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The Trusts and Statutory Grants Officer plays a vital role in the organisation by securing in year or multiyear funding from Trusts and Foundations and statutory sources.

All activity will be in line with the charity’s strategy, aims and objectives and will support the growth of sustainable services.

The successful candidate will be joining our dynamic fundraising team at our Guide Dogs National Centre in the Midlands along with all our regional teams.

Fundraising is at the heart of the organisation as without it we couldn’t help people with sight loss to live the life they choose.

This is a Hybrid role and requires a minimum of two days a week being spent in the office with the remainder of the days working from home.

There will also be regular travel to our hubs in Reading, London, Leeds & Atherton.

The hours of work are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include:

Essential

• Educated to degree level (QCF level 6 / SQCF level 9/10) or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrable experience of networking and relationship building.
• Demonstrable experience of achieving or exceeding income targets.
• Experience/understanding of fundraising in other areas.
• Proven track record of achieving income targets.
• Proven confident communicator with a diverse range of people, including those at a senior level within organisations.
• Experienced in delivering presentations to a wide variety of stakeholders.

Desirable

• Excellent knowledge of statutory/institutional funders and grant-making bodies, their funding strategies, and techniques.
• Experience in preparing reports for statutory and National Lottery funding.
• Experience of outcomes-based commissioning.
• Experience of securing funding from Local Authorities and/or CCG’s.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected].

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.

If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

Please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or [email protected] if you require any support with your application.