Trusts & Foundations Manager inOxford inOxford PUBLISHED TUE 22 OCT 2024

Are you a talented and experienced Trusts Fundraising Manager? Comejoin our friendly and busy Fundraising Team in thisfull-timepermanent hybrid role! This role will be based in our office inOxford 2 days per week on average.

As the Trusts & Foundations Manager you will beresponsible for generating income from grant making trusts and foundations. You will take the lead on seeking out new prospects and nurturing existing relationships to significantly grow income. You will achieve this by researching sources of funding, devising individually tailored applications, maintaining excellent communications with existing and potential donor trusts and foundations, delivering an agreed income target as well as growing funding from these sources.

You will be a motivatedself-starter with excellent writing, communication, and budgeting skills. You will develop relationships with ease and feel able to positively influence colleagues at all levels of an organisation. The position requires someone with a positive attitude who is determined and resilient. You will be responsible for managing a Trusts & Foundations Executive and will be a key member of the Philanthropy and Partnerships Team.

Please note, we are reviewing applications as they come in and the advert may close early if sufficient applications are received.

This is a great opportunity to make a real impact in an extraordinary childrens hospice charity.You will be taking on a successful and robust trusts programme which has great potential to grow and develop. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in trusts fundraising and a successful track record in growing income. Solid leadership and management skills are desirable.

Essential requirements include:

• Experience of trusts and foundation fundraising and able to demonstrate continual growth in expertise and results in this area.
• Experience in developing and delivering income and expenditure budgets. Numerate, including ability to understand and manage financial information.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and inspiring funding applications and to make presentations.
• Creative thinker, with ability to identify funding opportunities and match them with the right trusts.
• Confident to represent the charity and its work and build relationships with senior trust staff.
• Good understanding of the trusts and foundations fundraising environment and associated processes and different types of grant making bodies.
• Good interpersonal, influencing and relationship-management skills, at all levels.
• Ability to proactively plan and manage a varied and busy workload with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work as part of a team and spot opportunities to grow and develop relationships for the good of the organisation.

About us

As part of the Income Generation Directorate, the Trusts and Foundations Manager is responsible for generating income from grant making trusts and foundations. The post holder will take the lead on seeking out new prospects and nurturing existing relationships to maintain and grow income. Responsibilities include researching sources of funding, devising individually tailored applications, maintaining excellent communications with existing and potential donor trusts and foundations, delivering an agreed income target as well as growing funding from these sources. It is based at our Oxford office with travel required across the Thames Valley.

We are at a very exciting moment in Helen & Douglas Houses history with a new CEO and Director of Income Generation on board and a new three-year strategy in development. This new strategy will provide the organisation with a strong outward-facing ambition and the opportunity to engage more high value donors in our plans. The area of major gifts has been identified as a key growth area and therefore is an organisational priority.