Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time — 37.5 hours per week (open to 4 days per week).

Location: London / Hybrid or Remote. Office based colleagues are expected to be in the office two days per week. Remote colleagues are required to travel to our London HQ at least once a month; if you are on a remote working contract, your travel to the London office for team days will be paid. This is a UK based role; you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered.

Salary: £44,000 FTE gross per annum. Team members on London / Hybrid contracts that come into the London office 2+ days per week are entitled to an additional office allowance of £2,000 per annum pro rated

Travel: There are no specific travel requirements for this role, though we do ask all team members, wherever possible, to be available to support two key youth events each year including overnight stays. As well as attending our monthly team days and travelling where necessary to deliver your role, for example visiting funders.

Benefits: 30 days annual leave, flexible working environment, enhanced sick pay, 5% employer / 3% employee pension contribution, bike to work scheme.

Reporting to: Director of Finance & Operations with a functional line into CEO as well

Please note: Owing to the nature of this role, any offer of employment with Bite Back will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Do you want to work with a vibrant, dynamic and youth-driven organisation that is committed to creating healthy futures for British children by improving the food system?

Be part of the creative, agile and growing team behind Bite Back’s exceptional teenage activists. Join us as our Senior Fundraising and Grants Manager and contribute to our journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer. See below for more details about the role and how to apply.

At Bite Back we are committed to ensuring our team is representative of the diverse world around us and therefore we encourage candidates with a range of lived and professional experiences to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. We will use positive action under the Equality Act 2010 to appoint from these underrepresented groups if two candidates are equally qualified.

About Bite Back

We’re surrounded by junk food. From the moment we're born, every second of every day, children are being targeted. Giant companies manipulate them with colourful, cuddly, clever marketing, deceive them with packaging claims and pump products at them that are full of junk. It's become the cultural wallpaper. Now, it risks destroying the health of a generation.

Over a third of 10/11-year-olds leave primary school with an increased risk of developing food-related conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease in their future.

The good news is, it's totally preventable. And we're biting back.

Bite Back is a youth activist movement challenging a food system that's been set up to fool us all.

We do this by:

1. Calling out the manipulation of the junk food giants.
2. Demanding higher standards from food marketing and from everyday food itself.
3. Mobilising and equipping young people in the fight for better food.

We do all this so we can bite back against a global epidemic of food-related ill health.

Role Description

To lead the development and delivery of Bite Back's fundraising strategy with a primary focus on trusts, foundations and institutional grants. You’ll oversee the organisation’s grants pipeline, coordinate funding applications and reports, and ensure excellent standards of funder stewardship and compliance. You’ll also play a role in developing early-stage public fundraising activities to diversify income and support the long-term sustainability of Bite Back’s youth-led mission.

Responsibilities

The Senior Fundraising and Grants Manager is accountable for:

Fundraising Strategy & Planning

• Design, deliver and monitor a values-aligned fundraising strategy, with a primary focus on trusts and foundations.
• Set annual income targets, track progress against goals, and report performance to senior leadership and trustees.
• Identify new income opportunities to support Bite Back’s strategic growth and impact.
• Develop and maintain a 12–24 month grant pipeline to forecast income and manage funding cycles.
• Ensure all fundraising activity complies with the Code of Fundraising Practice, GDPR, and Bite Back’s ethical standards.

Grants from Trusts and Foundations

• Lead the processes for securing income from trusts, foundations and institutional funders, from prospect research through to submission, reporting and renewal.
• Research, identify and prioritise funding opportunities aligned with Bite Back’s youth-led mission and programmes. Collaborate with internal teams to conduct due diligence to ensure funding sources are aligned with our values.
• Prepare and submit high-quality, evidence-led, and compelling grant proposals in collaboration with the CEO, Director of Finance & Operations, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, and programme leads.
• Coordinate grant management and tracking: maintain accurate records of deadlines, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
• Work with the finance team to develop accurate project budgets and ensure financial reporting meets funder expectations and our operational needs.
• Produce and submit clear, engaging progress reports to funders that highlight impact, learning, and youth voices.
• Monitor grant income and expenditure, ensuring compliance and timely claims against restricted funding.
• Work with the Operations and Contracts Manager and the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager to develop and improve systems for grant tracking and data integrity within the CRM (Salesforce).

