Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 per week
Location: London/Hybrid with occasional travel to FFT centres required
Starting salary: £39,318 - £45,608 per annum
Closing date:19th March 2025
Expected date of interviews: 27th and 28th March 2025
Job ref: VA734
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.
Would you like to join our award-winning organisation?
We have an exciting opportunity for a new Trusts Officer to join our Fundraising Team!
About the role
The key purpose of the role is to lead in generating income from Trusts and Foundations for Freedom from Torture’s support to survivors of torture, across our clinical work, policy and campaigning priorities: raising income from small, medium and high Trust funders in the UK and internationally by managing a portfolio of funding relationships and working with colleagues across Freedom from Torture to scope and realise funding opportunities.
You will be experienced and confident in the preparation of concept notes, proposals, and donor reports, and able to review project budgets and financial reports.
You will be part of a committed team of four in the Trusts and Grants team, and work closely with the Trusts and Grants Manager to help implement the fundraising strategy by building strong external relationships with donors and identifying new funding opportunities to deliver on income targets. The Trusts and Grants Team sits within the Philanthropy & Partnership Team in Freedom from Torture's friendly, creative and ambitious Fundraising & Communications Directorate.
About you
To be successful in this role you must have demonstrable experience of a trust fundraising and writing role in the UK charity sector, with the ability to develop and implement a plan of work to meet or exceed income targets. You will be skilled in researching new funding prospects, and have experience of managing donor funded grants including reviewing financial information, preparing donor reports and ensuring compliance with donor requirements. You will have exceptional writing skills with the ability to target different audiences and tailor your output accordingly, and excellent interpersonal skills to work collaboratively in a team environment and to tight deadlines.
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.
Our policy is that all appointments will be at the start of the salary range but successful candidates will have the opportunity to move up the scale over time. The progression up the salary range is reviewed on an annual basis and subject to affordability. For this role, the salary range is £39,318 - £45,608 per annum (includes London weighting).
To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click here.
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.
Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived 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.
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.
Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
No agencies please.