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SalaryReporting to: Head of Corporate Partnerships, Trusts and Events
Location: London, WC1X
Contract and hours: Permanent contract – 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
About Us
Help Musicians and sister charity Music Minds Matter are powered by music, which is why they empower and support those who create it and make it happen.
For over 100 years, Help Musicians has been working hard to make a meaningful difference to the lives of musicians across the UK. In a precarious profession often filled with ups and downs, opportunities are hard-won whilst challenges come along all too easily, with unsteady income and physical and mental health concerns common issues. Help Musicians offers a broad range of help to support music creators in times of crisis and opportunity — ensuring musicians across the UK can achieve their creative potential and sustain a career in music.
Sister charity, Music Minds Matter, puts mental wellbeing centre stage in music. It works proactively to help prevent mental health crises, providing everybody who works in music with the early support, knowledge and tools they need, at exactly the time they need them.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our wider Fundraising team as Senior Partnerships & Trusts Officer. This role plays an integral part in supporting our team to meet our ambitious fundraising targets in the years ahead.
This role is responsible for scoping, researching and writing key documents that will help build and maintain strategic partnerships and funding relationships. They will also lead as the CRM database champion for the team, ensuring that all relevant partner data is gathered and maintained to help with pipeline management, fundraising, reporting, and communications. You will manage relationships with trusts and foundations, as well as some corporate partners to increase income to the charity.
This role will work with various teams across the charity to gather relevant information and data, to inform and craft into documents that demonstrate the impact of the charity and ultimately, raise vital funds to sustain the charity’s work.
About you
The ideal candidate may have previous fundraising experience and be experienced in researching prospects from large datasets, however this is not essential if you are able to demonstrate relevant transferable experience from other roles/sectors.
You will have excellent written skills, a natural attention to detail, and the ability to research and distil detailed information into informative and persuasive documents. You should have experience with CRM systems and have an understanding of data segmentation and how to adapt your style and approach to speak to different partners (existing and prospective).
Reporting into and working closely with the Head of Corporate Partnerships, Trusts and Events, this is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and focussed individual who wishes to develop their fundraising career at an exciting time of growth for the team and the charity.
Above all, you’ll love music and be ambitious about contributing towards making a lasting impact on the lives of musicians.
How do I apply?
For full details of the role and how to apply please click ‘Apply' and visit our website. You will need to download our application forms and submit these to us by the deadline below.
Deadline for applications: 9am, Tuesday 6 February.
Any offer of employment will be subject to providing evidence of a clear Basic DBS check.
All enquiries and applications should be made to our HR team via the recruitment email on our website.
