Trusts and Foundations Manager

• Salary: £30,600-£36,000 with scope for salary progression 
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Hours: Full Time (typically 09.30-17.30 but with flexibility)
• Location: Elephant & Castle / Remote
• Responsible To: Head of Philanthropy
• Application Deadline: Friday 15 July
• Interview Dates: Interviews will take place around the week commencing 27 July, with flexibility depending on applicant availability.

Role Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced bid-writer to join a positive and collaborative fundraising team at an exciting time of growth.

This new position has been created because Hatch has grown exponentially since it was first founded in 2013. We now need additional capacity in order to sustain and grow our income from trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies.

With ambitions to reach an annual income of £4M by 2026, the Trusts and Foundations Manager will play a critical role in enabling us to achieve this. The post-holder will ensure that current funders are stewarded to the highest possible standard; will research and identify new funding bodies to approach; and will submit high-quality, tailored applications to potential funders that align with our mission.

Responsibilities  

Fundraising

• Raising five-figure grants from charitable trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies.
• Developing a comprehensive rolling programme of targeted and specific trust applications.
• Distilling information from a variety of sources in order to write compelling funding bids.

Research

• Identifying prospective funding bodies whose strategic objectives match the work of Hatch.
• Researching trust objectives in order to craft well informed funding bids.
• Alongside the Head of Philanthropy, building an annual pipeline that is x3 the income target by 2024/5.

Relationship Management

• Diligently and accurately recording prospect/donor correspondence on Salesforce.
• Developing relationships with a portfolio of prospective funders, using a wide range of appropriate mechanisms to retain and develop their involvement with Hatch, including meetings with CEO/ Trustees, stewardship events and recognition opportunities.
• Ensuring that funding partners receive timely and appropriate information about the progress and outcomes of projects.
• Ensuring that robust systems are established to support the effective and timely engagement and thanking of Trusts and Foundations, including processes to learn from unsuccessful applications.
• Briefing the fundraising team on developments and progress of key relationships.

Other

• Gaining and maintaining in-depth knowledge and understanding of Hatch’s work, priorities and future plans
• Be an outstanding advocate for Hatch in line with the core values of the organisation
• Other duties that may be required from time to time as part of a small, dynamic team

Person Specification 

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of generating income from UK Trusts and Foundations. 
• Experience in the grant application and bid-writing process. 
• The ability to work through the fundraising cycle with donors to initiate, renew and grow gifts. 
• Experience in developing partnerships. 
• Excellent research and prospecting skills.
• Works well on their own initiative and can be relied on to get the job done in a busy working environment
• Excited by the Hatch mission to support underrepresented founders 
• Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Entrepreneurial, not afraid to shoot for the stars, make mistakes and learn along the way
• Commitment to ongoing learning and personal development

Desirable 

• Knowledge of the sector – entrepreneurship, structural inequality, education and employment.

Benefits

We care about our people and give them the things they need to succeed. 

We have always been supportive of flexible working, which has become even more important recently. We have an office in Elephant & Castle, which is available for anyone to work from as much or as little as they’d like. For those working at home, we’ll provide you with a laptop to get you set up. In the post-COVID world we’re experimenting with full flexibility to work from home or in the office as it suits you, but hope the whole team will be able to come together periodically.

• Flexible working – work from home or in the office and at the times that work best for you 
• 38 fully flexible holiday days (including the 9 UK bank holidays) 
• 3% employer pension contribution 
• £750 annual budget for learning and development or wellbeing activities
• Paid time off for dedicated learning and development opportunities 
• 4 days per year paid time off to volunteer

Equal Opportunities

We believe everyone has potential. We are committed to increasing diversity among business owners, and we want to do the same for our team. If you’ve read this far, and you like the sound of the job, but you’re worried you don’t quite fit the requirements, we’d love it if you went ahead and applied.

We want to ensure that our team represents a wider cross-section of society than a typical start-up, and we know that means we have to make an effort to understand and accommodate different people’s needs. If you would require any reasonable adjustments to be made to support you to apply, interview or join the Hatch team please contact jobs@hatchenterprise.org. 

Please note we are only able to accept applications from candidates who have  the right to work in the UK