The Forest of Avon is looking for a capable and proactive Funding and Impact Manager to coordinate and manage our income generation activities. This is an exciting role with real purpose, helping us build a sustainable funding future that supports our mission and delivers long-lasting benefit across the Forest of Avon area. The Forest of Avon is one of England’s Community Forests and an independent charity. We work mainly across Bristol, Bath and North-East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We are growing our work and impact through implementing the Forest of Avon Plan, Tree and Woodland Strategy for the West of England, delivering our multi-million-pound tree planting and woodland creation programme ‘Trees for Climate’, as well as delivering many other projects in tree and woodland management, skills, health and wellbeing. In March 2025, we won the bid for the new national forest - the Western Forest, receiving £7.5m over 5 years to deliver 2,500 hectares. The Western Forest is led by and hosted within the Forest of Avon. This role will coordinate with the Western Forest team on the elements that apply within the Forest of Avon. The expertise within the Forest of Avon is developed and we have been successful in multiple bids. This role will build on this work being instrumental in coordinating the charity’s varied fundraising efforts, these include grant applications for capital projects and unrestricted income, corporate donations and individual giving. They will play a key role in developing a funding plan that supports the Forest of Avon objectives. They will coordinate priorities across the team, bringing together information to build a pipeline of funding opportunity. Job Description Key elements of the role include: 1. To develop and implement a successful funding strategy to grow our non-government funding across multiple income streams, in particular unrestricted income, to achieve impact 2. To build and nurture excellent working relationships with prospective funders 3. To lead on grant applications, working with the team, securing funds 4. To assess existing income streams and to explore new income streams 5. To support the development of communication assets and organise events to highlight funding appeals 6. To keep up to date on the latest developments within the environmental/ community funding landscape 7. To be the connection into any fundraising network of partnerships for example England’s Community Forests, Western Forest, West of England Nature Partnership Please send a CV and a written statement of your experience addressing the personal specification by Monday 4th August at 5pm - Please view PDF attached or visit the careers section on our website for full job description and details on how to apply. Interviews are planned to take place the week commencing 18th August (subject to change). Applications will be anonymised prior to shortlisting.