Trusts and Foundations Grants Officer

Volunteer Trusts and Foundations Grants Officer Role Description

 Hours:A commitment of 32 hours a month (times and days of work are flexible but will need to be agreed)

Position: Trusts and Foundations Grants Officer

Role Reports to: Executive Director

Location: Remote working with regular face to face meetings  with the Executive Director

Job Aim: Grow grant income

About Us

Medic Assist International (MAI) is a Christian charity that partners with extraordinary mission hospitals and clinics working tirelessly and selflessly towards improving health outcomes and access to high quality healthcare in some of the world’s poorest communities.  

For many of those our partners serve, poverty, isolation, and desperation leave them feeling abandoned and forgotten. Encountering the Christ-centred, compassionate care of our partners makes a profound difference in the lives of those they care for, bringing  health and hope in the hardest times.

MAI currently works with partners in Chad, India, South Africa and South Sudan. We are a small charity with an annual income of around £200k and have one employee. 

Role Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Volunteer Trusts and Foundations Grants Officer to help secure critical funding  to enable us to grow our life saving work.  Working with the Executive Director the Grants Officer will research potential grant opportunities, prepare persuasive applications, and help ensure ongoing good quality reporting to funders. Your efforts will directly support our mission to improve health, reduce suffering and save lives.

What you will be doing

• Researching and identifying grant opportunities from trusts and foundations
• Drafting and submitting high quality grant proposals tailored to each opportunity, aiming to submit two per month.
• Preparing interim and final grant reports in compliance with funder requirements.
• Maintain detailed records of applications, funder communications, and grant outcomes. Including maintaining an up-to-date grants calendar, tracking deadlines and outcomes.
• You will be playing a pivotal role in helping the charity grow and expand its reach and impact.

About you

• You are committed and practicing Christian able to represent the Christian ethos of MAI and our Christian healthcare partners, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
• You have strong written communication skills, with an ability to translate complex programs and outcomes into compelling narratives. You will ideally have experience with grant writing fundraising. 
• You have good research and organizational skills
• You want to be part of something exceptional and make a significant contribution to seeing a small charity continuously improve and grow its support to providing access to healthcare for those living in extreme poverty.
• You’re a practical, confident and team player who can work independently
• You are a completer finisher but able to pay attention to detail
• You are proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel and Teams
• Have access to a computer and printer

In Return

• We will commit to providing a supportive working environment.
• Work with you to develop or enhance your grant writing fundraising skills.
• You will learn and gain experience in the provision of health care in low resource settings
• We can offer you an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to supporting our partners to save lives and reduce suffering.
• We invite you to join us in being inspired and encouraged by our incredible local partners, who work tirelessly to not only provide health care that is both affordable and high quality but are doing so with an extraordinary demonstration of compassion and God’s love.
• You will be part of a movement of people contributing to saving lives and reducing suffering in some of the most marginalised communities in the world. And with us experience the joy of seeing God at work, with many patients coming to know the eternal love and embrace of their Heavenly Father through the witness of our partners.