Development Manager - Trusts and Foundations

Our client, a mental health charity are looking for a self-motivated and passionate individual to help build our pipeline of trusts and foundations and making the most of our existing supporters and newly identified prospects.

Development Manager (Trusts and Foundations)
Salary £35,000
Hybrid - London/Home

About us

Our client is the first major charity funding mental health research. By connecting scientists with supporters, together they strive to understand mental health, improve treatments and prevent mental illness.

They champion and fund world-class research to transform the lives of everyone affected by mental illness. By connecting scientists with supporters, together they strive to understand mental health, improve treatments and prevent mental illness. Having recently launched a new 5-year strategy, they are at a critical point in their development.

About the role

They are happy to consider people who want to work full-time (35 hours), or four days per week (28 hours).

Here's a summary of your key responsibilities:

• To seek out, qualify and secure new foundations to build a sustainable high value new donor and sponsorship pipeline
• Manage pool of foundations, focusing on maximising their support and finding new opportunities to grow their involvement
• Capitalise on the expertise and networks of their senior volunteers, including working closely with their trustees and other Development Team colleagues to maximise existing opportunities for introductions, including the Lord Mayor’s Appeal
• To lead the development of new fundraising proposals for priority fundraising projects, including potential research partnership opportunities where they collaborate on a joint bid with another institution
• To carry out targeted and systematic research to establish new high value prospects utilising existing networks, their database, search engines and referrals

About you

This role is for you, if you have fundraising experience with grants and foundations as well as corporate fundraising and/or new business acquisition experience. This means you will have experience in stewarding and securing new gifts from foundations as well as researching new opportunities to apply for funds.

You will also be skilled in understanding and translating complex information and turning it in to compelling written proposals, for grants, corporate partnerships and major donors.

You will be driven to ensure that projects are delivered to the highest possible standards and be a sophisticated communicator with the confidence to build relationships with and inspire colleagues and donors.

They do require someone who is proactive, hardworking and results-orientated.

Experience of Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge/NXT is desirable but not essential.

What they’re offering you

In return, they offer a great working experience within a friendly team. Hybrid working (in the London office Mondays and Tuesdays, with the remaining days from home). They are located near Barbican Tube.

Plus, they offer lots of generous benefits and training opportunities.

They're a Sunday Times Top Company to work for.

Closing date: 29/09/2024

Please note, they typically start interviewing within two weeks of the job advert going live. They reserve the right to close the job before the deadline based on the volume of applications, so they encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

They believe in equality and inclusion and they welcome job applications from everyone, provided you meet the criteria for the job.

Safer recruitment is important to this employer and the successful applicant will be asked to provide two references. They will also be required to complete a safeguarding self-declaration and undertake a DBS check.

They look forward to hearing from you.

Benefits

Flexible working: As a mental health charity, staff wellbeing is of paramount importance. They operate a core hours policy (10-4) to encourage flexible working and staff are mainly home based with the requirement to come into the office two days per week. A standard full-time working week is 35 hours, plus an hour for lunch breaks.

Holidays: Annual holiday entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays.

Wellbeing Allowance: they provide an allowance of up to £1200 per annum for each employee to spend on activities that increase their wellbeing. This is paid through payroll and is taxable.

Cycle to work scheme: An interest-free loan is available to enable employees to purchase a bike and accessories, repaid via equal deductions from the employee’s salary over 12 months.

Employee Assistance Programme: All employees and their families have access to a 24-hour confidential advice and support line.

Counselling: Employees have access to a number of free face-to-face sessions, via the EAP scheme.

Pension: they makes contributions of 5% and employees make contributions of 3%.

Season Ticket Loan: An interest free season ticket loan is available, repaid via equal deductions from the employee’s salary over 12 months.

Personal Development: They value employee development and review individual training needs through their performance management system. The Head of HR also runs internal development sessions for all staff through their training programme.

No agencies please.

Location: London, GB

Posted Date: 9/27/2024