Light Up Learning (LUL) is a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation providing one-to-one mentoring
for high school students in Edinburgh and the Lothians to help them ignite a love for learning. As we rapidly
expand the size of our organisation, we now have a vacancy for a Development Manager to support the growth and
delivery of our service.
The Development Manager role will support the growing administrative workload at Light Up Learning created by our
expanding network of schools and will assist the Head of Mentoring and Operations in the day-to-day running of
the organisation. The Development Manager will also play a key role in our grant management and fundraising, as
well as assisting with our ongoing evaluation processes and support our expansion into new schools.
The Development Manager will have four key areas of responsibility:
● Administration: Supporting with the day-to-day administration of the organisation as well as managing and
maintaining records of our service take up and evaluation.
● Fundraising: Supporting with fundraising efforts and grant management, including maintaining records, communicating
with funders, gathering information for funding bids and monitoring targets.
● Development: Working with the wider Light Up Learning team to achieve our long-term strategy by providing support
with events, networking, recruitment and assisting with communication to new partner schools.
● Financial: Assisting with the financial management of the organisation including supporting our processes for
invoices and expense claims and providing information for our annual accounts and budget.
For full details of the job description and person specification, please refer to the application pack attached.