Senior Fundraiser, Trusts and Statutory

Senior Fundraiser, Trusts and Statutory

In the region of £35,000 per year

We are looking for a talented and ambitious fundraiser to lead our approaches to charitable trusts, foundations and statutory funds. If you share our vision that every child deserves the literacy skills they need to succeed, and if you can develop and manage high-level relationships with major charitable trusts and statutory funders, then we want to meet you.

You will manage relationships with some of the UK’s leading funders and have the opportunity to lead the development of new concepts, working with education experts and community programme leaders.

You should have experience of identifying and responding to commissioning processes, and be autonomous, happy collaborating across the organisation and with a wide range of people, an effective and supportive line manager, a skilled marketer and an excellent communicator. With a successful track record of bidding for grants in excess of £100k, you will work in a highly motivated and successful, specialist development team.

One person in six in the UK has poor literacy skills that impact on every area of their life. A child without good reading, writing and communication skills can’t succeed at school and as an adult will be locked out of the job market. Poverty doubles the likelihood of literacy failure by the age of five.

We are the national charity dedicated to addressing this. We are working to a five-year strategy, leading the campaign to address the UK’s literacy challenge and transforming opportunities for the most deprived children. We work in partnership with schools and the education sector and lead business and community partners to tackle the problem in the country’s poorest communities. Our research and policy programmes fuel our critical campaign. Our mission is to equip young people with literacy fit for employment and life.

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous annual leave allowance of 28 days (plus bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and new year), and pension contributions of 8% of annual salary.

This role is based in London SW8.

Closing date: 12 noon, Thursday 29 October 2015.

To apply visit our website

Please note we do not accept CVs.

Registered charity no. 1116260 (England and Wales) and SC042944 (Scotland).