Funding and Operations Manager

Abstract

• Be part of a small, rising organisation and have an outsized affect
• Employees member supporting wider volunteer-based organiser group
• 37.5 hours per week with common in individual night and weekend work, day off in lieu
  provided in the course of the week
• Versatile working out there
• Wage: £33,000 – £38,000 each year, depending on expertise
• 1 12 months contract with chance of extension
• Location: Dwelling working with in-person commitments in London
• Sadly, candidates have to be legally entitled to work within the UK.
• Stories to: Director
• Employees advantages:
  • 25 days vacation plus financial institution holidays,
  • 5% employer pension
    contribution, 
  • coaching, 
  • welfare assist, 
  • day off in lieu, 
  • some flexibility over hours.
• Deadline: seventh Might 10am

Function description 

Fossil Free London is an brisk and welcoming grassroots activist group which opposes the
presence of fossil gasoline corporations and fossil gasoline finance in our metropolis, and explores what London
may very well be with out them. We execute a variety of inventive, disruptive and accessible protest
actions within the metropolis, with a deal with bringing new activists into the local weather motion and
amplifying our affect by social media and the information.

We’re a quick paced organisation on a trajectory in direction of main development. We’ve got three current
members of workers and an organiser community of a whole lot of activists. Fossil Free London has
acquired elevated funding 12 months on 12 months and we’ve established relationships with a number of
main funders. We are actually trying to rent a motivated and skilled supervisor to supervise our
funding streams, day-to-day funds, and digital operations. That is an thrilling alternative
to contribute to our mission to cease local weather breakdown and assist develop the organisation.

This function will report back to the Director of Fossil Free London. Whereas funding and operations will
be the most important tasks for this put up, as a small organisation assist is more likely to be
required throughout different areas. Fossil Free London just isn’t a registered charity.

Tasks

Funding and reporting

• Researching potential funders and constructing relationships
• Sustaining a pipeline of funding and monitoring funding deadlines
• Writing grant purposes, collaborating to make sure funding proposals align with group
  targets and values
• Reporting to funders on accomplished grants and spending
• Helping the Director to make sure the group meets core funding targets
• Growing various funding streams (akin to particular person giving)

Finance

• Monitoring and recording earnings and expenditure
• Sustaining oversight of the price range and projections
• Determine and assign spending to funding streams
• Main on invoicing and receipt processes
• Managing bills for workers and organisers
• Advising workers and organisers on out there price range
• Working with our fiscal host the Social Change Nest CIC
• Supporting the Director to make sure group features consistent with moral, strategic and authorized
  tasks 

Operations:

• Logging, organising and upkeeping digital storage and databases e.g. photograph logs for press,
  lists of actions, press appearances
• Sustaining digital safety throughout platforms
• Managing knowledge and GDPR compliance
• Sustaining the workers handbook
• Reserving venues
• Supporting the Director to develop inside operations, coverage and governance processes
• Supporting the Director and remainder of the workers staff as wanted

Key abilities and expertise 

We recognise that nobody will meet all of those standards exactly. In the event you really feel you agree with
our targets, have helpful abilities to share and assume you can be useful for our improvement,
apply! 

Important:

• Extremely organised and attentive to element
• Demonstrable success in grants and fundraising
• Expertise in monetary administration or assist
• Expertise of operations and administration
• Wonderful written communication abilities
• Extremely numerate 
• Digital proficiency
• In a position to work independently and flexibly in a small staff
• Dedication to the mission and values of Fossil Free London

Fascinating:

• Demonstrable success in fundraising within the local weather and surroundings sector
• Expertise of contributing to the event of operations and coverage processes

We actively encourage purposes from marginalised communities, akin to ladies and other people
of color, recognising that the environmental motion thrives when it’s extra numerous.

Easy methods to apply

To use, please submit:

• a CV of most 2 pages in font 12
• a canopy letter of max 2 pages in font 12

setting out why you have an interest on this function and the way you meet the important and desired
standards.

Ship your software through electronic mail to robin [@] fossilfreelondon.org with the function title because the
topic line. 

Accessibility

We’re blissful to contemplate any cheap changes that candidates may have in the course of the
recruitment course of. If there are further lodging you’d wish to request, please
contact Robin – robin [@] fossilfreelondon.org 

Course of

The construction of the interview course of might be: an inherent ability take a look at of a number of the important
abilities listed above, which might be accomplished remotely, a attainable Zoom interview after which, if
related, an roughly 45 minute interview nose to nose in London asking about your
curiosity within the function, examples of your abilities and expertise and the concepts you’ll carry. 

We do our greatest to make the interview a pleasant and constructive course of – we aren’t right here to
catch you out. Some high tricks to put together for an interview could be discovered here.

• Please ship us your software by seventh Might at 10am
• We are going to reply to all candidates by tenth Might

We might be conducting competency exams and interviews doubtless between the thirteenth to seventeenth Might
though we are going to affirm precise dates quickly by updating our web site