Southbank Centre

Arts Council England; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Southbank Centre is seeking a Trusts & Foundations Executive to join our Development team on a full-time, permanent contract. You will manage a portfolio of funders, deliver cultivation and stewardship, and coordinate funding applications and reports for major projects across arts, engagement and public programming.

We value persuasive writing, strong research and analysis, clear communication, and meticulous budgeting and administrative skills to support prolific fundraising and strategic

Qualifications

• Experience of persuasive fundraising writing.
• Strong transferable research and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across diverse audiences.
• Good numeracy with ability to present budgets clearly.
• Strong administrative skills and accurate record-keeping with software.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of prospective and existing funders, delivering cultivation and stewardship.
• Prepare and submit funding applications in agreement with the team.
• Oversee reporting deadlines and requirements for the Grants team, compiling information and reports.
• Build internal relationships to support information sharing for grants fundraising and budgets.

Skills

Persuasive writing

Research & analytical skills

Effective communication

Numeracy & budgeting

Administrative skills

Job description

Job Summary

We are currently looking for a Trusts & Foundations Executive to join our Development team on a full time, permanent contract.

Job Description

We are a small, but very dynamic Grants team committed to securing support for the full range of Southbank Centre's vibrant arts, creative engagement and public programming projects, as well as for large scale strategic initiatives, festivals and capital works. Recent significant bids have included to the Arts Council of England for a ground breaking new multi-artform orchestral festival being launched next year, and to the Garfield Weston Foundation for our fantastic Schools programme inspiring and engaging children and young people across London and beyond.

The annual salary stated is based on the Full-Time Equivalent (40 hours per week). If the job is part-time, the weekly hours will be stated within the advert.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 on the closing date for the job posting.

We endeavour to keep job adverts open for at least two weeks for prospective applicants to apply. However, if we receive a high volume of applications for a role, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible to ensure consideration for shortlisting.

Please note, applications sent via Email or 3rd party agencies will not be considered.

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Job Requirements

Experience of persuasive writing and an understanding of how it can be applied in a fundraising context.
Transferable research and analytical skills.
Effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing, with experience across a range of diverse audiences.
Effective numeracy skills with the ability to present budgets clearly.
Strong administrative skills, including high attention to detail and the ability to use software to support record-keeping.

Job Responsibilities

Managing a portfolio of prospective and existing funders, delivering cultivation and stewardship.
Making funding applications in agreement with the team.
Holding the overview of reporting deadlines and requirements for the Grants team, gathering necessary information, and preparing reports according to guidelines.
Building internal relationships across the Southbank Centre to support information sharing for grants fundraising, including the timely compilation of budgets and financial reports.
Managing a proactive monitoring and research programme to ensure team members are aware of new funding opportunities from public funders, Trusts, and Foundations.

Job Overview

• Job Title: Trusts & Foundations Executive

The Southbank Centre is a charity that is determined to demonstrate its ambition to remain innovative, disruptive and experimental in what it does and to be highly relevant to the artists it wants to work with and to the audiences it wants to attract.

The Southbank Centre believes that a commitment to diversity and inclusion helps it be a more relevant and effective organisation.