It’s an exciting time at EMMS International, with the creation of two new roles to develop our income generation capacity. We’re looking for a highly motivated, experienced fundraiser to join the small, yet highly efficient team.

Leading on creating new philanthropic relationships, developing existing support from mid-level donors, and growing strategic partnerships, you will enjoy creating and implementing plans to cultivate and steward new and existing donors.

EMMS International is Scotland’s longest serving healthcare charity, with programmes focusing on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Our current programmes take place in Malawi, Inda, Nepal, Zambia. Rwanda, and Scotland.

About Us:

St. Vincent's Hospice is a leading charitable organisation dedicated to providing compassionate end-of-life and palliative care across Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire. We are on a mission to ensure that everyone in our community has access to quality care during their most challenging times.

Role Overview:

Working closely with the Director of Income Generation, this role is responsible for Trusts and Foundation applications, cultivating relationships with funders and maximising on the funding needs of the Hospice. You will work with key audiences and a wide range of stakeholders to embed an effective income stream.

Key Responsibilities:

• Successfully grow our portfolio of Trusts and Foundations, by developing the Trusts pipeline through identifying and profiling prospects, plans for approach, cultivation, and solicitation of prospects.

• Research and identify new funding opportunities, as well as approaching lapsed funders, identifying the funders’ motives and requirements.

• Write compelling and professionally presented funding applications, each tailored for its audience and making the case for supporting the Hospice in the most persuasive terms whilst addressing funders’ priorities and deadlines.

• Collaboratively work with internal stakeholders to maintain a broad and detailed knowledge of our funding needs, identify fundraising opportunities, gather information and develop projects needed for applications, tenders and reports.

• Report to the Director of Fundraising and Supporter Relations with regular verbal and written reports on key developments.

Qualifications:

• Min HNC in relevant subject (or equivalent by experience).

• Excellent knowledge of fundraising and, in particular, of Trusts and Foundations.

• Good IT skills including demonstrable working knowledge of the Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Ability to use main social media platforms.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Good level of numeracy.

• Excellent negotiating skills.

Working Hours:

This is a full-time position, 37.5 hours per week and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £28,000-£30,000 per annum.

About Aberlour…

We are a values driven organisation delivering around 50 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.

Our development team delivers success. We are growing year on year and are looking for the right person to help us continue our success through funding and developing new services and improving organisational sustainability to enable us to reach even more children and families.

What we are looking for...

In joining our dedicated Business Development Team, you will use your experience and knowledge of developing and coordinating tender responses and funding applications to provide a comprehensive and specialist support to the organisation. You will report directly to our Head of Business Development and work closely with specialists to negotiate their contributions and keep projects to completion deadlines.

You will have written and delivered high quality, successful public tenders, ideally in a social care or equivalent environment and have the ability to present information and ideas engaging a wide range of stakeholders.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.

About the Role: We are seeking a dynamic individual to provide inspirational regional team leadership for designated Regional and Area Associations and local volunteers. In this role, you will drive the delivery of outstanding member benefits, sports, and leisure events at a local level using member insight gathered from local members.

Responsibilities:

At CSSC, we must ensure that our offer, both locally and nationally, provides our members with a great experience and enables them to do the things they love. To help us achieve this, you will:

• Support volunteers in delivering a regional and local programme aligned with CSSC's strategy, mission, vision, and values.

• Use the local member insight to deliver what our members are looking for, as well as introduce them to new opportunities and activities.

• Ensure adherence to operating processes, framework, and legislation.

• Enhance volunteer skills and experiences, celebrate volunteering, and attract new volunteers to CSSC.

• Collaborate with the Regional Chair and volunteers to monitor progress, attend local meetings, and evaluate the delivery of activities and events.

• Foster effective networking and collaboration across the team, champion best practice and seek out new ideas and ways of doing things.

• Attract, recruit, and induct new volunteers to ensure confidence and excellent service provision for our members.

• Ensure key volunteering roles have potential successors, retaining and developing the services and commitment of volunteers with CSSC.

About You:

• Effective time and workload management skills.

• Resilient and flexible with the ability to work under pressure.

• Strong relationship-building and management skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.

• Personal drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude and a desire to succeed.

• Committed to continuous improvement and innovation.

Key Skills & Experience: Essential

• Minimum of 3 years relevant volunteer management experience.

• Good working knowledge of MS Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Full UK driving license (travel required).

Desirable

• A relevant degree or professional qualification in volunteer management (not essential but advantageous).

• Experience with building and working with high-performing teams.

• Working knowledge of CRM and digital Event Management Systems.

What We Offer:

• 24 ½ days annual leave + Bank Holidays.

• Free CSSC Membership.

• 90 minutes of wellbeing time per week.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Excellent company pension schemes.

• Training and Development opportunities.

• Access to Employee Assistance Programme.

About Us:We are a not-for-profit membership organization with over 130,000 members. Our vision is to inspire our members to explore new ways to be active and healthy. Our four organization values are Passionate, Progressive, Supportive, and Social.