Senior Trusts and Grants Fundraiser
Senior Trusts and Grants Fundraiser
The Role
You’ll be helping disabled people feel unstoppable. As Senior Trusts and Grants Fundraiser you’ll be right at the heart of our team’s efforts to make sure no one affected by spina bifida or hydrocephalus feels alone.
Every year we need to generate over £250,000 in income from Trusts and grant giving bodies to make sure our families get the help they need. Your role will be to generate income from a range of trusts, corporate foundations, and public bodies.
What SBH Scotland can offer you:
Flexibility – We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.
Motivated and supportive colleagues – Staff scored SBH Scotland as 9 out of 10 for motivation and a supportive work environment.
An opportunity to express yourself – Staff scored SBH Scotland as 8 out of 10 for being supportive in taking risks with new ideas.
We also offer: Workplace pension scheme, salary sacrifice scheme, death in service benefit, childcare voucher scheme, 30 days annual leave plus 4 statutory holidays.
- Accountable to: Director of Fundraising
- Place of Work: Hybrid
- Hours of Work: 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday) – Flexible working available/toil system
- Salary: £32,338 - £34,920 per annum.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
To be as unstoppable as the people we support.
- To proactively identify and develop approaches to a wide range of new potential funders.
- To work closely with the Direct Services Team and Director of Fundraising to develop compelling funding proposals that will power our services and our innovation work.
- To manage and develop new relationships with a range of Scottish trusts, corporate foundations, and other grant-making organisations, statutory bodies, and Scottish Government.
- To make full use of the fundraising team’s contacts and networks wherever possible to identify “warm” prospects.
To be a team player who unifies people around our cause.
- To lead the stewardship of our funders and generating imaginative ways of engaging them in the work we do.
- To work with the Direct Services team to evaluate impact of funding.
- To support colleagues if they need help.
A commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
- Provide regular analyses of income and impact.
- To gather data and feedback to learn from failures and apply learning to improve processes and applications.
- Ensure that all donor and prospect records are maintained and updated accurately and promptly on Raiser’s Edge and that record keeping is compliant with the charity’s Data Protection Policy.
This post is subject to PVG Disclosure Membership Scheme.
To Apply
Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your experience, why you are interested in this role, and how you meet the skills and experience outlined above. Applications should be sent to jobs@sbhscotland.org.uk. For an informal chat about the post please email Deborah Roe, Director of Fundraising with your contact details and we will be in touch.
At SBH Scotland we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer - If you have a disability, and meet all of the minimum criteria for this role, you can request a guaranteed interview. Please note that in your covering letter.
Closing Date for applications is: Noon Tuesday 30th April 2024
Provisional date for interviews: Tuesday 7th May 2024 at SBH Scotland, G68 0LS.
SBH Scotland is an equal opportunity employer. In order to meet the aims and commitments set out in our equality, diversity and inclusion policy we also ask if you’ll kindly fill in our Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form and send back to us. This is, however, completely optional. Thank you.
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