East Park provides education and supported accommodation to children and young people with additional support needs and has been a central part of its community in Maryhill, Glasgow since opening in 1874. We are now at an exciting stage in East Park’s journey, where we are looking to significantly grow fundraising to ensure we are always there to support some of Scotland’s most vulnerable children with the most complex needs. Your role will play a critical part in enabling us to grow our income from communities and companies who align with our values and vision, in Glasgow and Scotland-wide. build strong, values-led relationships with corporate and community partners; · account manage corporate and community partnerships, providing bespoke support to grow income, awareness and goodwill; · create and manage a rolling calendar of support lead events and activities, providing participants with a high-quality stewardship journey; · work with colleagues across services to identify opportunities and gather impact stories; · work collaboratively across the fundraising and communications team to support the overall team strategy. experience of managing support lead events, such as challenge events; · excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write concise and engaging fundraising copy and promotional materials; · Implementation of East Park’s community and corporate fundraising strategy whilst keeping expenditure within agreed limits. You will play a key role in securing new partnerships, including charity of choice, and delivering a support lead calendar of activities, developing stewardship journeys to ensure that partners feel valued and understand the impact they are making. Implement the corporate and community fundraising strategy and ongoing delivery of corporate and community partnerships and events to achieve annual fundraising targets. · Support the delivery of cultivation events, proposals and pitches to secure new partnerships. · Build relationships with organisations that share the charity’s values and meet its ethical policy. · Create and implement account management plans for each partnership to ensure partnership goals are met and maximise fundraising. · Represent the charity at partner meetings, networking events and other external events. · Develop effective relationships with our children, young people and family service colleagues to identify funding opportunities and ensure internal stakeholders are engaged, consulted, and updated appropriately. · Write compelling copy for corporate fundraising communications and campaigns. · Work with the Marketing Officer to ensure materials are on brand. · Ensure the website is up to date with corporate and community fundraising activity. · Keep abreast of trends and developments in fundraising, marketing and ECG/Social Value sectors. · Ensure all activity is run in compliance with the Chartered Institute of Fundraising codes of practice. · Maintain accurate and up to date records and accept responsibility for the safe and secure handling and storage of confidential information, and in accordance with GDPR and East Park’s own data protection policies. To comply with East Park’s child protection and adult protection policies and procedures and with national guidance. · To work within and promote policies in relation to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices. ·
