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Senior Fundraising Executive (Trusts and Foundations)

Employer
Shelter
Location
London
Salary
£33,070 plus excellent benefits
Closing date
25 Mar 2019

Job Details

Do you have proven experience of building relationships with, and obtaining funds from, Trusts/Lottery or similar bodies? Then join Shelter as a Senior Fundraising Executive (Trusts and Foundations) and you could soon be playing a key role in raising vital funds to support our work.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our High Value Partnerships team raises funds from trusts, the National Lottery, high net worth individuals, legacy pledgers, and corporates, with this year’s annual income target being £10.5m. It’s a particularly exciting time to join us too, as we’re set to play a key role in making Shelter’s ambitious new strategy a reality. Opportunities for funding asks are being actively generated across the organisation, and our Trust and Lottery Team is looking to grow our income by almost £1 million over the next three years.

About the Role

You will have responsibility for building and managing relationships with a varied portfolio of trusts and foundations to secure gifts of £5,000 or more. That will include warm, lapsed and new trusts with a variety of funding interests, relationship management needs and application requirements. You’ll need to research, correspond, contact and meet with funders to build relationships ahead of submitting applications. And, for restricted applications, you’ll work with colleagues across Shelter to ensure each application meets our strategic objectives. Ensuring gifts from your portfolio are acknowledged in a timely manner will be important too, as will maintaining a positive relationship with funders between applications. Managing regular mailings, sharing knowledge and supporting cross-team projects are also aspects of this vital income-generating role.

About you

A fantastic opportunity for a passionate fundraiser to join a high-performing team, you’ll need a track record gained working with Trusts/Lottery or similar bodies. You will understand their needs and be able to utilise a range of techniques to engage them, e.g. face to face, telephone, in writing etc. Excellent written communications skills are key, as is experience of creating clear, concise and compelling applications and reports for funders. Confident in your ability to develop meaningful relationships with funders, including meeting them one on one to discuss funding opportunities, you will be great at managing internal stakeholders too. You should be proficient using Microsoft Office applications plus Raiser’s Edge or a similar database.

Apply to be part of our award-winning team and join an organisation with a mission to change society and end the housing crisis.

Benefits include 30 days’ annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Closing date: 25 March 2019 at 11.30pm

Company

The housing crisis is now a national emergency.

Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.

Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.

Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.

We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.

In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.

We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.

Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.

In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.

For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.

We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.

This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.

Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.

Polly Neate, Chief Executive

Helen Baker, Chair

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