Job Description
Grants and Trusts Manager.
Stormbreak are on a mission to challenge the rising crisis in children s mental, physical and emotional wellbeing and we re looking to grow the stormbreak Trust and Income team to achieve this.
Are you passionate about fundraising and about children s mental and physical health? Do you want to positively shape and impact children s lives, helping give them the tools and strategies to sustainably manage their mental health and wellbeing?
We need a talented, successful grants and trusts manager with an impressive track record of securing funding (including six figure) and driving charitable income growth. We need someone with experience of working within small-medium sized charities, someone who understands the challenges charities face and is resilient, self-sufficient, tenacious, ambitious, honest, full of integrity, brimming with enthusiasm and an all-round brilliant fundraiser (and human!) who loves what they do and is excited about making a real difference to stormbreak and the children and adults we work with.
You will lead on:
- achieving the fundraising budget and increasing stormbreak s total income over future years,
- stewarding and cultivating our existing portfolio of trust / foundation supporters to maximise future income from the trusts / grants income stream through carefully crafted new approaches and applications,
- diversifying stormbreak s income through the new development of major donor / corporate fundraising income streams.
Main responsibilities:
- To achieve the fundraising budget
- To increase stormbreak s income in future years
- To manage the existing portfolio of grants, and, as part of the team, ensuring effective reporting / stewardship and maximising opportunities for future support / income.
- Liaising with the stormbreak delivery team about grant deliverables / outcomes
- Maintaining a system to record all reporting / stewardship activity
- Writing reports for restricted and unrestricted grants
- Keeping in touch with funders identifying and implementing appropriate opportunities to cultivate relationships
- To undertake an ongoing programme of research and to manage / support volunteers to identify the best new prospects.
- To maintain and continually develop stormbreak s pipeline ensuring effective planning and applications throughout the year.
- To liaise with the stormbreak team regularly about funding needs and priorities and to use this knowledge to inform research and applications.
- To develop / update cases for support, making effective use of stormbreak s impact / evaluation data, case studies and other assets.
- To keep informed of, and adhere to, fundraising regulations / best practice and to keep abreast of fundraising developments.
Most of the time, you ll be working from home. Once a week, we all meet at our office in Poole so being able to travel to Poole in Dorset for meaningful connection and discussions with the team once a week is important.
Stormbreak is a national, dynamic and ambitious charity, established in 2019 and led by a dedicated and expert team, all highly experienced and proficient in their respective areas and all very supportive of fundraising efforts.
Help us to create healthy, happy humans forever!
