About The Advocacy Project

We help the most marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:

• voice their concerns

• understand their rights

• make effective choices about what happens in their lives

We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.

 About the role

Over the last three years we have grown our advocacy and user involvement service across London, taking on more public sector contracts in new London boroughs and offering a wider and more diverse range of services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

We now offer services across low, medium and high secure forensic units including Broadmoor Hospital; we have London-wide NHS England services and are part of an exciting personal health budgets pilot project. We have built a solid reputation for delivering high quality services and have a strong track record of winning public sector bids.

Our new three year income plan builds on this success, with a focus on diversifying our funding streams. Our target includes growing our income from trusts and foundations by 17% over the next three years to £550,000. We are now looking for an exceptional and experienced trust and foundation fundraiser with a solid track record of winning new business from these funding sources.

You will work with our Head of Business Development to raise funds, generate income, making sure our fundraising activities meet annual targets, raise our profile and enhance our reputation in line with our values.

Key responsibilities

• Identify, qualify and develop income opportunities from trusts and foundations, in line with our income plan, strategy and values.

• Research, develop and maintain new relationships to secure funding.

• Write tailored, inspirational high quality applications and project reports addressing grant-making priorities or requirements,as specified.

• Identify gaps and niches in the market that are in line with our core strengths and competencies.

• Liaise closely with senior managers and staff to plan and develop the strongest possible proposals and build relationships.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of each application and make sure we embed a continuous improvement cycle into all fundraising activities.

• Evaluate, monitor and report back to donors in a timely fashion on projects which have been funded.

• Record details of applications made, funding pledged and forecast income.

• Input and update information on our CRM database.

General responsibilities

• Participate in team meetings and training.

• Participate in personal, team and organisational development.

• Make sure corporate identity is adhered to, all legal requirements and fundraising regulations are met.

• Keep to our policies, including health & safety, and risk regulations.

• Uphold our mission, vision, and values.

• Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.

Person specification

Essential:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Good at working with a wide variety of people including commissioners, service users and colleagues.

• Proven record of securing six-figure donations from trusts and foundations.

• Ability to combine seeing the big picture with an eye for detail.

• Solutions focused self-starter with an ability to thrive in a busy environment – focusing resources and prioritizing areas with the greatest impact.

• Commitment to working within The Advocacy Project code of conduct, equality and safeguarding policies.

• Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.

• Willingness to promote The Advocacy Project in line with our mission, vision and values.

• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

  Desirable:

• Relevant professional qualification and affiliation.

• Evidence or commitment to ongoing professional development.

• Understanding of the issues faced by vulnerable and disadvantaged care groups, such as mental health, learning disability, dementia.

Benefits of working for us

We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.

Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.

All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.

How to apply

Send your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you think you’re the person we’re looking for and how your experience meets the person specification.

Upload your application via our website on.

St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group (SJEHG) is the only charitable provider of expert eye care in the Palestinian Territories and East Jerusalem. We have been treating patients regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or ability to pay for over 135 years. Our sight-saving work is carried out against challenging and difficult odds to the highest international standards. 

We are looking for an experienced Trusts & Philanthropy Officer who has a professional, ambitious and results-based approach with a track record of creating compelling funding propositions to obtain six figure grants. The candidate will manage a portfolio of relationships with Trusts and Foundations and support in communications with major donors. The success of this role will be dependent on excellent written and verbal communication and ability to relay the Hospital’s work clearly through Trust applications and proposals. This role will cultivate, grow and steward relationship and networks with Trusts and Foundations while providing support in updates and proposals for major donors.

You must have experience in Trust and Foundation fundraising, an achievement of minimum five figures donations, excellent relationship building skills, understanding donors’ motivations and being discreet, diplomatic and sensitive to market needs of grant-makers. In addition to excellent budgeting skills. You should also have experience in working with CRM systems to manage portfolio, grant process and exporting data for reporting.

We offer an attractive benefits package including 25 days of annual leave, pension scheme, life insurance, season ticket loan, and training and development opportunities. We have a dynamic and hardworking employee environment based in a well-equipped attractive building only a 5 minutes’ walk away from Barbican and Farringdon station.

 Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, both nationally and globally. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, rendering many treatments useless. Already an estimated 12,000 people die each year in the UK as a result of antibiotic resistant infections with 10 million deaths predicted globally each year from resistant illnesses by 2050. We need to develop new treatments today so we can protect the future.

