Income Generation Consultant

at  IRISi

Job description
Work with us to shift our mindset as an organisation, moving from primarily receiving income from public sector bodies to proactively seeking funding from a wide variety of organisations. We want you to develop an income generation strategy and plan to enable IRISi to have a sustainable business model harnessing our existing knowledge assets and skills.

By the end of this project, we would like the following:

• an understanding of new potential customers and funders for IRISi and our value proposition to them
• an income generation strategy and plan.

We’re open to consultant suggestions regarding what shape this work might take. But to give an idea, we would be looking for things like:

• Horizon scanning to identify income generation opportunities
• Cultivating relationships with potential customers and funders
• Research about short-term income generation opportunities (3-6 months)
• Testing value propositions with target audiences
• Recommendations of where we should be focussing our income generation efforts and targets for each income stream
• A generic case for support, which can be repurposed for a variety of funders.
• Facilitation of workshops with staff members and potentially board members to surface existing ideas to generate income and barriers to implementation

Skills and experience

Essential

• Experience developing effective income generation strategies for social enterprises and charities, particularly as part of wider organisational strategy development and/or review
• Strong charitable and/or commercial bid writing skills
• Significant experience in successfully generating income from a variety of sources for social enterprises and/or charities
• Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills including at senior levels
• Commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• A creative approach to work and seeking out new opportunities

Desirable

• Experienced fundraiser for charities and/or social enterprises, particularly for health and/or VAWG sector organisations
• Understanding of gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
• Knowledge of/contacts with funders in the health and gender-based violence and higher education (including health care professional training) sectors
• Understanding of the health system and and higher education structures across the UK and in particular, England and Wales
• Workshop facilitation skills

Please refer the Job description for details