Contract type: Permanent
Location: Stokenchurch
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £29,121-£33,417 per annum

About us

Thames Valley Air Ambulance is one of the UK’s leading air ambulance charities. We’re here for people in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire when they need us most. Bringing hospital-level care by land and air.

We exist to give everybody in our community the best chance of surviving and recovering from an emergency. Our mission is to do everything in our power to protect, save and revive lives, with the best critical care at the scene and beyond.

We love what we do. Our charity is a place where people care for each other, provide support, and encourage everyone to be their best and we pride ourselves on being one of the UK’s leading air ambulance charities. As an innovative charity, we are continually developing our organisation and pushing the boundaries of patient care to deliver a unique emergency service, where and when it is most needed. We are driven to do the right thing for our patients, their families, our supporters, and community. All our staff live our values: passion, excellence, respect, and care.

The role

In this role you will be responsible for day-to-day management of Trust and Foundation fundraising. Your responsibilities will include building long-term partnerships with trusts and foundations, ensuring support through in-depth research, excellent stewardship, and timely and accurate reporting. You will work closely with the Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships and colleagues across the organisation to find creative and compelling projects to be funded.

Additionally, you will contribute to projects within the Philanthropy and Partnership team, such as webinars and events.

About you

As an effective communicator, you will feel confident in writing high quality proposals and speaking to colleagues across the organisation to identify opportunities for funding.

Your role involves managing your own of trusts and foundations pipeline, you will need to take initiative, research, prioritise and organise your own work, with limited supervision to achieve deadlines across multiple tasks.

You will have:

• Experience in new identifying, researching, and reaching new prospects.
• Experience in writing bespoke proposals.
• Strong administrative, planning & prioritisation abilities with keen attention to detail.
• Proficiency with standard Microsoft office applications

If this role sounds like it is for you, we would love you to apply!

Vacancy Closing Date: 22 July 2024

You may have experience in the following roles: Grants Fundraiser, Trusts and Foundations Officer, Trusts Fundraising Manager, Philanthropy Manager, Charity Fundraiser, Fundraising Executive, Development Officer, Major Gifts Officer, Foundation Fundraiser, etc.

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