Vacancy at Change Mental Health
Trusts Manager
Salary
£ 37,500
Edinburgh
Vacancy listed
21/03/2024
Application deadline
10/05/2024
Details
In this role I will lead Change Mental Health’s trust fundraising activities to sustain current services and generate new income for the organisation. I will develop fundraising strategies and lead on developing and writing bids to Trusts and Foundations. I will work closely with our service managers, Director of Fundraising and Business Development and other colleagues, to ensure that we maximise opportunities to identify funds for our existing and new local and national services. I will project manage and lead our tenders for services and contribute to ensuring the organisation remains tender ready.
I will oversee the quality and integrity of our fundraising to ensure we meet the highest standards, protecting the brand and reputation of Change Mental Health
Key Responsibilities:
· Engage trusts and grant-makers in our plans to help us secure and deliver on our annual targets.
· Plan and manage your own workload, organising a range of internal and external-facing projects and
· Prioritising relationship development with trusts and grant-makers.
· Submit compelling funding applications with detailed budgets containing confidential information.
· Take proactive steps to understand the funding environment and make plans accordingly.
· The Fundraising Manager will project manage and contribute to any tenders as needed and with the support of other members of staff complete and submit high quality tenders on behalf of the organisation.
· The Fundraising Manager will help maintain organisational tender readiness by ensuring processes and systems allow the completion of high-quality tender submissions.
· Interpret complex internal information for specific trusts and grants audiences to engage them and maximise relationship development.
· Proactively develop stewardship of trusts and grant-makers, including identifying the best ways to enhance our income.
· Engage them face-to-face with colleagues from across the organisation.
· Carry out prospect research regularly to create a pipeline.
· Maintain and improve internal records to help improve relationships with trusts and Grant-makers.
· Forecast income and expenditure, report on these and take early mitigating action when necessary.
· Possibly, in future, manage staff - recruiting, supervising, listening to and improving this team.
· Disseminate information to the National Management Team, specifically area managers and advocate for them.
· Support the Director of Fundraising and Business Development with wider fundraising activities and strategy.
· Work with colleagues across fundraising and communications.
· Work highly persuasively with colleagues, at all levels across the organisation, to help them to
· Understand how to develop projects and proposals that will develop relationships with trusts and grant-makers to maximise long-term income.
· Contribute to regular reports on activity and income and expenditure against budget.
· Contribute to a culture of consistent improvement through ongoing analysis: monitoring, testing, refining and evaluating the success of all new existing activity.
Essential Criteria:
· You will be a high performing fundraiser with experience of delivering income growth through.
· effective relationship management with funders and possibly other areas within fundraising.
· You will be ambitious and proactive and relish the opportunity to support the charity to achieve its ambitious goals.
· You have a strategic mind to map out the needs of the charity’s activities and align with
· opportunities for financial support from funders to maximise this potential.
· You will enjoy building relationships internally and externally and take a people-centred approach to working.
· You will have a creative approach, with an ability to write interesting and engaging proposals.
· You will thrive in working with funders and partners on a day -to-day basis, be a self-starter and have high standards for yourself and others.
· You will have a proven track record in trust fundraising but also an interest in other areas of fundraising and keen to be part of the wider team’s activities such as writing corporate proposals or getting involved in individual giving or community fundraising.
· You will need to bring with you the following skills and experience:
· Substantial experience of working in the fundraising sector
· A demonstrable track record of successfully generating income and achieving targets from trusts and other funders.
· A track record of developing donor relationships through networks and stewardship.
· Proven ability in and experience of developing positive relationships and communication with staff at all levels and partner and funder organisations – including developing detailed funding.
· propositions in partnership with project staff.
· Developing funding opportunities and creating attractive proposals
· Producing impact and evaluation reports for funders
· Writing for different audiences/contexts
· Confident multi-tasker able to manage multiple complex and multi-faceted projects and prioritise accordingly.
· Experience of developing and reporting on complex budgets
· Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
· Confident and enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal skills
· Solid IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and databases.
Desirable Criteria:
· Experience of managing staff and/or volunteers
· University education
· Sound understanding of relevant fundraising regulations and GDPR.
· Experience of successful fundraising or relationship management outside of Trusts and Grants
General Duties
· Act in accordance with Data Protection legislation. Ensure all records, personal, staff and client data are managed in line with Data Management and Information Governance policies.
· Comply with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
· As with all employees, workers and volunteers; to encourage people to join Change Mental Health as a member, donor or activist.
· To act in accordance with the charity’s Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies and to notify your line manager promptly if there are any concerns.
· To participate in regular supervision and appraisal and undertake any relevant training as appropriate to the role.
· To work in accordance with the charity’s national policies and local operating procedures and those of external regulators or professional bodies
This job profile and list of duties is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements and projects commensurate with the general profile and grade of the post.
Benefits:
· 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial, and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
· A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
· A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
· Blue Light Discount Card
· Cycle to Work Scheme
· Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements.
· Generous 37 days’ holiday
· Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
· Professional development including funded opportunities.
Please note, the salary has been set at the upper limit of our salary band for this role.
Benefits
Professional development including funded opportunities
A generous 37 days’ holiday
Two paid mental wellbeing days
A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan
A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment
24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges
Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
Cycle to Work Scheme
Blue Light discount card
And so much more!
Notes
To apply, upload your CV and Cover Letter to our BreatheHR portal by clicking 'apply' below by Friday 3rd May 2024. (Please ensure you submit at the end of your form, or the form will be lost.)
If invited to interview you will be required to bring with you proof of photographic ID and proof of address.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. If you consider yourself to have a disability, please provide the information on the relevant section on BreatheHR to inform us of any arrangements that we may need to make to accommodate your requirements.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated. Please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.
Attached documents
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| Job Description | Trusts__Foundations_and_Tenders_Fundraising_Manager_JD_2024.docx |