Project Development Manager
Project Development Manager
We are seeking a dynamic, commercial, and highly motivated Project development and fundraising
professional with excellent networking and influencing skills to join the Trust.
Currently, the Trustees, meeting four times a year, and members of the Rosefield Mills Working Group (RMWG) meeting monthly, are all volunteers. This is therefore a new, critical role; funding has been made available from the Pilgrim Trust and the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund to appoint the first paid staff member. Further support staff will be engaged as funding permits.
Our Trustees and volunteers have a wide range of skills, passion, and experience and will support you as
appropriate.
It is worthwhile noting that there is fundraising expertise within the Trustee group and a pipeline of potential funders has already been developed.
The Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust (DHBT) was the first Building Preservation Trust to be founded dedicated to Dumfries and the surrounding area with the intention to participate in ensuring that no more of the distinctive vernacular buildings and historic architecture of this beautiful area of Scotland is lost.
The Trust seeks to work collaboratively with Dumfries & Galloway Council, the local planning authority,
other charities or organisations with broadly similar aims, and with all relevant government or other funding agencies national or local who may be in a position to support its work
Indispensable in the Trust’s vision for its projects is to pay attention to the context or setting – social, economic, and cultural – in which the projects lie.
In the case of our current largest project, the relict of the formerly vast Rosefield Mills complex of the 1880s,
our waterfront building has the potential to be a beacon for the deprived local community; an economic lever on account of its size and relationship to local housing, cultural assets (e.g. St Michael’s church almost opposite), and town centre activities; and its breath-taking location on the river bank which has led more than one commentator to compare it to the former and often palatial industrial buildings of Venice, many of which have found sustainable new functions.
Your skills & attributes for success
Development Manager– You Will Have:
• Experience of working with communities.
• Fundraising experience including making grant applications.
• Experience of project management and delivery to deadlines.
• Strong people skills excelling in building excellent interpersonal relationships
and adapting a structured approach to relationship building and management.
• A talent for building and nurturing great working relationships.
• An engaging and inspiring personality.
• Sound proven organisational and office skills.
• An outgoing and positive personality with a pro-active, ‘can-do’ attitude.
• The ability to work under pressure to ensure deadlines and targets are met.
• A commitment to the Trust’s aims and objectives.
Whilst not essential, experience of significant design/construction projects within
a Conservation Area and/or involving listed buildings would be highly beneficial.