Full Time

Full-time, Fixed Term for 22 months
Salary £29,888 – £32,602 per annum
Plus generous benefits package
Hybrid / flexible working

About the role

Join our team as the Trusts and Foundations Coordinator, where you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver National Galleries of Scotland’s ambition to grow funds raised from grant sources.  This is a wonderful opportunity to build on your fundraising skills, while working in a highly supportive Development Team passionate about art.

You will have excellent research and organisational skills, strong written and verbal communication, and be proficient in analysing financial information for persuasive grant submissions.

You’ll be responsible for maintaining the list of prospects, monitoring opportunities and recording approaches and outcomes.  You’ll also write proposals and steward relationships with Trusts and Foundations through regular communication, report writing, arranging visits and generally ensuring we meet the conditions of any funding received.   

This post is part of a pilot strategy to grow NGS income. This post is initially on a 22-month fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension depending on the income levels achieved during the pilot. This offers an excellent opportunity for a results-driven individual to demonstrate their impact and contribute to shaping the success of this initiative. 

The difference you’ll make

As the Trusts and Foundations Coordinator, you will be key to growing NGS’ relationships with Trusts and Foundations. You should have an enthusiasm for and interest in the National Galleries of Scotland and arts, culture and heritage. Supporting the Development Manager, you will:

– Manage your own project workload, driving the grants fundraising process from inception to completion.
– Collaborate effectively with colleagues to write proposals, reports and help with evaluations, ensuring consistency and quality in all written materials.
– Cultivate and steward relationships with Trusts and Foundations, working closely with colleagues to arrange visits and tours, and to acknowledge funders.
– Maintain and develop the prospect pipeline through proactively researching grant funding opportunities ensuring a continuous flow of potential funding sources and building a diverse base of support.
– Oversee the reporting schedule ensuring timely and accurate submission of progress reports, financials, and other key documentation in line with funder expectations and deadlines.
– Ensuring smooth running of the grants administration including distributing proposals, electronic filing, and accurate date entry on systems like Spektrix, etc.

Who we are looking for

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following range of knowledge, skills, and experience:

– A demonstrable personal track record of grants fundraising or writing copy for fundraising activities with a clear demonstration of success in securing funding.
– Proven experience managing the administrative functions supporting fundraising activities, demonstrating strong organisational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to efficiently oversee systems, prioritise tasks, and consistently meet deadlines.
– Working knowledge of arts and heritage grant funders in the UK and further afield.
– Experience of working within the charity sector.
– Experience of researching prospects and monitoring pipeline of opportunities for fundraising purposes.
– Experience in customer service and dealing with different personalities, whilst having the confidence to engage funders, ask insightful questions, and effectively present compelling cases for support.
– Very strong written and verbal communication skills – especially the ability to write compelling grant proposals and edit information into a proposal
– Excellent research skills to identify potential Trusts and Foundations whose objectives represent a strong match to ours
– Solid understanding of budgets, with the ability to analyse financial information and incorporate it into proposals and funding strategies.
– Proficient IT skills, including Word, spreadsheets and databases.

It would also be great if you have:

– Experience of overseeing fundraising for particular projects
– Existing relationships with grant-giving organisations
– Experience of working within an arts, heritage or museums organisation.

Please apply directly via our careers portal. Applications via email will not be accepted. Closing date for completed applications is 12 noon on Monday, 06 January 2025.

Full-time, Fixed Term (22 months)
Salary £34,944 – £38,218 per annum
Plus generous benefits package
Hybrid/flexible working

About the role

Can you help us with our aim to make art work for everyone? We’re looking for a results-focused marketing professional to help us generate income for us to re-invest in the gallery experience. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference.

You will deliver creative and impactful campaigns which support our fundraising, legacy giving and Friends membership schemes, as well as work on other new income generating activities.

You must have demonstrable experience of delivering results-focused marketing, including CRM, email marketing, content creation and copywriting. Importantly you must have a proactive and ambitious mindset, with an appetite to deliver real impact.

This post is part of a pilot strategy to grow NGS income. This post is initially on a 22-month fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension depending on the income levels achieved during the pilot. This offers an excellent opportunity for a results-driven individual to demonstrate their impact and contribute to shaping the success of this initiative.

