FOUNDATIONS EXECUTIVE

Duration: Permanent**

Salary: £28,000 per annum**

Job Level: Job level 5

Hours: 35hrs per week. Other flexible arrangements will be considered.**

Disclosure Level: Basic **

Reports to: Statutory Funding Lead

Location: Currently working from home while our office is closed. We are usually at 1 Westfield Avenue, London E20 1HZ**

At the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK), we pull together to achieve the best possible results for children in danger around the world. We believe in an inclusive workplace and in the power of fulfilled colleagues who share the same values and goals, enjoy their work and are motivated to do their utmost for children.

Our work is guided by the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which recognise the universality of children’s rights.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Foundations Executive works in the Foundation Partnerships Team; a high-performing, ambitious and supportive team of nine people that sits within the wider Partnerships and Philanthropy department. The Partnerships and Philanthropy department encompasses the Foundations, Corporate, and Philanthropy teams.

The Foundation Team’s purpose is to build and nurture strategic partnerships to realise their full potential. The team has experienced exciting success and growth over the last seven years; growing income from around £3 million in 2012 to £12 million in 2020. The team has ambitions to continue to grow over the coming 5 years, and this role will be key to enabling the team to achieve even greater results for children.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Foundations Executive is a key role within the Foundation Partnerships team, working to maximise income for UNICEF’s work for children through managing donors and prospects and supporting the wider team on key partnerships.

What we will expect you to achieve

BEHAVIOURS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

This section contains the essential behaviours, experience, knowledge and skills needed in order to be effective and successful in this role. All criteria in this section are essential**

Effective Behaviours

Supporter driven and mission aligned

· Prioritises donor requests and provide the highest level of customer service; understand UNICEF’s work and describes it with passion.

Results Focused

· Takes ownership for work and focus on key outcomes when under pressure.

Communication

· Presents information in suitable formats for donors, including on the telephone and face-to-face.

Positive Relationships

· Actively supports team colleagues and develop excellent relationships with other departments.

Efficiency and Effectiveness

· Manages conflicting priorities and demands within a busy team; negotiate with colleagues to ensure deadlines are met, or difficulties flagged in advance.

Relevant experience

  • Successfully raising funding from trusts, foundations and/or institutional donors, including through face-to-face negotiations, on the phone, and in writing.
  • Using research mechanisms for identifying trusts and foundations, high value donors or equivalent.

Specific knowledge and skills

  • Producing a range of communications, written and verbal for trusts and foundations, high value donors or equivalent.

This vacancy is archived.

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