Trusts and Institutional Funding Executive

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a passion for international development to join an award-winning and ambitious team and help us to grow our income to reach more children in the worst conflict affected countries. With a good understanding of institutional funding, ideally from the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, you will have a pivotal role in the Trusts and Institutional Funding team, providing information management, reporting, and logistics support as well as ensuring an effective grants management system. The role must develop excellent working relationships across the organisation, as well as close links with all War Child country programmes.

War Child is sector leading with our heritage, connections, and relationships in the world of music, gaming, and events. We want to dramatically grow income from trusts, foundations and institutional donors in the UK market and we are looking for a motivated Trusts & Institutional Funding Executive to support the new Trusts and Institutional Funding team to reach more children than ever.

If you have the following qualities, we’d love to hear from you:

• Committed to War Child’s mission, vision and values
• Experienced in Trusts & Foundations fundraising and Institutional funding (particularly FCDO)
• Able to demonstrate research skills used in a role
• Organised with the ability to plan, design systems, prioritise workload, manage your own time and meet deadlines under pressure
• An excellent verbal communicator, confident in dealing with people at all levels, externally and internally, with the ability to influence and negotiate
• An excellent written communicator able to write and produce compelling fundraising proposals and reports
• Interested and knowledgeable in current developments and trends in the international aid sector
• Pro-active, self-motivated and able to work independently
• A team player who enjoys building relationships and working with a wide range of stakeholders internationally
• Competent in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experienced in or able to use a Client Record Management system
• Able to speak French, Arabic or Spanish (not required but desirable)