Our charity, the world’s first to tackle this problem, through research, education and patient support, is rapidly growing. We currently have a home-based freelance fundraising job vacancy in the North of England. Our ideal candidate is a dynamic fundraiser to support our charity’s Trusts and Major Gifts national fundraising programme. This person must bring energy, enthusiasm and experience to the role and help us realise our ambitious goals. 

Are you a talented trust fundraiser that truly loves dogs?  Then this could be the perfect job for you! 

Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK with a nationwide network of rehoming centres and charity shops. Last year, Dogs Trust centres cared for over 14,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down.

This is a truly exceptional opportunity for a talented Trust and Foundations Officer to join a high performing and friendly team.

The Trust Team has enjoyed a successful 2019 but it is still relatively new and so there is considerable scope to apply fresh energy and enthusiasm and make an enormous difference to dogs in need, using your first class skills to prepare inspiring and original applications for funding.

You will have a successful track record of securing grants from charitable trusts and foundations, well-developed written and verbal communication skills and, above all, be a strong, positive team player committed to the aims and values of Dogs Trust.

You will have exceptional attention to detail and a strong aptitude for writing creative narrative that will ensure our applications stand out when being assessed.

We have a comprehensive benefits package, which includes excellent annual leave and pension allowances.  As well as this, though, you will you join a team of highly professional and passionate colleagues in the fundraising team - legendary for its friendliness, and you’ll also learn from and get to meet dedicated experts in the field of canine care, research and welfare.  Add to this, the fact that the whole charity has a brilliant upbeat and collaborative culture promoted by a highly supportive management team.   

Along the way you’ll be encouraged to see Dogs Trust’s amazing work for yourself and visit our world class Rehoming Centres.  You’ll also enjoy spending time with donors and supporters who share our love of dogs. 

Perhaps best of all, being a Trusts and Foundations Officer at Dogs Trust means working in environment where staff can apply to bring their own dog to work - so there are always plenty of our four legged friends around to keep us company in the office while we trust fundraise!

To apply for this position, please send your CV and cover letter explaining your interest in and suitability for the role by clicking the APPLY button.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and ambitious high value fundraiser to work as a Senior Trusts & Foundations Officer.  The post-holder will play a key role in our fast-growing and high performing Partnerships and Philanthropy Unit. 

The Partnerships & Philanthropy Team has seen significant growth over the last few years, built around strong partnerships with major funders.  We have ambitions to increase income to £9m+ a year. 

The Senior Trusts & Foundations Officer will play a vital role in supporting this ambition, and in helping Practical Action achieve its wider goals. You will have a strong aptitude and proven success in winning new business and subsequently developing and managing a portfolio of donors and prospects capable of making five, six and, potentially, seven figure grants.  These donors and prospects are sophisticated grant-makers and major donors, drawn from the UK, Europe and the US, giving large, multi-year grants to complex projects and campaigns.

Critical to the success of the role will be the ability to identify, research, engage, communicate, build relationships and win support from donors and prospects. The role will also require you to engage, communicate and work with colleagues across the organisation to secure new donors. You will need to quickly understand often complex projects and strategies and engage and communicate about these with donors.  You will also need to work collaboratively with colleagues and donors to negotiate and develop proposals and steward supporters.

The role offers an amazing opportunity for an ambitious fundraiser who is seeking a challenging but, ultimately, incredibly rewarding role.

About you

You have a solid understanding of high value fundraising from Trusts & Foundations, and you have most likely had at least 3-4 years winning new business and managing and developing a portfolio of high value donors.  Ideally you will have some experience of international development and/or some experience of European or US funders.

You are confident at identifying and seizing opportunities, quickly building relationships and securing support.  You are a confident communicator with the ability to work with a range of people to help secure grants and manage donor relationships, ideally on complex projects.

You are great at organising yourself and you are a confident problem solver.  And whilst you will need to be passionate for the cause, you will also need to be a calm head when things don’t go right.

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our new open plan offices are located in the centre of Rugby near to the train station but we also offer free parking.

In addition, we offer the following benefits:

• Flexible working/hours – full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week.

• The opportunity to work remotely (dependent on role).

• 26 days holiday in addition to public holidays.

• A pension scheme that new employees can join from day one of employment - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.

• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).

• Cycle to Work scheme.

About us

We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Practical Action are committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks.

Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 4th March

Interview dates: 10th & 11th March

The Doorstep Library Network trains volunteers to pay weekly home visits to low income families to read with the children and to lend them books, helping children to enjoy reading and providing an opportunity for parents to take an active role in their children’s education.  Doorstep Libraries allow volunteers to befriend the parents and to reach out to those families most in need helping them to access local community services.

This is an exciting time to join Doorstep Library, with plans to expand projects in to new London boroughs. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious fundraiser to make their mark in a growing charity, with the aim of increasing income from trusts & foundations, alongside working with the director and as part of the management team to ensure the effective running of the charity.

Job Purpose:

• Managing the delivery of an ongoing trusts and foundations fundraising strategy;
• Using excellent writing skills to put together trusts and foundations funding bids, with the support and guidance of the Director;

• To manage the charity’s fundraising operations including coordinating prospect research and prioritisation, managing workflows, and ensuring effective stewardship of trust and foundations grants.

Responsible to: Director;

Responsible for: Supporting the Director in a range of duties, including trusts and foundations, community and corporate fundraising.

Responsibilities and duties:

1. To write compelling and professionally-presented funding bids, each tailored for its audience and making the case for supporting the charity in the most persuasive terms;
2. To work with the Director to plan a funding timetable to meet the needs of the charity’s plans;
3. Research new funding opportunities and keep a record of all enquiries;
4. Identify potential sources of funds including charitable trusts, individuals and the local community, and assist with generating funds for the organisation’s activities;
5. Ensure appropriate systems and procedures are in place to manage fundraising campaigns and donor contacts effectively;
6. To ensure the operation of failsafe systems for funder thankyous, acknowledgements and reports;
7. Prepare reports for the Director;
8. To prepare high-quality presentations, reports and fundraising materials as needed;
9. To work with the Programme and Marketing Managers to research local statistics to ensure that funding information, reports and applications accurately reflect the projects and the local community;
10. To recruit and manage a team of community fundraising volunteers (responsible for managing relationships with independent schools and local community groups to drive fundraising activities and income);
11. To organise and support any events which may require evening and weekend work;
12. Keep records of fundraising activities and money raised.

General:

1. To carry out all duties and responsibilities in line with Doorstep Library Network policies and procedures;
2. To positively promote the work and activities of the charity at all times;
3. To undertake additional duties as from time to time may be required.

Person Spec:

1. Wholehearted committed to and engaged with the work that we do, with a fierce belief in the difference it can make to children, families and the community;
2. Experience in generating income from trusts and foundations;
3. Excellent written and spoken English;
4. Experience of working collaboratively with colleagues across departments;
5. Excellent all round communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, pitch succinctly and write in an engaging, tailored manner to a range of audiences;
6. Drive, enthusiasm and determination to deliver against targets;
7. Ability to prioritise, plan and organise own workload;
8. A positive team player, working with, supporting and encouraging colleagues;
9. Excited by the prospect of playing a vital role in building Doorstep Library’s income streams as part of our ambitious expansion plans across London;
10. Ability to work flexibly, adapting to rapidly changing demands and opportunities while retaining a clear strategic focus;
11. Excellent organisation and administration skills, with the ability to pay attention to detail and use office systems;
12. Take pride in being supremely efficient, very well organised and display excellent time-management skills.

Salary - £32,000 per annum – 12 month contract with potential to become permanent

Hours – 35 per week

Benefits – 6% pension contribution, 25 days per annum annual leave, flexible working arrangements (including working from home part of the week).

Victim Support is looking for a Trusts and Grants Officer, the base of this role is flexible and homeworking will be considered.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

We are seeking a Trust and Grants Officer to lead on securing donations from charitable trusts, foundations, statutory bodies and parish councils. In addition, this post will be responsible for managing the customer care and reporting to charitable trusts to maintain support and income agreements. The role will also have responsibility for delivering high quality research for current and prospective donors, increasing our ability to secure income for the organisation.

Victim Support is grounded in communities across England & Wales as well as having the strength of a national infrastructure and a well established, award-winning volunteer network.

This role will lead on building relationships with existing trust supporters, writing reports to meet deadlines and submitting further applications for core and project funding. Working with local teams the role will also assist with mapping regional and local trusts, corporate and major donor existing and future supporters.

