Job title:
Salary: / Senior Fundraising Manager
£40000 - £45000 pa
Responsible to: / Director
Hours of work: / Full time; 37.5 hours per week.
Special conditions: / Flexibility is required in terms of working hours to meet the business needs of the organisation.
Place of work: / The Harrow Club W10, 187, Freston Road, W10. Travel will be occasionally required to satellite clubs.
Job summary: / Fundraising Management
The Senior Fundraising Manager’s role will be to manage all aspects of Trust, Foundation and Local Authority fundraising in order to secure regular and significant income from these funding sources. This will include identifying appropriate funding organisations, bid-writing, contract management, monitoring, evaluation and production of project reports.
The Senior Fundraising Manager will work closely with the Director as part of the Senior Management Team of the Harrow Club (SMT) with specific responsibility for: Fundraising
Fundraising management
1)The Senior Fundraising Manager will research, identify, develop and write major applications and bids to appropriate funding organisations – Charitable Trusts, Foundations, Local Authorities, etc. – in line with the Harrow Club’s Strategic Plan.
2)The Senior Fundraising Manager will oversee the monitoring and evaluation of the progress and impact of all grants, commissions and contracts, ensuring all funding conditions are met and accurate and timely reports are sent to the relevant organisations.
3)The Senior Fundraising Manager will alert the SMT to any potential funding opportunities that fall outside the scope of the Club’s Strategic Plan but may be of benefit to the Club, Club Members, or the local community.
4)The Senior Fundraising Manager will support and assist Youth Work staff in the preparation and submission of small grant applications (less than £5,000), ensuring that a consistent approach is taken in terms of budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, and that all reporting requirements are met.
Duties and Responsibilities
1)Monitoring & evaluation
The Senior Fundraising Manager’s role will be to research, identify, develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation system for use across the whole range of Harrow Club projects to ensure a sound, standardised planning, monitoring and review process is used on all projects by all staff teams.
2)PR / Communications
The Senior Fundraising Manager’s role will be to develop the Club’s website, produce written materials, and use social media to create a strong and consistent image of the Harrow Club, to raise awareness of the important role it plays within the local community, and to promote its successes.
Fundraising management
5)The Senior Fundraising Manager will research, identify, develop and write major applications and bids to appropriate funding organisations – Charitable Trusts, Foundations, Local Authorities, etc. – in line with the Harrow Club’s Strategic Plan.
6)The Senior Fundraising Manager will oversee the monitoring and evaluation of the progress and impact of all grants, commissions and contracts, ensuring all funding conditions are met and accurate and timely reports are sent to the relevant organisations.
7)The Senior Fundraising Manager will alert the SMT to any potential funding opportunities that fall outside the scope of the Club’s Strategic Plan but may be of benefit to the Club, Club Members, or the local community.
8)The Senior Fundraising Manager will support and assist Youth Work staff in the preparation and submission of small grant applications (less than £5,000), ensuring that a consistent approach is taken in terms of budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, and that all reporting requirements are met.
Monitoring & evaluation
1)The Senior Fundraising Manager will work with the Director, the SMT, and individual project managers to produce an Annual Activity Plan, with specific responsibility for ensuring all projects have agreed targets in accordance with Club and funding requirements.
2)The Senior Fundraising Manager will research, identify, develop and implement a standardised monitoring and evaluation system for use across the whole range of Harrow Club projects.
3)The Senior Fundraising Manager will ensure all Harrow Club staff understand and are able to utilise this system to produce accurate and informative data on project outputs and outcomes in relation to agreed targets.
4)The Senior Fundraising Manager will utilise this quantitative and qualitative data to produce evaluation reports for the Director, the SMT, and individual project managers to use in the ongoing process of project review and planning, including the production of subsequent Annual Activity Plans and the agreement of new project targets.
PR / Communications
1)The Senior Fundraising Manager will develop and update the website, produce written materials, and use appropriate social media to create a strong and consistent image of the Harrow Club, to raise awareness of the important role it plays within the local community, and to promote its successes.
2)The Senior Fundraising Manager will ensure the logo and branding of the Harrow Club, its partners, and its funders is consistent and used appropriately by the Harrow Club and its partners in all public communications.
