Senior Grants Officer
Employer: The Forward Trust
Location: Remote, you will be required to travel to our Head Office in London once a month.
Working hours: Full time.
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Closing date: 14 Nov 2025
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About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join The Forward Trust as a Senior Grants Officer, working fully remotely to grow and maximise income from trusts, foundations, and other grant-giving organisations.
As a key member of our passionate and target-driven Fundraising Team, you’ll identify and engage new funders while strengthening relationships with existing supporters, securing vital income for our life-changing and life-saving services across prisons and communities throughout the UK.
The Forward Trust empowers people to break the cycles of addiction, crime, and poor mental health. While much of our work is government-funded, our Fundraising Team raises around £2.5 million per year from charitable sources. Many of our staff have lived experience of recovery or the criminal justice system, bringing authenticity and impact to everything we do.
Your Role
Research, identify, and approach potential grant funders, while maintaining and growing relationships with existing supporters.
Develop compelling cases for support, budgets, and progress reports, working closely with project leads and service users.
Support the Grants Manager to refine our trusts and foundations strategy and streamline processes.
Ensure accurate data management in line with GDPR.
Collaborate across the fundraising team to prepare proposals, support events, and help us reach our ambitious goals.
About You
You’ll bring proven experience in grant fundraising, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to write clear, persuasive proposals. You’ll be organised, collaborative, and motivated by making a tangible difference in people’s lives.
With a new strategy, team structure, and CRM system in place, it’s an exciting time to join our mission-driven, supportive, and fun fundraising team.
You will be required to travel to our Head Office in London once a month.
Start date: 5th January 2026
Please see full details in the attached job description
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -Flexible working
Training and development opportunities
Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
Season Ticket Loan Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Crisis Loan Scheme
Electric Car Scheme
3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
Access to Blue Light Card
25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Diversity at Forward Trust
The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to WorkWe recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.
If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
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