AFRIDAC is looking for an experienced fundraiser to help us sustain and grow our income and help us succeed in achieving our objectives.

The role includes:
• You will be an experienced trusts and foundations fundraiser who can bring demonstrable success in securing, managing and effectively stewarding significant grants, together with an understanding of the current grant-making climate across the UK and Europe.
• Ideally bringing your own knowledge of key contacts and networks to the role.
• You will also ensure that all current grants are given appropriate donor care. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in developing and expanding trust and foundation support.
• Pro-active relationship management of existing trusts/foundations, including coordinating all commitments for these funders across the charity.
• Researching, writing and monitoring applications for a broad range of trusts, foundations and other grant giving institutions, packaging programmes into innovative ‘asks’ that meet the criteria of the funder.
• Ensuring that all income is recorded, monitored and reported according to required deadlines.
• Contributing to and providing regular updates across the organisation to ensure trust and foundation fundraising activity is embedded across the organisation and is aligned with the wider plans and objectives of the charity.
• Undertaking administrative responsibilities related to new funding being secured including liaising with the Executive Director and Finance teams to record new income and ensuring all funding agreements are signed and returned on time.