Are you ready to embark on an engaging journey where you'll play a vital role in providing administrative support across the team including board meetings and tackling the day-to-day challenges of a dynamic charity? You will support all areas of the charity such as, Programmes and Volunteering, Fundraising, Marketing and Communications and Governance. The ICAS Foundation is on the lookout for a passionate and very organised individual to join us as a Foundation Administrator.

Who We Are: The ICAS Foundation is an independent charity that collaborates closely with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) to champion equity, diversity, and inclusion among its members. For the past decade, we've been dedicated to empowering university students studying accountancy and finance, having granted over £2 million in funding. Each year, we support approximately 100 students across universities in Scotland and England, welcoming around 35 new Scholars annually and guiding them through their university journey for up to 4 years.

Our core mission is to enable academically talented young people from less privileged backgrounds to pursue accountancy or finance-related degrees. We accomplish this through financial bursaries, a mentoring scheme, and facilitating internships and graduate job opportunities.

The Job: As a Foundation Administrator, you'll dive into a multifaceted role that involves diary management, meeting coordination, minute-taking, data collection, and thanking donors for their donations. You will be skilled in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel, and supporting the administration needs of our volunteers, students and donors.

You'll help to organise board meetings, manage the mailbox, student bursary and grant enquiries administration and coordinate updates from mentors, students, and alumni. Additionally, you'll support fundraising initiatives, administering donations, writing thank you letters to donors and support at events to elevate our charity's visibility and income.

Your work will directly contribute to our mission of supporting young people from diverse backgrounds in the UK, enabling them to pursue higher education and a broader range of career opportunities, including becoming a Chartered Accountant.

Who We Need: We're seeking an experienced and organised administrator, with a preference for candidates who have worked in charitable organisations. However, we're open to various work experiences that can be applied to advance the ICAS Foundation's charitable purpose.

Our work is all about creating a positive impact for young people and is both rewarding and challenging. We're looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced and diverse role, enjoys engaging with others, and is adept at managing multiple tasks, stakeholders, and schedules. You should be comfortable juggling diaries, coordinating external meetings and events, and collaborating closely with a small, enthusiastic and hard-working team with direct responsibility to the Director.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the ICAS Foundation's mission, making a real impact in an organisation where you can roll up your sleeves and take on a pivotal role.

In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including an employer pension scheme (9%), a generous holiday package (Up to 35 days including public holidays and the option to buy and sell), training and development opportunities, and up to 3 days paid volunteering days to support charitable activities. The post will be contracted on a joint employment basis between the ICAS Foundation and ICAS, benefiting from all of the features and benefits of an ICAS employee.

Who we are:

The ICAS Foundation is an independent Charity working in close partnership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) to deliver equality, diversity and inclusion amongst its members. Over the last 10 years the ICAS Foundation has awarded over £2m in funding to support university students studying accountancy and finance. Each year we help around 100 students studying at universities across Scotland and England, taking on around 35 new Scholars every year and supporting them for up to 4 years through their time at university.

Our primary aim is to support academically talented young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds to study accountancy or a finance-related degree. This is achieved through a financial bursary, a mentoring scheme and support in finding relevant internships and graduate jobs.

What the job is:

The main areas of work will focus on assisting with diary management, meeting set up and minuting of meetings, collation of information and data input. The role will process data using Excel and our database Salesforce (training provided) collating and processing information for volunteers and students.

The role will be expected to process student bursary applications and process grant applications from students. Using our student management tools, the role will track conditions of funding are being met by students and coordinate updates from our mentors, students, and alumni throughout the year.

Support for various fundraising initiatives will also be part of the role, supporting events, administering donations, and attending events to raise the profile and income of the charity.

This work will contribute to ensuring that the charity can continue to support young people from lower socio-economic and diverse backgrounds across the UK fulfil their ambition of attending university and having a wider range of career options available to them, including becoming a Chartered Accountant.

