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About us: St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community. We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework. We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues. The Role: Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment. The purpose of this role is to devise and lead a trust and foundation fundraising strategy in order to achieve set goals and financial targets. The postholder will aim to improve our new trust acquisition and maintain our good retention of existing trust and foundation supporters. This person will oversee the writing of applications for both core funding and new capital and revenue projects, ensuring the cases for support are strong and compelling. The role will focus on growing trust and foundation income through strong relationship building and reporting and maximising giving opportunities. Benefits included: • We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays, • Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership, • Discounted cinema tickets, • Employee assistance programmes, • Additional training opportunities, • Supportive working environment If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Roz Bristowe, Legacy and Trusts Manager, on Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications .