Fundraising Executive (Trusts and Foundations)

Fundraising Executive (Trusts and Foundations)

Location: Remote

Salary: £27,000

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent

Have you got what it takes to be our new…. Fundraising Executive?

Who are we?

At Springboard, we…

Futureproof the talent pipeline for hospitality and tourism.

Nurture people into careers in hospitality, leisure, and tourism by equipping them with the inspiration, knowledge, skills, advice, and guidance they need.

Help transform the lives of people who may have barriers to work and can benefit from our support, so that they get sustained employment in hospitality, leisure, and tourism, whatever their age or background.

Provide specialist careers information, advice, and guidance to inform and guide young people, adults and key influencers about the industry and facilitate quality work experience opportunities.

Promote hospitality, leisure, and tourism as a great place to work, providing worthwhile and inspirational careers.

Objectives of this role

As Fundraising Executive you will contribute to and/or construct successful funding applications alongside experienced bid writers. You will be focused on Trusts & Foundations, but will also have responsibilities to support our public funding work as and when appropriate. In your role you will supervise and administrate a core group of funding accounts ensuring that all reports and applications for funding are delivered on time to our funders. You will support our evaluation and evidence work, demonstrating the impact of our charity’s programmes.

A month in the life of…

• Contribute to researching and identifying potential funding opportunities aligned to our charity’s regional or national priority programmes.
• Contribute to and/or construct bids to local, regional and national trusts & foundations with the support and guidance of the existing bid-writing team.
• Contribute to our public funding work as and when appropriate.
• Learn and then have the ability to build first draft programme budgets.
• Supervise and administrate relationships across a core group of funding accounts, ensuring that reports and new funding applications are delivered on time.
• Support our evaluation processes and evidence of impact requirements.
• Support Liaison with delivery teams to brief on successful bid requirements and timeframes.
• Contribute to internal and external stakeholder meetings related to funding and reporting requirements including: research; profiling; design; income targets, budgets and operations.
• Undertake 121s, personal development and performance reviews in line with Springboard procedures.

This job is for you if you have…

• Research skills and IT literate / ability to use Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to be creative in matching Springboard services with suitable funders.
• Task driven and able to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal, written skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work on your own and as part of a team.
• Understanding of data protection and GDPR.
• Desire to work in a highly focused, results driven fundraising team

Ideally you will…

Thrive on writing compelling bids and identifying suitable funding opportunities & who can work across multiple teams. Someone who shares our core values.

'INSPIRE’ 'MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ 'CUSTOMER FOCUS’ 'LISTEN’ 'INCLUSIVE’ 'DO’ 'HONEST’

What’s in it for you…

• Flexible hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Extra gifted days at Christmas
• Extensive Private Health Care
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits scheme including lots of discounts
• Access to learning & Development Platform FLOW
• Supportive work environment, family friendly.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Springboard is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), or sexual orientation. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruitment process, please contact us.

How to Apply: If you are passionate about transforming lives and have the skills to excel in this role, we would love to hear from you! You can either send your CV or record a video talking about your experience, skills, and why you want to join our charity. Both options are welcome - choose what works best for you.