Donor Stewardship and Relationship Management

• Work closely with the CEO to build and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential funders, ensuring high-quality engagement and stewardship.
• Coordinate communications, updates, and thank-you processes for donors to encourage repeat and multi-year funding.
• Lead work-streams, working closely with the Brand Manager and leadership team for support, in order to deliver meetings, presentations, and reports to funders.
• Represent Bite Back at relevant events, funder briefings, and networking opportunities.
• Promote a culture of fundraising awareness and collaboration across the organisation.

Fundraising Development

• Work with the Communications and Operations teams to explore and pilot small-scale public fundraising initiatives (e.g. individual giving, online campaigns, web donation tool).
• Work with the CEO and Communications team to develop a new strategy to build a strong and committed donor network of high net worth individuals aligned with Bite Back’s values
• Develop systems, messaging, and supporter journeys that reflect Bite Back’s youth-led identity.
• Explore opportunities for revenue from the public sector.
• Test new public fundraising channels and evaluate their return on investment to inform future strategy.

Other

• Champion Bite Back’s values — Fresh, Resilient, Respectful, Energetic, and Real — in all fundraising work.
• Collaborate with the youth activism, communications, and policy teams to translate programme outcomes into fundable opportunities and compelling narratives.
• Stay informed about trends in the fundraising and grant-making sectors and share learning across the team.

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate would have the following:

Essential

• Proven experience in securing income from trusts and foundations, ideally within the non-profit or campaigning sector.
• Track record of developing and managing a grant pipeline and meeting income targets.
• Excellent written communication skills with experience producing high-quality funding applications and impact reports.
• Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• Understanding of budgeting and financial management for grant-funded projects.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience using CRM systems for tracking income and reporting (ideally Salesforce).
• Knowledge of fundraising regulations, GDPR, and ethical standards.
• Commitment to Bite Back’s youth-led, systems-change mission.

Desirable

• Experience of developing public fundraising initiatives (individual giving, digital, community).
• Familiarity with youth-led or campaigning charities.
• Experience managing cross-team collaboration on proposals and reports.
• Understanding of impact measurement and evaluation in fundraising contexts.
• Confidence presenting to funders or representing the organisation externally.

To Apply

Please apply with a CV and a statement answering the following questions:

1. Tell us about a specific grant or trust funding opportunity that you personally secured — from initial research to submission and reporting. What steps did you take to make your proposal stand out, and what did you learn from that process? (250 words max)

2. Fundraising often depends on collaboration with colleagues who have different priorities. Tell us about a time you had to bring together colleagues (e.g., finance, programmes, communications) to create a strong funding proposal or report. How did you make that collaboration work? (250 words max)

3. Give an example of when you turned complex project outcomes or data into a compelling story for a funder. How did you work with programme or communications colleagues to make it resonate? (250 words max)

4. Describe a time when you identified a new income stream or funding source and built it up successfully. What evidence or insight convinced you it was worth pursuing, and what steps did you take to make it work? (250 words max)

Timelines

• Applications close at 9pm on Sunday 4th January 2026
• Initial (online) interviews will take place on Friday 9th January 2026
• Second interviews will will take place at our offices in London SW1W on Wednesday 14th January 2026

If you have any questions about the role or the application process, do contact us on recruitment@biteback2030.com and we’ll be happy to help. We will only accept applications submitted via the CharityJobs website.

If you are in receipt of means tested benefits and cost is a barrier to attending a London based interview, please let us know and we can help with booking your travel.

We are testing an approach of sharing one interview question in advance as part of our commitment to being more inclusive. Please let us know if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments for the application, or interview. We really want our process to feel accessible.