Trust & Grants Officer

Job summary

Freedom from Torture is the Winner of the Overall Award for Excellence and the top prize for Campaigns and Advocacy at the 2023 Charity Awards.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trust and Grants Officer to provide cover during maternity leave which is expected to be from February 2024 for approximately one year.

Would you like to join our award-winning organisation?

About the Role

The key purpose of the role is to lead in generating five and six figure grants from Statutory Funders, and high to medium Trust Funders to support Freedom from Tortures work with survivors of torture. You will work closely with the Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships and the Senior Trusts and Grants Manager to implement the fundraising strategy, by raising income from funders in line with agreed income targets. You will be expected to identify new funding streams and deliver a year-round portfolio of funding applications. You will also manage a portfolio of existing donors who fund a range of our work including clinical, policy and campaigns.

Main duties of the job

To be successful in this role you must have demonstrable experience of successfully meeting or exceeding fundraising targets from a variety of funders and experience managing relationships with statutory funders and trust and foundations.

It's essential that you have strong communication skills and experience of managing donor funded grants including review of financial information, preparation of donor reports and donor compliance.

You must have experience and knowledge of statutory and grant fundraising research tools and grant writing in the UK charity sector.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).

Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, in light of evidence that this contributes to structural inequality.

Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.

About us

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who havesurvived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Hear more about working at FfT from our incredible staff by clicking here Video Link: Freedom from Torture on LinkedIn: Getting to know Freedom from Torture.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory standard DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.