Trustsfundraising Officer
TrustsFundraising Officer
Job Description & Person Spec – Feb 2017
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post:TrustsFundraising Officer
Working hours:Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) (Part-time will be considered for the right candidate)
Salary:£27 – 30k per annum pro-rata (depending on experience)
Reports to: Fundraising Manager
Accountable to:CEO & Clinical Director
Working with: The role involves working primarily within the Fundraising Team, with regular contact with the Monitoring Evaluation and Research Team, theClinical Administration Team, as well as project managers, and senior management.
Purpose of the post:
The purpose of the role is to support the Fundraising Manager to cultivate and manage income generation from trusts and foundations, and small statutory grants. The post-holder will support the growth of unrestricted and restricted income by carefully researching opportunities, developing relationships, writing compelling and tailored applications and reporting on existing grants.
The Trusts Fundraising Officer is part of the fundraising team. The post holder will also work closely with project managers to increase funding required to support existing long-term projects.
Results orientated, you will have strong research ability and good interpersonal skills, together with a flexible and proactive approach. This is a great opportunity for a motivated trust fundraiser with a passion for working with young people and mental health, and who is ready for the next step in their career to join an ambitious team and help us grow our income to enable the Brent Centre to reach more young people.
Key responsibilities
-To work with the Fundraising Manager to maximise trust and foundations income for the Brent Centre
-Achieve agreed financial and non-financial objectives in line with the fundraising plan
-Cultivate and manage existing relationships with trusts and foundations, working closely with the Fundraising Manager
-To develop good relationships and maintain excellent communication channels with colleagues
Job specification: Tasks and Responsibilities
Securing income
-Work with the Fundraising Manager to develop and deliver a targeted and strategic programme of trust fundraising to achieve agreed annual income targets
-With support from the Fundraising Manager and in collaboration with project managers systematically identify and strategise a pipeline of applications for both restricted and unrestricted giving
Prospects identification and proposal development
-Identify new trusts and foundations to drive the pipeline for the trust income streams
-To proactively identify, research and prioritise new trusts that are strong funding prospects for the Brent Centre
-Work with the Fundraising Manager to identified projects for funding
-To develop appropriate and compelling case for support and produce tailored written funding applications of the highest quality for Brent Centre projects and programmes. Work with colleagues in other teams to obtain necessary activity and budget information
Account management and donor care
-Develop and manage current trusts relationships
-To set up and manage a quarterly meeting cycle to smaller trusts, growing income from this group while streamlining processes to ensure it remains low maintenance
-Maintain a trusts applications calendar, monitoring success rate and return on ask
-Workclosely with the Fundraising manager and project managers to ensure that any reporting or other obligations attached to grants and contracts are fulfilled effectively and in a way that strengthens relationships
-Use the fundraising database to maintain accurate records
General
-Part of the role consists in working with the Communications Officer as necessary in the organisation of fundraising events, conferences, Marathon etc. and to contribute to the preparation of Annual Review and fundraising communications
-Keep up to date with the major issues pertaining to young people’s mental health as well as to do the donor environment
-To maintain an awareness of trends, developments, legal framework and best practice relating to trust fundraising, and to fundraising, charity and young people’s mental health sectors in general
-Represents the Brent Centre at external trusts networking groups, as appropriate
-To liaise and collaborate with Brent centre staff as appropriate to achieve purpose
-To attend and contribute constructively to team meetings and other meetings as required
-To undertake a range of administrative duties in support of your own work
-To undertake any other reasonable activity in line with the responsibilities of the post and as requested by the Fundraising Manager, the CEO & Clinical Director, or senior managers
Dr. Maxim de Sauma
CEO & Clinical Director
February 2017
Trusts Fundraising Officer / Executive
Person Specification
Essential
Experience and Education
- Minimum two years’ experience in trusts fundraising or equivalent work
- Track record of successful fundraising from trusts and foundations
- Educated to graduate level or equivalent
- Experience of contributing to fundraising strategies and plans in line with organisational plans
- Experience of working in a target led environment with a proven track record of delivering against targets
Technical skills and expertise
-Understanding of trusts fundraising
-Strong analytical skills
-Experience of working with fundraising databases (preferably eTapestry or Raiser’s Edge) or willingness and ability to learn to work with a database
-High level of proficiency in the use of MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet and E-mail
-Ability to understand funding guidelines
-Ability to tailor funding applications to funders’ requirements and interests
Competencies (soft skills)
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Strong numerical skills and ability to work with budgets
- Good presentation skills
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills
- Time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Good research skills
- Ability to collate information to produce reports
Personal Qualities
- Highly motivated, creative, flexible and enthusiastic with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Commitment to excellence and quality
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work both as part of a team and on your own initiative.
- High level of diplomacy, discretion and accuracy
- Energetic, solution-focused and with a confident attitude
- Pleasant and courteous manner
- Reliable
- Resourcefulness and creativity
- Able to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the Centre, this may include occasional evening work
- Appreciation of the importance of donor information and the ability to manage a fundraising database.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Commitment to the Brent Centre’s Mission
- Interest in working for a local charity
Desirable
- Strong networking skills
- Experience of working with a charity/NGO
Dr. Maxim de Sauma
CEO & Clinical Director
February 2017
Contract Terms:
Post:Permanent
Working Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Probation: 6 months
Start date: February/March 2017
Location: London, UK
Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 per annum (depending upon experience)
Leave: 25 days pa (pro-rata for part-time), increasing by one day for each year’s service up to a maximum of 4 additional days
Pension: Employer will contribute 3% of basic monthly salary into the workplace pension scheme for each eligible employee.
Other: As defined in standard Brent Centre for Young People contract terms
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