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To work with the Head of Contract Development and Leadership Team colleagues to identify areas for development in the Liverpool City Region and the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB area. This would include:
Researching existing service provisions in the region
Identifying key stakeholders, and establishing relationships with key partners and stakeholders.
Writing compelling and clear applications and business cases for funding to launch and expand services in the Liverpool City Region and surrounding areas.
Leading the research and submission of tenders, either in our own right or as a partner with external applicants. 
2. To source, develop and manage excellent working relationships with our funders and stakeholders, for example by identifying and managing relationships with potential future partners for funding and tender applications, stewarding relationships with funders, networking, and exploring avenues for repeat funding.
3. Work with funding colleagues to maintain effective fundraising systems, through coordinating our CRM system for monitoring Grants & Contracts income streams and ensuring this is kept fully up to date, producing reports and insight on our activity, and implementing improvements and changes where necessary.
4. To work with the Grants & Contracts Manager to support the project initiation stage of relevant new funding agreements (for example through helping to facilitate Project Initiation Meetings, uploading funding information to LGBT Foundation’s CRM System, and ensuring funding information and budgets are communicated to our Finance Team).
5. To support bid compliance, for example through tracking monitoring reports, sending annual accounts, and supporting some smaller-scale monitoring reports.
6. To contribute to LGBT Foundation’s overall ongoing and annual business planning and budgeting processes.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
We realise that we could miss out on incredible talent joining LGBT Foundation because someone might not see themselves in every single one of these criteria below. For example, research shows that women of colour are less likely to apply to a role if they don’t meet all criteria. Please don’t be put off if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes below If you think you could be great for this job, but aren’t entirely sure, please apply anyway.

Skills& Abilities
Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), with the ability to write clearly and persuasively, with a well-developed writing style and to communicate with a wide range of audiences.  This includes the ability to translate sometimes complex project ideas into 'easy to understand' information.
Excellent numeracy and financial literacy skills, capable of analysing financial information and presenting it in an accessible format (such as project budgets for funding applications).
Excellent administration skills, including being IT literate with the ability to be self-supporting in the use of computer software, including the MS Office Suite and databases.