Trusts and Foundations Officer

About us

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen's House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy 'Charting Our Course' puts people at the core of its success.

The Role

Working in the Development and Events team and reporting to the Senior Manager, Trusts and Foundations, the Trusts and Foundations Officer will support with managing, organising and liaising with a growing portfolio of trust and foundation donors.

Key responsibilities include acting as point of contact for the Trusts and Foundations team, liaising with external and internal stakeholders, preparing interesting, informative and accurate reports for funders, record keeping of grant contracts and other paperwork to ensure accurate paper trails for auditing purposes, and ensuring donor/prospect relationship records are kept up to date on the fundraising database Raisers Edge. The role holder will work closely with the Trusts and Foundations Fundraisers and the Senior Manager of Trusts and Foundations to ensure in-depth knowledge of Museum activities and related grant income and contribute to the team target, and work closely with teams delivering funded projects, to monitor and track budget expenditure ready for reporting. They will undertake data analysis of the Trusts and Foundations Team performance, carry out initial due diligence checks ahead of seeking funding, and ensure Records of Processing Activities (ROPAs) and other data processing is up to date and compliant with GDPR and other data structures.

The successful candidate will have excellent organisational skills, meticulous attention to detail, outstanding writing skills, and demonstrable financial literacy. The role holder will have the ability to build trusting relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders alike, be a team player, willing to get stuck in, with a collaborative mindset, and passion and enthusiasm for heritage, culture and the arts, with an appreciation of the value of culture and the arts to society. Secure knowledge and confidence in navigating Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive as well as Microsoft Word and Excel are essential, and familiarity with Raisers Edge NXT or other content/data management systems is preferable.

This is a full time, fixed term role until 30 June 2028 in Band 6 - Management and Competent Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, Due to the nature of the work flexibility is required in meeting the demands of the role.

Salary:
£31,252 per annum

We encourage you to read the full job description/person specification before applying for this role.

Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.

The application deadline is 25th November at 23:59. Interviews are pencilled in end of w/c 1st December, or beginning of w/c 8th December.

Benefits

We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme plus life cover, 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 days after 1 year) plus bank holidays, 40% discount in our cafés and 30% discount in our shops, a range of interest-free loans including: season/travel tickets, bike and bike equipment, Gym or Leisure membership plus individual learning; training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries' paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options. For a full list of the benefits, please click here.

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.