and Communications Officer who will be responsible for developing and executing an integrated communications plan for the Centre and the fundraising activities.

We are looking for an experienced and talented fundraiser with successful line management experience. The candidate will have proven ability to research and develop winning fundraising applications, negotiate sponsorship deals and develop and maintain positive relationships with donors.

They will need to be a natural multi-tasker and have the flexibility to manage a varied workload, juggling responsibility for meeting bid deadlines, reporting to funders and managing key corporate, HNWI, community and key fundraising volunteer accounts. With attention to detail and excellent written and verbal presentation, you will also have the negotiation and project management skills to co-ordinate the production of complex bids and budgets. 

To apply, please refer to the Information Pack and email a comprehensive CV and a covering letter showing evidence of how you meet the personal specification of the role no later than 5pm on Wednesday 11th March 2020.  We will not be accepting CV's only.

As the largest charity for people with hearing loss in the UK, Action on Hearing Loss are there to support those who suffer from hearing loss; from day to day care, to practical information, to campaigning for a fairer world for people with hearing loss, and funding research to find a cure.

The Senior Trust Fundraiser will complete a team of 4 which sits within the wider fundraising and communication department, made up of Trusts and Lottery, Partnerships (major donor, events and corporate), Supporter Experience, Public Fundraising and ‘Marcomms’; whose overall income target is c.£14m.

The Trust team’s target currently stands at c.£1million, whereby approximately half of this comes from Big Lottery Funding. The team has been supported by an interim Trust fundraiser for the last three months and the successful candidate will be expected to steward a growing portfolio of bodies, whose foundations have already been laid by the interim fundraiser, that give £5k and up. As well as this, the postholder will need to work with the Head of Trusts and other key internal stakeholders, including a recently appointed Prospect Researcher, to create new funding projects that are attractive to prospective donors, ensuring their giving needs marry with AOHL’s ‘business as usual’ work. As well as this, they will need to be adept at creating bespoke fundraising packages for thematic projects, outside of business as usual.

Job specification:

• continuing the stewardship of a portfolio of warm funders who give upwards of £5k including the Big Lottery and key bio medical bodies, working to a target of c.£150k
• growing their pipeline of mid-level and high level giving as well as securing multi-year/high value giving, with a split of 70% New Business to 30% Account Management
• kick starting and owning a fledgling programme of bespoke fundraising projects by working closely and strategically with senior internal stakeholders to extend the charity's focus to a wider audience.

Person specification:

• An experienced fundraiser looking to broaden and develop their professional experience
• A creative fundraiser, well versed in securing five figure gifts, with a track record of raising significant funds from trusts and statutory bodies including the Big Lottery
• An externally focused relationship builder, motivated by generating new income by engaging new funders and developing excellent proposals
• Someone who can expertly steward, manage and develop funding relationships
• A proactive and confident team player, able to shift focus from complex relationships and asks, to supporting the wider fundraising team, undertaking administrative tasks, financial reporting and upholding fundraising best practice.

Deadline for applications is Wednesday 26th February with interviews the following week. 

To raise funds against agreed annual targets from a mix of income sources so that Key4Life may carry out its mission to greater effect.

To build on existing donor relationships and develop new relationships across all income sources so there is a pipeline of prospects in constant development.

Duties and Responsibilities

Fundraising:

• Prepare a three-year fundraising strategy that indicates income levels from each income stream and the resources required to deliver the targets set.

• Implement this strategy by ensuring there:

  • Is a readily available list of current fully costed and detailed fundable projects to present to donors.

  • Is a constant pipeline of donor prospects which are being cultivated to a stage when they are ready to be asked for a gift in line with agreed targets and timescales.

