Hours: Part Time - 22.5 hours per week

Salary: £17,643.60 per annum (FTE £29,406)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Based at The Gateway, Worthing with some occasional travel to other sites within West Sussex

West Sussex Mind Values:

Excellence, Equitable, Open, Together, Curious, Unstoppable

Winner of National Mind Anti-Stigma Award 2021

Overview:

Are you a competent Trust & Foundations Fundraiser who loves being part of a team and is looking for a new challenge?

Are you detail orientated and highly organised with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively?

Would you like to make a difference to the community where you live?

Then this could be the right opportunity for you. West Sussex Mind are seeking someone who could join our friendly team and help us further develop our trust and foundations fundraising in support of our mental health services.
The successful candidate will be looking for:

• A fulfilling role and want to feel they are making a difference.
• Looking for a challenge, be good at problem solving and self-motivated.
• A role where you are part of a larger team all working together for one purpose.

The role is to lead the trust and foundations fundraising activities for West Sussex Mind. This will include maximising support through building and maintaining relationships on behalf of West Sussex Mind, to secure funding to enable us to maintain and develop our services. You will research and build our trust and foundations pipeline and support the delivery of our wider community fundraising work.
The successful candidate will generate income and funds for West Sussex Mind in line with the WS Mind fundraising strategy by:

• Writing high quality applications for grants and to trusts and other charitable funders.
• Undertaking identification and research to identify new trust supporters.
• Maintaining and updating accurate fundraising databases to show potential bids, those in progress, timelines and outcomes.
• Delivering excellent customer care to our trust donors.
• Achieving agreed targets on income through funding bids.
• Ensuring reports back to funders are written to a high standard and sent on schedule.
• Supporting our Deputy CEO around the development of cases for support for projects/services where fundraising is required.
• Producing high-quality cases for support.
• Supporting the Fundraising and Communications Manager and fundraising team with other fundraising tasks.
• Collecting and presenting accurate and appealing information, including high-quality cases for support, to trust prospects and donors about West Sussex Mind’s work
• Contributing to the smooth running of the team and effective fundraising by providing administrative and organisational support as needed
• Promoting best practice in fundraising.

You could be an experienced Trust & Foundations Fundraiser looking for a change in role or an individual with strong transferable skills looking to build your experience in this area.
You will need to have excellent skills at working with a wide range of people and organisations and be creative and proactive around creating and taking trust fundraising opportunities.
As we are a small organisation with a small fundraising and communications team, you will also be involved in supporting day-to-day community fundraising work and activities.

How to apply:

Please find below an application form, guidance notes and job description.

If you would like to have an informal discussion prior to applying, please contact Sue Smith on sue.smith@westsussexmind.org to arrange this.

Closing date: 31st January 2026

Interview date: To be confirmed - successful applicants will be contacted by phone or email to arrange a suitable date and time

Please email completed applications to people_team@westsussexmind.org

Please note we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must therefore be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

This post is subject to a Basic DBS check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications and encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

No agencies or CVs.

West Sussex Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Here is a link to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement - West Sussex Mind | Equality, diversity and inclusion statement.