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Trusts and Foundations Manager, CHARITY PEOPLE
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Trusts and Foundations Manager, CHARITY PEOPLE
Help transform women's lives - one grant, one opportunity, one future at a time
Role: Trusts & Foundations Manager
About the Organisation
Charity People is partnered with a women’s charity dedicated to supporting women who have experienced:
- Trauma
- Abuse
- Poverty
- Mental health issues
- Addiction
- Contact with the criminal justice system
The charity provides:
- A safe, welcoming space
- Holistic, long-term support
- Confidence-building and independence initiatives
- A care model spanning:
- Early intervention
- Community sentences
- Prison support
- Drop-in provision
- One-to-one casework
They strive to grow their reach beyond Birmingham into the West Midlands.
The Opportunity
- Salary: £36,825 – £43,430
- Hours: 37 per week (80% role)
- Location: Balsall Heath, Birmingham (hybrid with 1–2 on-site days+)
- Deadline: 9am, 22 July
- Interviews: Week commencing 3 August
The role is funding-critical: 50% of the charity’s income comes from trusts and foundations. This is an opportunity to: ✔ Shape a high-impact fundraising strategy ✔ Support systemic change by helping women rebuild their lives ✔ Work in an environment values collaboration + diversity
Your Responsibilities
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Pipeline & Relationship Management:
- Oversee an existing base of funders
- Identify and first-rate relationships that align with the charity’s mission
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Funding Applications:
- Craft persuasive, evidence-based proposals for grants ranging from small-scale projects to large multi-year bids (£50K+思路 ready中文看懂of three+ figures)
- Articulate impact effectively through clear, data-driven case statements
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Strategic Collaboration:
- Work closely with monitoring, fundraiser, and finance teams
- Translate programme outcomes into compelling funding narratives
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Cross-Team Independence + Initiative:
- Prioritise opportunities effectively
- Drive consistently high-quality applications under tight deadlines
- Balance hands-on execution with strategic insight
Your work directly impacts thousands of women’s lives.
What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Proven track record: Securing £5–6 figure funding (or equivalent) via grants, trusts, or foundations
- Writing prowess: Ability to draft competitive funding applications, impact reports, and proposals for a range of funders
- Organisational agility: Manage multiple deadlines independently in a results-driven environment
- Strategic focus: Capacity to assess opportunities and allocate resources effectively
- Collaborator: Adaptable, and capable of securing input from diverse teams
- More Than a Job: A deep commitment to social justice and women’s empowerment as your driving force
Nice-To-Haves
- Prior experience within women’s shelters, justice/reform, or poverty-focused campaigns
- Connection to funding ecosystems (includes administrative history, as in "can push thesis over the finish line")
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Benefits & Culture
Benefits include:
- 28 days annual leave (+ bank holidays + birthday day)
- Enhanced maternity Leave & sick pay
- Healthcare cash plan
- Pension contributions
- Hybrid working with flexible setup
- Team-led initiatives: Wellbeing support, clinical supervision (where relevant), training budget
- Forward-Thinking Benefits Package: Adaptable to individual needs
Culture: "More than a [job]—more than a conqueror of spreadsheets" – but just the outside view role here ensures accountability. The charity reinforces focus around:
- Participatory culture: Welcomes feedback, welcomes the intentional conversation: Diversity and Inclusion, Equity, Investigation, in Career diversity vs equal pay or base rate credit check for their “required abilities.”
Why This Moment Could Be Yours
For fundraisers: a chance to switch up grant hustle focus – more operational than desk.
For advocates: build directly towards pathogen-free community shifts.
Support teams offer guidance & freedom—your impact, your insight, your idea.
Next Steps
To share your CV + eager eyes, contact: Ellen Drummond (Charity People representatives) Apply before 9am, 22 July².
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