Salary: £29,000
Reporting to: Head of Fundraising
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Location: BRACE Charity Office at Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB. (Hybrid working – minimum 2 office days)

Objective

To increase revenue from fundraising through trusts, foundations and other grant-giving organisations.

Role

The Trusts Fundraiser will be a member of a dynamic team of committed and passionate individuals working together to raise the profile of dementia research. The main purpose of this role is to secure funding from Trusts, Foundations and grant-giving organisations to enable BRACE to continue funding vital dementia research.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, the post holder will produce high-quality, tailored applications, maintain excellent relationships with funders through effective and timely reporting and thoughtful stewardship, and ensure that all sources of potential income are explored to create new opportunities for dementia research.

Person specification

Essential:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences.
• Excellent attention to detail, with good copywriting and proofreading ability.
• Experience in creative proposal writing and the ability to demonstrate clear outcomes and impact.
• Excellent understanding of how to research and write funding applications to trusts and foundations.
• Good research skills with experience in identifying quality new business leads.
• Highly capable of working to tight deadlines to meet targets.
• Good research skills with experience in identifying quality new business leads.
• Proven ability to form good working relations, both internally and externally with people at all levels.
• Excellent IT literacy.
• Excellent planning, time management and organisational skills.
• Willingness to work flexibly in order to adapt to the needs of supporters and the charity.
• Able to work unsupervised and independently from home and on the road.
• Innovative and keen to find solutions to problems.
• Strong interpersonal skill set with the ability to be persuasive.

Desirable:

• Experience of, and have demonstrable success in, trusts and foundations
fundraising.
• A self-starter with initiative.
• Empathy with the cause that BRACE represents (a knowledge of dementia and
research is not essential, as information and informal training will be provided)
• Experience using Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT.

How to Apply

Send a CV and Cover Letter (no more that 2 sides of A4) to [email protected]

Applications close: 6^th January 2025

Interviews: 14^th & 15^th January 2025