Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Officer

Are you looking for a part-time, flexible role where your exceptional writing and influenceing skills can help drive much needed systemic change? 

This role is 15 hours a week which can be scheduled around your commitments and based from any location. You will have the option to join the team in Bermondsey, central London on occasion but the role can be fully remote. 

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and working alongside a full time Trusts and Foundations Manager, you will play a vital role in raising funds to support AVUK’s 10-year plan which will transform the life opportunities for deaf children in the UK. With experience of securing five and six figure sums from Trusts and Foundations and grant making bodies, you will identify and secure high-value partnerships taking us closer to our goal of raising just over £2m a year.  

Working closely with the Head of Fundraising, CEO and Senior Management Team, you will develop high-quality, compelling proposals to secure significant funding partnerships that will transform life outcomes for deaf children.

Through exceptional research, bid writing and stewardship you will focus on securing six-figure plus funding partnerships and mange relationships for long term impact.

Research

• Research and identify prospective Trusts and Foundations and other grant giving bodies
• Grow and maintain a strong trust funding pipeline, creating new trust prospects for our priority funding areas

Fundraising

• Identify and manage a pipeline of high-value prospects and opportunities which have the potential of delivering five and six figure grants.
• Work with colleagues across Auditory Verbal UK to develop and submit high-value and high-quality trust and foundation bids, creating a compelling narrative, budget and outcomes for a range short, medium and long term projects towards our vision
• Develop personalised relationships with Trust and Foundation trustees and trust administrators, maximising every opportunity for cultivation and development
• Plan and organise opportunities for funders to view AVUK’s work first-hand, ensuring all safeguarding procedures are followed and met
• Represent AVUK at face-to-face meetings with donors and prospects, successfully engaging them with the charities aims and objectives

Reporting

• Compile comprehensive and compelling progress reports to feed back to grant makers in a timely fashion and incentivise continued support
• Alongside the Director of Finance and Operations, prepare accurate budgets detailing spending of specific grants
• Draw down on any multi-year grants as outlined in our annual budget
• Provide briefing notes and income pipeline on donor activities and potential funding opportunities

Essential

• Demonstrable success in securing six figure partnerships
• Proven experience of devising budgets and project plans and reporting against them
• Understanding of sector best practice and relevant fundraising/charity legislation
• Highly skilled communicator with fine-tuned influencing and relationship building skills

Desirable

• Wide ranging up-to-date knowledge and experience of fundraising in the UK
• Experience of working with a CRM system
• Interest in children/disability/hearing issues