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Vacancy: Fundraising Officer
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About the role
Job title: Fundraising Officer
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
Salary: £26,250–30,974
Closing date: 29 September 2025
Location: Blended between our Edinburgh Office and home
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Employee pension contribution of 5% per annum
- Possibility of flexible working
- Life assurance scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
About the job
Key responsibilities
- Research trusts and foundations and write targeted applications to support our programmes and achieve fundraising income targets
- Research corporates and develop sponsorship proposals
- Produce compelling performance and evaluation reports for funders and other donors
- Fundraising administration including gift processing, CRM administration, donor thanking and stewardship
- Support on individual giving and fundraising communications as required
- Support at events as required
- Advise teams on fundraising sustainability, building in fundraising at the project development stage
- Support on the development of other fundraising streams, such as community fundraising
- As part of the wider Marketing team, feed into evaluation/review of Christmas appeal, e.g. analysing donor comments to understand donor motivation and inform future appeal tactics
Knowledge, skills and experience
You will have:
- A minimum of two years’ experience or equivalent in a fundraising role
- Knowledge of UK trust and foundation market and demonstrable experience of writing successful applications to trusts & foundations
- Experience of using a fundraising CRM
- Experience of corporate fundraising, sponsorships, or partnerships is desirable
- A proven track record in meeting fundraising targets is desirable
- Experienced in creating persuasive and compelling proposals and reports
- The ability to build strong and lasting relationships and work collaboratively across teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High degree of competence in MS Outlook, Word and Excel
- Enthusiasm for and understanding of the aims and work of Scottish Book Trust and the wider arts/educational charity sector
Other information
The post is a hybrid role with regular attendance at Scottish Book Trust offices in Edinburgh.
The post may involve occasional travel within Scotland and out of office hours work from time to time including occasional evenings and weekends.
Appointment will be conditional on securing a Level 1 from Disclosure Scotland.
Flexible working options are available.