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Responsibility for bid writing to Big Lottery and key industry/corporate supporters.Support a team of regional advisors to implement regional requirements of project communication and fundraising plans.Excellent track record of building, maintaining and growing strong relationships with supporters/donors.Implementation of long term project plans and responding to changing situations.Experience of developing evaluation frameworks and carrying out external evaluations, including social impact.Coordinated a 12 month social value research study (the first of its kind in this industry).Initiate and project manage a range of innovative nationally focused initiatives.Support the Communications Manager with all aspects of information requirements.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Worked to secure grant funding from a range of institutional donors (including DFID, Comic Relief, The Big Lottery and UK Aid Match).Developed and maintained excellent relationships with the broad range of funders and supporters (often international).Monitored the projects throughout the delivery schedule to ensure targets and outcomes were regularly met.As part of the important responsibility of accountability to donors, completed and shared project evaluations.Responsible for recording all project delivery and funding developments on eTapestry.

Supported the successful delivery of the project which is built on the foundation of engaging and empowering communities.Complete funding applications to a range of funding bodies, trusts and foundations across the UK.Actively and effectively engaging with a wide and diverse range of individuals, community groups and professional bodies to ensure ongoing growth and sustainability.Frequently liaise with community delivery partners and project volunteers to measure the success of provision and identify areas for development.Manage a detailed project monitoring framework that includes key data collection methods, providing accurate and detailed monitoring data/reports throughout the lifetime of projects.

Brighton And Hove, England, United Kingdom

Delivering the project on a daily basis, responsible for engaging and motivating some of the City’s most disengaged young people, as well as leading the key stakeholders and steering group.Established and developed the City’s first Youth Sports Forum, providing young people from across the city with a platform from which their views can be voiced.Responsible for the recruitment and management of both paid and volunteer project workforce.Recruited and trained over 40 volunteers from the City’s emergency services so that they could assist with the delivery of a project in the local community. The project was the first of its type in the UK and received recognition from the government for its success.Responsible for successful attainment (and monitoring) of all project funding throughout the life of the initiative.

London, England, United Kingdom

Identified and promoted the initiative to various local authority bodies and volunteer sectors across the UK through various formats including written literature and a series of presentations/open events.Responsible for identifying key agencies and community representatives and then overseeing the long term development of steering groups within each participating London Borough.Created a range of volunteer opportunities through a volunteer strategy that enabled the successful establishment of the initiative across the city.Designed and delivered volunteer programmes.Responsible for all project expenditure, budgeting and reporting.Responsible for the organisation and delivery of official project visits, these included government figures, national news programmes and other supporting celebrities.