Fundraising Officer (Trusts and Foundations)

Fundraising Officer (Trusts and Foundations)

Location: Home-working or Hybrid, depending on your location

Full Time 37.5 hours a week, 5 days a week, will also consider Part Time 30 hours a week (0.8  FTE), 4 days a week

Duration: Permanent
£26,000 - £30,000 per annum dependent on experience.

Each year, Young Enterprise helps thousands of young people develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to succeed. Through our nationwide enterprise and financial capability programmes, we give young people the opportunities and experiences to discover who they are and what they’re good at.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast moving, youth focused, charity and to play a vital role in securing income to support our youth activities – working with Trusts and Foundations predominantly, but with the opportunity to also build relationships with statutory funders and, in future, major donors.

We are looking for a proactive, highly organised individual to join Young Enterprise as part of our National Fundraising team.

About the role

We invite you to join an impactful and collaborative fundraising team, working in a driven and supportive environment, which places personal development at its core to ensure team members thrive. 

Working with the Senior Relationship Manager and the Philanthropy Team, you will contribute to an annual budget of £4.3m and raise income from Trusts and Foundations and small statutory income streams, utilising your income generating and communication skills. You will also undertake prospect research, as well as developing compelling project updates and reports to inspire supporters.

 We are looking for:

The successful candidate will have a track record of generating income from Trust and Foundations, particularly securing income £10k upwards.

• You’ll be experienced in writing engaging applications and inspiring reports, with a meticulous eye for detail in this, as well as strong grant management and stewardship of supporters.
• You’ll have a successful track record of building strong internal and external relationships, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. You’ll demonstrate a solution-focused attitude to problem-solving, monitoring the progress of funded projects in line with funder expectations.
• A tenacious self-starter with a can-do attitude is essential to enthuse existing and prospective supporters and to manage a varied workload of research, fundraising and grant management. 
• A strong team player with the ability to balance and prioritise competing demands in a busy team, you will have excellent organisational skills.
• You’ll be proactive and innovative in your approach to prospecting for new supporters, qualifying them, and building a pipeline.    

Why work for us?

• People-focussed with a friendly and supportive work-place culture
• An active commitment to equality and diversity
• Access to mentoring scheme with a corporate partner
• Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks plus your birthday off
• Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Group Life Assurance
• Access to various employee-friendly initiatives such as Discount and Benefits platform, Leave Purchase scheme, part financial contribution to Professional Development etc

If this role appeals to you and you reflect what we are looking for, we’d love to hear from you! When you join us in building a successful and sustainable future for young people, you can expect all the recognition, support and rewards you need to grow and develop yourself.

To apply, please visit Charity Job and submit your CV and covering letter (between one to two sides of A4) outlining your suitability for the role based on the Job Description and Person Specification by no later than Monday 1st July at 13:30. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 

We will be assessing applications and invite shortlisted candidates to interview on either 4th or 5th July. Interviews will take place via Teams.

Although we endeavour to respond to all applications, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date you should consider your application unsuccessful.