Grant Writer

Job summary

Do you enjoy a challenge, and are you the type of person that can confidently communicate the need for funding for a range of inspiring projects to UK charitable grant making trusts and foundations?

If so, this is a great opportunity to join the Hampshire Hospitals Charity Team as our part-time, professional Grant writer. You'll take on responsibility for delivering our brand-new grant fundraising programme to elevate hospital healthcare for the benefit and wellbeing of our Hampshire communities.

You will be part of the Hampshire Hospitals Charity team, using your expertise to realise our new, exciting and ambitious charity strategy to grow fundraising income and support dedicated projects that improve patient care throughout the communities that our staff serve in our hospitals.

Projects will reflect the breadth of specialist services that our hospitals deliver, including children and young people, research and innovation, staff wellbeing, sustainability and the hospital environment.

Join us to be part of our vision for a happier, healthier Hampshire.

This is role is for 11.25 hrs per week. (While this is listed as a weekly amount of hours we are happy to consider (as an example) those that would like to work a full five day week and one day one after the other each month allowing them to undertake other commitments for the rest of the month.)

Main duties of the job

• Identify and research prospective new trusts, foundations and statutory funding opportunities in order to increase the size of the pipeline available to Hampshire Hospitals Charity.
• Be responsible for making multiple trust and grant applications up to approximately £75k and support the Fundraising manager and Head of charity on larger bids and applications where necessary.
• Develop compelling cases for support, writing tailored applications for submission to trusts and other funding bodies.
• Work with the Fundraising manager to curate new funding opportunities out of existing service delivery.
• Work closely with all project delivery teams to ensure they are capturing the necessary outcomes for reporting requirements to funders.
• Submit timely reports to trusts, foundations and statutory bodies to meet their monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with new and existing funding/grant making organisations.
• Create monthly and quarterly income forecasts and pipeline reports.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.