JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title:Trust and Grant Funding Manager

Directorate:Centre for Women’s Global Health

Grade:6

Post holder:

Responsible to:Director of the Centre for Women’s Global Health

Responsible for:

Hours:35

The Department

The Centre for Women’s Global Health was created on 1 January 2017 from an amalgamation of three distinct areas of work: Global Health Unit, Leading Safe Choices Programme and Development Department. The Centre will develop its full remit and activities over 2017 to help fulfil the College’s aim to improve women’s healthcare on a global stage.

Purpose

This role is to mainly support the work of the Centre for Women’s Global Health through developing a Trust and Grants strategy and creating a programme to meet our agreed funding goals. The role of Trust and Grant Funding Manager will be a crucial element in developing this strategic approach to meeting our funding aspirations. The Manager will help us to deliver outstanding supporter experience and long term growth for the Centre.

The Manager will be managing complex, high profile partnerships, including multi- country projects. They will develop proposals and reports alongside colleagues and RCOG Fellows and Members.

The role is based on an understanding of the programmes of work, researching potential donors, establishing strong relationships with donors and funders, applying for funding and achieving the objective of bringing in new streams of income into the College for both global and UK projects.

The Manager will be responsible for developing the, through the use of data analysis, research, maintaining of accurate records, developing funding applications and delivery of high standards of donor care. This will lead to more funding from these sources into the UK and Global work of the College in supporting women’s healthcare.

The Manager will manage the Development Assistant in supporting Fellows, Members and Trainees to support the philanthropic work of the College and will need to work closely with other departments to understand their needs and shape projects to make them attractive to funders to enable us to secure funding to support these initiatives.

Main duties

  1. Take responsibility for developing and implementing a strategy to engage with new Trust and Grant funders
  2. Undertake research to identify potential donors/funders including grant makers and trusts through internet searching and use of research tools
  3. Develop clear, compelling and comprehensive proposals and approaches to grant makers and trusts, according to their funding remit, deadlines and requirements
  4. Work with members of the Centre team, Officers and other internal stakeholders to develop proposals and projects for funding, including developing budgets
  5. Identify new opportunities for the Centre both in the UK and globally
  6. Manage the Development Assistant in her role to support fundraising from Fellows and Members
  7. Design, develop and maintain a Funding Portfolio which details costs and details of activities and progress in funding. Become the main point of contact for all staff requesting information about funding proposals on the Funding Portfolio.
  8. Manage the Development Assistant to maintain the fundraising database including continuing its development to ensure it meets the needs of the department, which will include the development of appropriate, timely reports
  9. Become the main account holder for specific, named donors/funders. Be responsible for collating and writing reports and ensure all reporting meets donor requirements to include collating impact measures, working with internal staff to gather data and collating information
  10. With support and direction from the Director, take a lead role in finalising the design for the College’s Case for Support, helping to ensure that it remains current and relevant to the strategic direction of the College, obtaining buy in from stakeholders
  11. Alongside the Director, promote a fundraising culture across the College, including making the Officers, Council, Trustees, staff and members aware of, and involved with, the planned fundraising activities
  12. Represent the RCOG and the Centre for Women’s Global Health when required.
  13. Take responsibility for meeting a fundraising target for trust applications
  14. Support the Director by helping to grow relationships with donors by contributing to developing long term plans
  15. Ensure that existing and new relationships with donors are maintained appropriately by working with the Director to ensure all supporters’ specific needs are met.
  16. Manage the Assistant to ensure that all systems are maintained and developed to ensure that all donors are correctly managed, correspondence with donors is timetabled and recorded, payment schedules and reporting deadlines are adhered to
  17. Work with the Assistant and members of the Finance Team to regularly reconcile the fundraising database with Exchequer
  18. Through the Assistant ensure that the fundraising website pages are updated on funding projects
  19. Be familiar with the work of RCOG so as to communicate the work to enquirers and donors.
  20. Support the Director with events and other fundraising activities, as and when required which will include attendance at certain events

Note: This job description reflects the present requirements of the post. As duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the job holder.

Signed: ______Date: ______

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education requirements

Essential criteria / Desirable criteria
  • Graduate with minimum 5 years of experience in developing funding applications
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  • Graduate in Public Health or International Health

Experience

Essential criteria / Desirable criteria
  • Experience in developing proposals for bilateral, multilateral donors, trusts orfoundations including clients such as The Health Foundation, DFID, EU, World Bank and USAID; including on large projects (>£1m)
  • Experience of writing both successful applications and high quality reports
  • Experience is preparing budgets for donor proposals particularlyunderstanding of budgeting and financial requirements and reportingprocesses; and good skills in spreadsheet/budget preparation.
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  • Experience in health proposal development in an internationaldevelopment context
  • Experience in other areas of fundraising such as challenge events or major donors

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria / Desirable criteria
  • Strong organisational and administrative skills
  • Ability to communicate with people at all levels, both internally and externally
  • Excellent communication skills, especially written and verbal skills including confident telephone manner.
  • Ability to work calmly under pressure to deliver as part of a team
  • Excellent planning and time management skills and ability to meetdeadlines
  • Computer literate with excellent IT and WP skills with good knowledge and experience of MS Office programs, especially Word and Excel
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Excellent networker

Other requirements

Essential criteria / Desirable criteria

Creative approach to problem solving

Ability to think laterally

Awareness of special considerations associated with working for a charitable organisation

  • Able to use initiative to solve problems
  • Self-motivated and target-driven

Competencies

  1. Personal effectiveness
  • Takes ownership and organises self to deliver results
  • Is reliable, consistent and demonstrates a positive “can do” attitude
  • Makes decisions with confidence and takes initiative in problem solving
  1. Quality
  • Is skilled and knowledgeable in own functional area/ has recognised functional expertise in own team or department
  • Seeks improvement and takes responsibility for continuous self-development
  1. Communication
  • Communicates assertively, confidently and clearly at all levels
  • Adapts communication depending on audience needs and desired outcome
  • Influences successfully across the College and beyond
  1. Working together
  • Builds good working relationships
  • Contributes to the success of the team
  • Demonstrates a commitment to equality of opportunity and dignity at work
  1. Customer focus
  • Ensures a high quality customer service is provided in own area
  • Builds rapport with customers and treats them consistently and well
  • Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility in order to meet customer needs and manage expectations
  1. Managing change
  • Manages change effectively in own area and supports others in the process
  • Is open-minded, seeks and encourages innovation
  1. Management and leadership (if applicable)
  • Gives purpose and direction
  • Motivates, empowers and supports
  • Manages performance effectively