Job Title: Grants Statutory Funding Manager

Job Title: Grants Statutory Funding Manager

Reports to: Head of Trusts Major Gifts

Department: Fundraising

Location: London NW3

(Easily accessible via the Northern Line or London Overground, Anthony Nolan’s modern offices are located close to the Royal Free hospital in leafy Hampstead.)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Purpose: To maximise income from UK and international grant-makers and statutory sources including government bodies, medical research funders, European Commission and Big Lottery Fund

Context

Anthony Nolan is a unique, pioneering charity that saves the lives of people with blood cancer, by providing transplants from stem cell donors who have a matching tissue type. We do this through our register of around 500,000 potential donors, as well as our national umbilical cord blood donation programme. We carry out cutting-edge medical research to ensure every stem cell transplant is as successful as possible. Alongside all of this, we raise awareness among public and policymakers about the lifesaving importance of stem cell donation.

The Trusts and Major Gifts team at Anthony Nolan is going through a period of investment and growth, with strong support from senior management, and an innovative range of projects and programmes underpinned by an ambitious organisational strategy to save more lives. While trusts fundraising has grown rapidly over the past three years to c. £1m pa, grants and statutory fundraising is still relatively new for the charity. However, we have already seen some major successes – notably a newly won £1.5m+ grant from the BIS Regional Growth Fund that will run until 2015, a €6m medical research consortium project funded by the EC, and a £multi-million ongoing funding relationship with the Department of Health.

The charity has a fantastic range of projects and potential partners, a proven and credible track record, strong policy contacts, a close working relationship with the NHS and academia, and an unrivalled USP as the only charity in the UK able to offer a genuine cure for cancer. Together, these factors and more mean that there is still huge untapped potential for Anthony Nolan to generate new income from grant-makers and statutory funders. This role will play a crucial part in driving forward this growth, and helping to build a sustainable base of grant support for Anthony Nolan’s unique, lifesaving work.

As well as managing and developing existing funding relationships, the Grants & Statutory Funding Manager will lead on building new funding relationships with other UK and international governmental funding bodies and medical research funders. This will involve working closely with colleagues and senior management across the charity.

Working alongside the Grants & Statutory Funding Manager, two other senior posts in the team are focused on fundraising from trusts and foundations, and from individual major donors. The Trusts & Grants Manager is line-managed by the Senior Trusts Fundraising Manager and also provides some support on the grants and statutory side, hence the dotted line below.

Main Responsibilities

1.  Develop and deliver a targeted and strategic programme of grants-based fundraising for Anthony Nolan, to achieve agreed annual net income targets

2.  In collaboration with colleagues, coordinate and develop Anthony Nolan’s existing grants and statutory funding relationships as required, including the development of proposals and adherence to reporting requirements

3.  Coordinate and lead on Anthony Nolan applications to governmental funding bodies, for example (but not limited to) Dept of Health funding streams, the Technology Strategy Board, and the National Institute for Health Research

4.  Coordinate and lead on Anthony Nolan applications to medical research bodies, for example (but not limited to) Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, and Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research

5.  Explore potential for Anthony Nolan to access further funding via the European Commission, and work with colleagues in Labs, Research, Operations and Finance, and with relevant project partners, to develop relationships and submit timely, high-quality applications for EC funding

6.  With support from the Head of Trusts and Major Gifts and other colleagues, explore and pursue affiliations, memberships and collaborations that may enable Anthony Nolan to access new or additional avenues of grant funding

7.  Closely monitor Big Lottery Fund priorities and explore how Anthony Nolan’s work best fits with these, and work with colleagues across the charity to prepare and submit highest-quality Lottery funding applications

8.  Proactively identify, prioritise and appropriately respond to other statutory and grant funding opportunities as these arise, ensuring that applications are targeted, timely and compelling, and that any existing relationships are maximised in support of our applications

9.  Work with colleagues to build relevant partnerships, relationships and networks that will help Anthony Nolan to access grants and statutory funding

10.  Work with colleagues to develop new project ideas into viable, evidence-based plans that can be presented to statutory funders and grant-makers

11.  Maintain an in-depth knowledge of Anthony Nolan’s work and effective working relationships with colleagues charity-wide, in order to develop a project pipeline and an appropriate and compelling case for support, for a range of Anthony Nolan projects and programmes of interest to funders

12.  As required, develop relationships with and submit applications to major charitable trusts and foundations

13.  Carry out cost-benefit analysis before undertaking large grant applications, focusing resources on areas and opportunities most likely to yield results

14.  Manage relationships with a portfolio of key funder accounts, including responsibility for contract compliance, meeting all deadlines, development planning, stewardship, timely reporting and all other communications

15.  Work with colleagues in Labs, Research, Finance, Operations and other departments to monitor grants and ensure all terms and conditions are met

16.  Input into team-wide systems for applications and reporting, and ensure that bids and communications meet KPIs for quality, productivity, success rate etc

17.  Meet regularly with funding contacts and prospects, and make presentations and face-to-face asks as required

18.  Work with the rest of the team in identifying and delivering appropriate and high-quality opportunities for face-to-face engagement with representatives from funders and grant-making bodies, in order to enhance their understanding of – and relationship with – Anthony Nolan

19.  As a senior manager within the team, input strategically into team-wide strategic planning, budgeting and reforecast processes as required

20.  Maintain an awareness of trends, developments, legal framework and best practice relating to Grants, Statutory and Governmental Fundraising, and the fundraising, charity and health sectors in general

Other Responsibilities

1.  To liaise and collaborate with all Anthony Nolan staff as appropriate, to achieve purpose

2.  To attend and contribute constructively to team meetings and other meetings as required

3.  To positively promote the work and activities of Anthony Nolan at all times to ensure that it is acknowledged as a charity deserving of voluntary financial support by our key supporters, potential supporters and the general public

4.  To support Anthony Nolan events as appropriate, including occasional evening or weekend work

5.  To undertake any other reasonable activity in line with the responsibilities of the post and requested by the Head of Trusts & Major Gifts, the Director of Fundraising and/or other senior Anthony Nolan management

Person Specification

1.  Considerable proven experience of success in all aspects of Grants and Statutory Fundraising, i.e. securing, managing and monitoring large and complex multi-year grants from major funding bodies

2.  Some knowledge of fundraising for medical research projects (desirable)

3.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

4.  Excellent numeracy skills and ability to work with complex budgets

5.  Excellent and demonstrable attention to detail skills

6.  Strong relationship building skills – must be both personable and diplomatic

7.  Confidence working with and building relationships with people at senior level

8.  Ability to assimilate and interpret detailed and/or technical information and express it clearly and convincingly to funders and potential funders

9.  Ability to work well under pressure, meet deadlines and achieve solutions

10.  Ability to think strategically to solve problems and identify opportunities, make decisions and prioritise effectively and, as a senior manager, demonstrate leadership, initiative and a strong desire to achieve agreed objectives

11.  Ability to work effectively in a team as well as independently

12.  Strong commitment to customer relationship management

13.  Competent in knowledge and use of IT, including word processing, spreadsheets, database management and web-based technologies

Last updated: July 2013