As Senior Development Manager for the Faculty of Sciences at Durham University, Grace manages major gifts from individuals, corporates and trust or foundation to the sciences at Durham. These range from PhD studentships in Computer Science, to astronomy heritage site capital projects and research funding in biosciences. She also lead on fundraising for the Durham Venture Lab team who lead on enterprise activities at the University. 

Grace started out in fundraising as a phone campaign caller while earning her undergraduate degree at St Andrews, calling North American alumni and parents/family. She worked an annual giving internship at St Andrews, participated in the CASE graduate trainee programme through the University of Aberdeen, worked in community & events fundraising for medical research at Aberdeen and in the charity sector, and college fundraising at Hatfield College and Durham University.