Funding Partnerships Officer

**12 months Fixed Term Contract**

Reporting to the Funding Partnerships Lead, the Funding Partnerships Officer will support a ‘back of house’ specialist fundraising service to enable the funding and delivery of projects and activities; working to a commissioning relationship across our business and in line with our vision and principles of our Community Investment service. The post will also support the growth of the Community Investment Service by working with the Funding Partnerships Lead to identify opportunities for external funds and contracts which support the delivery of the social impact strategy.

Your fundraising will support our vision to ensure consistency of our offer to anchor and non-anchor neighbourhoods and aligning service delivery with the aims and objectives of the Community Investment and Sustainable Neighbourhoods Strategies, as well as the guiding principles stated within the Community Investment model. You will develop an expert understanding of potential sources of fundraising, and will work in an empowering way to develop the knowledge and capacity of colleagues, partners and customers to undertake fundraising work for themselves.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Support the delivery of our core fundraising Community Investment service to our customers and partner organisations, helping to increase opportunities for customers to address local and community needs and broader social issues.
- Record, monitor and report on any fundraising activities, ensuring that we monitor and report against fundraising received, evidencing value and impact.
- Support partner organisations to develop sustainable approaches to fundraising from small scale start up projects towards medium growth.
- Support partner organisations with corporate fundraising approaches as well as Trusts/Foundations, Crowdfunding and other community fundraising activities.
- Understand the priorities for Neighbourhood and Independence and Wellbeing schemes, developing excellent working relationships across the Customer Services Directorate to achieve our objectives.
- Develop the capacity and understanding of fundraising by providing information, tools, and guidance to colleagues, customers and partners.
- Collaborate with internal colleagues, external partners and customers to capture and report any performance information that may be required from funders.
- Provide financial statements and reports.
- Continually evaluate the effectiveness of fundraising activities undertaken; using data and findings to inform future decision making and planning.
- Contribute towards the Community Investment Team database of funding streams providing an up to date resource for all colleagues.
- Identify and implement exit strategies for any fundraising received.

What you’ll need
- Experience of fundraising
- Experience of working with small registered charities, social enterprises and voluntary community organisations.
- Experience of bid writing to a range of grant giving organisations, Trusts and Foundations
- Experience of researching prospects, developing pipelines and supporting charities to implement a funding strategy.
- Experience of a values led approach to identifying and approaching corporates and working with charities to develop donor stewardship
- Experience of other fundraising methods or a practical working knowledge of crowdfunding and community fundraising.

What we need from you
- Represent Great Places in a way that reflects our standards, vision and values;
- To deliver value for money and manage resources effectively and efficiently, ensuring that targets (financial and non-financial) are met;
- Promote Great Places to employers, sector bodies, and the local community, developing effective partnerships with employers, the funding agencies and other representative bodies;
- A commitment work flexibly across Great Places Regions which may include some working outside normal hours, weekends and Bank Holidays as required.
- Experience of administration and recording procedures, with an in depth understanding of confidentiality.
- Ability to engage and to build relationships with partnering or potential partner agencies or organisations.

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment
- Pension ¦DC Scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleague and Great Places)
- WPA ¦Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available
- option to increase & add on family members
- The Market Place ¦high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
- Annual Leave ¦Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays
- Savings Club ¦ You can put aside money each month for 11 months to help you save for that special something (pays out in Novembers salary)
- Sharing Greatness ¦ Our colleague incentive scheme where colleagues can earn £300 by helping the business achieve business targets.
- Help with transport ¦ We