3)The Senior Fundraising Manager will ensure all record keeping, marketing and publicity is carried out in accordance with current data protection legislation.
Additional requirements
The Senior Fundraising Manager will be expected to carry out other duties commensurate with the level and responsibilities of the post. In particular, the Senior Fundraising Manager will be expected to contribute relevant expertise to:
1)the production of the Harrow Club’s Strategic Plan;
2)the annual review of policies and procedures;
3)the maintenance of accreditation and quality standards;
4)the development of individual donor and legacy fundraising; and
5)support for general fundraising events.
PERSON SPECIFICATION – Senior Fundraising ManagerEssential criteria
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- A track record of successful fundraising from Charitable Trusts, Foundations, Local Authorities and / or similar organisations.
- Experience of financial management within an organisation, including management of multiple funding streams and budgets, and preparation and presentation of financial reports.
- A track record of monitoring and evaluating projects from start to finish, including the use of varied data collection techniques and the production of clear and effective reports.
- Experience of using various forms of media to promote the work and image of an organisation.
- Experience of working in the voluntary sector at a senior managerial level.
- Experience of working with disadvantaged children and young people.
- Bid-writing
- Report writing
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Able to work effectively on own initiative and as part of a team
- Able to work under pressure, manage a diverse workload, prioritise, and meet deadlines
- Able to use social media
- Able to train others
- Understanding of the needs of disadvantaged children and young people living in the inner city
- Commitment to equal opportunities and challenging discrimination
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
- Two satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check required prior to appointment
Desirable criteria
Experience of / skills in:
- Business planning
- Quality assurance
- Policy writing
- Donor and legacy fundraising
- Event fundraising
Harrow Club Background
Over 130 years since it was founded, the Harrow Club’s primary aim remains to better the lives of the disadvantaged and underprivileged young people of Notting Dale, London W10, and the surrounding communities. The youth club is situated in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the most polarised borough in London with pockets of extreme poverty alongside areas of extreme wealth. 75% of our members reside in the top 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country (wards in Hammersmith, Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea; source, Government Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010)
The Harrow Club, and its three satellite youth clubs in housing estates in Hammersmith and Fulham, target young people who are disadvantaged and socially excluded, providing personal development programmes via high quality youth work and recreational and educational activities, to improve self-confidence and broaden opportunities. Assistance is given to help young people through the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood, a turbulent time for many, made more so when experiencing high levels of poverty, poor health and unemployment. It offers a fun programme of activities in a safe, supportive and inclusive environment for its members and is a trusted and much valued community resource. The Clubs currently have a membership of over 1800 young people, mainly between the ages of 8 to 25 that attracts an average of 40 attendees at any one session. The Harrow Clubs have has been awarded the London Youth Quality Mark, Gold Level which “demonstrates the organisation is a centre of excellence providing the best possible service for young people”.
At the core of the work of the Harrow Club, a dynamic social education programme is in place which is tailor made to the needs of the young people it serves. Activities include an ABA accredited boxing club, football clubs, arts and crafts, music production and residential programmes (for many this is the only opportunity members get to leave central London), with a large emphasis placed on fun. Clubs are in place for both junior and senior members, and there is a weekly girls only session (which means girls from the large East African Muslim community locally can attend). In addition to generic youth work programming, targeted work is carried out regarding employment help and advice, and workshops regularly take place that are relevant to the needs and concerns of members – cyber bullying, and pressures relating to sex, gang membership and drugs and alcohol.
The young people that attend the Harrow Clubs are drawn from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The Clubs aim for members to gain a sense of belonging and play a more active role in their community through meeting people from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
The Grenfell disaster has affected the whole community we serve but early signs suggest that it will be a long-term project.As a result, the Harrow Club will play a major part of this, which will inevitably provide change, growth and enable us to accelerate 4 major projects of our strategic enhancementprogramme.
The Senior Fundraising Manager will enable us to manage and implement projects such as the Dance, Drama and Motor Projects that will need our full focus. These programmes of activities are long-term projects for the young people affected by the disaster. This post is a critical role in our organisation that will ensure delivery, growth and development at the Harrow Club.