Grant Officer

The role is essential to delivering Edward’s Trust fundraising priorities and achieving its financial targets. The Fundraising and Evaluation Manager will be responsible for assisting the CEO and the Fundraising Team in developing and implementing Edward’s Trust income generation strategy.

You will work with the Fundraising Team to deliver income targets from Charitable Trusts and Foundations, build strong relationships with new and existing funders, produce timely reports, monitoring outcomes and evaluating the impact of funding. 

Working with the other members of the Fundraising Team you will ensure that the donor experience is the best it can be, relationships are strong and that excellent personalised communication systems are in place, ensuring that donors are communicated with in a timely way and using their preferred methods. You may be required to support other members of the Fundraising Team on fundraising activities where extra resources may be required.

You will lead on continuing to develop and implement the legacy income and regular giving strategies to increase donor support and income.

You will be responsible for taking the lead role in ensuring the database (Donorflex) is maintained, kept up to date and reports are produced.

The role will involve tracking the Fundraising Team budget by creating monthly reports and updates and reforecasting income/expenditure if needed.