We Are Recruiting

 We are looking to appoint a Fundraising Manager to join our team:

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Hours: Part Time (30 hours per week)

Salary: £36,000 pro rata per annum (actual salary £29,189 )

Based: Office based or hybrid with four days a month in the Moortown office, 53 Cranmer Bank Leeds LS17 5JD

Contract: Fixed term one year contract, with potential to extend subject to funding.

Applications close date: 30 June 2026 @ 9.00am

Interview date: 9 July 2026

About Us

At Leeds North and West foodbank, we believe everyone should be able to afford the essentials in life, including food, and we want to see a future where no one needs to use a food bank. We believe in Justice, Compassion, Community & Dignity and seek to create a supportive community by empowering people to take action in order to have their voice heard to make a positive difference. We are committed to raising awareness of hunger and hardship and to ending the need for food banks. Until that time, we will provide emergency food and practical support to people left without enough money to live on. Providing a safety net for those in need of our services and supporting people to seek further assistance.

Founded in 2013, initially operating in North Leeds, we now serve half of Leeds from our 8 foodbank centres across North and West Leeds and our warehouse located in Burley, with a small core staff team supporting a large diverse group of around 240 volunteers we supported 18,000 people last year with emergency food and support to access other services.

About The Role:

The Fundraising Manager is a key person in the team helping us deliver our strategy.

• Through this new organisational role, you’ll proactively create and grow fundraising income opportunities primarily with grant giving trusts and foundations but also alongside the wider team with corporate donors, individuals, community groups and faith organisations. You’ll be at the heart of our local community, bringing our cause to life and building lasting donor relationships.
• Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of building relationships with trusts and foundations, corporate donors, individuals, community groups and other donors to achieve and exceed annual income targets and KPI’s. You’ll have the capacity to create and craft compelling proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters.

Why Work For Us:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and help Leeds North and West Foodbank realise its vision of creating a poverty-free future for our community where everyone can afford the essentials in life through your role in the development and delivery of an effective fundraising strategy.

You would be joining a small supportive staff team who are committed to making a difference in our communities.

With the opportunity for flexible working, a competitive salary and 28 days annual leave plus BHs (pro rata)

Key Responsibilities:

• Through excellent, comprehensive and considered research, you’ll identify and prioritise a pool of potential Trusts and Foundations funders for Leeds North and West Food Bank and, working with colleagues, you’ll develop authentic, compelling, creative and winning funding bids that can successfully engage new and existing Trusts and Foundations funders.
• You will develop, monitor and manage a fundraising portfolio capable of generating in excess of £500K per annum. You’ll further develop our fundraising pipeline, including a range of KPIs that can be tracked and that will enable you to make informed projections regarding future income.
• Through the design and delivery of excellent, engaging and regular stewardship communications and powerful fundraising appeals, you will work with colleagues to help grow our income and pool of individual supporters making one off or monthly donations.
• Along with the wider team you’ll explore and implement ways of promoting Leeds North and West Food Bank across the community to successfully engage with local community groups, associations, events, schools and businesses in order to grow Leeds North and West Food Bank’s community fundraising reach and income.
• You’ll forge strong relationships with colleagues across the wider Trussell network, sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network. You’ll proactively take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development opportunities and engage with any joint fundraising opportunities.

Skills

• You’ll have good, established experience of Trusts and Foundations fundraising and an understanding of corporate partnership, individual giving, and community fundraising.
• With excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills, you will inspire and motivate existing and prospective supporters, providing excellent stewardship and crafting compelling and winning funding proposals and appeals.
• You’ll have experience of setting, managing and reporting against fundraising KPIs.
• You’ll be tenacious and able to embrace, develop and shape a new role. You’ll be well organised, proactive, and a self-starter who is able to self-motivate.
• You’ll be able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially-excluded backgrounds

How to Apply

We are working with VAL Recruitment to manage applications please CLICK HERE to access further details and application form.

Closing date 30th June 2026 at 9am