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Job Advert: Finance and Fundraising Manager
Senior Management Team appointment
Job title
Finance and Fundraising Manager
Salary
£35,000 - £45,500 full-time equivalent, pro rata (dependent on qualifications and experience).
Hours
14-21 hours per week; working pattern to be agreed.
Location
Mayfield House, Bethnal Green / hybrid working
Responsible to
Chief Executive Officer
Team
Senior Management Team
Line management
Finance Assistant And Other Finance Support, As Required
Contract
Permanent, subject to funding and successful probation
About Women's Inclusive Team
Women's Inclusive Team (WIT) is a community-led charity based in Tower Hamlets. We work alongside women, children, young people and families, particularly those from Black, Asian and minoritised communities, to improve wellbeing, increase opportunities and ensure that local people have a voice in the services and decisions that affect them.
Our work includes early years provision, health and wellbeing programmes, advice and guidance, mental health support, youth services and community development. We are looking for an experienced Finance and Fundraising Manager who can help us strengthen our financial sustainability and grow the resources needed to continue making a meaningful difference.
About The Role
This is a senior, hands-on role combining charity finance leadership with fundraising and income development.
As a member of WIT's Senior Management Team, you will lead the organisation's day-to-day finance function, strengthen financial controls and provide clear, timely financial information to the CEO, trustees and senior managers.
You will also play a central role in growing and diversifying WIT's income. You will coordinate a clear, prioritised funding pipeline, work with project leads to identify opportunities early, and make a substantial contribution to strong applications, tenders, budgets and financial narratives.
You will not be expected to develop bids in isolation. You will work collaboratively with the CEO, Finance Sub-Committee, trustees, project leads, fundraising colleagues and external accountants and auditors, drawing on programme leads' knowledge, evidence and delivery experience.
Key responsibilities
- Lead WIT's day-to-day finance function using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel, ensuring that financial records are accurate, complete, reconciled and up to date.
- Produce monthly management accounts and rolling cash-flow forecasts, and support reforecasting and scenario planning so that the effect of funding decisions on services, staffing and sustainability is understood promptly.
- Strengthen WIT's internal financial controls and month-end processes, including bank reconciliations, journals, salary allocations, debtor monitoring, the treatment of unidentified receipts through a suspense or clearing account, and year-end preparation.
- Work with the CEO and fundraising colleagues to develop an ambitious but realistic income strategy and maintain one central funding pipeline that maps WIT's strategic programmes against funding needs, potential funders, expected deadlines, application status and the impact of any gaps.
- Coordinate funding opportunities received across WIT, involving the relevant project leads early so that strong evidence, outcomes and service knowledge inform each application.
- Lead or make a substantial contribution to high-quality funding applications, tenders, contracts and partnership bids, including realistic budgets, financial narratives and full-cost recovery calculations.
- Build relationships with trusts, foundations, commissioners and corporate partners, while helping WIT diversify restricted and unrestricted income and develop appropriate earned-income opportunities.
- Oversee the financial management of grants and contracts, including expenditure, payment schedules, funding conditions, reporting deadlines, audit trails and the early identification of underspends, overspends and financial risks.
- Provide clear financial advice to the CEO, trustees, budget holders and colleagues; line manage and support the Finance Assistant; and improve systems, workflows and accountability across the organisation.
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The postholder will maintain senior oversight of funder requirements, financial performance and reporting information, while project leads will remain responsible for collecting and submitting evidence of programme delivery.
About You
We are looking for someone who can combine strategic thinking with a practical, hands-on approach.
You will ideally have:
- Strong experience in charity finance, including management accounts, rolling cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, reforecasting, restricted funds and financial controls.
- Practical experience of month-end processes, reconciliations, debtor management and resolving or correctly holding unidentified receipts.
- A successful track record in fundraising, particularly applications to trusts and foundations, tenders, commissioned contracts or partnership bids.
- Experience of building and managing a prioritised funding pipeline across several programmes, including tracking opportunities, deadlines, outcomes and funding gaps.
- Experience producing realistic funding budgets, financial narratives and full-cost recovery calculations.
- Confidence using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel, with the ability to improve reporting tools and make financial information easier to use.
- A strong understanding of grant and contract management, funder reporting and audit requirements.
- The ability to explain complex financial and funding information clearly to trustees, managers and colleagues without a finance background.
- Strong organisational and collaborative leadership skills, including line management, managing competing priorities and meeting financial, reporting and funding deadlines.
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You do not need to have held an identical combined role previously, but you must demonstrate strong charity finance expertise, credible fundraising and income-development experience, and a commitment to WIT's values, safeguarding responsibilities and equality, diversity and inclusion.
What you will receive
- A salary of £35,000 - £45,500 full-time equivalent, pro rata, depending on qualifications and experience.
- A flexible part-time role of between 14 and 21 hours per week.
- A working pattern that will be agreed with the successful candidate.
- Hybrid working, combining time at our Mayfield House office in Bethnal Green with remote working.
- The opportunity to join WIT's Senior Management Team and contribute directly to the organisation's strategy and future sustainability.
- A varied and influential role within a values-led, community-based charity.
- The opportunity to work closely with WIT's CEO, trustees, staff, partners and local communities.
Additional Information
To apply, please submit your current CV and brief responses to the three questions below. A separate covering letter is not required.
- Why would you like to work for Women's Inclusive Team, and what particularly attracts you to this role? (Maximum 250 words)
- Please give one specific example of a successful funding application, tender, contract or partnership bid you contributed to. Include the funder, your role, the amount sought or secured and the outcome. (Maximum 350 words)
- Please give one example of how you used management accounts, budgets or cash-flow information to support a decision, address a financial risk or improve financial controls. (Maximum 350 words)
Closing date
7th September 2026. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications, so early applications are encouraged.
Interview dates
TBC.
How to apply
Please email your CV and responses to the three application questions to Safia Jama at safiaj@wit.org.uk, using the subject line “Finance and Fundraising Manager application – [your name]”.
Further competency questions will be explored at interview; no additional lengthy written task is planned.
Appointment is subject to satisfactory references, evidence of the right to work in the UK and WIT’s pre-employment checks. A DBS check may be required.
WIT is committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds and lived experiences.
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