Grants & Development Officer

Job description

Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT) is looking for a proactive individual with good storytelling skills to produce fundraising applications and reports that inspire. As part of GCT's Fundraising & Communications team, you will work closely with the Senior Development Manager to secure grant funding from Trusts & Foundations across our programme portfolio (including island restoration, community resilience, ocean protection and plastic pollution topics), with an increasing focus on securing multi-year funding to embed sustainability in our programme delivery.

You will be a great writer, researcher and comfortable working with numbers, enabling you to identify new fundraising opportunities and develop engaging proposals and reports with clear budgets. You will also be an organised individual with great attention to detail, ensuring you can effectively balance your time across competing deadlines and tasks.

We are looking for someone with:

• 1-2 years proven experience in Trusts & Foundations fundraising.

• Experience working with budgets in Excel.

• Experience of working with a database and managing contact lists and records.

Key responsibilities:

• Increasing restricted & unrestricted income from Trusts & Foundations in line with GCT's fundraising strategy with the Senior Development Manager

• Supporting keeping our database, internal documents and files up-to-date and GDPR compliant for Trusts & Foundations and external contacts.

• Producing high quality proposals and reports, ensuring consultation of key GCT team members and partners in their development, and submitting these to meet all deadlines.

• Support the Senior Development Manager with applications for multi-year grants, such as writing and budget inputs, Theory of Change inputs and organising supplementary materials.

• Helping to maintain excellent relationships with existing funders via bespoke outreach and thank you letters, project updates as appropriate, and semi-regular communications on GCT materials/events.

• Proactively researching potential funders and supporting the Senior Development Manager and Senior Leadership Team members on their cultivation.

• Reviewing fundraising success from Trusts & Foundations and developing annual fundraising plans with the Senior Development Manager.

• Supporting the Senior Development Manager with Trusts & Foundations income and fundraising pipeline updates to GCT's Senior Leadership Team and Trustees as required.

• When grants are successful, lead or support the Senior Development Manager with handover actions to the Programmes team to ensure project budgets, timelines and donor expectations are clear.

Please see the full Job Description for more information.

About GCT

GCT is the only UK registered charity to focus exclusively on the conservation and sustainable development of the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador are one of the planet's first UNESCO World Heritage Sites and a global conservation priority due to unique biodiversity. It is an exciting time to join GCT, as we are about to launch our strategy, as we strive to achieve our key ambitions by the year 2030 across our programmes, fundraising and communications efforts.

Why join us?

Not only will you gain a connection with cutting edge conservation impact in Galapagos, but you will have the support of a fully engaged, friendly and inclusive staff team. GCT value every team members growth, and to boost your fundraising career, you will get opportunities to develop your skills with internal training from GCT's senior fundraising team as well as opportunities to benefit from professional external training to support further development where relevant and feasible.

How to apply

GCT welcomes applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

To apply for this role, please provide (i) a CV and a (ii) a covering letter explaining how you meet the key requirements of the role and your motivation for applying.

Closing Date: midday (GMT) Wednesday 3rd December. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so submitting your application early is encouraged as the role may be filled early.