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Contract: Permanent
Starting salary range: £33,380 - £36,730 (depending on experience)
Working Hours: 37.5 per week (full-time) or 30 per week (0.8 FTE) – flexible depending on candidate preference
Leave: 33 days per annum FTE (inclusive of bank holidays), increasing annually after 3 years\' service to a maximum of 3 additional days after 5 years
Responsible to: Head of Trusts and Foundations
Location: Homeworking / St Pauls, Bristol (minimum 2 days in the office each week)
We offer: Flexible working; 5% workplace pension; monthly group reflective practice and individual clinical supervision; enhanced annual leave options; family-friendly policies
Overview
Job summary
As Grants and Impact Manager you will be stewarding high-profile Trust and Foundation donors, researching new prospects, and writing compelling applications using detailed case studies compiled by the team. You will also coordinate the development of a new Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) programme, strengthening our ability to measure, understand, and communicate the impact of our work. A key part of this will be focusing on evidencing and enhancing the positive change created by Caring in Bristol, ensuring that funders and stakeholders can clearly see the difference their support makes.
About the role
As our Grants and Impact Manager, you will play a pivotal role in sustaining and growing Caring in Bristol’s income from Trusts, Foundations and statutory grants, by acquiring and managing high-value funder relationships. Alongside this, you will take the lead in developing and embedding a clear, organisation-wide Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) programme. This new focus will enable us to set measurable goals, track progress, and capture the real-world impact of our work — ensuring we can tell a compelling, evidence-based story to funders, partners, and the wider community.
You will identify and lead the creation of high-quality trust and foundation applications and proposals, working closely with the Head of Trusts and Foundations, and take responsibility for a portfolio of funders, building strong, long-term relationships, improving funder satisfaction and securing continued or increased investment in our mission.
Beyond managing relationships, you will help transform the way we demonstrate impact. By collaborating with service delivery staff to develop our impact monitoring practices you will ensure we can report back to funders with clarity, consistency, and confidence - showing exactly how their support translates into tangible outcomes for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Bristol.
You will also be instrumental in delivering a best-practice funder engagement programme, finding innovative ways to create value for funders through tailored reports, webinars, site visits, and other forms of involvement. Acting as an ambassador for Caring in Bristol, you will represent us to funders and stakeholders with credibility and passion, using your insight to strengthen our reputation and influence.
Finally, you will act as a voice of the funder within the charity, ensuring their perspective shapes our project design, monitoring, and communications. Working collaboratively with colleagues across service delivery, income generation, and finance, you will help embed practices that not only improve funder relationships today but also make Caring in Bristol more strategically and sustainably fundable for the future.
How to apply
To apply and for full job description please visit www.caringinbristol.org.uk/careers
The deadline for applications is 11:59pm 28 September 2025.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9th October 2025.
For an informal conversation about the role, please email recruitment@caringinbristol.org.uk to request a chat with our Head of Trust and Foundations. We’d love to hear from you!
Qualifications
* Experience in sustaining and growing income from Trusts, Foundations and statutory grants; ability to manage a portfolio of funders
* Experience developing and embedding a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) programme
* Strong ability to write high-quality trust and foundation applications and proposals
* Proven ability to develop and maintain long-term funder relationships and improve funder satisfaction
* Collaborative approach across service delivery, income generation and finance teams; ability to report impact clearly to funders
Job function
* Other
Industry
* Non-profit Organization Management
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