You will report to the Fundraising Lead for Victim Support.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (s). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

Providing unforgettable holidays for over 50 years

Revitalise is both the UK’s largest provider of respite holiday breaks, and the UK’s largest residential volunteering charity. With 50 years’ experience our three holiday centres now provide close to 5,000 essential breaks each year for disabled people and those who care for them.

At Revitalise we work hard to create amazing holidays for our disabled guests and their carers. We like to come to work determined that the world is going to be a slightly better place for people at the end of today than it was yesterday, and that we’re going to help make that happen.

Your role

A fantastic opportunity for either your first fundraising role in a dynamic and high performing team, or an opportunity to broaden your existing fundraising skills in a new and exciting arena. You will deliver excellent stewardship to existing funders by providing them with regular information and feedback regarding the impact of their donations, as well as developing new funding relationships to help achieve the fundraising target.

You will work alongside the other members of the Fundraising and Marketing teams to represent Revitalise in the best possible way and support our overall strategy, in particular in relation to how we develop applications and measure outcomes.

Summary of Main Duties:

• Achieve a yearly income target, as agreed with the Trusts and Foundations Manager
• Maintain and develop existing relationships with Trusts and other grant makers assigned to your individual portfolio, to enhance income for Revitalise
• Identify and research Trusts and other grant making bodies which have the potential to make donations to Revitalise and target them with the appropriate approach
• Develop and deliver high quality written proposals for funding, in line with the organisation’s strategic aims and operational requirements
• Ensure that all reporting requirements are met and reports submitted according to agreed schedules and in line with funders’ criteria.
• Provide excellent stewardship and present the best interests of Revitalise to a range of funders, through written, telephone and face-to-face contact
• To maintain accurate analysis and reporting about all supporters and applications, and to ensure the Revitalise database is kept up-to-date.
• To undertake any other duties that the Trusts and Foundations Manager may reasonably require.

Other duties

• To ensure that all supporters are valued.
• To attend and contribute constructively to team meetings as required.
• To positively promote the work and activities of Revitalise at all times to ensure that it is acknowledged as a charity deserving of voluntary financial support by the general public.
• To engage with other areas of fundraising activity where appropriate.
• To support the Trusts and Foundations Manager and keep up to date with best practice in fundraising and comply with relevant legislation, regulation, and industry best practice.

This Job Description is not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other appropriate duties and projects from time to time.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title:  Senior Trust Officer  

Reports to: Head of Fundraising

Budget Responsibility: none

Based at: 74 St Annes Road, Woolston, Southampton, SO19 9FF

Hours of work: Full-time [37.5 hours per week]

Team Association: Development Department

Job Purpose To be pro-active in identifying and developing new and existing relationships with trusts, foundations and statutory bodies in order to generate income and assist the team in reaching agreed income targets.

Salary: £30k-35k depending upon experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, research and approach prospective contacts in order to cultivate relationships and generate new business.

• Support the Head of Fundraising in maintaining and building upon existing trust partnerships.

• Compile, create and submit compelling applications to new and regular Trust / Foundation and Statutory funders.

• Supervise a member of staff within the trust income stream and provide cover during absences.

• Gain an in-depth knowledge and keep abreast of the progress of all Sailors’ Society’s programmes, projects and events in order to prepare high quality, commercially relevant and compelling proposals, reports and presentations.

• Take responsibility for the entire ‘portfolio’ of trusts, foundations and statutory relationships, following all leads through to completion, meeting income raising targets and accurately recording all correspondence.

• Keep accurate records of all correspondence with Society stakeholders on Raisers’ Edge NXT.

• Maintain up to date front-to-end processes and procedures.

• Attend internal and external meetings, events and presentations as required.

• Ensure donors are promptly thanked and their gift is accurately recorded.

• Provide administrative duties related to trust, foundation and statutory income generation, such as sourcing materials, maintaining electronic records and filing as required.

Personal Development

The Senior Trust Officer will be expected to maintain a high level of competence and capability. Appropriate training and development opportunities will be identified as required.

Person Specification (minimum requirement)

Essential Attributes

• A strong understanding and proven experience in fundraising in trusts, foundations and statutory grants.