Who we need:

We are looking for an experienced and organised administrator, ideally with experience of working in a charitable organisation, however we are open to a variety of work experience that could be transferable to promote and drive the great work of the ICAS Foundation.

The work of the Foundation is all about making a difference, is rewarding, varied and at times challenging. We are looking for someone who enjoys engaging with others, in a fast paced and varied role.

You’ll have strong organisational skills, administrative and IT skills to support the Foundations many charity activities, our bursary and funding process and engagement with our volunteer mentor applications and the administration of the end-to-end process. You’ll have excellent time management skills and enjoy and be comfortable managing multiple prioritises, stakeholders, managing diaries, scheduling, and coordinating external meetings and events.

We are a small team, at times with all hands to the pump so you should thrive on the excitement and fun that working closely with colleagues can bring.

This is an exciting time to join the ICAS Foundation, so if you are looking for a new challenge, in a small organisation where you can play a big part and roll your sleeves up, this might be the job for you.

In addition to your competitive base salary, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package, including a generous DC employer pension scheme with a 9% contribution, excellent holiday package (up to 35 days inc. PH with the option to buy additional leave) training and development, an individual learning account and up to 3 days paid volunteering days to support local/national charitable activities.

IMAGINE what you could achieve if we put our minds to it

The ICAS Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland. Our primary aim to support academically talented young people from disadvantaged communities to study accountancy or a finance-related degree. This is achieved through a financial bursary, a mentoring scheme and support in finding relevant internships and graduate jobs.

What the job is:

Working in collaboration with the Foundation’s Director, the Fundraising Executive will be responsible for establishing a cohesive fundraising strategy amongst ICAS Members to support the charitable aims of the Foundation. We are looking to develop a long-term strategy to transform the way in which the Foundation is currently funded. Therefore, this role will be pivotal to delivering the aspirations of the Foundation’s Business plan, the aims and objectives of the Foundation Trustees and for ICAS to ensure the viability and longevity of the ICAS Foundation.

Who we need:

We are looking for a creative, confident and experienced fundraiser ideally with a charitable organisation background to join us to promote and drive the great work that the ICAS Foundations does.

Driven, hardworking, tenacious you will be able to identify, contact and develop potential new donors and effectively manage existing donor relationships. Your easy, professional relationship building, and communication style will enable you to engender trust and support for the Foundations aims and build our pipeline of ICAS members and potential corporate donors.

You will be expert both in the spoken and written word, writing engaging reports and communications on the virtues of being part of the ICAS Foundation. With a natural persuasive style, initiative, and research skills you will establish new fundraising opportunities, securing increased numbers and fostering renewed interest in what we are trying to achieve. Your success will be clear by increased donations from ICAS Members and a strong pipeline of legacy giving and corporate donations.

We are a small team, at times with all hands to the pump so you should thrive on the excitement and fun that working closely with colleagues can bring.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Undertake research on prospective ICAS Members (using the ICAS personas) and to identify potential corporate donors from amongst ICAS Member firms
• Help to develop a fundraising strategy.
• Cold call potential donors and follow up on leads and build a sustainable relationship with them.
• Research and write case studies and communications on the impact of the Foundation’s work.
• Provide regular updates to donors on how their donation is spent.
• Respond to enquiries from ICAS Members and Firms.
• Write reports for the Foundation Trustees on the use of donations.
• Maintain and update a donors’ record on CRM system.
• Write internal reports, analysis fundraising progress on a monthly or periodic basis.
• Organise and take part in strategy and planning meetings with other members of the Foundation team.
• Contribute to the effective operation and development of the ICAS Foundation.

This is an exciting time to join the ICAS Foundation, so if you are looking for a new challenge, in a small organisation where you can play a big part and roll your sleeves up, this might be the job for you.

Please note that whilst this role is Edinburgh-based, due to our Head Office location, we are currently working remotely, as expected to due COVID-19 restrictions.