Funding Advisor - Fixed term 12 months

Job Introduction

A quote from the current team:

"We are a hardworking, enthusiastic team, with a “can do” attitude.  We enjoy our roles, and we support each other, when required.  We all enjoy helping to support and enable the communities of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole"

Working within the Community Initiatives Team, this exciting new role will support the community and voluntary sector, within Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole, with identifying funding opportunities and writing funding applications.  

The successful candidate will have experience of community development or community engagement, partnership working and developing projects.  

They will need to have proven knowledge and understanding of the community and voluntary sector and detailed knowledge and experience of grant and funding opportunities. 

The successful candidate will need to be resilient, organised and have good all-round interpersonal skills, with a flexible approach to work. The post is offered as a 12-month fixed term opportunity which may be extended subject to the success of the role; however, this can’t be guaranteed at this moment in time. 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. 

The Role:

• Undertake fundraising research, using authoritative knowledge of relevant work practices, processes and procedures (including legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance) 
• provide relevant complex and specialist advice on, a range of funding information and support to local voluntary and community groups
• Research and develop digital fundraising opportunities e.g. crowdfunding, social media using evidence based and outcome focussed decisions 
• Monitoring the success of funding advice and applications
• Work in partnership with other areas to identify, recommend, and develop improvements to the efficiency and continuity of funding opportunities in Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole.
• Developing social value tools to measure the impact of grant funding
• Develop and maintain a database to monitor fundraising activity.
• Write funding reports to detail trends and opportunities
• Organise and attend promotional and open days to raise the profile of funding opportunities.
• Analyse and interpret data and the results of surveys and consultation exercises, to inform service delivery, Council services, policy and practice.
• Distribute communications and marketing materials to promote greater awareness of funding and grant.
• To comply with all decisions, policies and standing orders of the Council and any relevant statutory requirements, including the Equality Act, the Health and Safety at Work Act and Data Protection Act.

What we offer: 

• Clear career progression pathway and excellent learning opportunities.
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata, for those without continuous service), plus bank holidays.
• Competitive salary with access to local government pension scheme.
• Flexible working arrangements in our newly refurbished Civic Offices
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Staff network groups.

For further information or a quick chat about the role, please contact  

Cat McMillan or Sarah McLaren.  

Cat.mcmillan@bcpcouncil.gov.uk. 01202 123528 

sarah.mclaren@bcpcouncil.gov.uk. 01202 093313 

Planned interview date 15 May 2025 

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils. 

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward.  If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.