Trusts & Foundations Officer

Vacancy at The Felix Project

Trusts & Foundations Officer

Salary £ 33,000 per annum

Hybrid, across London sites and Sheffield

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the UK.  As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent 

criminal records.

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.

Supporting the step change in growth of the Statutory, Trusts and Foundations income stream.

• Collaborate with Manager and Senior Managers to manage portfolio through excellent stewardship

• Supporting the creation of a high-quality pipeline of new funding opportunities

• Manage a portfolio of low-level trusts and foundations, with opportunity to progress to mid-level funders

• Write compelling and visually engaging funding applications to new and existing trusts, working in collaboration with finance colleagues to ensure accurate budget and income allocation

• Manage significant mailing programmes to prospects, each campaign focused on specific projects or urgent appeals, including follow up contact

• Supporting the timely and accurate submission of funding proposals considering finder deadlines and application requirements

• Excellent stewardship of existing funders through timely submission of repots and thank you correspondence

• Monitoring and evaluation of projects

• Supporting colleagues with important bid administration and activity

• Supporting and attending stewardship events as required

• Adherence to GDPR and relevant legislation and guidelines of the Fundraising Regulator

• Proven experience of securing grants from trusts and foundations

• Good communication skills with experience in face-to-face meetings and telephone calls with funders

• Creative writing skills and experience of writing persuasive proposals and engaging reports

• Experience and understanding of prospect research

• Experience of working with a CRM database

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Tools

• Sound understanding of the interests and working methods of trusts, foundations and charitable grant makers

• Sound understanding of GDPR, charity legislation and guidelines of the Fundraising Regulator

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.