Partnerships Manager (Trusts, Foundations, Lottery)

Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - London/Chesterfield/Glasgow/Cardiff/Belfast
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £41,278 per annum (London), £39,312 per annum (rest of UK)
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer
Contract type: Permanent
Travel: A minimum of 40% working time will be spent in the office or at other locations or events. Travel to other venues to meet with funders and partners is typically required two to three times per month.
Closing date: 23:59 hours, Sunday 28 July 2024

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

The Strategic Partnerships team is responsible for growing high value relationships for Versus Arthritis with a wide range of organisations and donors. We want to have a significant impact on the lives of people with arthritis while supporting our aim to become financially sustainable. The team will bring to life our strategy through an inspiring case for support and an engaging range of propositions and offers for a wide number of different high value markets.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Partnerships Manager in trust, foundation and national lottery fundraising to play a role in our charity’s delivery of an ambitious fundraising target within a highly successful team. This is a hands-on role for someone with demonstrable experience in delivering trust, foundation and lottery income, and in managing relationships with a range of grant-making organisations.

About the role

Researching, writing and presenting funding applications/proposals, and relationship management.

The Strategic Partnerships team is responsible for growing our strategic partnerships portfolio at Versus Arthritis and the contribution our high value partners make to improve the lives of people with arthritis, while supporting our aim to become financially sustainable.

The main aim of the role is to generate income from trust, foundation and lottery sources. You will manage a varied pipeline of donors and be responsible for researching, writing and presenting funding applications and proposals. You will also collaborate with colleagues across internal teams to maximise funding opportunities and ensure effective reporting of funding received, as we strive to transform our income across the organisation.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:

Trust, foundations and national lottery fundraising experience, and a proven track record of securing five and six figure gifts.
Experience of devising cultivation and solicitation strategies and managing a portfolio of trust, foundation and lottery prospects.
Proven expertise at producing high-quality, tailored proposals and reports to meet the requirements and deadlines of a diverse range of trust and foundation donors and lottery programmes, ensuring high-quality stewardship and development of relationships that result in repeat and increased donations.
Proven ability in meeting income targets and achieving financial objectives.
Experience of working well under pressure and managing multiple priorities and complex applications.
Proven ability to develop good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and be a collaborative team-player.
An interest in the work and mission of Versus Arthritis.
Experience of using a Customer Relationship Management Database.

*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Download the job description and person specification for the Partnerships Manager (Trusts, Foundations and Lottery) role (Word 55KB).

Benefits

Your excellent benefits include:

Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
Simplyhealth cash plan.
Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
Learning and personal development opportunities.
Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).

How to apply

You must be based, and hold the right to work, in the UK to apply for this position.

To apply you MUST submit:

a concise, up-to-date CV
along with a completed Application form (Word 41.2KB) demonstrating how you meet the key requirements set out in the job description and person specification for the Partnerships Manager (Trusts, Foundations and Lottery) role (Word 55KB). All sections must be completed.

Email both documents as Word or PDF attachments by 23:59 hours, Sunday 28 July 2024 to recruitment@versusarthritis.org. If you have a health condition that prevents you from following the steps above, please email us regarding alternative ways to apply. 

Application deadline and shortlisting 

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Interview

Interviews expected: week commencing 29 July and will be virtual.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is OK. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.