Senior Fundraising Officer - Trusts and Foundations

We are recruiting a Senior Fundraising Officer – Trusts and Foundations, who will play a key role in our small and successful fundraising team. A confident and capable fundraiser, you will bring vital capacity to this side of our income generation and work closely with the CEO, Senior Leadership Team and fundraising manager.

About the role:

This senior fundraising officer role is a new position, ideal for a creative and ambitious fundraiser who is seeking a role where there is an opportunity to develop and step-up professionally.

If successful, you will join a small fundraising team where from the start you will enjoy real responsibility. In this new role, you will work on a diverse range of funding proposals and have the autonomy to lead on the management of your own portfolio of funders. You will also work alongside senior staff including our CEO and Senior Leadership Team to develop larger, strategically significant proposals.

Although your main focus will be fundraising from Charitable Trusts and Foundations, you will have the chance to broaden your experience by working with the fundraising manager to develop and maintain the fundraising presence on our website and social media. You will also provide administrative support for the team, including keeping up to date records.

Who we’re looking for:

The successful candidate will have experience of building new and maintaining existing external stakeholder relationships in a fundraising capacity.

They will be confident in their ability to work on a diverse range of funding proposals and reports, including working independently alongside colleagues at all levels of seniority to achieve this.

The right candidate will have excellent written communication skills, and be able to translate a passion for our work into inspiring funding applications, reporting and account management.

They will also be a self-starter, capable of managing multiple priorities and a team player with excellent people skills. Finally they will enjoy build relationships with supporters and inspiring them to continue supporting our work.

Location: Home-based or London office-based (Vauxhall)

Working hours: Full-time (flexible, working minimum of 28 hours/per week considered – pro rata)

Salary: £28,000 per year (outside of London); £31,256 per year (including London weighting)

Benefits: 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time) and pension

Closing date: 9am on Monday 30 May

Interview date: Week commencing 6 June, with some interviews arranged as suitable candidates are identified.

About Kinship:

Kinship is the leading charity in England and Wales for kinship carers – relatives and friends who raise children when their parents aren’t able to. We offer kinship carers expert advice as well as financial, legal, practical and emotional support and understanding from the moment they need it, for as long as they need it. We’re always there to help with the complicated and stressful decisions that so many kinship families have to make, as well as to celebrate the good times.

Working alongside kinship carers and the children they raise, with their voice and views at the fore, we build communities of support and give everything we have to fight for each family and their rights, as well as to raise awareness of kinship care and secure better support for all those playing this critical role.