Fundraising Executive

4 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Ufton Court Educational Trust Full time

**Fundraising Executive**
- Reporting to: Head of Fundraising Salary: £22-25,000;Full Time
- Location: Hybrid, Ufton Court is 10mi from Reading
- Closing date: 12th January 2023 at 23:59

**Job description**

We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a better place and have an immediate impact on the lives of children and young people. If are curious, possess brilliant persuasive writing skills and able to translate opportunities into articulate and compelling bids for funding, we’d love to hear from you. You might not have direct experience in this field, or within the charitable sector, but that’s okay as we’ll train you, give you opportunities to transfer and hone your skills, and support your ambitions. As a Fundraising Executive, you'll identify new funding opportunities across charitable trusts, major donors and corporates to generate strategic income and help the charity grow. You’ll also have an eye for detail, a passion for stats and facts to support your ideas, understand budgeting and hold high levels of empathy and integrity.

**The role**:

- Use prospect research strategies to build a robust and actionable pipeline for Ufton.
- Use data (internal and external) to understand the needs of children and young people and build evidence-based bids for funding.
- Find new ways to inspire meaningful moments that share Ufton’s impact with our supporters.
- Build and deliver rich engagement plans for our supporters.
- Build banks of knowledge and resources to scale your work more quickly, never compromising on quality and truthfulness.
- Hold high levels of data integrity and a be keen supporter of using technology to support efficiency, accuracy and accountability.
- Work collaboratively to build your toolbox to enable smart ways of working, including cases for support, project budgets, case studies and evidence of need/impact.
- Pro-actively generate and pursue targeted and strategic opportunities.
- Collaborate with teams across Ufton to ensure you can identify opportunities, build bids for funding and deliver against a donor’s needs.
- Obtain an in-depth knowledge of what Ufton does, the impact for children and young people.
- Help to implement, develop and then maintain the charity’s CRM system ensuring all activity is inputted accurately and efficiently.
- Anticipate new business by keeping on top of sector trends and conducting market research to identify new opportunities.

**The post holder will also**:

- Contribute to achieving the objectives of Ufton and wider fundraising activities
- Undertake any additional and ad hoc tasks as required
- Actively contribute to team meetings and other activities as required
- Monitor and evaluate activities and provide written reports
- Represent Ufton in a professional manner
- Work within an EDI framework, adhere to all the Charity’s policies, procedures and working
- Ensure all records are held in compliance with GDPR, The Fundraising Regulator Code of Practice and Ufton policies.

**About you**:
You’ll be keen to develop a career in the charitable sector and have a passion for working with a charity that strives to make a difference in children’s lives. You’ll want to use technology and software solutions to ensure we spend our time on what really matters.

You’ll need to be:

- Educated to degree level
- Enthusiastic about engaging internal and external stakeholders
- Maintain high levels of attention to detail and a commitment to building evidence-based proposals
- Possess exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Keen to work to agreed targets but will never compromise our values to achieve them
- Strong, persuasive written communication
- Numerate and able to build project budgets to align with bids for funding
- Enthusiasm and determination to meet targets
- Previous experience in a business development / bid writing would be great; or knowledge / understanding from higher education
- Excellent with MS Office suite
- Ability to use your own initiative and take ownership of your work whilst recognising when to ask for help or to escalate issues
- Good team working skills - you will like working collaboratively and co-operatively with colleagues, especially those who are quite different to you
- Meticulous attention to detail and hates missing a deadline
- You will be approachable, confident and happy to join the rest of the team in our core mission.

**About us**
- Ufton Adventure: _
Ufton Court provides residential and day visits for children from a variety of backgrounds and with diverse and often complicated needs. These visits enable children to flourish and thrive, to connect with nature, with each other - so critical after the pandemic. We build self-esteem, confidence and ultimately aspirations and attainment. We engage and challenge children and young people through physical and thoughtful activities in our woodland, outdoor setting and in our historical Tudor manor house. These educational a

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