The difference you’ll make

You’ll be part of our skilled and supportive Marketing and Communications team, but will work very closely with colleagues in our Development and Friends teams. As the Growth Marketing Officer, you will deliver, measure and evolve a range of marketing campaigns which will increase income. Reporting to the Marketing Manager you will:

– Devise, implement and evaluate a marketing plan which delivers increased income from key areas identified below.
– Produce legacy giving marketing materials and campaigns.
– Produce fundraising appeal marketing materials and campaigns.
– Produce marketing materials and campaigns to grow our Friends membership scheme.
– Devise, create and deliver CRM and email marketing campaigns to increase subscriber numbers and engagement rates.
– Devise, create and deliver marketing activities to support new income generation activities.
– Report on results of all marketing activities including but not limited to sales figures, digital metrics, campaign results and ROI.
– Work with Gallery colleagues to achieve buy-in and successful delivery of campaigns.

Who we are looking for

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following range of knowledge, skills, and experience:

– Educated to degree level, or equivalent in a relevant subject.
– Demonstrable experience of devising, delivering and evaluating results-focused marketing campaigns, ideally commercial, retail or fundraising.
– Demonstrable experience of using CRM systems and devising and delivering email campaigns.
– Demonstrable experience of creating marketing collateral.
– Experience in running and tracking digital marketing campaigns e.g. Social, YouTube, Adwords.
– Strong copywriting skills, including for websites/SEO.
– Strong digital and content creation skills e.g. Canva, Adobe, content management systems, etc.
– Strong data analysis skills, including reporting and evaluation.
– Excellent project management and organisation skills.
– Proactive and ambitious approach.

It would also be great if you have:

– Marketing qualification.
– Experience of managing agencies.
– Experience of events marketing.
– Fundraising experience.

Please apply directly via our careers portal. Applications via email will not be accepted. Closing date for completed applications is 12 noon on Monday, 23 December 2024.

Please note that over the Christmas period our team will be taking some time to celebrate the festivities so our turnaround time for application reviews may be a little slower than normal. We thank any applicants for their understanding in advance,

Join our team as a Marketing Manager at The Real Mary King’s Close.

The Real Mary King’s Close is buried deep beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. On their fully guided tour, guests follow Edinburgh’s past residents in these underground alleyways and hear the real stories of the people who lived, worked and died there. Join us to experience over 400 years of history and unlock the secrets of Edinburgh’s only preserved 17th-century street.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Marketing professional to join the team and support us in our strategic priority to drive visitors to our attraction.

As the brand guardian you’ll be driving the brand through creative marketing campaigns, customer and market insight and content creation. Leading on the brand and marketing for the attraction, ensuring campaigns coincide with our guests needs, helping generate enquiries driving growth and revenue.

This is a standalone role at The Real Mary King’s Close. Whilst you will have support from our York Support marketing team you will be responsible for all aspects of marketing from social media posts to strategy so this role offers a huge variety of tasks.

If you want to collaborate with a brilliant team and lead a unique brand then this is the job you’re looking for!

A Bit About You

You’ll be a creative and experienced marketeer, with a track record in leading successful campaigns across a broad range of channels including digital, print and direct marketing, driving commercial growth.

Ideally, you’ll come from a tourism, hospitality or leisure background – but if you’re super awesome and come from a different industry we’d love to hear from you!

The ability to analyse and interpret trends, manage budgets and measure the cost/benefits of your activities is a must. In addition, you will have strong organisation and planning skills and be able to work at a fast pace, managing multiple projects at the same time. If you can unleash the potential of others and make it a great place to work for your colleagues then this would be the icing on the cake.

What’s on offer?

Salary: £35,000 per annum

Contract: Full time permanent

There’s lots more! Including: – generous holiday allowance, free health cash plan, day off for your birthday, shopping and cinema discounts, pension scheme, attraction discounts and much more.

A full job description can be found on The Real Mary King’s Close website.

We’re looking for a passionate and creative individual to join our award-winning marketing department, where you will be covering all aspects of marketing communications.

The role requires a strong communicator, skilled in graphic design and all aspects of social media, with an eagerness to learn new skills. The position offers marketing progression within a five-star visitor attraction, recently named Scotland’s Best Visitor Attraction in the Scottish Thistle Awards 2024.