Senior Programme Fundraising Manager

The British Asian Trust (BAT) is one of the most exciting and innovative charities in the country, maximising the support of the South Asian diaspora to drive positive change across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Since the charity’s foundation, they have positively impacted the lives of almost 13 million people through their education, livelihoods, mental health, child protection, and conservation programmes.

The charity has experienced substantial growth, with annual turnover increasing from £6m in 2018/19 to £23m in 2021/22. The scale and complexity of the challenges in South Asia demand innovative and ambitious approaches to tackle them. BAT works in partnership with others to design and deliver programmes, raise funds and convene partnerships that combine new social finance tools, philanthropy and technology to deliver impact at scale.

The Senior Programme Fundraising Manager will play a central role in helping lead the charity’s work with their Institutional donors, such as the FCDO, USAID, Asian Development Bank and World Bank. The successful candidate will lead on strategy development, scoping and co-creation of new innovative and strategic partnerships, bid development and grant and relationship management. This role would suit a new-business focused fundraiser keen to be at the cutting edge of international development programmes and funding – key duties include:

• New Business Development: Developing high value, multi-year growth pipelines for new partnerships with institutional donors, leading on the bid development cycle and working with internal and external stakeholders to scope out new partnerships.
• Grant & Relationship Management: Maintaining and developing a portfolio of institutional grants and relationships to grow BAT’s programmes in South Asia, developing partnership models & engagement strategies to meet specific interests & priorities of different institutional donors.
• Strategy Development: Support the development of BAT’s institutional funding strategy, including refining business development processes, keeping up to date with market insights and trends within institutional funding and effectively tracking the performance of all resource mobilisation efforts.

We’re looking for the following skills and experience for this role:

• Business Development Pipelines: Significant experience of managing an institutional (government/multi-lateral/bilateral) funding opportunity pipeline, generation of new leads, and conversion of leads to funding.
• Knowledge of Institutional Donors: Significant knowledge of Overseas Development Aid (ODA) and relevant donors (e.g. FCDO, USAID, World Bank), their priorities and giving mechanisms.
• Strategy Development Experience: Proven track record of contributing to the development of organisational fundraising strategies, with creative approach to applying fundraising objectives to the Overseas Development Aid sector.
• Securing High-Value Bids: Proven track record of writing and project managing successful high value and complex bids and proposals of 6 and 7+ figures, working with multiple stakeholders across diverse locations. 

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to every application.

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.

Candidates will need to have the right to work in the UK, unfortunately we are not able to provide sponsorship for this role.f