Trust and Income Generation Manager

Get Grants Ltd; Poole; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A national charity located in Poole is looking for a Grants and Trusts Manager to lead fundraising initiatives and manage existing grants. The ideal candidate will possess a strong fundraising background, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for improving children's mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. This role is primarily remote but requires weekly office meetings. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making a real difference in children’s lives.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of securing funding as a grants and trusts manager.
• Experience within small-medium sized charities.
• Ability to understand and address challenges charities face.

Responsibilities

• Achieve the fundraising budget and increase total income.
• Steward existing trust/foundation supporters to maximize income.
• Diversify income through major donor/corporate fundraising.

Skills

Fundraising experience

Relationship management

Strong communication skills

Resilience

Integrity

Enthusiasm for charitable causes

Job description

Fundraising Type(s) Corporate, Individual Giving, Major Donor, Trusts & Foundations

Sector(s) Children & Youth, Health, Sport & Physical Activity

Details

Grants and Trusts Manager.

Stormbreak are on a mission to challenge the rising crisis in children’s mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.

Are you passionate about fundraising and about children’s mental and physical health? Do you want to positively shape and impact children’s lives?

We need a talented, successful grants and trusts manager with an impressive track record of securing funding and driving charitable income growth. We need someone with experience of working within small-medium sized charities, someone who understands the challenges charities face and is resilient, self-sufficient, tenacious, ambitious, honest, full of integrity, brimming with enthusiasm and an all-round brilliant fundraiser (and human!) who loves what they do and is excited about making a real difference to stormbreak and the children and adults we work with.

You will lead on:

• achieving the fundraising budget and increasing stormbreak’s total income over future years,
• stewarding and cultivating our existing portfolio of trust / foundation supporters to maximise future income from the trusts / grants income stream through carefully crafted new approaches and applications,
• diversifying stormbreak’s income through the new development of major donor / corporate fundraising income streams.

Main responsibilities:

• To achieve the fundraising budget
• To increase stormbreak’s income in future years
• To manage the existing portfolio of grants, and, as part of the team, ensuring effective reporting / stewardship and maximising opportunities for future support / income.
• Liaising with the stormbreak delivery team about grant deliverables / outcomes
• Maintaining a system to record all reporting / stewardship activity
• Writing reports for restricted and unrestricted grants
• Keeping in touch with funders – identifying and implementing appropriate opportunities to cultivate relationships
• To undertake an ongoing programme of research and to manage / support volunteers to identify the best new prospects.
• To maintain and continually develop stormbreak’s pipeline – ensuring effective planning and applications throughout the year.
• To liaise with the stormbreak team regularly about funding needs and priorities and to use this knowledge to inform research and applications.
• To develop / update cases for support, making effective use of stormbreak’s impact / evaluation data, case studies and other assets.
• To keep informed of, and adhere to, fundraising regulations / best practice and to keep abreast of fundraising developments.

Most of the time you’ll be working from home. Once a week, we all meet at our office in Poole, Dorset.

Stormbreak is a national, dynamic and ambitious charity, established in 2019 and led by a dedicated and expert team, all very supportive of fundraising efforts.