This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of The Scottish Civic Trust, a small charity with a national remit. Our organisation is experiencing a period of dynamic growth, and we are seeking a Partnership and Membership Officer to support us as we continue our journey.

The Scottish Civic Trust is the national voice for Scotland’s civic and local heritage groups. Founded in 1967 to help people connect to their built heritage and countryside, preserve the uniqueness of their locality and appreciate how this connects to the wider unique character of Scotland, we work to ensure that historic built heritage, its stories, and the wider historic environment is celebrated and preserved, working to ensure it is valued in modern life and planning decisions. We take a place-based approach to involving all of Scotland’s communities in celebrating our rich heritage while ensuring its relevance in the present day.

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the country’s largest performing arts organisation. Founded in 1962 to make opera accessible to all, the company presents productions of international acclaim, from early works to world premieres. Performances are designed to be inclusive, with supertitles, audio-described and dementia-friendly shows, free and discounted tickets for under-26s, refugees, asylum seekers and schools, and touring productions reaching communities across Scotland.

The charity has developed their fundraising strategy and identified corporate partnerships as clear area of growth and potential. As a result they are bringing in this brand-new role to provide dedicated capacity and focus. The post holder will proactively develop the corporate pipeline, securing new partners and provide excellent account management to existing, valued partners.

It is an exciting time to join Scottish Opera. They have invested in the fundraising team, there is organisation-wide support for fundraising, and many opportunities to engage potential partners across their annual programme.

This role might be for you if have broader fundraising experience, and are looking to specialise in corporate fundraising, are an experienced corporate fundraiser looking to step up to a manager level role.

Working within an arts and culture charity would be helpful for the candidate to have but isn't essential.

The Abbotsford Trust is the charity that promotes the life, works and legacy of 19th century writer Sir Walter Scott and safeguards his historic home at Abbotsford. This is an important role within a small, but mighty, development team of three people.

If you are keen to get involved in all aspects of fundraising, love being hands on, and would relish being behind the scenes in a historic house, then this could be the role for you. The perfect candidate would have experience with CRMs ideally within a charity, have outstanding attention to detail, be systems orientated/a good project manager, as well as having excellent customer service skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Undertake all fundraising administration and be the ‘super-user’ for the CRM and other donations systems, managing amongst others: donations, direct debits, mailings, newsletters, and analysis.
• Steward donors and funders following the donor journey across all streams of fundraising, primarily membership, major donors and trusts & foundation.
• Maximise income specifically from the Friends of Abbotsford and from gift aid.
• Undertake: a) all monitoring and reporting of funds raised for the Development team, and b) reporting and claiming for grants.

For more details of the role, please download the Job Description.