Senior Trusts & Foundations Manager

Vacancy at The Felix Project

Senior Trusts & Foundations Manager

Salary £ 45.000 - 50.000

London

Details

The Felix Project and FareShare have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry. 

The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives. 

The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK. 

Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.

Oversee the planning and delivery of a portfolio of trusts and foundations funders, that maximise income potential and provide relationship management for a number of key accounts, providing impact reports and associated benefits

Devising, implementing and attending a variety of national Stewardship events as and when required and leading and supporting depot visits for potential and existing funders. Develop a range of engaging, innovative and persuasive proposals that capture the ambition and vision of the charity. 

Provide continuous reviews of plans and/or funding agreements managed by the trusts and foundations team to ensure appropriate levels of stewardship and undertake research to identify potential funders, both within and outside of the UK and maintaining an effective pipeline designed to undertake detailed prospecting and identification of targets needed to deliver long term income.

Provide development of key relationships with Network partners to provide support and guidance on national funders and identifying new funding opportunities and actively participate in budget setting and quarterly forecasting

The ownership of identified funding for specified projects and create, maintain, and disseminate as appropriate.

·  Experience of working in a regulated environment and demonstrable risk assessment capabilities

·  Significant experience of working with trusts and grant funders and a good understanding of the UK funding landscape, in a management/line management position

·  Proven track record of meeting challenging targets, securing multi-year business and increasing income from existing funders

·  Strong financial acumen, with the ability to work with complex budgets and production of associated grant reports

·  Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in writing proposals and presentations, with the ability to engage at all levels with diverse stakeholders

·  Proficient level of IT skills, specifically Microsoft Office applications

·  Experience of managing projects or varying scale and scope

·  Pipeline of potential funders

·  Delivery of income targets and expectations

·  Excellent leadership skills: Communicate clear objectives, provides feedback, suggest improvement for individual performance, coaches and confirms competency

·  Must work with high levels of autonomy but seeks assistance as required 

·  Able to support and answer all queries from the team in a timely manner and bring to conclusion 

·  Liaises with support functions as required to support the overall business strategy       

·  Liaises with key internal and external stakeholders

·  Adapts to changing charity needs, introduces new ways of thinking and behaving and applies new ideas

·  Confidently manages conflict and deal with poor performers  

·  Customer focused 

·  Can priorities and work within tight deadlines  

·   Excellent communication and presentation skills 

·  Practical approach to problem solving

·  Sounds financial management skills and can link commercial awareness cross functionally 

·  Builds a united team and first-class team capability

·  Works with other departments cross functionally to contribute beyond the formal team

·  Resolves complex and integrated problems bring them to a conclusion

·  Robust change agent with a continuous improvement approach

At FareShare, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in everything we do. We value the unique contributions of every individual and strive to create a respectful, inclusive environment free from discrimination or prejudice. Our commitment extends to all employees, and volunteers, ensuring equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of background or characteristics. 

Once you apply, you will be directed to our recruitment portal. Please upload your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role and make sure that they are both uploaded before submitting your application. After you have submitted your application, you have 24 hours in which you can access your application and make edits. We will only consider applications with both CV and cover letter submitted. 

We reserve the right to close advertisements early and we might assess candidates and arranging interviews as applications comes in, so please apply as soon as possible, to avoid missing out on this opportunity. 

Due to the anticipated large number of applicants, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of your application, we regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful. Consequently, will not be able to provide feedback.