• Develop and implement a strategy to increase Key4Life's levels of unrestricted funding

• Write high quality funding applications to trusts and foundations, companies, individual donors, and statutory bodies

• To ensure that the monitoring and reporting requirements of current and future funders are met, through writing high quality reports

• Take responsibility for the delivery by Key4Life of all agreed funding terms and conditions as issued by the donor

• Ensure that all donor and prospect records are maintained on a central system, that they are current, accurate and accessible to key staff

• Ensure that Key4Life is compliant with all the fundraising requirements of GDPR and other data protection legislation

• Ensure that Key4Life operates a professional fundraising operation in line with the standards laid down by the Institute of Fundraising’s Code of Practice

Corporate Development:

• Make targeted approaches to potential corporate partners addressing where appropriate the CSR of each company (through Work Tasters, mentor schemes, workshops etc)

• Securing funding and donations from an agreed number of new ‘Corporate Partners’ per annum

• Account manage corporate funding partners to ensure they remain engaged and valued by Key4LIfe

Finance

• Ensure that regular management reporting is conducted in line with agreed timescales and systems.

• Prepare annual and monthly budgets for fundraising purposes, and review these on an ongoing basis bringing to the attention of the CEO and other senior managers any significant anticipated deviations, from the targets that have been set as early as possible.

General

• Observe health and safety procedures and work safely at all times

• To be responsible for your own continuing self-development, undertaking training as appropriate to the working environment and location, and developments in your role

• Conduct yourself with professionalism, tact and diplomacy at all times as a representative of Key4Life.

• Key4Life takes its responsibilities relating to safeguarding seriously and expects its staff to be aware of and adhere to the policies and procedures in place.

This is an exciting opportunity for a self motivated Senior Trust and Statutory Fundraising Officer you will be responsible for managing and soliciting gifts from a portfolio of trusts, foundations and statutory income sources for an inspiring diasabilty charity.

The Charity
Everything this charity does is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers. This is an exciting time to join the charity as they expand and help more people than ever

The Role
Grow a robust pipeline of income from trust, foundation and statutory prospects with potential to donate significant income in support of a range of projects.
Cultivate, steward and manage gifts from a pipeline of trusts, foundations and statutory income sources with potential to donate significant income per annum.
Work closely with relevant colleagues, implement first class relationship management of donors and prospects, making full use of trustees, the CEO and other executive group members.
Identify and research prospective donors that have potential to support the charitys work; use internal networks and undertake external research, collaborating with other team members to coordinate research and share knowledge.
Coordinate all commitments for current funders across departments; work closely with operational colleagues to identify and present information necessary for the preparation of progress reports, including financial information.

The Candidate
Proven experience of securing significant income from trust, foundation or statutory funders.
Proven experience of developing and delivering excellent stewardship plans in order to secure multi-year funding.
Proven experience of developing a robust and significant multi-year pipeline of income.
Proven experience of securing significant new income from cold trust, foundation, statutory or lottery funders.
Proven experience of writing compelling funding applications and hitting fundraising targets.

IMPORTANT NOTE
Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

We are working with a leading children's charity in their search for a new Trusts Manager.

You will join a friendly, supportive and hard-working team and will work together to develop and manage relationships with major trusts and foundations. You will write compelling applications and proposals and build warm and trusting relationships with existing and potential funders.

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser with a successful track record of securing income from charitable trusts and foundations. You will be a strong writer and a fantastic relationship builder. You will be able to hit the ground running and will be a team player.

This is a full-time role based in Barkingside, Ilford and is offering a salary of £32,183 - £34,607 (including London weighting).

To find out more about this exciting role please call Terri on 0207 820 7326 or email a copy of your CV to [email protected]

Get in touch today to avoid disappointment, applications close on 2nd March. Please note only successful candidates will be contacted.

• Do you want to join a ground-breaking, determined and compassionate charity that is leading the fight for child refugees caught in limbo in Europe and elsewhere?

• Are you passionate about fundraising and eager to take us to the next level?

Safe Passage International is looking for a Development Manager to deliver our ambitious fundraising strategy.

This is a role with a strong foundation – during Safe Passage’s first four years, our income has grown significantly to £1.2m. We are looking for someone to build on this position and ensure our income portfolio continues to develop and diversify.

You will be an eager fundraising professional, passionate about refugee issues, and ready to lead work within a dedicated and fast-paced organisation. You will work in a small, supportive team across all income streams, taking ownership of some individual streams and their associated targets. Our key development areas are trusts and foundations, community fundraising, major donors, and online giving.

