Full Time

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Engagement Staff and volunteers – (recruitment, induction, development, motivation, performance management) such that they are fully equipped and motivated to undertake their duties to the required Trust standards and that staffing budgets are adhered to.

Support a Health & Safety culture across the property, ensuring the team work with the properties systems to reduce risk of incidents and accidents to volunteers, employees and visitors.

Budgets – (phasing, monitoring, reporting, pro-active and re-active adjustments together with the Operations Manager and wider management teams) to ensure that the finances are sustainable within the context of the wider property budgets.

Create a culture of ‘exceptional service, every time’. Delivering high standards of delivery and a consistently warm welcome within the 5 star visitor experience.

Driving the visitor services experience to achieve its financial targets, maximising income and profitability, using the Trust’s procedures and instructions. You will strive to be efficient and ensure cost effectiveness in all the work you do.

Taking responsibility for opening and closing and security of buildings as well as emergency procedure implementation, duty management and providing relief cover as required.

This role is one for which the duties, responsibilities or accountabilities of the role require you to undertake a criminal records check, specifically a Standard Disclosure.

Department specific – visitor experiences

Designing and developing tours and visitor experiences that engage visitors.

Work closely with the Regional Curator to assist with the research, exhibition, presentation, and interpretation of collections and help protect the assets of the museum.

Develop, and deliver a schools programme, including Early Years/Nursery and Tertiary

Establishing visitor experiences which are relevant, socially inclusive engaging to all visitor groups

Developing and managing all formal and informal learning experiences and play a “hands-on” role in delivering educational, interpretative, outreach and event programmes

ABOUT DYNAMIC EARTH

Dynamic Earth is Edinburgh’s science centre and planetarium. We are the UK’s leading earth science engagement charity, with a mission to empower people with an understanding and empathy for the Earth and its future. We do this by providing compelling engagement at our world-class centre in Edinburgh, as well as through our learning and engagement programmes which we deliver all over Scotland. In 2022 we published a bold new 10-year strategy – From Beginning to Mend – along with a powerful new brand, to help us reach more people and to embed climate change across everything we do.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

It’s an exciting time to join Dynamic Earth’s fundraising team and be part of telling Earth’s epic story to achieve our vision of a positive future for us and our planet. This role is key to delivering our fundraising strategy to increase income and our supporter base, to ensure we achieve our charitable mission of building empathy and understanding for Earth. As such, it presents a fantastic opportunity for a fundraiser to make a significant impact here at Dynamic Earth, and take our income-generation capability to the next level.

We’re seeking a proactive, energetic and enthusiastic fundraiser, who will grow and manage partnerships with Trusts, Grant Makers, Corporate Trusts and Corporate CSR partners to maximise unrestricted and restricted income and supporter engagement. You’ll work closely with the Fundraising and Marketing Director to tell the story of our impactful and important work to as wide a range of supporters as possible, finding new ways to engage with them.

DUTIES

Understand Dynamic Earth’s strategic priorities and funding needs, including core funding, projects and capital expenditure; to develop and write compelling and tailored funding applications, cases for support, bids, business proposals, fundraising materials and case studies to secure funding and support.

Proactively identify and connect with potential funders who have an affinity with Dynamic Earth’s work and projects to develop and maintain a robust prospect pipeline of Trusts and Foundations, Statutory and Grant making bodies and Companies to support our core work and projects.

Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to develop new funding products, inspired by the far-ranging and diverse work being done by Dynamic Earth, which appeal to a broad range of supporters.

Create and manage a rolling programme of approaches to new and existing partners, by scheduling and making high-value applications, proposals and pitches to secure multi-year grants, donations, sponsorship and mutual benefits to meet annual targets and secure a robust pipeline of future funding pledges.

Cultivate and manage a growing portfolio of high value partnerships, by providing excellent stewardship and relationship management to maximise income generation and engagement, deliver and report on agreed benefits and outcomes in order to retain long-term continued support.

Promote Dynamic Earth’s charitable purpose and gain recognition for the impact made by our work with internal and external stakeholders by attending networking events, delivering presentations and providing content for our marketing and communication needs.

Build strong internal relationships with relevant stakeholders to ensure high value partnerships are managed appropriately and effectively, as well as providing professional funding advice and support to senior colleagues to ensure relationships are supported at the highest level.

Provide regular performance updates and reports to the Director of Fundraising and Marketing, and contribute to fundraising strategy development, the fundraising committee, annual plans, budgets and other fundraising duties as required.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

3 years relevant experience in a similar role, ideally working with trusts and companies.

Strong initiative and the ability to proactively research and form relationships with prospective new supporters.

Demonstrable previous success in generating income and achieving targets.

Exceptional written and verbal communicator, with the ability to excite and inspire.

Ability to network and connect with different people to influence and negotiate partnerships.

Well organised with excellent attention to detail and ability to prioritise workload.

Self-motivated and confident to work with autonomy.

Financially literate with a good knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite and CRMs.

Desirable

Experience of creating and delivering high-quality funding applications and proposals.

Understanding of fundraising trends in the trusts and corporate landscapes.

Understanding of pipeline management for both trusts and corporate fundraising.

Knowledge of fundraising procedures and record keeping in line with the Code of Fundraising practice, charity legislation, Gift Aid and GDPR.

A professional or personal interest in science, earth science and environmental issues.

An empathy for what Dynamic Earth exists to deliver.

To apply for this position, please email a copy of your CV and cover letter to peopleandculture@dynamicearth.org.uk

It is an exciting time to join the team looking after some of Edinburgh’s most iconic landmarks and museums. Our portfolio of attractions are world renowned and we are now looking for a dynamic individual to join us in the role of Event Duty Manager leading the teams across our locations. If you have experience of great customer service, an interest in Edinburgh’s amazing history, are commercially minded with a flexible approach to work, we would love to hear from you.

The role will require someone who is available to work five days from seven with late night hours required subject to events.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. For roles in grade 5 or above, annual increments in our contribution zones are dependent on achieving agreed performance goals.

Successful applicants will require to be available mid-February for interview.

We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.