Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity in an exciting and rewarding role making a difference to children’s lives?

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing and we want your help.

Our Edinburgh based team – formerly known as Stop It Now Scotland – covers the whole of the country. Our practitioners have extensive backgrounds in child protection and sex offender rehabilitation. We provide individual and groupwork to around 150 adults and adolescents every year who present a sexual risk of harm to children who cannot access statutory service. We work with around 100 partners, family members and members of wider networks around these individuals. We use what we learn from our work to develop and deliver resources, information and training for professionals and the public, so that they can better protect children from harm and prevent abuse before it happens.

About you and the role

We are recruiting a Fundraising & Partnerships Manager to join our multi-disciplinary team in Edinburgh to lead the delivery of our business development and fundraising strategies, supporting our ambition to increase the volume of specialist support, training and spot purchased assessments we provide for social work, charities and child facing agencies. Working with the director, you will help develop and sustain appropriate strategic partnerships and identify opportunities for development, reviewing resource implications, risk, income potential and likelihood of success.

You will also work closely with our Fundraising Manager, based in our Epsom office, leading on charitable income generation through writing bids that directly apply for funds from a range of bodies. Developing effective and impactful methods to report on the impact of our services and relationship management with funders is a key part of this role.

This exciting role will play a big part in supporting our efforts to shift the discourse about child sexual abuse ‘upstream’ so that professionals and the public understand in practical terms what they can do to prevent sexual abuse before it happens. We believe our work can only build and grow and lead to the better protection of children from harm through developing our partnerships across a range of sectors (education, social work, leisure services, law enforcement, Scottish government, third sector, safeguarding leads in faith and belief communities, business and corporate sectors, etc), The successful candidate will need to be a good communicator who is committed to the concept of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health issue.

Our ideal candidate will be a dynamic professional who is proactive and outcome focused with exceptional communication and relationship skills. We are looking for someone who can develop knowledge of national and local policy and strategy within the external environment to inform business development, influence potential commissioners and where appropriate, co-design services with agencies. An understanding of tendering and public contracts will be an advantage.

Why Lucy Faithfull Foundation? We’ll offer you…

• An opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of children who have the right to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation
• Access to continuous professional development
• A competitive salary and access to a pension scheme
• Access to a hybrid working scheme with a minimum of 2 days in the office
• Full time staff receive 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 days following 5 years’ service and in line with our leave year January-December)
• A dedicated employee assistance programme
• Access to Benenden medical cover and Employee discounts
• Free eye tests, discounted gym membership and employee discount savings

Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.

Our work always places people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal Trust works by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups).

A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:

• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.

• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.

• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure

• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism

• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.

• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.

• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.

This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.

The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.

We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.

This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.

The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.

We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.

Are you excited by the possibilities for mission within the Church of Scotland? Can you see potential in the midst of all the change and transition for growth and even new life? Could you be part of something different?

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to work alongside those in our congregations to enable and support them as they work to implement the Presbytery mission plan throughout the Presbytery of Fife.

Alongside leadership skills and experience of leading and planning events, activities and meetings, you should have knowledge of the life and work, structures and procedures of the Church of Scotland. You will be an excellent communicator with the ability to share complex information to a variety of audiences.

This post carries a Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010. You will be a committed Christian with a live Church connection.