Remuneration: £36,400 pro rata, 14 hours per week, plus pension contribution
Length of contract: Initially 12 months period with potential to extend hours and length of contract depending on funding
Location: Office based in Bethnal Green, London
Responsible to: Board of Trustees of Southeast and East Asian Women’s Association
About SEEAWA
We are a new unique and inclusive organisation empowering East and Southeast Asian women and their families. ESEA women share a common culture and experience similar issues, eg. immigration, racism, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence and exploitation in the UK. We are unlearning the colonial mentality of our background and history.
We are building ESEA women changemakers to work towards racial justice through the women’s lens and build a society that allows the global majority to live with dignity wherever they are. We campaign to relieve financial hardship and end violence among women and our dependents within the ESEA UK community. We provide a safe space, advocacy, health, housing, education, co-learning and other holistic support and services.
Charity Structure
We are a non-hierarchical organisation with our trustees as key facilitators, working with our staff and volunteers to implement and deliver our projects. We work on a collaborative basis with other organisations, including other black and racialised women’s organisations. This post is open to application from women only. We are seeking exemption under the provision of the Equalities Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1 under the occupational requirements as this post requires the postholder to be female or identifying herself as female.
Role
We are now looking for an experienced Development and Fundraising Manager to join our small team. This role is crucial in enabling us to develop and sustain programs that support ESEA women in the UK, and for the continuation and growth of the charity.
Main responsibilities
- Write and submit successful and compelling grant applications and funding proposals, ensuring alignment with funder requirements and organisational goals
- Excellent skills in developing a fundraising strategy for non profit -funders and grant makers, corporate funding and new streams of funding
- Solid relationships with sponsors, funders and grant makers in the funding and corporate sector to enable us to identify the best funders for our organisational requirements
- Research and identify potential funding opportunities, including grants, sponsorships, and partnerships from agencies, foundations, and corporations
- Work closely with our team to gather necessary information, data, and information to support applications
- Maintain and track an organised record of funding opportunities, application deadlines, and submitted proposals
- Provide timely updates to the team
- Help report to funders on the benefits of the projects they have supported
- Employ and train volunteers with funding applications and other aspects of funding, eg social media requests
- Participate in the organisation wide collective and collaborative approach to move the direction of the charity forward across different work of the organisation
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- Excellent grant writing and communication skills
- Proven track record of at least 5 years in successful funding applications
- Successful track record in fundraising from corporate sectors
- Good understanding and experience of rights based campaigning on migrants and human rights issues through a woman’s lens
- Good knowledge of women’s issues and understanding of violence and oppression that impact on women
- Good knowledge of the way in which migrant community groups organise and work together
- Experience in building networks and alliances and in collaborative work
- Flexible and proactive, can work independently
- Understand and commits to the aims and values of the organisation in promoting and protecting the rights of migrant workers, specially those women who were trafficked and experienced all forms of gender violence
- Have one year experience managing staff and volunteers
- From or experience in Southeast and East Asian cultures
Please submit your CV/Resume along with a cover letter (no more than two A4 pages) outlining why you’re interested in the role and how you meet the skills and behaviours we’re looking for (please give examples) to info@seeawa.org.uk .
This role requires applicants to be able to show that they have the right to work in the UK.
Deadline of application is on 31 January 2025 at 12 midnight. Please note we will be reviewing applications as received and may consider closing the vacancy early should we receive a high volume of strong candidates – therefore we encourage an early application.
The interview is scheduled for the week starting 15 February 2025. This may change depending on the availability of the panel.