Trusts & Foundations Coordinator

Migrant Help; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour work week

Enhanced family leave provisions

Additional annual leave up to 39 days

Buy/sell up to 5 days of annual leave

Perkbox benefits

Pension scheme with 8% employer

Pride in safeguarding and values

Job summary

Migrant Help is seeking a Trusts and Foundations Coordinator to join the Income and Partnerships team. You will identify, research, and grow income from trusts, foundations, and donors, while stewarding relationships and supporting high-value grant applications.

Working with the Business Development Manager: Bids & Tenders and the Head of Income & Partnerships, you will build a robust pipeline and produce compelling proposals to fund our programmes and frontline services.

Qualifications

• Experience of trust & foundations fundraising.
• Excellent writing skills, attention to detail, accuracy and proofreading.
• Experience writing bespoke T&F grant applications, funding propositions and impact reports.
• Demonstrable track record of securing donations or grants around £10,000+.
• Experience stewarding high net worth donors.
• Understanding of trust & foundations fundraising, their operation and compliance considerations.
• Knowledge of philanthropy and donor cultivation and stewardship.
• Experience from conception to evaluation of fundable projects.
• Proven business case, feasibility studies, or proposal experience.
• Ability to work in a team and manage own workload.

Responsibilities

• Identify, research, qualify and build a pipeline of Trusts & Foundations and philanthropic prospects.
• Research funding opportunities aligned to strategic programmes.
• Aim for a minimum annual fundraising target of £75k+ with 6–12 month pipeline forecasting.
• Write high quality fundraising applications and propositions to inspire donors.
• Support donor cultivation, stewardship and building relationships with high-value donors and funders.
• Support individual giving and community fundraising and ensure high-quality donor management.

Skills

Trusts & Foundations fundraising

Grant writing

Attention to detail

Donor stewardship

Research funding opportunities

Relationship building

Forecasting pipeline

CRM management

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Teams

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Job description

Partofthe Income and Partnerships team, the Trusts and FoundationsCoordinatoris an exciting and supportiverole at Migrant Help. Youwill work closely with the Business Development Manager: Bids &Tenders, the Head of Income & Partnerships, and the wider income generatingteam, to identify, generate, and help grow income from a portfolio of trusts& foundations, stewarding relationships with philanthropic funders,individual donors and supporting with high value grant applications.

If youhave demonstrable experience writing and producing grant applications withexcellent attention to detail, and are looking for an exciting role that makesa difference, we’d love to hear from you!

Role responsibilities

• Working with the Business Development Manager: Bids & Tenders and the Head of Income & Partnerships to identify, research, qualify and build a pipeline of Trust & Foundations and philanthropic prospects.
• Researching and identifying funding opportunities aligned to our strategic programmes.
• Annual fundraising target of £75k+ with a minimum forecasting of 6 – 12 month pipeline.
• Write high quality, robust and compelling fundraising applications and propositions that inspire donors.
• Working with the Business Development Manager: Bids & Tenders and the Head of Income & Partnerships, proactively support the development and implementation of donor cultivation, stewardship and building relationships with high value donors, funders, funding partners, grants and trusts, managing all aspects of donor care.
• Support individual giving and community fundraising, stewarding their donations and ensuring they receive the highest quality donor management.
• Managing and producing impact and evaluation reports to ensure all T&F and philanthropic donors receive high quality stewardship of their donation.
• Maintain accurate records of new and current funding applications, evaluation and impact reports ensuring database records are correct and up to date and adhere to reporting and GDPR guidelines.
• Close collaboration with colleagues across the charity working closely with senior managers and front line. teams to mobilise funded frontline projects, including leading on project planning and monitoring.
• Manage CRM donor information, keeping robust records to assist with income analysis and forecasting
• Keep abreast of changes to the funding sector, funding opportunities and develop an understanding of how this impacts the charity.
• Attend fundraising events, seminars, team meetings and strategy days.
• Provide cover and assist and support the Bids & Tenders team with sourcing income from local authorities and statutory grant awarding organisations and produce accurate impact / evaluation reports in line with funding requirements and timeframes.
  

The experience and skills you need

• Demonstrable experience of trust & foundations fundraising.
• Excellent writing skills, attention to detail, accuracy and proof reading skills.
• Experience of writing and producing bespoke T&F grant applications, funding proposition and impact reports, communicating complex information clearly.
• Demonstrable track record of successfully securing donations and / or grants in the region of £10,000 +
• Demonstrable experience of managing and stewarding high net worth donors.
• A good understanding of the key features of trust & foundations fundraising, including how Trusts & Foundations operate and award grants, as well as key compliance considerations and trends in the sector.
• Good understanding of philanthropy / high value donors with an understanding of how to cultivate and steward donor relationships.
• Experience of fundable projects from conception to completion and evaluation
• Proven business case, feasibility studies or proposal experience.
• Demonstrable experience of working successfully both as part of a team, and taking initiative to organise own workload
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels both internally and externally.
• Excellent IT skills and confident in using MS Office, Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 database. Knowledge of types of fundraising, development and research methods.

Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide aservice to, applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process therefore:

• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check therefore applicants must:
• Be able to provide documents to show their right to work in the UK (such as Passport, work visa, settled status document, certificate of registration, naturalisation as a British citizen, Biometric Residence Permit etc.)
  
• Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment
  

About Migrant Help

Migrant Help is a leading charity that was established in 1963 and delivers a range of support and advice services to people affected by displacement and exploitation across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable people, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.
We foster a culture in which equality, diversity and inclusion are recognised, valued and encouraged. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, we match your skills with the needs of our organisation, as long as you share our values, vision and goals. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of their age, religion or belief, race, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

These are some of the benefits we offer

• Our working week is 35 hours per week offering flexibility and work life balance
• Enhanced family friendly provisions
• E mployees will gain an extra day annual leave per year to a maximum of 39 days, including bank holidays (pro-rata).
• Option to buy or sellup to 5 days of annual leave
• Access to Perkbox, an employee rewards and benefits platform with over 9,000 deals and discounts, a range of free perks, employee wellbeing support and other additional employee benefits and recognitions.
• Migrant Help offers employees a non-contributory pension scheme Migrant Help pays 8% worth of employee salary into the pension scheme.
  

Selection Criteria

Your application will be assessed against the job description and person specification, which can be found via the above link, we therefore recommend you review both before you apply.

We encourage applications from disabled people and aim to progress candidates who meet the minimum criteria to the next stage of the recruitment process, For more information on how we apply the disability confident scheme, please view our FAQ page here

Please note this vacancy may close early depending on applications received

As part of your role, it is important you operate within Migrant Help’s values: Protection, Diversity, Equality, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence.
Migrant Help is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.