Fundraising Manager

Who we’re

St Werburghs Metropolis Farm is an inner-city group hub for land-based alternatives. Located
1.5 miles from Bristol city-centre, we handle greater than 18 acres of inexperienced house together with a 2-acre
smallholding, a 1- acre group backyard, a 2.5-acre conservation web site and 13 acres of group allotments. We
perceive the significance that inexperienced house has for our collective well being and wellbeing, which is why all
our work relies on strengthening the connections between land, animals, and folks. We all know that
enjoyment of inexperienced areas, entry to native meals, and alternatives within the agricultural sector usually are not equal,
and we’re dedicated to addressing this imbalance in our work. We respect that everybody has abilities,
expertise, and belongings to share, which is why we base our method on co-design and supply with and for
our group. We goal our work at these experiencing psychological ill-health, drawback and/or marginalisation. We’re working to create a future the place communities develop, inexperienced areas flourish, and collectively
we thrive.

What you’ll love about working right here

• Working in a supportive surroundings that values your range and expertise.
• Entry to coaching alternatives and reflective apply.
• Being a part of a welcoming group that strives for higher inclusion and fairness.
• Flexibility for these with households and different commitments.
• An workplace primarily based on the Farm, surrounded by allotments. An exquisite, inexperienced, group
  setting.
• Beneficiant annual depart entitlement – 25 days and financial institution vacation professional rata.
• Participation within the NEST pension scheme.
• Entry to the cycle-to-work scheme.

In regards to the position

We’re in search of somebody who needs to make an actual and lasting distinction in individuals’s lives,
taking the lead on producing the earnings required to ship the Farm’s providers and preserve our central
features and infrastructure. With assist from the Farm’s Director, who’s an skilled fundraiser, you
will develop and implement the fundraising technique for the Farm, main the supply of key actions,
initiatives, and alternatives. You’ll confidently tackle the management of the Farm’s well-established fundraising from
trusts and foundations, rising our unrestricted earnings base and attracting multi-year funding to assist
our tasks. Your expertise may even allow you to take the lead on establishing a brand new particular person giving
programme for the Farm, creating and implementing a stewardship technique alongside the Advertising, Occasions &
Communications Operational Supervisor. We anticipate that the postholder will spend 75% of their time managing
and rising our current trusts and foundations portfolio and 25% on constructing a brand new particular person giving
programme. We’re in search of somebody with expertise (or demonstrable transferable abilities and data) and a
willingness to work on each areas. 

As a member of the Farm’s Management Group, you’ll work carefully with the Director and
Operational Managers to make sure that our fundraising technique permits us to ship towards our aims, as nicely
as assist challenge managers and different employees to contribute to the event of related fundraising
alternatives.

Your talent set

• Distinctive written and verbal communication abilities.
• Skill to attract on data from numerous sources and create content material that’s concise,
  correct, tailor-made to its viewers, and tells inspiring tales that illustrate our affect.
• Skill to provide challenge budgets by means of session with supply employees, which is able to consequence
  in deliverable tasks that assist the organisation as a complete.
• Skill to develop an efficient stewardship plan for particular person donors that includes
  segmentation and applicable communications to make sure retention.
• Information of creating and supporting strategic main donor and company relationships.
• Working data of CRM methods comparable to Beacon.
• Skill to work supportively with a various group, supporting others to develop abilities and
  creating good relationships.
• Skill to seize data and switch related analysis into participating content material and tales.

Your expertise

• Vital expertise in producing compelling, profitable funding bids to safe 5- and
  6-figure awards from trusts and foundations for UK-based charities.
• Expertise of researching, figuring out and prioritising applicable funds to use to and
  constructing a pipeline of alternatives.
• Expertise of engaged on particular person giving campaigns and consciousness of greatest apply approaches
  for elevating funds from the general public
• Expertise in creating targeted advertising and marketing campaigns on totally different platforms together with print and
  social media.
• Expertise in elevating unrestricted earnings and data of how one can fundraise for core prices.
• Expertise in creating company sponsorship programmes, working with company companions, or related transferable abilities or expertise.

Your method

• Dedication to studying new abilities, reflective of your work, and a willingness to study and
  adapt.
• Skill to work as a part of a group, delegating duty and speaking priorities.
• Skill to effectively produce high-quality, focused and interesting funding proposals to tight
  deadlines.
• Skill to handle private deadlines and prioritise a demanding workload.
• Sturdy interpersonal and communication abilities; skilled, personable, and approachable and so forth.

Particular Roles and Duties

Trusts & Foundations:

• Keep and develop current annual submissions of Belief and Basis funding bids totalling £800,000 plus.
• Lead on the event of a pipeline of related funding alternatives, constructing on an
  current listing of prospects to make sure a strategic and proactive method to securing funds for probably the most strategic
  areas.
• Take the lead on drafting and submitting high-quality funding bids, guaranteeing colleagues are
  consulted the place wanted to provide correct proposals with a excessive degree of consideration to element.
• Work with the Finance Supervisor to create challenge budgets for funding alternatives, guaranteeing
  oblique prices are sufficiently coated.
• Proactively develop and replace assets that may assist approaches to Trusts and Foundations,
  for instance a case for assist, case research and challenge overviews.
• Guarantee an organised method to updating the Director on the progress of funding alternatives,
  monitoring deadlines and resolution dates and forecasting the chance of success.
• Take the lead on stewardship of current funds and profitable bids, monitoring the reporting
  necessities of every funder and guaranteeing all mandatory reporting is submitted on time.

Particular person giving:

• Work carefully with the Advertising, Communications & Occasions Operational Supervisor to develop and
  ship an acquisition technique for particular person donors, agreeing on targets and utilizing channels together with
  social media and e-mail to attain them.
• Create a supporter journey and stewardship programme which ensures the best ranges of
  supporter care, retention and conversion to common donors the place doable.
• Develop compelling and interesting fundraising content material to draw new donors by means of e-mail and
  social media campaigns.
• Map connections by means of trustees, donors and the group to establish potential main donors
  and lead on approaches.
• Utilizing Beacon (CRM) and dealing carefully with the Finance group, guarantee correct and detailed
  record-keeping for all particular person donors.
• Guarantee compliance with fundraising greatest apply tips always, together with assured
  management of Reward Assist claims and GDPR compliance.

Different particulars:

Contract kind: Everlasting.
Wage: Beginning wage of £33,024 (SCP 24) professional rata, every year rising to £36,648 (SCP 28) primarily based on annual increments.
Hours of labor: 21-28 hours per week (versatile instances). This may increasingly embrace occasional night and weekend work.
Workplace: This position relies at St Werburghs Metropolis Farm in Bristol. Nonetheless, some distant work could be anticipated, with a minimal requirement of someday per week primarily based within the workplace. The Farm is a dog-friendly office.
Annual depart: 25 days vacation per 12 months, plus public holidays, professional rata.
Probationary interval: 6 months.
References: All appointments will likely be confirmed solely upon receipt of passable references.
Cut-off date: 5 pm on Monday sixth Could
Interviews: Candidates would have to be accessible for an interview on Tuesday twenty first Could.

You will have a clear DBS verify to fill this position.

You probably have any questions on this put up, please e-mail [email protected]. We might be
glad to rearrange a brief phone name.