The SCVO Charity of the Year winner, Fife Young Carers, is seeking a dynamic Fundraising Manager to lead and deliver its fundraising strategy. Join our team and make a difference – where all carers are heroes!

Who are we?

Fife Young Carers (FYC) is dedicated to improving the lives of young carers across Fife, offering vital support to children and young people who have taken on caring responsibilities for family members. Our work spans educational support, mental health services, respite care, and community engagement, ensuring that these young individuals can thrive despite the challenges they face. As FYC continues to grow, we are now seeking a passionate and innovative Fundraising Manager to join our team and deliver on its strategy to securing sustainable funding.

What will you do as Fundraising Manager?

Following a fundraising audit and strategy assessment, you will take the lead in delivering FYC’s fundraising strategy to support its mission and objectives. You will be at the forefront of our efforts to secure financial support for both immediate projects and long-term sustainability, using strategic methods and effective tactics to grow FYC’s income streams.

Collaborating closely with the CEO, you will play a key role in expanding our fundraising efforts, particularly in building corporate partnerships and securing grants from trusts and grants, ensuring FYC remains a leading charity in the community backed by a strong and sustainable financial foundation.

• Corporate Partnerships: Forge and manage meaningful partnerships with businesses, driving corporate sponsorships and Charity of the Year programmes, while developing collaborative skills exchange initiatives.
• Trusts and Grants: Develop compelling multi-year funding applications to trusts and foundations, highlighting FYC’s impact and vision for growth, while proposing innovative programmes to secure new funding.
• Fundraising Campaigns: Lead creative, high-impact fundraising initiatives, including digital campaigns, community-driven crowdfunding, and large-scale events that engage diverse audiences.
• Digital Fundraising: Explore emerging digital tools and platforms to drive donations and position FYC at the forefront of modern fundraising techniques.

What we’re looking for:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic fundraiser with a passion for making a difference in the lives of young carers. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of securing corporate partnerships, winning trust and foundation grants, and delivering successful fundraising strategies.

With strong communication skills, you will be adept at building lasting relationships with key stakeholders and funders, and possess the creativity and strategic thinking required to develop innovative campaigns. You’ll have the organisational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously and the drive to meet ambitious income targets.

• Fundraising Expertise: Extensive experience across a range of fundraising areas, including corporate partnerships, trust applications, and community engagement.
• Relationship Builder: Skilled in cultivating strong relationships with corporate partners, funders, and donors.
• Strategic Thinker: Demonstrates a strategic mindset, with the ability to plan and execute long-term fundraising campaigns.
• Creative Innovator: Capable of developing imaginative campaigns that resonate with a broad audience and enhance FYC’s profile.
• Highly Organised: Exceptional project management skills, with a focus on delivering results within set deadlines.
• Driven by Purpose: Motivated by FYC’s mission to support young carers, with a deep understanding of the challenges they face.

Aberlour is featured in the top 100 Sunday Times big organisations Best Places to Work 2024.

About Aberlour Sycamore Children’s Houses

Aberlour Sycamore Services’ vision is to provide warm, loving homes for children where everyone learns, laughs, grows into their future and is treasured always. At any one time, the residential houses within Sycamore require additional support to help to maintain stability and balance within the teams. Sycamore services are widely recognised in Scotland for providing a range of quality therapeutic residential houses for some of the most vulnerable children and young people in the country. The Service is a national resource and as such receives referrals from throughout Scotland.

What we are looking for....

We are looking for an individual who can integrate seamlessly into our existing team, working alongside it and relief adults to support excellent service delivery. We are looking for a Residential Worker to work 18.75 hours per week, covering maternity until September 2025, on a residential rota including early, late, waken nights, sleepovers and weekend shifts. You will have a knowledge and understanding of the importance of attachment, trauma and how this can impact on an individual’s development. At times our children express their distress through their behaviour and the role can be emotionally and physically challenging; we are therefore looking for someone who is resilient, understands that behaviour is a means of communication and is trauma responsive.

You will be skilled in building therapeutic relationships with the children, young people and young adults to enable them to feel safe, loved and cared for.

You must have the ability to quickly build your relationships with the adults within the house. The nature of the role is such that you could be working to cover a shift or longer periods as required, including days and wakened nightshifts and you may also be supporting young people to attend school or participate in other learning programmes. You must therefore be able to quickly adapt to the working environment within each house.

You will be comfortable with working within Aberlour’s culture embracing respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge. Demonstration of these qualities will be particularly important in this role given that you will be dipping in and out of the different teams. You must be able to be an exceptional role model for other staff and the young person.

Undertaking the role of Residential Worker will afford you the opportunity to develop and build on a range of transferrable skills which are valued in a range of employment. You will be able to demonstrate excellent flexibility and adaptability with exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to work with different teams and different children, young people and young adults living within our Sycamore Houses.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, 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 and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.

Barnardo's Stronger Families service offers an exciting opportunity to join an established team who are developing Attachment and Trauma Informed Practice models of working to deliver services to families with children aged 0-13 yrs of age in the Fife area.

Barnardo's has been established in Fife for over 20 years and our work with children and families has been a consistent feature of our services in Fife and Stronger Families intensive support service has been in existence for seveal years.

Families are referred to our service by the family social worker and live in the Fife area and at the point of referral to our service the families are often on the verge of family breakdown.

Our Stronger Families service is a robust service, and you will be required to work intensively with families and alongside our partner agencies to support children, young people and families to work towards better outcomes and ensure that, where possible relationships within the home improve and that children can safely remain at home.

Due to the intensive nature of our support your caseload will not be high and by working at this intensive level it allows for opportunities to build good professional relationships with the families and through the support given there would be hope that the family could affect meaningful and sustainable change.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Fife Women’s Aid are looking to recruit two full-time support workers to join our Women’s Support Team.

As a service, we are expanding our capacity to better meet the needs of women who have experienced domestic abuse. Candidates should have good communication skills and a passion for supporting recovery from domestic abuse.

The successful applicants will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in health and social care or other relevant subject, or a willingness to work towards a qualification.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of motivation and have the ability to work on their own as well as part of a team. An ability to cover on-call is an advantage (additional payments are made for this role).

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA women’s services. This will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 22nd October 2024. Please confirm your attendance to info@fifewomensaid.org.uk and we will send you details of the zoom meeting. We hope to see you there.

If you would like further information about the post, please contact Gill Birtley at gill.birtley@fifewomensaid.org.uk to arrange a call.

Fife Women’s Aid is a feminist organisation and strives to be a supportive and empowering employer offering competitive terms and conditions.