Fundraising Officer (Trusts and Foundations) 

Our client is Africa’s leading health charity. They work with some of the continent’s most remote and marginalised communities, ensuring they can access their right to health - and they put women and girls at the heart of this work. Headquartered in Nairobi, they are a truly African organisation, working with communities to create lasting change. This ethos defines their approach and echoes across each and every one of the projects and programmes they deliver. 

Position: Trusts and Foundations Officer 
Location: Angel, Islington, London N1 
Job type: Full Time, Permanent 
Salary: circa. £30,000 dependent on experience 

Closing date: Sunday 30th September 2018 
First round interviews: w/c 8th October 2018 
Second round interviews: w/c 16th October 2018 

About the role: 

Following a period of exceptional growth in Trusts and Foundations, our client is looking for an ambitious and skilled Trust and Foundations Officer to manage several major trust relationships, and continue to build on success by winning five- and six- figure grants towards their projects in Africa. 

About you: 

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent and have experience working with trusts and foundations, ideally in an international development setting, and will look forward to both relationship management and developing new business. 

They will have exceptional writing skills and an ability to translate complex projects and budgets into compelling proposals. They will enjoy working independently, managing their own pipeline and application and reporting deadlines, but will also be keen to work with colleagues in fundraising, programmes and finance, both in the UK and overseas, to add value to their work. 

They are looking for a creative, proactive, target driven individual, who can develop and implement plans, responds well to autonomy and can set the pace. This is a hands-on role with scope for professional and organisational growth and will appeal to someone who will thrive in a multifaceted and flexible fundraising environment. 

The successful candidate will have the ability to work flexibly in order to attend meetings or meet donors including occasional evenings and weekends, and occasional travel to Africa and elsewhere on business and for collaborative working across the organisation (Our client operates a Time Off in Lieu policy in relation to additional hours worked) 

Our client champions inclusion, diversity and equal opportunity in every aspect of their work. They appoint their staff on merit, respecting and valuing the wide range of ways in which they are able to demonstrate the potential, experience and skills they seek 

You may have experience of the following: Trust and Foundations Officer, Trusts and Foundations, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Executive, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Foundations Fundraising, Trusts Fundraising, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit etc.