Join our team as a Fundraising and Partnerships Lead
Location: Hybrid – currently 2 days per week required onsite in Stafford (Tues/Thurs)
Hours: Full time, 35 per week (part time considered)
Salary: £33k – £40K (dependent on experience)
Are you energised by building meaningful fundraising relationships that help organisations stay bold and able to challenge the status quo?
We are looking for our first in-house fundraising specialist. This is a unique opportunity for a thoughtful, creative and strategic Fundraising and Partnerships Lead to help shape and grow a portfolio that protects our independence and powers our long-term mission: designing out inactivity across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, by shifting the systems that shape people’s lives.
If you are committed to social justice and love the challenge of translating complex, systems-focused work into clear, compelling fundraising propositions, then this one is definitely for you!
We’re Together Active, a charity working across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to make it easier for people to be active in ways that fit their lives.
We focus on the systems that shape who gets included and who doesn’t. That means looking beyond individual behaviours to understand how policy, funding, culture, and place influence people’s choices, freedoms, and access to movement.
We don’t deliver programmes or duplicate what’s already working. Instead, we connect people, influence decision-makers, and help good work take root especially in the communities where inequality is most deeply felt.
We’re looking for a Fundraising and Partnerships Lead to join our growing team.
About the Role
This is a strategic, relationship-led fundraising role where your work will directly strengthen organisational independence. It’s all about diversifying income streams and helping to futureproof for a resilient, sustainable the long-term.
What makes this role particularly exciting is the blank canvas. You’ll be building largely from scratch across trusts, corporates and individuals, with a clear and realistic remit for diversification. Together Active understands this won’t happen overnight and you’ll be given freedom and autonomy to do things your own way, with a rewarding mix of strategic thinking and operational, hands-on delivery.
Your first priority will be to craft a compelling case for support, before mapping the funding landscape, shaping a strategy and then engaging new funders in Together Active’s long-term vision.
We’d absolutely love to hear from you if you bring:
- Experience building relationships with funders, partners or collaborators from scratch
- Comfortable and capable working across multiple stakeholders, priorities and systems
- Ability to translate complex or systems-based work into clear, credible fundraising narratives
- Strategic thinking, but also enjoy rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in
- Strong judgement about how and when to pursue an opportunity and make the ask
- Collaborative, curious mindset and a strong commitment to social justice
You’ll be working across multiple income streams as the organisation’s sole fundraiser, but there is significant growth and development potential down the line.
Experience in trusts/foundations, corporate partnerships, philanthropy or community organising are all relevant and welcome – no single background is necessarily ‘the right one’, so please don’t rule yourself out without a conversation.
How to apply
Please send a copy of your CV or profile to Amelia Lee at Charity People as the first step.
If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for, we’ll share full details on how to complete your formal application.