Grants Officer
Description✓Location Coventry - Hybrid
✓Contract Type: Permanent
✓Hours: Full time, Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week
✓Salary: £25000 - £27000
✓Benefits: benefits include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 6% employer pension contribution, free onsite parking when in the office, access to EAP, discounted gym membership and flexible working, including working from home.
✓Heart of England Community Foundation is an independent charity with over 28 years’ experience delivering bespoke grant programmes on behalf of a range of donors across the West Midlands and Warwickshire.
✓As a Grants Officer, you will assess a high volume of grant applications from charities, not for profit and community organisations
✓You will be responsible for ensuring deadlines are met, applications are assessed correctly against the donor’s criteria and for monitoring successful awards
✓You will provide information and coordination support to the grant making decision panels.
✓You’ll need to be an excellent communicator and happy to work autonomously
✓You’ll have loads of self-motivation and will not be afraid to go the extra mile to contribute to the Foundation’s success
✓A track record of assessing to a criteria and making recommendations
✓A strong affinity with the voluntary and community sector is also important.
✓If you have a passion for supporting the community and the relevant experience we would love to hear from you!
✓First stage interviews will be scheduled for Monday 31st July.
✓Key Responsibilities
✓• Assess funding applications received to our wide ranging grant portfolio and make recommendations to the grants panel.
✓• Undertake due diligence on all applications received.
✓• Effectively manage the monitoring of all successful awards and undertake monitoring visits to a proportion of grant recipients.
✓• To prioritise and manage workload in line with grant making cycles.
✓• To ensure consistent, high-quality level of assessments in preparation for grant making panels.
✓• Produce high quality documentation for all panel meetings including providing the panel with data to support with decision making.
✓• Record essential information accurately and in a timely manner on our database.
✓• Identify strong stories of change as a result of our funding for the Foundation to share with donors, supporters and the wider community.
✓• Work with the Marketing and Communications Team to promote the grants awarded and ensure positive press coverage.
✓• Liaise with the Finance Department to ensure prompt payment of awards.
✓• To work with the wider team on the general running of the office.
✓Essential Knowledge, Experience and Skills
✓• Experience of assessing applications processing against a specific criteria.
✓• Experience of completing due diligence on an organisation and its policies.
✓• Understanding of, and the differences between, charities, social enterprises and other not for profit organisations’ set -up, governance and business models.
✓• Experience of managing multiple caseloads to a high standard and to set deadlines.
✓• Strong verbal and written communication skills
✓• Understand and interpret budgets and accounts.
✓• Ability to engage with grant applicants, fundholders and donors.
✓• Ability to work effectively with a wide range of people and agencies.
✓• Intermediate IT skills, including CRM system, word, excel and PowerPoint.
✓• Strong self-motivation and self-starter.
✓• Effective organisational skills, including prioritising, so that deadlines and tasks are delivered on time, accurately and with attention to detail.
✓• Understanding the principles and practice of equal opportunities, programme delivery and helping people most in need.
✓You may also have experience in the following: Grants Partnership Officer, Grants Partnership Fundraiser, Partnership Officer, Fundraising Executive, Grants Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Officer, Fundraiser, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.
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✓Contract Type: Permanent
✓Hours: Full time, Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week
✓Salary: £25000 - £27000
✓Benefits: benefits include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 6% employer pension contribution, free onsite parking when in the office, access to EAP, discounted gym membership and flexible working, including working from home.
✓Heart of England Community Foundation is an independent charity with over 28 years’ experience delivering bespoke grant programmes on behalf of a range of donors across the West Midlands and Warwickshire.
✓As a Grants Officer, you will assess a high volume of grant applications from charities, not for profit and community organisations
✓You will be responsible for ensuring deadlines are met, applications are assessed correctly against the donor’s criteria and for monitoring successful awards
✓You will provide information and coordination support to the grant making decision panels.
✓You’ll need to be an excellent communicator and happy to work autonomously
✓You’ll have loads of self-motivation and will not be afraid to go the extra mile to contribute to the Foundation’s success
✓A track record of assessing to a criteria and making recommendations
✓A strong affinity with the voluntary and community sector is also important.
✓If you have a passion for supporting the community and the relevant experience we would love to hear from you!
✓First stage interviews will be scheduled for Monday 31st July.
✓Key Responsibilities
✓• Assess funding applications received to our wide ranging grant portfolio and make recommendations to the grants panel.
✓• Undertake due diligence on all applications received.
✓• Effectively manage the monitoring of all successful awards and undertake monitoring visits to a proportion of grant recipients.
✓• To prioritise and manage workload in line with grant making cycles.
✓• To ensure consistent, high-quality level of assessments in preparation for grant making panels.
✓• Produce high quality documentation for all panel meetings including providing the panel with data to support with decision making.
✓• Record essential information accurately and in a timely manner on our database.
✓• Identify strong stories of change as a result of our funding for the Foundation to share with donors, supporters and the wider community.
✓• Work with the Marketing and Communications Team to promote the grants awarded and ensure positive press coverage.
✓• Liaise with the Finance Department to ensure prompt payment of awards.
✓• To work with the wider team on the general running of the office.
✓Essential Knowledge, Experience and Skills
✓• Experience of assessing applications processing against a specific criteria.
✓• Experience of completing due diligence on an organisation and its policies.
✓• Understanding of, and the differences between, charities, social enterprises and other not for profit organisations’ set -up, governance and business models.
✓• Experience of managing multiple caseloads to a high standard and to set deadlines.
✓• Strong verbal and written communication skills
✓• Understand and interpret budgets and accounts.
✓• Ability to engage with grant applicants, fundholders and donors.
✓• Ability to work effectively with a wide range of people and agencies.
✓• Intermediate IT skills, including CRM system, word, excel and PowerPoint.
✓• Strong self-motivation and self-starter.
✓• Effective organisational skills, including prioritising, so that deadlines and tasks are delivered on time, accurately and with attention to detail.
✓• Understanding the principles and practice of equal opportunities, programme delivery and helping people most in need.
✓You may also have experience in the following: Grants Partnership Officer, Grants Partnership Fundraiser, Partnership Officer, Fundraising Executive, Grants Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Officer, Fundraiser, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.
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