Dr Bell’s Family Centre has been supporting families in Leith since 2006 to thrive and feel safe, supported and healthy. We offer a welcoming, safe place where families with young children can get support, advice and encouragement. If you have a passion for fundraising and supporting families, we look forward to hearing from you.

Could you inspire funders to support Dr Bell’s mission to remove barriers for disadvantaged families? This is an exciting time to join the Dr Bell’s team as we expand to meet new challenges, including in the fundraising landscape. We are seeking a dynamic and motivated individual, with experience in trusts and community fundraising, who is passionate about writing successful applications and working with our community. As a core part of our small team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining our trust and grants income stream to generate increased, sustainable restricted and unrestricted/core income. You should be a self-starter who also works well within a fast paced and dynamic team to deliver great results against our targets.

Home-Start Glasgow South (HSGS) is a family support charity, helping give children the best possible start in life. Families, with at least one child under 8 years of age are supported by trained volunteers who understand how difficult raising children can be. Families are supported in their own homes for up to 3 hours each week or through group work across the southside. We help families experiencing issues including isolation, mental health issues, bereavement, family breakdown, addiction and physical ill-health.

We operate across the south of Glasgow as an independent charity which is also part of a loosely federated charity structure (Home-Start UK). We have been operating for 22 years and grown steadily to become the largest Home-Start in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK.

HSGS are seeking a dynamic, experienced Grants and Trusts Officer to maximise income through compelling and persuasive applications to support delivery of HSGS services. This post involves extensive proposals and reporting, often to tight deadlines. The post requires exceptional copy writing skills, attention to detail and creativity. Joining a small fundraising team, the successful applicant will have excellent communication, organisational and administrative skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Secure income predominantly from small to medium sized Grants, Trusts and statutory funders against agreed targets. The post is aiming to generate a minimum of £45,000 per annum.
• Work collaboratively with the fundraising team to assist with larger Grants, Trusts and Statutory bids.
• Research, prepare and submit bids to funders – including planning budgets
• Complete funding applications within tight deadlines to the highest standard
• Actively engage with HSGS staff, volunteers, families and Board members to develop case studies and compelling funding narratives for funding and social media purposes
• Support delivery of services to comply with funders’ criteria
• Collect and analyse data from spreadsheets and databases for reporting purposes
• Complete reports for all funders within tight deadlines to the highest standard
• Liaise with funders to update as and when required
• Provide outcomes and statistics to funders when required
• Ensure databases are recording all relevant Monitoring and Evaluation information required by funders
• Develop a pipeline of prospects for Grants and Trusts
• Proactively promote HSGS to potential funders and represent the organisation confidently at external meetings
• Input into weekly Social Media updates
• Input into Fundraising and Project campaigns
• Undertake other fundraising duties as required
• Flexibility to adapt workload to meet the businesses needs

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The successful candidate will be an experienced Grants and Trusts fundraiser who enjoys new challenges. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to create new income streams for the organisation and have a pivotal role in the charity’s planned expansion to support more families and children. You will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to develop relationships through proposals, presentations and budget management.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written (including ability to develop detailed reports, proposals and budgets), telephone and presentation.
• Excellent research and analytical skills with the tenacity to seek information about supporters and projects.
• Highly organised, ability to manage own workload, plan ahead, effectively manage multiple tasks and prioritise.
• Ability to secure new income-generating partnerships across local voluntary and statutory organisations.
• Ability to extract information from databases and produce statistical data and reports.
• Excellent relationship management and influencing skills, with ability both to influence new supporters and manage expectations.
• A team player who can equally work effectively and efficiently on their own.
• Creative, with the ability to think outside the box.

Experience:

• At least two years’ experience in a Grants and Trusts fundraising role
• Demonstrable experience of writing successful fundraising bids and proposals
• Demonstrable experience of managing multiple deadlines and projects / effective time management.

Reports to: Senior Grants and Trust Officer

Home-Start is committed to safer recruitment practice as an important part of safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults

Flexible Childcare Services Scotland (FCSS), is a national charity which manages 23 childcare settings across Aberdeenshire, the Highlands and Islands, Dundee and Kilmarnock. The charity was created after it was found that parents were unable to accept offers of employment due to a lack of high quality, flexible, and accessible childcare services.

To support parents to find sustainable employment, or education and training opportunities, FCSS deliver a flexible childcare model where parents/carers can book childcare by the hour, and they can change their booked hours every week to reflect their working patterns.

