Bid and Fundraising Manager
Application Deadline: 1 October 2024
Department: Development
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Birmingham
Reporting To: Associate Director, Development
Compensation: £31,050 / year
Description
We're looking for two experienced bid and/or fundraising professionals to join our team as Bid and Fundraising Manager (internally known as Development Manager) on a permanent basis.
You'll be responsible for the development of a portfolio of donor relationships and will work across all parts of the proposal process from prospect research all the way through to submissions. As Development Manager, you'll work alongside the Associate Directors of Development to support their work in leading a wide range of funding opportunities. This includes central government contracts, local authority bids, corporate partnerships, and grants from trusts and foundations.
This is an exciting time for the Development team, as we are looking to diversify our income streams to support Ambition Institute’s mission in tackling educational disadvantage through evidence-based, high-quality professional development for teachers and leaders across the country.
We would like you to:
* Contribute to and deliver successful strategies for securing funding opportunities, pinpointing key differentiators, understanding funders’ specific requirements and ensuring those are met.
* Support the Associate Directors to develop, maintain and manage the pipeline, using research, analysis and planning skills.
* Formulate and script high-quality bid responses and create high-quality proposal documents.
* Work cross-organisationally to identify and assemble a team of SMEs (internal and external) to scope, define and capture the information required to prepare funding proposals.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
To succeed in this role you'll have a good understanding of funding/proposal preparation processes and experience in securing funding opportunities in the range of £50k-£100k. The successful candidate will demonstrate experience of successfully cultivating relationships with funders such as trusts, foundations, local authorities, corporates and major donors.
Whilst experience of securing funding from research institutions and knowledge of England's education and charity sectors are desirable, it is not essential for applying to this role. If you can demonstrate team leadership skills and the ability to work flexibly in a fast-moving environment, managing multiple competing priorities and a complex workload whilst meeting deadlines effectively, we welcome an application from you.
What’s in it for you….?
* Competitive annual salary.
* Professional development for all staff.
* 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down’ at the end of December/beginning of January.
* Employer pension contribution of 11%.
* Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work.
* Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
* Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring.
* Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
* Shared parental leave package.
* Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
* Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London.
* Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working.
* Interest free season ticket / bike loans.
Applications will be considered for all office locations.
All applications must be received by the closing date 23:59 on 1 October 2024.
Our mission needs the best people for the job, which is why we use sift questions to assess candidates’ genuine knowledge and skills. Sift questions are an opportunity for you to show us how you would do the job you are applying for, so please avoid using AI function tools (i.e. ChatGPT or other generative AI tools). We want to evaluate your response, so those found to use content taken from AI tools will have scores adjusted down.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.
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