Senior Fundraising Manager, Trusts and Statutory

Key information

Closing date: 10am, Monday 17 April 2023

Salary: ￡43,000 to ￡45,000 per year

Contract: Permanent contract

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working

Interviews: Thursday 27 April 2023, in person, London SW8

We are on a mission to give children and young people from disadvantaged communities the literacy skills to succeed in life. You could join us leading work to maximise income from grant-giving organisations.

What you’ll be doing

You will play a key role in leading and implementing our trusts and foundations strategy to maximise income from grant-giving organisations. You will work strategically, building high-impact, high-value relationships (worth at least ￡100,000 per year) with grant funders. You will also manage relationships and provide excellent support care for existing donors at this level. You will collaborate with teams across the organisation and with external partners to compile fundraising proposals and produce high quality reports and budgets.

Our trusts and statutory income is currently managed by a team of four. You will line manage a Fundraising Manager, who is responsible for a Trusts and Statutory Officer, and support them both to deliver our strategy, as well as working closely with other members of the team.

We support flexible working for all staff based on the nature of their role, and you will be able to work regularly from home if preferred. We hold regular team and whole staff days in London, which you would be required to attend, around monthly on average. Interviews will take place in person in London.

What we’re looking for

You will be an experienced senior manager in trusts and statutory fundraising, with a minimum of two years working in a national charity of a similar size (￡5m+ turnover excluding capital fundraising). Success securing six-figure grants from trusts and foundations is essential, and you will be able to produce in-depth, compelling and high-quality proposals and funding reports. Experience of line management and team support in your fundraising capacity, and fundraising within an education, social justice or social welfare charity, would be an advantage.

Why our work is so vital

Poor literacy and resulting inequality is not inevitable. The National Literacy Trust improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.

We make society fairer.?Poor literacy creates social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor literacy earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.

We enable social mobility.?A child without literacy skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.

Our work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of literacy. We support thousands of schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners like the Premier League and the nation’s best publishers who bring literacy alive. We campaign to make literacy a priority for our nation’s leaders. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions.

What we offer you

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

Application details

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