Trusts & Foundations Officer
Job Title: Trusts & Foundations Officer
Line Manager: Development Manager
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 per annum
Location: Sheffield
Closing Date: 10am on 21 March 2025
The Role:
English Touring Opera (ETO) are seeking an ambitious and driven candidate to join our busy Development team as we look to grow our voluntary (fundraised) income to support our work on the stage, in schools and in the community.
Please see full responsibilities and specifications in the attached job pack.
About English Touring Opera:
ETO is an Olivier award-winning opera company with a mission to make our art form accessible to all. Since 1979, ETO has toured outstanding live productions and impactful education and community projects to more towns and cities than any other UK opera company, reaching over 30,000 people per year. As an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, we tour exceptional and ambitious theatre-based productions across the country, performing rare, unjustly underperformed repertoire that is neglected by the rest of the sector. With an average ticket price of £26.81, we are committed to breaking down financial barriers to opera and challenging the perception that the artform is elitist. It is an exciting time for ETO, as we establish ourselves in our new base of operations in Sheffield as part of the ACE Transfer Programme.
ETO creates award-winning educational opera experiences as part of our Learning & Participation (L&P) Programme. We tour participatory opera across the country for infants, children, families, and Learning Disabled young people and we deliver creative workshops for young people in secondary schools and Alternative Provision settings. Through our multifaceted approach, we work carefully with participants to deliver activities that reflect their backgrounds, interests, and needs, alongside important issues such as climate change and
mental health.
How to Apply:
Please email your CV (maximum two pages) and a separate document (maximum two pages) that answers the following four questions to admin@etopera.org.uk. Please use the following four questions as headings:1) Tell us about your biggest success or a piece of work of which you are most proud.
2) This role will involve writing persuasive applications for Trust and Foundation grants. Please can you write a short paragraph explaining why a Trust or Foundation should give a grant towards ETO’s Spring 2025 season, including our opera for children.
3) You’ll have to work as part of a busy team in this role. Please can you give us an example of how you’ve worked in a team before?
4) Please tell us if you have any previous fundraising experience, or previous experience which has given you skills which are transferable to fundraising.
Please also fill in the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, which will be anonymised, stored separately from your application, and will not be considered as part of it.