Grants and Partnerships Officer

Green Schools Project is looking for a part-time Grants and Partnerships Officer to work 3 days per week to drive forward our fundraising strategy and manage our expanding pipeline of trusts, foundations, and corporate partners.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team in a successful and ambitious social enterprise that is helping schools and young people tackle the climate and nature crisis. As we pass our 10-year milestone, we have developed a model that transforms a school’s response to the climate crisis while providing high-impact social value for the private sector. We are now expanding our team to build the operational capacity required to turn this momentum into long-term, sustainable national scale.

You’ll be working with our Head of Development to implement our fundraising strategy, research and write grant applications, and develop new opportunities with corporates, local authorities, and academy trusts. Alongside, you’ll work closely with our Communications Manager and Programme Delivery Team to design and deliver high-quality funder reports, ensuring our project and programme successes are communicated effectively.

The role would suit someone with grant fundraising and business development experience who is looking for more responsibility and experience across these areas.

We believe that tackling the climate and nature crisis is the most urgent issue facing society and that schools need to educate young people about the situation and involve them in addressing it. Young people bear no responsibility for causing the climate crisis, yet they will have to live through this issue which will define their future. We believe that, given the opportunity, they have the energy, enthusiasm, and determination to change attitudes and behaviour on a local and global scale.

Our values that we do our best to embody at all times are to be enthusiastic, innovative, environmentally responsible, ethical, collaborative, and fun.

We exist to help young people learn about and get actively involved with tackling the climate and nature crisis. We support schools to provide opportunities for their pupils to learn about the individual actions and systemic responses required.

We are keen to attract applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences but particularly interested to hear from applicants where the environmental education sector is currently underrepresented (ethnicity, disability, LGBT+, living in areas of low social mobility).

We use blind recruitment to ensure a fairer hiring process. Your name, contact details, and other identifying information will be hidden from the hiring team during the initial screening stage. We score your application solely on your skills and experience.

• Manage the core grant process: Research grant funding opportunities, manage small-to-medium trusts and foundations (typically up to £15k), and write tailored applications alongside the Head of Development.
• Maintain our funding pipeline: Keep our records up to date, track fund deadlines and ensure that our bid writing is planned to meet internal capacity.
• Lead on funder reporting: Work closely with our Communications Manager to design, write, and deliver high-quality progress and impact reports for funders to demonstrate compliance and cultivate long-term support.
• Field partner enquiries: Act as the first point of contact for corporate social value enquiries, turning initial interest into structured proposals alongside the Communications Manager.
• Manage entry-level partnerships: Account-manage corporate social value partners, local authority, and academy trust partnerships.
• Research new business opportunities: Identify and pursue new avenues to sell our climate education programmes, workshops, and teacher training.

• Experience of fundraising and business development and a desire to develop your skills in these above areas.
• Strong written communication skills that can be adapted to fundraising, business development, and proposal writing.
• Confidence in speaking and selling to potential corporate partners and school networks with the ability to inspire others.
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