Senior Strategic Funding Specialist- Maternity Leave

Role Title: Senior Strategic Funding Specialist

Salary: £46,537-£47,822 Band D

Location: London

Tenure: Fixed Term (1 year contract)

ActionAid UK is a member of the ActionAid Federation, an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. As part of the ActionAid Federation, we work with women and girls, our partners, and dedicated staff in 43 countries to end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.  

Are you a keen advocate of women and girls’ rights in emergencies? 

Do you have experience in producing high quality, compelling written materials for an external audience?

Then we'd love to hear from you!

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Funding Specialist working across all income streams within our Philanthropy and Partnerships team. The role holder will develop and have oversight of donor communications and strategies that support the generation of unrestricted, co-financing and emergency funding. This role manages two team members.

This role will provide the opportunity to lead a small team to produce inspiring communications to secure the most strategic income for the ActionAid Federation: unrestricted, humanitarian and co-financing funding. - Produce compelling communications for a range of high-level supporters, including Trusts and Foundations, Individuals and Private Sector donors and prospects. - Coordination of emergency appeals, oversight of all co-financing and development of strategic proposals and reports. - Work with colleagues across the ActionAid Federation to understand and communicate funding needs to potential supporters.

To be successful in this role you will have

• Significant experience in producing high quality, compelling written materials for an external audience displaying a high level of copy writing skills and attention to detail 
• A proven track record in writing successful high value fundraising proposals and securing significant donations from major donors, charitable trusts and foundations and/or corporate donors 
• Proven experience of developing appropriate strategies in line with organisational and departmental objectives 
• Experience in leading a cross team project or strategy which involves multiple stakeholders
• Proven experience in managing a varied workload, delegating work effectively, taking initiative and meeting deadlines 
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills – able to communicate well across a range of people both in the UK and internationally
• Exceptional written communication skills – ability to produce compelling written communications for a varied audience 
• The ability to translate technical programme information into compelling donor communications
• Experience of working within an international development and/or humanitarian relief organisation, using an anti-racist, feminist and decolonisation lense 

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be asked to participate in criminal records checks at the point of offer. 

Additional Information:

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging:

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging are key to our organisational culture.  We are on a journey to become not only an anti-racist organisation but one that proudly celebrates the diversity of all applicants and employees.  We look forward to you bringing your full self to work, proudly sharing your unique perspective and helping us to shape our combined future. We especially welcome applications from those from underrepresented/marginalised communities.

AAUK is a disability Confident Committed organisation and as such any candidate that declares a disability will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria for the role.

Referencing and Safeguarding:

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include safeguarding, criminal records and terrorism finance checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

ActionAid UK is committed to preventing any form of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (including child abuse and adult at-risk abuse) and responding robustly when these harms take place. We expect all ActionAid UK Staff and ActionAid UK Representatives to share this commitment. We will not tolerate our Staff or other representatives carrying out any form of sexual harassment, exploitation or abuse towards anyone we come into contact with through our work.

Working practices:

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.  

ActionAid UK has a hybrid working policy for many of our roles.  The requirement will vary from team to team and the responsibilities of individual roles.  As a minimum, all colleagues are expected to attend the office 12 days per year, plus additional time for induction, training, and “Company Connection days.”  Some roles may require in-office attendance on all days and if so, these will clearly be marked as in-office roles.  

Please note that ActionAid UK does not offer fully remote working options.  We encourage you to discuss hybrid working expectations at interview.

Recruitment Processes:

Please note that ActionAid UK may review, shortlist and interview candidates prior to the closing date so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.  

If we receive a very high response, we may close the vacancy early and will not accept further submissions. 

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