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Trusts and Foundations Coordinator
- Full time
- £29,888 – £32,602
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 6th January 2025
- Advertised from 11th December 2024
- generous benefits package, hybrid/flexible working
Role
Join our team as the Trusts and Foundations Coordinator, where you'll play a key role in helping to deliver National Galleries of Scotland’s ambition to grow funds raised from grant sources. This is a wonderful opportunity to build on your fundraising skills, while working in a highly supportive Development Team passionate about art.
You will have excellent research and organisational skills, strong written and verbal communication, and be proficient in analysing financial information for persuasive grant submissions.
You’ll be responsible for maintaining the list of prospects, monitoring opportunities and recording approaches and outcomes. You’ll also write proposals and steward relationships with Trusts and Foundations through regular communication, report writing, arranging visits and generally ensuring we meet the conditions of any funding received.
This post is part of a pilot strategy to grow NGS income. This post is initially on a 22-month fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension depending on the income levels achieved during the pilot. This offers an excellent opportunity for a results-driven individual to demonstrate their impact and contribute to shaping the success of this initiative.
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Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday, 06 January 2025.
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Top job! Director of Fundraising
- Full time
- £40,000 – £47,000
- Hybrid: Dumfries & Galloway, DG2 8DW. Hybrid working arrangements are possible, with flexibility for remote working.
- Closing 20th December 2024
The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust (RBET) seeks an experienced and dynamic Director of Fundraising to lead fundraising efforts for the Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne project, an ambitious conservation and adaptation initiative at Ellisland Museum and Farm. The post is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund thanks to the players of the National Lottery. This exciting role involves launching and directing a major fundraising campaign to secure backing required for the £7.4m project, which will restore and transform the historic site into a vibrant centre for heritage, learning, and artistic inspiration.
Introduction/Background
The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust (RBET) safeguards the 1788 farm designed and built by Robert Burns on the banks of the River Nith near Dumfries. This A-listed site is the best-preserved of all the poet’s homes and the place where he wrote a quarter of his musical output, including Auld Lang Syne.
The farmstead sits on 140 acres of woodland and fields first enclosed by Burns himself. Managed by a volunteer-led SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) since 2020, Ellisland is both a museum and a public space, with seasonal opening hours, events, and group visits. Volunteers maintain the grounds year-round, providing free public access to the riverside paths and walks.
RBET’s mission is:
“Ellisland is the place to fall in love with Burns. We will increase awareness of Ellisland as central to the artistic development of Robert Burns in poetry and romantic song. We will enhance understanding of the site as the best place to see the natural world through the poet’s eyes. We will create a world-class visitor experience and a vibrant centre for creative learning to ensure the unique collection, buildings, and landscape are accessible to a diverse range of modern audiences.”
Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne
In September 2024, we secured a development stage grant of up to £489,206 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne. The development stage of the project is costed at £945,000, with an estimated total project cost of £7.4m.
The project will restore the 1788 cottage, create an immersive visitor experience, adapt the barn into a Centre for Song, and develop a new museum gallery to safeguard and display Burns’s collection. It will also include outdoor enhancements, skills training, volunteering, and a robust programme of events and residencies, ensuring the site’s long-term sustainability and community engagement.
The Director of Fundraising will be integral to achieving the funding goals necessary to bring this vision to life.
The Brief
The Director of Fundraising will lead a global fundraising campaign for the Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne project. This individual will work closely with the Project Director, Technical Project Manager, Trustees, and external consultants to deliver funding targets for the capital project and associated revenue funding needs. The fund-raising campaign will be monitored by Trustees who will also support engagement work and identification of donors. The is a fundraising sub-committee which will monitor progress. The project includes a budget to support our membership recruitment and retention with a CRM system. It is essential that the individual has experience of working with projects supported by the Heritage Fund.
The position can be fulfilled either through a freelance contract or a staff position.
The position will cover the Development Phase of the project, leading up to a Delivery Stage Application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Trusts reserves the right to continue the contract into the the delivery stage of the project, which is expected to last until 2028. The Trust also reserves the right to end or suspend the contract at the end of the development stage.
Any Freelance contractor will require to have appropriate Professional Indemnity insurance, Employer’s Liability Insurance and Public Liability Insurance. This should be highlighted in the advert.
A full Project Brief is available for download below.
Fundraising Manager – Corporates and Philanthropy
- Full time
- £37,525 – £41,510
- Hybrid: Working from Edinburgh office for 2 days a week
- Closing 23rd December 2024
Sight Scotland is Scotland’s leading charity providing specialist care, education and research for people with vision impairment. The charity has been in existence for over 230 years, and offer a variety of services in the community as well as education, transcription into alternative formats and residential care for adults and children. Their vision is of an inclusive Scotland where people of all visual abilities have the opportunity to thrive. To achieve their mission they are looking for a Supporter Fundraiser who will proactively engage with supporters, community groups and volunteers in the community.
