Experience

The Tudor Trust

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Grants Manager

  • Nov 2016 - Present

  The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making Trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. During 2020/21 Tudor made 1,052 grants totalling £21.4 million; 705 of these grants were part of Tudor's response to Covid, our Third Sector wellbeing programme, and immediate support grants.Tudor supports work which tries to meet the many different needs of people at the margins of society in a wide variety of ways. We are interested in how organisations tackle these needs, and their root causes. We are keen to work with organisations that have a real understanding of the challenges facing the communities they support, and a clear sense of the difference they seek to make through their work.My role as a Grants Manager involves assessing applications; analysing and presenting information and budgets; relationship management; and active listening and engagement with the organisations Tudor funds.



War Child UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Trust Fundraising Executive

  • Jul 2015 - Nov 2016

  War Child is an international NGO working to protect children in areas affected by war and conflict. War Child delivers programmes addressing the themes of education, child protection and livelihoods in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Uganda. As Trust Fundraising Executive my responsibilities included:• Working with the programmes team to write a diverse range of funding proposals to independent Trusts and Foundations. • Grant management and admin, including the use of CRM Salesforce. • Writing detailed and analytical reports for funders. • Relationship management with existing and potential funders, including face-to-face meetings and delivering presentations. • Prospect research and donor mapping, as part of the wider philanthropy team. • Assisting with War Child’s portfolio of events, such as the Passport back to the BRITs series of gigs, an annual Thank You event for donors and supporters, and the Winter Wassail.



Stonewall

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Client Account Manager

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2015

  Stonewall is an international lobbying and campaigning charity for the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT) people. My role was within the Workplace team as part of the Diversity Champions programme, a best practice member’s forum for equality in the workplace, with over 740 members globally. My responsibilities included:• Advising clients on equality and diversity best practice, including: policies; training; communications; staff network groups; sexual orientation monitoring; procurement; career-development; leadership; supporting submissions and providing detailed feedback on Stonewall’s benchmarking framework, the Workplace Equality Index. • Client management: fostering and maintaining positive working relationships with over 50 clients from the NHS, to public sector organisations in the West Midlands; delivering workshops and training; and problem solving based on the diverse needs of my client base. • Business development: delivering a personal business plan; researching, liaising and pitching to potential clients; writing business cases and promotional copy for the programme.



LGBT Foundation

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Funding Officer

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2013

  • Working across a number of departments and programmes to write funding bids to for a medium sized lesbian, gay and bisexual health and wellbeing charity. •Writing business cases and reports detailing the impact of services and campaigns for funders.• Developing and coordinating campaigns and events for lesbian and bisexual women, as an active member of The LGBT Foundation's Women’s Leadership Group. This included organising events for the Manchester Pride Fringe Festival and International Women's Day. • Presenting detailed financial information to SMT relating to income targets and organisational budgets and maintaining all funding agreements via a customer relationship management programme (CRM). • Writing copy for and proofreading LGBT Foundation sexual and mental health publications, including online content, social media and a regular column in the Foundation's community magazine 'OutNorthWest'. • Developing relationships with corporate organisations; writing tailored copy for fundraising materials; attending networking events; and organising corporate fundraising events.



Waterstones

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Account Sales Officer (North West and Wales Region)

  • Feb 2010 - Jul 2011

  • Duties included: writing marketing material for new and existing account customers; researching and pitching to potential clients; writing sales reports for head office analysis; processing orders; writing short term business plans; and handling client queries via telephone, email and in person.

• Bookseller

  • Aug 2008 - Jan 2010

  •Main duties involved customer service and managing a range of sections in branch, including the ordering and promotion of stock, and writing book reviews.•Acted as returns coordinator for the branch.