Fundraiser (Grants and Corporate)

Intro:

 This is an exciting opportunity to help Greenwich Food Bank (GFB) realise it’s vision of
ending the need for foodbanks in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

 Through this new organisational role, you’ll proactively create and grow fundraising income,
reach and support from grant giving trusts and foundations as well as corporate
organisations across London and the UK.

 Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of growing income
and building relationships with trusts and foundations as well as corporate partners to
achieve and exceed annual income targets and KPI’s. You’ll have the capacity to create and
craft compelling funding proposals that successfully engage and attract donations.

Key Responsibilities:

 Through excellent, comprehensive and considered research, you’ll identify and prioritise a
pool of potential grant giving trusts and foundations funders for GFB. You’ll forge
relationships with those funders, develop and submit timely and winning funding
applications.

 You will manage the ongoing relationships with grant giving trusts and foundations funders,
ensuring they receive excellent stewardship, timely reporting and doing all you can
maximising potential for further funding

 You will proactively identify, engage and build good relationships with prospective corporate
donors, successfully securing them as funding partners. Alongside this you will deepen
engagement and grow our relationships and partnerships with existing corporate donors.

 Working with colleagues across GFB, you’ll develop authentic, compelling, creative and
winning funding and partnership proposals that can successfully engage grant giving trusts,
foundations and corporate partners and that can successfully align our vision and work with
their needs, motivations, areas of interests and values.

 You will work collaboratively with other Trussell Trust food banks across London and the
South East, identifying and progressing opportunities for joint funding proposals and
partnerships.

 You will develop, monitor and manage a fundraising portfolio capable of generating in
excess of £700k per annum. You’ll establish a fundraising pipeline, including a range of KPI’s that can be tracked and that will enable you to make informed projections regarding future
income.

 You will forge strong relationships with colleagues across the wider Trussell Trust network,
sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network. You’ll proactively
take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development opportunities and engage
with any joint fundraising opportunities.
Skills

 You will have good, established experience of trusts and foundations fundraising as well as
corporate partnerships fundraising.

 With excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills. You’ll
be able to inspire and motivate new and existing funders.

 You will have experience of setting, managing and reporting against fundraising KPI’s. 

 You will be tenacious and able to embrace, develop and shape a new role. You’ll be well
organised, proactive, and a self-starter who is able to self-motivate.

 You will be able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or
socially-excluded backgrounds.