Trust and Generation Manager

Fundraising Type(s) Corporate, Individual Giving, Major Donor, Trusts & Foundations

Sector(s) Children & Youth, Health, Sport & Physical Activity

Grants and Trusts Manager.

Storm break is on a mission to challenge the rising crisis in children’s mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.

Are you passionate about fundraising and about children’s mental and physical health? Do you want to positively shape and impact children’s lives?

We need a talented,
successful grants and trusts manager with an impressive track record of securing funding and driving charitable income growth. We need someone with experience of working within small-medium sized charities, someone who understands the challenges charities face and is resilient, self-sufficient,
tenacious
, ambitious, honest, full of integrity
, brimming with enthusiasm and an all-round brilliant fundraiser (and human!) who loves what they do and is excited about making a real difference to Storm break and the children and adults we work with.

You will lead on:

• achieving the fundraising budget and increasing Storm break’s total income over future years,
• stewarding and cultivating our existing portfolio of trust / foundation supporters to maximise future income from the trusts / grants income stream through carefully crafted new approaches and applications,
• diversifying Storm break’s income through the new development of major donor / corporate fundraising income streams.

Main responsibilities:

• To achieve the fundraising budget
• To increase Storm break’s income in future years
• To manage the existing portfolio of grants, and, as part of the team, ensuring effective reporting / stewardship and maximising opportunities for future support / income.
• Liaising with the Storm break delivery team about grant deliverables / outcomes
• Maintaining a system to record all reporting / stewardship activity
• Writing reports for restricted and unrestricted grants
• Keeping in touch with funders – identifying and implementing appropriate opportunities to cultivate relationships
• To undertake an ongoing programme of research and to manage / support volunteers to identify the best new prospects.
• To maintain and continually develop Storm break’s pipeline – ensuring effective planning and applications throughout the year.
• To liaise with the Storm break team regularly about funding needs and priorities and to use this knowledge to inform research and applications.
• To develop / update cases for support, making effective use of Storm break’s impact / evaluation data, case studies and other assets.
• To keep informed of, and adhere to, fundraising regulations / best practice and to keep abreast of fundraising developments.

Most of the time you’ll be working from home. Once a week, we all meet at our office in Poole, Dorset.

Storm break is a national, dynamic and ambitious charity, established in 2019 and led by a dedicated and expert team, all very supportive of fundraising efforts.