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About Rosa

Creating a Safer, Fairer, and More Equal Future for All Women and Girls

Rosa is the only UK-wide funder exclusively dedicated to supporting women-led organisations working to transform the lives of women and girls. Through funding and support, we invest in the critical services, campaigning and advocacy that women and girls need.

Rosa’s work supports the thousands of organisations that make up the women and girls sector – a network of primarily small, specialist charities led by women, and deeply embedded in communities across the UK.
Since 2008, we’ve raised and distributed over £11 million, impacting the lives of over 364,000 women and girls. Our work covers 3 main areas:

• We distribute grants to empower women-led organisations to continue their crucial work.
• We strengthen the sector through training, networking opportunities, and advocacy support.
• We conduct research to enable investment and engage more funders to support women and girls.

We have a strong portfolio of committed funding partners from the charitable, corporate and philanthropy sectors. Without an endowment, we fundraise for every penny we spend.

We have a history of working with a range of high-profile crowd-funding campaigns, including #TimesUp (the UK arm of the #MeToo movement) and Reclaim These Streets to help address systemic misogyny and male violence.

Job Purpose

The Partnerships Manager is a new role that will be pivotal in broadening Rosa’s supporter base and driving long term income growth. This role will use high value relationship management skills to engage and attract new donors with a focus on Trusts and Corporates, which is where we believe the best potential for growth lies, based on recent consultancy advice.

Reporting to the Head of Philanthropy, Partnerships and Communications and working alongside another Partnerships Manager (with focus on Major Donors), the ideal candidate will have the agility and resourcefulness to engage and manage a mixed portfolio of supporters. Their main goal will be to build a community of donors joined in their ambition to improve the lives of women and girls in the UK.

This is not your typical fundraising role as Rosa offers something truly unique – we are the only UK wide funder of the women and girls’ sector in the UK and, without an endowment, we rely entirely on fundraised income to deliver our work. Our grant making, capacity building and research work is deeply impactful, with a track record of driving real and lasting change for women and girls across the UK. We are excited to be growing our new fundraising team and are looking for a special fundraiser to help us achieve our ambitions to make the UK safer, fairer and more equal place for women and girls.

Role responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Undertaking prospect research to identify and engage new donors, with a focus on trusts and foundations and corporate supporters.
• Using existing prospect research to engage and approach identified prospects.
• Working with Rosa’s Fundraising Committee (comprised Rosa Trustees) and stakeholders to map networks and pursue potential connections.
• Developing innovative and resourceful engagement opportunities, using a test and learn approach, to find new ways of matching Rosa’s unique offer to potential funding partners.
• Writing and delivering funding bids, new business pitches and reports to raise and manage funds. Fundraising will be for Rosa’s grant-making funds, capacity building and research/ advocacy work.
• Updating Rosa’s external facing donor communications, including the Rosa website, newsletter and LinkedIn to attract and engage new audiences.
• Ensuring accurate, timely and thorough correspondence, acknowledgement and record-keeping at all stages of the donor journey. You will use our new CRM system (Monday.com) to manage prospects and supporters, enter and track gifts, pull reports, and analyse data.

For a copy of the job pack that includes the specific skills, knowledge, experience and personal attributes we are looking for, as well as details on how to apply, please contact us via the form on this page.