Salary: £17,670 - £21,636 (+10% Pension)
FTE: 1
Special Terms: Fixed term for 1 year.
Accountable to: Income Generation Manager.
Accountable for: Supporting the Deputy Chief Executive and supporting Income Generation.
Role Summary
Working with the Income GenerationManager and the Senior Management Team, helping to ensure LGBT Foundation achieves its income targets. This will be primarily through:
a)Researching and submitting funding applications to statutory sources and Trusts and Foundations, at either a local, regional or national level.
b)Undertaking administrative functions relevant to income generation and the work of the Deputy Chief Executive such as writing briefings, co-ordinating and minute-taking at meetings, keeping internal systems up to date, and supporting with bid compliance and project initiation stages.
You will have a flexible and motivated attitude to work; have a confident and persuasive writing style; and work with a high level of integrity.
Role Accountabilities
- To work with the Income Generation Manager and Senior Management Team, primarily researching and writing short-term and medium-term fundraising applications to statutory and trust sources. This would include:
- Regularly researching and reviewing the giving criteria and patterns of existing and potential supporters, to identify best prospects and ensure opportunities for generating income for LGBT Foundation work are maximised.
- Writing compelling and clearapplications and business cases for funding our existing and expanding work programme.
- To help support the research and submission of tenders, either in our own right, or as a partner with external applicants.
- Writing project budgets (working with the Income Generation Manager where necessary).
- To source, develop and maintain excellent working relationships with our funders and stakeholders for example by ensuring that thank you letters and signed contracts are sent, and identifying potential future partners for funding and tender applications.
- To maintain effective fundraising systems and files and implement improvements and changes where necessary.
- To support the project initiation stage of new funding agreements (for example through helping to facilitate Project Initiation Meetings, uploading funding information to LGBT Foundation’s CRM System, and ensuring funding information and budgets are communicated to our Finance Team).
- To support bid compliance, for example through tracking monitoring reports, sending annual accounts, and writing some smaller-scale monitoring reports.
- To support other areas of income generation such as Individual Giving and Corporate Support, working with relevant staff leads. This includes identifying opportunities for development and providing administrative support to ensure targets are met.
- To provide administrative support to the Deputy Chief Executive with regard to wider for example through diary management, co-ordination of meetings, briefing paper writing, etc.
- To contribute to LGBT Foundation’s overall ongoing and annual business planning and budgeting processes.
LGBT Foundation Accountabilities
- Completion of specific tasks allocated through work plans, project plans and the annual business plan of LGBT Foundation.
- Provision of monthly information (accurate data and informative commentary) within your areas of responsibility for performance management purposes.
- Compliance with LGBT Foundation’s policies, procedures, management and monitoring systems.
- Display a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of the issues faced by LGBT communities.
- In common with all staff, you have a responsibility for your own personal and professional development and training, and for drawing attention to your own training needs as well as those of colleagues that you work with. We are a learning and development organisation and will consistently provide and support opportunities for staff to exceed theirs and our expectations.
- Any other duties commensurate with the skills and abilities of the post holder as directed by your line manager.
- All staff are expected to maintain a flexible approach to their roles and respond to LGBT Foundation’s changing needs. The responsibilities of this post may be changed subject to review, over a period of time. This will be done in consultation with the post holder.
Person Specification
Essential Elements
Qualifications & Skills
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), with the ability to write clearly and persuasively, with a well-developed writing style and to communicate with a wide range of audiences. This includes the ability to translate sometimes complex project ideas into 'easy to understand' information.
- Excellent numeracy and financial literacy skills, capable of analysing financial information and presenting it in an accessible format (such as project budgets for funding applications).
- Excellent administration skills, including being IT literate with the ability to be self-supporting in the use of computer software, including the MS Office Suite and databases.
- Excellent time-management and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload meet deadlines and manage conflicting demands.
- Highly motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to work on own initiative along with as part of a team.
Experience
- Formulating persuasive arguments and effectively communicating these in order to influence.
- Experience of analysing and preparing financial information and presenting it in an accessible format.
Knowledge & Understanding
- A commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of the issues faced by LGBT communities.
- Knowledge of the current and emerging external policy landscape, particularly in relation to changes to funding mechanisms.
- An understanding of the need of when to be discreet and tactful, respecting confidentiality when required.
This role, in common with all staff at LGBT Foundation, will be expected to display a range of competencies specific to their grade and area of work. These will be measured during annual performance appraisals, and there will be an expectation that staff will be able to evidence the ways in which they have met these competencies over the course of the year.
Desirable
Qualifications and skills
None
Experience
- Experience of researching and writing successful proposals or funding bids, either to Trusts and Foundations, and/or statutory sources.
- Experience of working in the voluntary sector in either a paid and/or voluntary capacity.
- Experience of preparing tenders, including the stages of PQQs and ITTs
- Experience of budget writing
Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowledge of widerIncome Streams, such as corporate giving, charity challenges, donor schemes and legacy schemes.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues surrounding full cost recovery and core/project costs.
Terms and Conditions
(i)Hours – 37 per week, with an expectation of evening and weekend work
(ii)Annual Leave – 25 per annum plus Bank Holidays, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service (pro rata where appropriate)
(iii)Probation Period – Post subject to successfully completing a 6 month probationary period
(iv)Employer’s contributory pension – 10% of annual salary.