The Fundraising Manager – Corporates and Philanthropy is responsible for developing and implementing plans to maximise income from corporate partners and individuals with the propensity to donate significant sums. There is huge scope to develop both income streams at Sight Scotland, as this is the first dedicated position covering these income streams.
The primairy focus initially will be on developing corporate partnership income, as there is huge potential for partnerships ranging from transactional right up to transformational. The role supports the organisation’s purpose to make a significant impact on the lives of people living with visual impairment in Scotland by maximising fundraising income to deliver brilliant services and create a positive impact on our ability to deliver for the long term.
This specialist manager role would suit someone who is already operating at a senior fundraiser level, or someone who can demonstrate experience of developing a corporate and/or major donor pipeline, creating operational plans and delivering income.
Communications and Events Coordinator (Maternity Cover)
- Full time
- £28,000 – £30,500
- Hybrid: Edinburgh Office at least 1 day per week
- Closing 6th January 2025
Working closely with the small team at SIDA, this post will promote the work of SIDA through the provision of high-quality digital communication to our members, external stakeholders and the general public, and provide logistical, digital and administrative support for a range of member events including our annual conference.
The Communications and Events Coordinator will develop engaging content for use across SIDA’s digital platforms, including SIDA Member Hub, and be proactive in finding new ways to share messages and reach a wider audience.
The post will contribute to a variety of projects and initiatives, and a willingness to collaborate and work closely and flexibly with colleagues is essential.
About Scotland's International Development Alliance
Scotland’s International Development Alliance is the membership body for everyone committed to creating a fairer world, free from poverty, injustice and environmental threats.
Our work facilitates connections in global development to improve impact and effectiveness for a range of actors including public sector bodies, third sector and international NGOs, private companies, universities and charitable trusts.
Our network has a uniquely global reach, with members working in more than 100 countries with a wide range of specialisms. We exist to improve the capacity, influence and effectiveness of those working on global development connected to Scotland through providing opportunities for networking, debate, training and promotion of good practice. We help members share their skills and learn from each other’s best practice to boost effectiveness of our members and their partners
SIDA has excellent working terms including a 4 day week working pattern.
About QNIS: The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity doing big things. QNIS works with and supports community nurses and midwives all over Scotland, providing leadership and practice development opportunities. We also work closely with a range of other public and third sector organisations to advocate for the community nursing and midwifery professions.
The role: We have a great opportunity for a business support officer to join our small team. This wide-ranging and diverse role will see you providing high quality, professional business support across the organisation. You will be involved in a wide range of activities including supporting projects and events, diary management, and coordinating external suppliers. You will engage with stakeholders at all levels, including liaising with nurses and midwives, supporting senior managers, and coordinating committee meetings for the Board of Trustees. Being a small team, we need someone who is also happy to roll their sleeves up and pitch in, scanning documents, packing boxes, or running to the shops when required.
The post is full time (37.5 hours). The place of work is our office in central Edinburgh. We support hybrid working, this is dependent on business needs and would likely require a minimum of two days per week in the office. We are offering a starting salary of £30,686 (FTE). Benefits include:
- Contributory pension scheme, and salary sacrifice.
- Non-contributory death in service benefit scheme.
- 38 days of annual leave including public holidays and a day off on your birthday.
- The opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team focused on making a difference for community nurses and midwives, and the people they support, across Scotland.
- Learning and development opportunities.
About you: An experienced administrator, you will be able to meet deadlines while maintaining a very high level of attention to detail. With strong IT skills and an ability to manage a range of work with many parallel sub-projects, you will have excellent organisation and planning skills. Experience of working with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems would be an advantage. Crucial to success in the role will be a high level of self-awareness, the ability to communicate clearly, cheerfully and tactfully with people at all levels, both internally and externally. We are looking for someone who brings energy, creativity and kindness to the team.
For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website. The Excellence Profile sets out how we might expect someone who is experienced and flourishing in the role to perform and we are not assuming that an individual will have the full suite of capabilities at appointment.
Person Specification
Essential
- Confident working across multiple workstreams and projects simultaneously
- Experience of providing comprehensive support to committees and or project leads
- Minute taking and meeting and diary management
- Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to prioritise, plan and organise own workload to meet deadlines.
- Able to work collaboratively as part of a team and contribute to a positive working environment and culture
- Strong IT skills including proficient use of Office 365, MS Teams and Sharepoint
- Interest in working for a small charity
Desirable Experience
- Previous PA experience
- Experience planning and supporting events
- Use and management of a CRM system
- Willingness to provide support across the organisation when required
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