• Proven experience in managing and delivering a pipelines in excess of £400k

• Excellent writing skills with the ability to write accurate, powerful, compelling and persuasive copy in a range of formats e.g. cover letters, case studies, proposals, grant applications and impact reports.

• Ability to match the needs of prospective trust requirements with the needs of programme.

• Solid experience in forecasting and managing budgets, performance management and

• Confident and competent at approaching new business prospects on the telephone, face-to-face and in writing.

• Excellent networking skills ands willingness to travel occasionally for partnership meetings.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels and to represent the Society in person.

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to plan and manage a complex and demanding variety of tasks and to meet strict deadlines and working under time pressure.

• Ability to work under own initiative and with others as a team.

• Good Microsoft office skills covering word, power point and excel.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in experience.

• Prepared to work outside of normal office hours in the evenings and occasional weekends.

• Entrepreneurial approach when looking for funding to meet needs.

Desirable Attributes:

• Experience in working in a busy fundraising environment.

• Experience with MS 365

• Experience of using Raisers’ Edge NXT or other CRM database.

• Entrepreneurial approach when looking for funding to meet needs.

• A good understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate community engagement initiatives and established corporate fundraising techniques.

• Experience of working for a charity and an understanding of charity law.

• An understanding of the global shipping and maritime industry.

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Prospectus is pleased to be partnering with Calibre to recruit their new Trusts and Grants Fundraiser. Calibre believes that everyone should have the pleasure of reading and that being blind or partially sighted, dyslexic or unable to hold a book should not be barriers to the written word. With an amazing collection of over 11,000 titles and with the dedicated support of a team of volunteers, they provide an extensive audiobook lending service to their members with around 37,000 books being sent out each month!

It's an exciting time to join Calibre as they progress with the development of a new and ambitious fundraising strategy which will see the introduction of new funding streams enabling Calibre to diversify their offer to reach more members. Calibre's purpose is to change lives through reading, and there could not be a better time to join.

The Trusts and Grants Fundraiser will be responsible for growing the charity's income from trusts and foundations, lottery bodies and other grant makers with a particular focus on larger funders. The remit will be to establish a strong portfolio of funders whilst in time extending the reach nationally. With lots of scope to establish and grow this income stream, it will take a trained eye to grow and develop the right relationships.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have significant trust fundraising experience, be well organised and have a keen eye for detail. Excellent research and communication skills will be key as will a positive and 'can do' attitude!
Calibre is open to this role being worked part time.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. 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 will then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to speaking with you

As demand for our work grows, Asylum Welcome seeks a fundraiser to work with its Fundraising and Development Manager. This highly-regarded Oxford charity already has a healthy spread of diverse funding sources and a loyal supporter base: we need your help to reach our potential. This is a new post, suitable for someone with solid fundraising experience and a commitment to refugees. Please upload a supporting statement as an attachment saying how you meet our criteria, alongside your CV. 

FareShare Midlands is looking to recruit a talented and experienced individual to help deliver our fundraising strategy. This is an exciting time to join FareShare Midlands as we develop and expand our operations across the East and West Midlands and look to grow our fantastic portfolio of trust, grant and foundations supporters, as well as corporate partners and community supporters.

We are looking for someone ambitious who wants to take a lead on the creation, submission and management of a portfolio of trust and grant applications in order to achieve financial targets in line with our growth plans. If you have demonstrable experience in securing income from trusts, foundations and grants, as well as relationship building and stewardship of donors, this role is for you. 

FareShare Midlands is looking to recruit a talented and experienced individual to help deliver our fundraising strategy. This is an exciting time to join FareShare Midlands as we develop and expand our operations across the East and West Midlands and look to grow our fantastic portfolio of trust, grant and foundations supporters.

We are looking for someone ambitious who wants to take a lead on the creation, submission and management of a portfolio of trust and grant applications in order to achieve financial targets in line with our growth plans. If you have demonstrable experience in securing income from trusts, foundations and grants, as well as relationship building and stewardship of donors, this role is for you. 

About FareShare Midlands

FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity fighting food poverty by tackling food waste. An independent charity, we work in partnership with FareShare UK to access and receive food that is surplus to requirements from retailers and manufacturers and engage many volunteers to help redistribute this to local charities and community groups that provide meals to vulnerable people including families and individuals who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated or recovering from addiction.

