Job Description
Post:Fundraising Research Graduate Internship.
Based:Office, Birmingham
Responsible to:The Senior Fundraiser.
Salary:Expenses only up to £10 per day.
Hours:6 week Spring Internship
Little Hearts Matter
Little Hearts Matter offers support and information to, and represents the needs of, children and families following a diagnosis of single ventricle heart disease, half a working heart. These congenital cardiac conditions can never be cured, even following repeated surgery, so the children have to learn to live within the restrictions that their disability and fears for their future create.
Little Hearts Matter is there from the time parents learn of their child’s condition, through risk filled treatment into a challenged filled life at home. LHM is there to support the children, and their families, through their hopes and aspirations and the gradual realisation that they will never have the same life as their peers.
- Alleviate isolation by offering support, friendship and understanding from the time a diagnosis is made, through treatment decisions, hospital care and into life at home eventually introducing parents and patients to other families who have similar experiences and shared concerns helping them to build a network of support.
- Reduce Fear by offering patients, parents, siblings and the extended family a greater opportunity to understand the diagnosis and treatment paths available.
- To reduce confusion and a lack of understanding by producing and supplying for free, user focused information that supports and aids understanding from the time of diagnosis, through treatments and into life at home.
- To raise a greater awareness within Medical, Educational, Social and Governmental circles of the needs of children, and their families, as they travel through every stage of their lives.
Specific Areas of Responsibility
Purpose of Internship:
The Fundraising Intern will be responsible for identifying and making high quality funding applications to charitable trusts and foundations, whilst also helping the Fundraising Team to pursue other funding opportunities.
Main responsibilities:
- To maintain and develop Little Hearts Matter’s portfolio of trusts and foundations.
- To ensure that all opportunities here are maximised.
- To research new opportunities in this area.
- To help the Fundraising Team develop their trust and foundation fundraising programme including prospect research, assessment of the most appropriate grants to apply to and producing high quality applications to trusts and foundations meeting the required criteria and donors’ deadlines.
- To build and maintain a trusts and foundations database ensuring that all applications and donations are correctly logged.
- To maintain and develop a close working relationship with the Fundraising Team and other members of the Little Hearts Matter team.
The post holder will need to be able to demonstrate:-
- Computer literacy and proficient use of Microsoft office suite.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of social media and internet communication.
- Experience and skill in online research and information collation.
- A good telephone manner.
- An aptitude for working within a small team.
- An ability to use their own initiative.
- An understanding and empathy for the work of the charity and the needs of its membership.
What will you gain from a Little Hearts Matter Internship
- You’ll receive support and guidance in your role from a dedicated manager.
- An opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the work of Little Hearts Matter and the needs of its members.
- Training in CV writing and interview techniques.
- We’ll provide you with a formal appraisal and a written reference on successful completion of your internship
- Reasonable travel and lunch expenses will be reimbursed up to a total of £10 per day.
- The satisfaction of knowing that you are helping children, and their families affected by single ventricle heart disease.