Grants Fundraising Manager

Are you an experienced grants fundraiser looking for a new opportunity at Europe's largest conservation organisation? Do you have the passion and drive to play your part in saving nature across the UK?

Grants Fundraising Manager
Reference: JUN20248574
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week. Part-time hours will be considered.
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave

We are looking for a dynamic individual with initiative and excellent collaboration skills. You will work alongside the Head of Grants, Planning and Development to maximise our grant income, manage some of our key funder relationships and collaborate with fundraising colleagues from RSPB UK Country teams to increase grant income, embodying a one team fundraising approach. 

Although this is a permanent position, there is some flexibility to consider part-time / flexible working.

Responsibilities: 

• Maximise income from existing grant sources and identify and evaluate new income streams to ensure on-going funding of RSPB work.
• Work with colleagues across the RSPB to plan and submit funding bids.
• Manage and maintain relationships with key UK grant funders and external funding bodies, including National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Lottery Community Fund and Landfill Community Fund to maintain and increase financial support for nature conservation programmes across the RSPB. 
• Build effective relationships within the organisation, advising colleagues on funding conditions, ensuring that we maintain funder reporting and compliance expectations. 
• Coordinate UK-wide grant funder communications and campaigns. 
• Create and maintain accurate records in keeping with data protection legislation and team procedures for necessary record keeping and coordinating approaches to funders.

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Proven success in grants fundraising, or related, transferable fundraising skills. 
• Experience in managing and developing strategic funder relationships. 
• Strong advocate capable of working with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to research, develop new opportunities and write funding bids. 
• Ability to work collaboratively to manage cross-organisation and cross-sector funding bids.
• Proficiency in CRM systems, databases, and Microsoft suite. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Budget management
• Knowledge of legal compliance and due diligence within the charity sector 

Desirable: 

• Interested or experienced in the environmental sector 

Closing date: 23:59, Sunday, 1st September 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from 16th September 2024.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

As part of this application process you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

We reserve the right to close this advert once sufficient applications have been received.

No agencies please.