This will enable parents be more efficient with their funded hours, saving them potentially hundreds of pounds each month by allowing them to book their childcare at the times when they need it most.

About this role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Fundraising Co-ordinator to develop and lead on our fundraising strategy to ensure FCSS can meet income targets through grants, events, donations and sponsorship, effectively identifying and developing opportunities.

This is a part time (25 hours / week) role, attracting a salary of £28,965 – £31,471 per annum pro-rata, depending on experience.

This is a Hybrid role and candidates would work some of their time at home and some of their time in our Head Office in Dundee.

Benefits include:

• Holidays: 37 paid days pro rata including Public Holidays

• Pension: The FCSS Pension scheme is a Flexible Retirement Plan, with The Pensions Trust. On appointment you will be automatically enrolled but following a qualifying period you may increase your contributions. Where an employee pays a minimum contribution of 3% of salary, FCSS will make a 7% contribution.

• Training and Support and Supervision: You will receive induction training and frequent support in the first three months. Thereafter you will receive monthly individual support and supervision and annual appraisals. All team members have access to relevant internal and external training.

• Long Service Awards – Financial or annual leave rewards after 10 years of service

• CycleScheme – Save a between 25% & 39% on new bike packages

• Generous life assurance scheme

Fit Like? Family Wellbeing Service, Aberdeen

So why are we looking for a Team Leader?

Children 1st are developing a new and exciting way of supporting families in Aberdeen. We have a long history of working with children and families in the city. After a pause in 2018 we reviewed our purpose and role alongside children, families, and partners. We have been building a new approach to help children affected by poor mental health and emotional distress. Children 1st along with partners share a determination to act upon the recommendations from The Independent Care Review and deliver The Promise to children and young people. We are also determined that the full incorporation of the UNCRC means that children will have their rights respected in all areas of their lives and will have a real say in the way they are supported. This new Children 1st service sits at the heart of three locality areas but with a citywide remit providing early support to children and their families at the point when they need this to prevent more intensive supports being necessary. This role will support an established team of project workers working across the City with a blend of home/office and community working.

What kind of person will make a great Team Leader for Children 1st?

I know exactly what we are looking for, someone who:

• has experience of keeping children safe in their own families
• is fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families and,
• is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind

What kind of leader will you be?

Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:

• resilient, skilled, and knowledgeable who wants to transform systems as well as children’s lives
• big hearted and courageous
• able to build great partnerships and to manage the tricky conversations
• able to understand, predict and adapt to the landscape
• bringing service experience
• a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• able to make decisions
• inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better
• an amazing ambassador for children and Children 1st

Above all else, the most important thing to me is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.

Why Children 1st?

Because we work to make children safer in their families and communities. Because we believe in providing support to whole families through strong trusting relationships. We don’t “do to” families, we respect that with the right support, families can usually resolve their own difficulties and overcome challenges.

We have local services in communities and national services that stretch across the whole of Scotland that make a lasting difference to children’s lives. Just as important as our community based supports is our work to amplify the voices of children, their parents, and carers to ensure they have real influence and power to change how things are done.

I am proud to say we have always worked from a trauma informed basis. We believe it is the power of strong relationships with families that is key to stronger safer families and happier children. I know this takes hard work and means not shying away from what’s difficult but also being ever hopeful and believing in the power of repair and recovery.

We are relentlessly focussed on quality and we are constantly listening and looking to improve. You will find this role a challenge and you will be stretched. You will also find we are a kind and incredibly supportive organisation.

We have a really clear set of strategic priorities that we created together in 2018 and we are making great progress on these. We operate as one team. We can’t be doing with silo working - we share problems and find solutions together.

Protecting Children

Whilst there will be many demands on you , I will expect that you will never lose sight of the need to protect children. You will make sure that we are compassionate in our response and accountable to children, families, and stakeholders. I expect that you demonstrate an unwavering focus on the needs of children to stay with their family network and to work to prevent key attachments being ruptured. I expect nothing less of myself and our team.

Base

You will be based in one of the current Fit Like Aberdeen buildings but with scope for a blend of home and community working.

Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us, we will support you to work in a way that gets the job done but maintains a healthy work life balance.

Further Information

This a fixed term, full time role of 35 hours per week, funded initially until 31 March 2023.

Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of the service, evenings and weekend work will be required.