We are ground-breaking, fast growing, and cross border. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with colleagues in the UK, Greece and France in order to deliver long-term solutions for refugees.

Please visit our website to view the Job Description and Person Specification. 

• £28,000-£32,000 (depending on experience)
• Full time (37.5 hours per week), flexible working considered
• London Office
• Reporting to Head of Fundraising
• Line management responsibilities of ad hoc volunteers

Who we are:

Safe Passage was founded in late 2015 in response to the refugee ‘crisis’. In the past four years we have grown from a small UK project, to an international organisation with 23 members of staff supporting refugees to access safe and legal routes to asylum across Europe.

• Our vision is for every person seeking asylum to be able to access a safe and legal route to a place where they can lead a full and dignified life.
• We do things differently - championing refugees’ rights by combining strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building and community organising.
• We are focused on achieving systemic change in refugee and asylum policy at both nation-state and international level.

To date over 2,000 individuals have travelled to safety through routes we have opened. Our work is recognised with awards from Liberty, Sheila McKechnie, the European Parliament and EU Commission and chosen as Guardian ‘Charity of the Year’.

Working at Safe Passage means working at a different sort of charity. We’re small, nimble and laser focused on the impact that only we can bring.

To apply: send your CV and a cover letter that addresses each point of the Person Specification and tells us why you would love this role and working for Safe Passage. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Closing date:  Monday 9th March at midday.

Charity People are so pleased to be working with Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK), an award-winning national charity that transforms the lives of deaf children across the UK. They are looking for their new Trust and Foundations Manager to play a key role in the organisation's forthcoming capital campaign.

Job Title: Trust and Foundations Manager
Location: Bermondsey, London
Contract: Full time, with flexible working fully supported
Salary: £35,000-£40,000
Required: CV and Cover Letter

About the charity

AVUK is a wonderful charity, motivated by ensuring deaf children have the same opportunities in life as their hearing peers. Since 2003, they have supported over 1,000 families and over the next few years, they would like to double their reach of pre-school children and families supported by their early intervention programme, as well as grow and diversify its voluntary income streams. Based in Bermondsey, their office provides the opportunity to see beneficiaries first hand every day and you would work with their highly-committed and passionate team and closely with the Head of Fundraising to further its profile and influence, as well as meet ambitious fundraising income targets.

About the role

This is a really exciting time to join the organisation. They are looking for an experienced and successful Trust and Foundations fundraiser, who will be a key contributor in maximising the charities income by working on a forthcoming capital campaign. You will be developing and managing new and existing supporters by researching and writing excellent applications, managing long-term relationships using outstanding face to face and written communication and secure new multi-year and one-off gifts to contribute to the fantastic work they do. Auditory Verbal UK are looking for someone who has excellent networking skills, high-level written ability and effectively manage time and workload prioritisation. This is a really great role for the right person.

If you would like to find out more, please contact Stuart at Charity People.

We are working with a well-known children's charity to find them a new member of their successful trust team. 

This organisation are a household name, are going through a particularly successful period and have a fundraising department who work well together and have a real sense of shared purpose. 

Outcomes are good and measured and there are a range of funder-friendly projects that you would be supporting. 

To apply for this role you will need:
Experience of writing successful bids 
The ability to make information not only understandable to a lay-person, but compelling
An ability to build relationships with colleagues 

For more information please do get in touch

We are working with a global humanitarian organisation recruiting for a Trusts and Foundations Manager. This role will be responsible for building new business development in Europe and North America.

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about international development and has a strong Trusts and Foundations background.

This is a great role for an experienced and confident candidate who is looking to work in an international and dynamic environment alongside a team of dedicated staff

Your demonstratable experience should be:

• Demonstrable experience within the Trusts and Foundations landscape.


• Experience in developing successful relationships with Trusts and Foundations and ensuring continued support through excellent stewardship skills.


• Experience of writing high quality, compelling proposals, applications and reports.


• Experience in producing detailed prospect research on Trusts and Foundations to facilitate decision making on priority applications.

Closing date: asap.

Salary: £35,500

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787 or email [email protected].

If enough applications are received the charity reserves the right to end the application period sooner.

