Corporate Funding Officer

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom The Active Wellbeing Society Full time

**Salary**:circa £30,000 per annum

**Location**:Hybrid working to include Tyseley, Birmingham

**Hours**:Full time 36.5 hours per week working Monday to Friday

**Contract type**: Fixed term contract until 5th May 2024

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference - whether at an individual level or more widely.

As a Corporate Funding Officer your role will be to help develop new private sector income streams and corporate donations to support the surplus food sector in Birmingham. You will be working for a fixed 10 month period in the first instance. Your role will span both the Fundraising and Food teams. You will be responsible for identifying and researching new corporate donors, building strategic partnerships and levering in large scale funding contributions to the community food sector.

**MAIN DUTIES**:

- **Identify new funding opportunities by actively engaging private businesses on behalf of the community food sector.
- Identify donors with compatible CSR policies in place and establish relationships with them
- Develop strong working relationships with key partners in the community food sector (internal and external)
- Act as broker between donors and recipients from the community food sector, working closely with TAWS food team who hold key relationships with this sector. Manage which food projects get the funds and how, taking both diversity, equality and geographical spread across the city into account to ensure funds received by a range of food projects
- Manage relationships between businesses and food projects where needed, including social media sign-off and other processes
- Work as part of the funding team to regularly review and continuously improve processes around fundraising in the organisation
- Work to embed the organisational culture required to implement the mission, aim and values of the society
- Keep abreast of new and emergent thinking across wellbeing, community development and tackling inequalities
- Support our staff and communities to develop skills in fundraising
- Carry out all duties as may be reasonable assigned from time to time and that are commensurate with the level of this job.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- **Relevant experience of forging new partnerships with the commercial sector valued at £25K+
- Understanding of community engagement & fundraising, with knowledge of driving income through national donor pipelines
- Excellent partnership working and relationship management skills.
- Proven experience of meeting individual income targets
- Experience of, or the willingness to learn coaching techniques to empower colleagues to succeed
- Experience of developing account management processes and templates, toolkits and resources required to support corporate organisations to engage with funding requests.
- Track record of working autonomously and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast paced and challenging environment
- Strong written and communication skills, ability to write, review and edit copy to a high standard
- Skilled at sumarising complex ideas in writing
- Evidence of being creative and entrepreneurial in approach
- Ability to plan, prioritise, achieve targets and deliver to deadlines
- Experience of strong partnership working, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Passionate about tackling inequality and community wellbeing.
- Experience of working with CRM system or database to maximize income generation performance (Desirable)
- The ability to travel within Birmingham.

**STAFF BENEFITS**
We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:Annual Leave - 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days.
Nest Pension - 8% employer contribution - 3% employee contribution.
Heath Cash Plan - giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day).
Life Assurance - x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
Flexible working.
Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month.

**APPLICATION DETAILS**
Please submit a Cover Letter and CV addressing the experience you have had relevant to the 'Main Duties' and the 'Knowledge & Skills' sections of the advert, but as a minimum please address how you meet the the following criteria which will be weighted highly in the first sift of shortlisting:Ability to Identify new funding opportunities by active

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