Charity registered in Scotland SC035027
The Jeely Piece Club provides a wide range of services for children and their families.
If you’re passionate about fundraising and making a difference, this opportunity with The Jeely Piece Club could be a rewarding fit!
The Jeely Piece Club is currently seeking a Trusts & Foundations Fundraiser to join their team. As a fundraiser, your role will involve researching information, planning, and writing bid applications to contribute to the organisation’s fundraising efforts. You’ll be responsible for communicating key messages and data about The Jeely Piece Club, inspiring and engaging potential funders, and ensuring successful bid applications. Working closely with the Senior Management Team and other staff and trustees, you’ll implement The Jeely Piece Club’s fundraising strategy to achieve sustainable income.
About The Jeely Piece Club:
The Jeely Piece Club was formed in 1975 to provide play opportunities and early education services for children in one of Glasgow’s largest housing schemes. The organisation was started by a group of local mums who wanted activities for their children. Today, that ethos remains the same. To provide opportunities for children in one of Glasgow’s most deprived communities.
For over 49 years, The Jeely Piece Club has been providing services for children, and families affected by poverty
A sector-leading, trauma-informed organisation, our mission is to work with children and their families to improve life chances by providing a range of inclusive, safe, playful experiences and opportunities.
Key Accountabilities:
- Delivering fundraising priorities and targets for trusts and the foundation's income, including our current and future major appeals.
- Researching, identifying, and prioritising appropriate trusts and foundations to maintain and convert a pipeline of new, prospective trusts and foundations.
- Working with colleagues across the organisation to help shape projects for funding and creating strong Cases for Support to ensure effective applications.
- Writing and submitting high-quality targeted funding applications.
- Managing relationships with existing and new funders to encourage maximum funding, multi-year funding awards, and repeat funding.
- Monitoring outcomes, updating the Funding Matrix, and producing timely reports and information as required externally by funders and internally for Management reporting.
This is both a challenging and exciting time for the Jeely Piece Club. Challenging in that our stakeholder landscape is evolving perhaps faster than normal post pandemic, and exciting in that there is a very real investment to build upon the Jeely brand, services and infrastructure in the lead up to its 50th anniversary in 2025.
We are now seeking candidates for this exciting key role within the Charity’s business support function. We are looking for people with the necessary skills, experience and can do attitude to hit the ground running from early on. Whilst you’ll be pro-active being the specialist in your area of expertise, you’ll also be willing and able to actively participate across all functional areas of the department – no one person within the team can work in isolation. All functional areas of the department and front line services are interlinked – whether it be through processes, inputs and outputs, systems or people – you must be able to take a bird’s eye view and a collaborative approach along with that narrow focus on your own area of expertise. This post offers the opportunity to work within an organisation with a supportive and progressive Board of Directors, Senior Management Team and dedicated front line service delivery staff - all focused on doing the very best we can individually to help children and families in need.
- Above statutory holiday leave entitlement and contractual sick pay scheme
- Family friendly workplace, subsidised café and free parking
- Working in a busy but relaxed small office