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

Job Title: Fundraising Officer

Contract: One year fixed term.

Part time:  (21hours p/w)
Salary range: ££ 26,000 (pro rata) (£15,600 actual salary)

Closing Date:  3rd March 2020

Core Arts- a leading creative mental health charity in London  are looking for an enthusiastic and creative person to become part of our Fundraising team to assist the Deputy Director in fundraising bids. Ideally we are looking for someone who loves working as part of a team and is willing to learn and support applications for funds.  The role involves fundraising from Trusts, Foundations, Lottery and Statutory funds plus assisting in the PR of the Charity.

The person needs to be organised and efficient, eager to learn about our ethos and personalised way of working. The ideal candidate would have a passion for persuasive writing, they will be excellent administrators with good attention to detail, with an understanding of how the creative arts improves wellbeing. 

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills -both written and oral; be happy working independently but also in collaboration with others; have good arithmetic ability. Fundraising experience is preferred but not necessary.  More important is an understanding of the importance of creativity and education to improve adults mental health.

To apply please email a relevant CV and a Covering Letter explaining what has motivated you to apply for the role and how you feel you meet the requirements of the role to  Giuliana Molinari 

Please look at the Core Arts website for a full job description.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join youth charity OnSide Youth Zones as their Trusts & Foundations Manager.

OnSide Youth Zones is a youth charity that gives young people living in deprived areas an opportunity to take part in fun activities, learn new skills and socialise in a safe and positive way, helping to raise ambition and qualifications and reducing the effect of the childhood crisis. Their 13 Youth Zones across the country help enhance over 50,000 lives a year, and this is rapidly growing.

They have recently opened three new Youth Zones in London, and this role will help raise funds to help ensure they grow over their first year of life and on into the future.

In the role you will help deliver an ambitious strategy and drive income by submitting bids and writing grant applications to charitable foundations, grant makers and statutory funders.

In order to be considered for the role you will be an experienced trusts fundraiser, with a track record of raising income to target. You will have really strong writing skills, be able to use initiative and have a positive and confident attitude.

The role is full time (may look at 4 days) permanent role, based in any of the youth zones (Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Croyden or Angel), and is offering a salary of 30,000 - 35,000.

To find out more about this exciting challenge please call Terri on 0207 820 7326 or email a copy of your CV to [email protected]

Get in touch today to avoid disappointment, the closing date for applications is 9th March. Please note only successful candidates will be contacted.

Are you a relationship builder and writer who wants to work as part of a hard-working, fun and supportive team, who has a strong track record of approaching charitable Trusts and Foundations to deliver real social change, and who wants to develop their career?

Barnardo's Trusts team is looking for a Trusts Manager who can hit the ground running to help us in our mission to achieve better outcomes for more children and young people. In this role you will need to be comfortable in:

* Writing compelling and easily digestible proposals and reports
* Building strong, warm and trusting relationships with existing and potential funders at all levels
* Working with Barnardo's Directors, Assistant Directors and Senior Leadership to deliver innovative projects
* Be up for being part of friendly and supportive team

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description - with specific examples of your successes in both relationship management and sourcing new charitable Trusts and Foundations. We look forward to hearing from you

Civitas Recruitment are excited to be partnering with a great innovative, international charity based in Canary Wharf to source their new Fundraising Manager. This is a small, but fast-growing NGO that uses film and media to transform the health and wellbeing of women and children around the world. The charity brings together world class health expertise with creative film makers, to develop quality, resource-appropriate film and animation to support education and training in low income countries about women and children’s health. Please note that p/t hours may also be considered.

Who are we looking for?

Ideal candidates will possess extensive fundraising experience specifically in bidding for grants and writing successful fundraising applications to a range of funders. You will be a natural communicator having the ability to manage stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation. You will possess good commercial acumen and be able to nurture and cultivate potential donors taking both a medium and long-term perspective. As this is a small charity, the successful post holder can also input in non-fundraising projects including system and technology projects. This is a great opportunity to add real value to a successful charity and help grow the valuable work they do.

Please apply immediately or enquire with Syed at Civitas Recruitment for an initial discussion and full JD.