FareShare Midlands supports over 400 local charities and community groups. In the last twelve months we redistributed over 2,700 tonnes of food, helping to create 6.4 million meals and feed 35,000 people each week. 

Responsibilities

Income Generation

• Deliver the fundraising plan for trusts and grants in order to achieve the income target and year on year growth
• Research and maintain a varied portfolio of trust and grant funders in order to diversify income
• Develop persuasive fundraising proposals and reports to increase donations from new and existing supporters
• Maintain records and analysis of new business secured
• Attend networking events as required to meet new potential donors
• Manage own workload to deliver of set objectives and KPIs

Account Management and Donor Care

• Manage a portfolio of trust, foundation and grant supporters to cultivate strong, long-lasting partnerships
• Inspire and motivate funders through creating a portfolio of materials that demonstrate impact
• In conjunction with the development team, support the management of corporate partnerships/foundations including meeting with stakeholders, stewardship and impact reporting
• Manage income and expenditure of project budgets communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Manage and steward funders in accordance with the Fundraising Code of Practice and ensure high standards of supporter care are maintained at all times

• Work closely with the FareShare UK fundraising team to maximise funding opportunities and share learning
• Ensure funder interaction points (telephone, post, email) adhere to the highest standards
• Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required from time to time

Administration

• Keep account plans up to date and internal stakeholders informed of key partnerships
• Maintain accurate financial records and budgets for all partners
• Keep application and reporting pipeline up-to-date and accurate

Communication

• Work with the development and marketing team to create impactful materials and case studies
• Develop communication plans to keep supporters regularly informed of our impact
• Be prepared to act as spokesperson and ambassador for FareShare Midlands

Person specification

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of delivering against an income targets
• Significant experience of securing gifts from trusts, grants and foundations
• Experience in writing compelling funding applications and impact reporting
• Experience in prospecting for new business and stewarding funders face to face
• Experience of customer care in a charity or sales environment
• Experience in keeping good administrative records
• Experience of presenting to a range of audiences

Skills, knowledge and abilities

• Detailed knowledge of trust, grant and foundation fundraising, particularly around restricted funding
• Ability to manage and steward funders in line with the Fundraising Code of Practice.  
• Knowledge of third sector fundraising streams and the complex charity fundraising climate
• Skilled at managing donor relationships
• Excellent communication skills, persuading skills and writing skills
• Excellent numeracy skills and use of Excel
• Good relationship building skills, both inside and outside an organisation
• Ability to work to meet objectives and deadlines
• Ability and experience of working well in a team

Values and behaviours

• A commitment to Equal Opportunities
• An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and strategy
• Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
• Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences

Application process

If you would like to apply for this role, please send a copy of your CV and a supporting statement showing how you meet the essential experience outlined in the person specification.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 11.59pm, Sunday 1 March 2020. Interviews Wednesday 11 March 2020.  

Trust Fundraiser / Liveries Manager

£29,014 to £35,215 per annum dependent on experience

36.5 hours per week

Treloar’s is looking for an experienced Fundraiser to join their team.  The Liveries Manager will be responsible for the trusted relationships with the City of London Livery Companies and the Lord Mayor of the City of London together with managing a set portfolio of Grant Making Trusts. They need to be experienced at relationship management together with researching and writing compelling funding bids.  The role will involve developing plans and strategy, maintaining relationships with existing funders, researching and applying to new ones together with reporting back on grants awarded.

Applicants must have experience of fundraising from Grant Making Trusts as a minimum.  Very good attention to detail, excellent written and verbal presentation skills and the ability to tailor writing style for different audiences are all essential.  Raisers Edge experience is desirable.

The fundraising team at Treloar’s need to raise nearly £2 million a year - this role provides an important contribution towards this target and enabling the vital work of the School and College to continue.

Treloar’s is a ground-breaking organisation managing one of the largest specialist Schools and Colleges in the UK for young people with disabilities. Our fundamental purpose is simple: to enable disabled young people to fulfil their potential in every aspect of their lives.

We offer: 

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Pension scheme, life insurance and critical illness cover
• Occupational health scheme
• HSF cash plan and Perkbox discount scheme
• Free wellbeing and social activities

Closing date: applications encouraged asap, closing date will be when sufficient applications

 have been received

An application pack can be obtained by visiting our website, or emailing at the address below.

Treloar Trust is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.

To view all our current vacancies, please visit our website.