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Location

Dartford, Kent | United Kingdom

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Job description

Capacity Building and Fundraising are essential for our service.  You will build the capacity of MyHealthnet in all service areas and constantly engage in fundraising, operations, training and project development programmes.

What will you be doing?

This holder of this role will help MyHealthnet (MHN) grow its financial resources and unlimited income (Priority).

Assist with the raising of other resources (e.g., restricted funds for programmes, sponsorship).  

Capacity Building and Funding raising role

The Capacity Building teams’ role is to build the capacity of MHN charity in all target areas. The Funding Applications must be well written, presented and timely submitted for approval before submission.  To work face-to-face primarily with funders, sponsors, and donors.  Sending funding newsletters to a large cross-section of the third sector.  

Act as Funding Application Officer and offer funding advice and support to executives and staff, and submits applications to various funding bodies.

The capacity-building team will consist of five staff with a lead (2 Fundraisers’ Advisers, Community, Development and capacity-building Officer, a property officer, trustee support officer who supports the local network and provides training.

Key Tasks

• Lead in coordinating, managing, and implementing activities aimed at maximising MHN unrestricted income
• Assess fundraising priorities
• Build MHN base of individual supporters
• Maximise unrestricted income from grant-giving charitable trusts
• Identity, manage and implement fundraising sources like gift fundraising, events, raffles, and legacies...
• Co-ordinate the drafting, design and production of fundraising materials and appeals, drawing on staff and other sources
• Develop, manage, and maintain MHN's fundraising database for efficient fundraising
• Send MHN messages to potential donors, supporters, and staff.
• Maintain contact with staff, Trustees, and supporters to improve the outcome
• Stay Connected, and maintain good fundraising practice
• Contribute to MHN strategy, branding, and communications, for improving the flow of sustainable income
• Liaise sensitively with MHN staff and stakeholders to ensure the harmonious integration of fundraising.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

Advice, ​​​​Production of Information and resources, Networking, Training, Team Working, Monitoring and Evaluation, and general duties.

What are we looking for?

Essential

• At least 2 years’ track record of relevant charity fundraising
• Infectious commitment to MyHealthnet cause
• Demonstrable capacity for hard work, efficient administration, and effective delivery
• IT and fundraising software skills
• Self-driven, and resilient
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Emotionally intelligent working with colleagues and stakeholders

Desirable

• Skilled national fundraiser 
• Expert in charity development issues
• Experience in project design, costing and fundraising
• Experience with Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy issues locally, Nationally, and Internationally

Competencies/Skills required

Experience

• 3+ years of varied leadership experience in third-sector organisations of all sizes.
• Experienced working within an Equal Opportunities Policy.

• Experience in delivering capacity-building support to voluntary organisations

Knowledge

• Good understanding of the changing needs and issues affecting the voluntary and community sector, especially the needs of black and minority ethnic, new, small and emerging groups

• Knowledge of and ability to advise on funding agencies and common grant procedures and requirements
• Knowledge of and ability to advise on the management, legal, financial, and charitable requirements of voluntary and community sectors, including black and minority ethnic, new, small and emerging groups, and ability to access necessary information.
• Knowledge of and ability to advise on monitoring and evaluation and quality systems which can be used appropriately by voluntary and community organisations and their committees

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse communities, network, and make presentations including written reports
• Resourceful, with access to the internet
• Team player, Flexible working occasional evenings and weekends

What difference will you make?

Young people accessing our service expect a professional standard of service, anonymity and kindness, and non-judgemental and friendly service which is made possible through resourceful and informed service.  Some of our young service users are students, employed, unemployed or in training.  People have their own stories, from regular or abusive homes to vulnerable backgrounds, with or without access or recourse to public funds; including those who are homeless, living in kids-homes, rough sleepers, have an addiction and mental health issues, unregistered migrants, trafficked, domestic servitude, sex workers, teen mums with health issues. Those unable and in relationships, poorly educated, with no access to local services. We bridge gaps in service.

Hence, fundraising is an integral part of our work.  We will depend on your expertise in securing all forms of funding. Your commitment, dedication and successful fundraising will help cover the capital cost to develop tailored service. 

Your successful fundraising will enhance the quality of service. 

* Improve access to free health social care, and education.

* Helping MyHealthnet to support users, and reduce the negative impact of their issues on their future. 

* Saving the lives of service users and their families. 

* Promoting community health and wellbeing

* Helping MyHealthnet to meet strategic and service aims and objectives.

* Your support means a lot to MyHealthnet members and communities served.

* We cannot do our work without the funding that you will generate.  

MyHealthnet is Gender Diverse and Disability Confident and Committed Reg. No. DCS034862.

Before you apply

MyHealthnet's applicants are required to complete our application process in full.  The process includes submitting a fully completed internal application form and submitting a DBS certificate etc.  We check your references after you have attended a successful informal and friendly interview session with us.  You are welcome to talk to us if you require further help with your application.  As we are a small organisation, with limited resources, applicants are encouraged to promptly submit their application documents for processing.  

We will assume that a non-responsive applicant has withdrawn their application after a week and their entry closed and we respond to all queries.

Causes

• Children / families
• Counselling / advice
• Education
• Health and well being / research and care
• Young people

Organisation type: 

Charity

MyHealthnet is a youth (<25s) service established to provide support, promote health and enhance community well-being through preventative programmes. 

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