Fundraising Manager (Trusts and Major Donors)

Contract: Permanent

Starting salary: £37,065 – £40,410 (depending on experience)

Working Hours: 37.5 per week (30 hours/4 days per week considered)

Leave: 33 days (inclusive of bank holidays)

Responsible to: Head of Trusts and Foundations

Location: Homeworking / St Pauls, Bristol (minimum 2 days in the office each week)

We offer: Flexible working; 5% workplace pension

As our Fundraising Manager, you will help deliver Caring in Bristol’s income growth by leading the acquisition and management of specific major funder relationships (five/six figure) from grants and foundations. You will also help grow our Major Donor income stream, which is in the early stages and has some good success.

You will identify and lead the creation of high-quality trust and foundation applications, working with the Head of Trusts and Foundations and take responsibility for a portfolio of existing major funders to build relationships, improve funder satisfaction and secure continuity/growth of funding. You will engage with current Major Donors and look at growing income and prospecting for new Major Donors. 

More widely, you will be instrumental in delivering a best-practice funder partnership and communication programme at Caring in Bristol, finding innovative ways to create value for funders through reports, webinars, site visits and other means of funder involvement.

You will be an ambassador for the charity, confidently representing the charity to funders and other stakeholders and leveraging your funding relationships to advance Caring in Bristol’s reputation and influence.

The Fundraising Manager will also act as a voice of the funder within the charity, bringing the funder perspective to key aspects of our work such as project/proposition design, monitoring and evaluation and communication, with a view to making Caring in Bristol more sustainably fundable for the future.

In particular, you will work collaboratively with staff in service delivery, income generation and finance to help improve/deliver those aspects of our work that can influence funder acquisition and relationship management.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• To act as the key point of contact at Caring in Bristol for a designated set of existing significant grant funders, proactively and independently managing their needs to ensure funding continuity.
• Holding the relationship with funders through the application and any subsequent grant process, ensuring their giving interests and objectives are represented in internal work
• To proactively secure new funding – through the timely research and completion of high quality grant applications ensuring funding growth and sustainability in line with service goals, income targets and charity strategy.
• Monitor and nurture the trust and foundation ‘market’, spotting and opening application opportunities and feeding back relevant insight to the charity.
• Working with the Head of Trusts and Foundations to lead on end-to-end securing of large/multipartner grants in allocated areas. 
• Prepare and submit well-written, compelling, and complete funding applications of the highest standard to a diverse range of funders
• To create high-quality reports, webinars and other communications and forums for funders which exceed funder expectations.
• To integrate effectively with the service delivery team, being seen as a source of funding expertise and support, helping build fundable services, robust cases for funding and funder development activities that support sustainable growth.
• To work closely with service delivery teams to develop their roles and presence in funder relationships.