Graduate Fundraiser

Passionate about making a real difference? Want to help shape and grow a dynamic prison charity initiative? Beating Time helps to reduce reoffending and change lives by supporting people’s mental health in prison and helping them into work on release.

Beating Time is looking for somebody to join our small and friendly team as a Graduate Fundraiser. We are ideally looking for somebody with a passion for social justice and who wants to develop their career in the charity sector.

About us

Beating Time is a charity with a difference. We run two programmes.

Choirs Beating Time runs weekly choir year-round in 9 prisons, building positive communities and improving mental health and inclusion. Over 1000 people have sung with us in the last 10 years. Through the support of our singing groups participants develop crucial life skills, rediscover a non-criminal identity and meet people who believe in them. Through performances they also have the opportunity to spend better quality time with their family.

Inside Job, is an Employment Consultancy with a difference. It was co-created by a serving prisoner, who is very much part of our Team, and the Charity, Beating Time. Recognising the huge barriers people who have served a sentence face to re-entering the workplace, we realised a specialized service was needed. A service which collapses the space between Employers, who want to use their recruitment policies to achieve social impact, and people who are serving/ have served a prison sentence.  A service which understands those challenges and works collaboratively to remove them. Employment reduces reoffending by 50% - this is a job worth doing.

Inside Job is unique in 2 ways:

1. We recruit and train serving prisoners as Recruitment Consultants who provide us with our candidate pipeline and work closely alongside us.

2. We take employers into prison to interview Candidates. Job offers are made there and then.

We are an award-winning organisation (Winner of the Robin Corbett award 2020 for prison reintegration & 2 High Sheriff awards) and are powered by individuals who are fuelled by purpose and passionate about what we do. 

About the role

This is a new role that has been created to sit within our London office, working closely with the senior management team as well as our community team. You will get the opportunity to visit our prisons and see first hand how we work, what we do and why it is so important.

Our funding comes from several sources including from Trusts and Foundations, and prison contracts and donations. We are looking for somebody who can continue to build strong relationships with our funders but also find and develop new funding opportunities to help grow and maximise our income.

We will offer extensive training and will fully immerse the right candidate into every aspect of our charity. This role will also strongly link in with the planning and delivery of our strategy and policies.

An interest and appetite in the work will outweigh previous experience.

Highly organised with a great eye for detail.

Very strong communication skills.

Highly literate and numerate  - you will have to write budgets and applications.

Good storyteller with strong writing skills

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