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Trusts and Statutory Lead, GIRLGUIDING
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Are you an experienced and passionate fundraiser with a talent for creating connections and building strong relationships? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
As part of Girlguiding's wider fundraising department, we have 2 roles available to focus on fundraising through trusts, foundations, and statutory opportunities. We're looking for people who have experience in raising philanthropic income and who are passionate about creating change and opportunity for girls and young women across the UK.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with colleagues across Girlguiding's incredible organisation to identify, secure, and steward grants.
- Support our team to:
- Create high-quality, well researched and well written funding proposals.
- Proactively lead on prospect research for projects across the organisation who can join us and help empower and support girls and young women.
- Manage relationships with significant funders, to ensure high quality and deliver outstanding stewardship.
- Utilise database and administrative skills to contribute to excellent record keeping.
- Develop strong market and fundraising intelligence to further support wider new business as well as existing relationships.
- Work closely with colleagues across the executive and senior leadership team, understanding the importance of stakeholder engagement.
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This is a fantastic opportunity for the right individuals to bring their skills, experience and passion for trusts fundraising to make a significant difference to the lives of girls and young women. We are looking for dynamic, passionate people with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who want to be part of a friendly, ambitious and fun department.
We offer flexible work arrangements, which can be office-based or hybrid – we're open to flexible working applications.
Apply today and be part of something truly special, to help girls know that they can do anything!
About Girlguiding
This is a really exciting time to join Girlguiding. We have much to be proud of in our one hundred years of history, but we know that to remain vibrant and relevant to young people we must continually evolve.
We’ve begun a process of significant change: transforming the organisation so it can meet the challenges of the future by putting young people at the heart of our organisation. We’re on a mission to amplify the voices of girls and young women, so they can champion change in their own lives and the wider world; to build strong partnerships that can increase our reach and impact; and to increase the support we offer our amazing adult volunteers who deliver incredible experiences to young people across the UK every week.
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Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. We are proud to work with a number of organisations who support us to create and maintain a culture that celebrates diversity and champions inclusion in the workplace. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Girlguiding operates a hybrid working arrangement where office based staff are required to attend the office on average two days a week, or 40% of working time across the year. Location allowance is payable to those who work in accordance with our hybrid working model. We’re committed though to supporting our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and offer flexible working options wherever we reasonably can. All staff are required to carry out our online health and safety training and complete a DSE risk assessment to ensure we can provide the support you require.
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