Edinburgh Napier University strives to deliver the best teaching, to the widest range of students who can benefit from it, in ways that are appropriate to the needs of students and employers. Philanthropic support plays a critical role for many students by providing much-needed financial assistance and encouragement to enable them to access and complete higher education, as well as pursue extra opportunities to enhance their studies whilst they are at university.

Our Development Office works with a wide range of partners to assist the development of the University, its students, alumni and staff. It has two main aims: to raise philanthropic funds and to enhance the University's relationships with its alumni and friends worldwide.

As such, we are currently recruiting a Development Officer to grow fundraising and lead the disbursement of the University Scholarships and Awards programme by expanding the portfolio of valued donors.

The Role:

As Development Officer, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in fundraising or sales to generate income from corporate and individual donor relationships, in turn growing new scholarship and bursary funding.

Your fundraising knowledge/experience and proficiency in soliciting donations from companies/individuals will serve you well, as you lead the development and implementation of our strategy to grow named scholarships, and bursaries, in line with the department fundraising plan.

The role will also give you the chance to use your strong relationship building skills and ability to quickly build rapport, to engage with philanthropists, corporates and charitable trusts, building their sense of connection to the Edinburgh Napier students who will directly benefit from the funding that you secure, making this a truly rewarding role.

We expect that your strong attention to detail will allow you to manage the administrative duties of the post as well, and you will need to use your understanding of basic finance procedures (including overseeing income and expenditure accounts) to maintain accurate records of awards, ensuring that budgets for various student scholarship and grant programmes are managed.

This is a post that will see you making a positive and profound difference in the lives of many of the students that we support. Furthermore, we hope that this will be a logical next step for you as you build on your fundraising knowledge/experience, taking on a role that will see you meeting a wide variety of interesting people, while supporting the University in planning approaches for philanthropic backing of our academic objectives.

What we will need from you:

• Further or higher education, or relevant work experience
• Experience of sales or soliciting donations from companies or individuals
• Ability to assess funding applications and liaise with student applicants
• Experience of working in a customer-focused role including dealing with queries and resolving issues
• Experience of writing formal reports, case studies or papers.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills

Full role description

Benefits we offer:

41 days annual leave, generous pension scheme (17.6%), flexible working and professional development opportunities. Our benefits can be viewed here.

Join our Board of Management and Let Learning Flourish

City of Glasgow College is seeking to fill two vacancies on our Board. We are delighted to invite applications from people with a belief in the value of college education and a commitment to widening access, lifelong learning and the student experience.

Who Are We?

We are Scotland’s largest professional and technological education and skills college – and the third largest in the UK. The College traces its roots back to 1850 and our core purpose is to “Let Learning Flourish”. Our commitment to excellence, innovation and inspiration is recognised in Scotland, across the UK and throughout the world.

Our multi-award-winning, state-of-the-art, twin-site campus in the heart of Glasgow offers outstanding resources and opportunities for students to gain essential skills and nationally and internationally recognised qualifications – from entry-level to degree-level study, as well as chartered professional qualifications. We've prepared over 100,000 graduates for the world of work.

Our Board

Our Board, as the College’s governing body, is responsible for setting our strategic direction, ensuring its effective management and delivering high-quality learning and outcomes. Board members serve on a voluntary basis, with reasonable expenses reimbursed, and spend approximately 10 working days throughout the year to fulfil the core duties and responsibilities of their roles. Meetings are hybrid, take place in the late afternoon/early evening and last approximately two hours.

Make A Difference and Let Learning Flourish

Whether you have served on a Board before or this is the first time you have considered it, this is a fantastic opportunity to contribute your skills and experience and share your ideas to shape the future of the College. Together as a Board, you will play a pivotal role in guiding our strategies and upholding good governance – ensuring we remain an inspirational place of learning, an excellent place to work, and an innovative and valued partner with industry.

We Value Diversity

The College is committed to ensuring it represents the diversity of the city and region the College serves. We, therefore, encourage applications from groups currently under-represented on the boards of Scotland’s public bodies, including women, disabled people, those of different cultural and social backgrounds and people under the age of 50.

Job Purpose

Lead, implement and oversee a comprehensive donor stewardship framework that ensures all donors across all levels are appropriately thanked, recognised and receive high quality communications about their giving and its impact. Understand, monitor and co-ordinate work being delivered by colleagues across different teams to ensure the framework operates effectively. Provide guidance on donor relations policies, with a particular focus on talent scholarships, overseeing the tracking and recognition of high-value gifts, managing donor engagement activities, and collaborating with colleagues to produce, write, and sign off on impactful donor communications and content.

With Kids

Our lives are so often shaped by our childhoods.

When problems are bottled up in those important early years, they can grow into mental health issues later in life.

But young children don’t have the language skills to properly express what they’re going through. And often when their emotions do come out they can be loud, or scary or get them into trouble.

That’s where With Kids comes in - a unique children’s mental health charity operating across the central belt at the forefront of the provision of Play Therapy in Scotland

Our trained specialists give children the freedom to express their difficulties on their own terms. Using the one form of communication that comes naturally to them – play.

Play Therapy empowers children to understand themselves better, to process life events, and to build confidence and self-esteem. So they can better regulate their emotions, build stronger relationships with their families and peers, and learn to cope with life’s many challenges.

We work alongside the children from an early age, along with their parents, carers, schools and communities – aiming to build long term, self-supporting networks.

Our priorities are to contribute to addressing cycles of poverty by improving the mental health of children, their families and the wider community.

Because difficulties in childhood don’t have to direct our whole lives.

Together we can take a new path.

“I have to give a five-star rating to With Kids. They support me and my family as individuals and as a group. This is the best way of working”

“I love working here and feeling part of a team, an organisation with such as positive approach, shared values, strengths and connections, care and focus on child welfare. With Kids do things properly and are always looking to improve”.

The role

This new role brings an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and motivated individual with extensive fundraising experience to shape the future of With Kids.

You can expect a supportive management team, who take joint responsibility, while you take on the management of all strands of income generation and fundraising. Through this work

you will be helping to shape the future of With Kids and enabling our staff to provide children and families with a high-quality service.

Are you able to hit the ground running with applications to trusts and foundations, while developing other income generation activities and relationships to build income from corporate bodies, individuals, and communities?

The post-holder has the scope to build our relationships with corporate bodies and increase income from individual and community fundraising activities. The role may also lead on, and provide support to, the Business Development Manager and CEO in tendering opportunities.

Ideally you will be a skilled communicator and have the ability to use digital tools and lead on managing online campaigns for income generation.

It’s not expected that the post holder will necessarily have experience in all of these areas, so there is scope to influence the content of our fundraising strategy and develop new skills.