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AymingGrants Consultant
Jun. 2025 - Oct. 2025Greater London, England, United KingdomReason for leaving: redundancy. Key responsibilities: - Provided strategic consulting to businesses across varied industries, including medical devices and quantum computing, on their grant-funding strategies. - Provided bid and grant writing services to businesses across clean energy, chemical manufacturing, quantum technologies, and manufacturing, focusing on increasing sustainability and aligning with the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy. - Wrote & submitted varied value bids (£100k-£4m/application) to diverse schemes, including Innovate UK competitions, UNIDO, and DASA. Key achievements include: - Leading the grants scouting process, identifying and matching key opportunities to potential clients to hand over to the sales team to secure new business. - Securing a fully-funded Contracts for Innovation bid from Innovate UK
FreelanceFreelance Bid Writer and Grant Manager
Apr. 2025 - May. 2025Providing freelance bid/grant writing support. I am skilled in: - Strategic pipeline creation - Bid and grant writing - Application proofreading - Budget creation - Funder relations and engagement - Monitoring and evaluation - Grant reporting
Everyone's InvitedFundraising Officer (acting Head of Fundraising)
Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025I was the acting Head of Fundraising at the organisation as the only member of the Fundraising team. Key responsibilities: - Developing all fundraising processes in the organisation through effective resource allocation at a start-up charity, including a cost-neutral CRM integration. - Strategic development and management of the application pipeline overseeing the full grant cycle. - Ensuring compliance with financial and project reporting requirements and deadlines, managing over £260,000 in funding. - Stewarding donors and ensuring warm but efficient stakeholder relationships enabled by data entry via CRM software. Key achievements include: - Writing all applications for the organisation, raising over £860,000 in multi-year restricted and core funding through efficient donor engagement. - Creating a fundraising strategy and setting KPIs in alignment with the charity's goals based on a financial assessment of current income, streamlining all operations through systems improvement.- - Budget setting and allocation for individual projects and the organisational 5-year growth strategy.
Women and Children FirstFundraising Officer
Sep. 2023 - Mar. 2025London, England, United KingdomReason for leaving: charity closure. Key responsibilities: - Delivering on the organisational fundraising and communications strategies, constantly exceeding KPIs and submitting over 167 fundraising applications within the last year. - Prospecting and building the pipeline, approaching both new and recurring donors, helping the organisation secure £500,000 in funding in FY 2023. Key achievements include: - Leading on all marketing and communications output for the organisation, increasing profile activity by 87.2% over the last 6 months. - Securing the first strategically significant grant to transition knowledge to the Global South, worth £25,000. - Being recognised for organisational skills and attention to detail, selected to lead the Business Development pipeline, managing the team and overseeing all fundraising output, increasing applications sent per month by 50%.
British Deaf AssociationBid writer and prospects research
Sep. 2023 - Feb. 2024London, England, United KingdomKey responsibilities: - Conducting in-depth prospect research, identifying new funding opportunities and potential partners aligned with the organisation's mission, leading to a targeted pipeline of high-impact funding sources. - Developing and submitting strategic grant proposals, successfully securing funding through well-researched and data-driven applications that addressed funder priorities and organisational needs. Key achievements include: - Creating new fundraising and marketing materials aligning with the new organisational strategy.
Everyone's InvitedGeneral Manager
Feb. 2023 - Sep. 2023London, England, United KingdomPlease note I stepped down to volunteer capacity in September 2023, and returned in a fundraising role in 2024. Key responsibilities: - Overseeing all operational tasks at the charity and acting as an EA to the CEO: acting as the first point of contact, assisting with payroll, policies and on-boarding, external provider management, and diary management. - Preparing communications for the Board and Trustees, ensuring transparency and effective leadership processes. - Line management of all volunteers in the organisation, implementing a new meeting structure and ensuring all tasks are completed. - Coordinating with cross-functional teams to create operational and fundraising strategies, establishing future goals for organisational growth in fundraising and educational outreach. Key achievements include: - Leading the launch and ongoing maintenance of a new website, including training a team of 8 people and implementing necessary updates and adjustments to ensure functionality. - Collaborating with the fundraising team and founder to develop targeted applications and budgets, successfully securing over £200,000 in funding by aligning proposals with organisational priorities.
HealthPromProjects and Fundraising Officer
Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2023London, England, United KingdomKey responsibilities: - Overseeing a European Commission-funded project valued at over £200,000, ensuring compliance with reporting standards and managing relationships with overseas delivery partners to ensure seamless project execution. - Leading the pipeline creation and submitting all fundraising applications, ensuring deadlines are met. -Initiating the implementation of CRM software to improve donor tracking and engagement, aligning tools with the charityʼs broader fundraising and operational needs. -Line management and training of a team of office volunteers and interns, ensuring they contributed effectively to daily operations and long-term fundraising initiatives. Key achievements include: - Achieved the charityʼs most successful fundraising year to date, surpassing targets by 4% - Secured multiple 4- and 5-figure donations from both new and returning donors, including trusts, foundations, local councils, and in-kind contributions, strengthening partnerships and diversifying funding sources.
Mitchells & Butlers PLCFront of House
Oct. 2021 - Apr. 2022London, England, United Kingdom- Fast-paced bartending work in a busy location in Central London - Developed my teamwork and communication skills
High Fliers Research LimitedInterviewer for The Times Final Year Survey 2021
Feb. 2021 - Feb. 2021An interviewer with High Fliers Research in association with The Times.
Bright NetworkBusiness, Operations & Marketing Intern
Jul. 2020 - Jul. 2020- Part of Bright Network's virtual Internship Experience UK. - A 3-day online virtual experience in Business, Operations & Marketing with seminars from leading companies and an individual work project.
Canto CourtCustomer Support & Sales
Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2021London, England, United Kingdom- Facility administration: updating documents, undertaking patrols and inspections. - Supporting sales inquiries, performing viewings and supporting social media marketing. - Customer support: providing ‘front of house’ service, completing check-ins/check-outs, responding to customer complaints.
UCLPanelist on a Video Project
Apr. 2020 - May. 2020London, England, United Kingdom- An induction video-project for incoming first-year History students at UCL. - Completed entirely on Microsoft Teams, using online recording and the MURAL platform for preparation.
StintBrand Ambassador
Oct. 2018 - Jan. 2019- Help establish a brand name for the start-up via social media marketing (Instagram) and setting up events around UCL campus. - Collaboration within the team, as well as STINT teams from other universities.
StintStaff
Sep. 2018 - Aug. 2019London, United KingdomRetail/catering/customer service: - Work at various businesses in order to help the enterprise have more staff when needed (lunch rush hours, an ill staff member, etc). - On-call shifts involve the ability to get to the business assigned to you with the correct uniform in short notice.
UCLTransition Mentor
Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019London, United Kingdom- A position with a rigorous selection process with a very slim success rate. - Involves holding regular meetings with first-year students to guide them through the transition to life at university, assisting the students in all aspects from educational to trivial everyday life. - Awarded a certificate for 'demonstrating enthusiasm and commitment in fulfilling this role'.
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