£34,788 per year
Permanent
Job description
The main purpose of this role is to oversee the design, development and delivery of CSE’s grant making to community organisations and to ensure that good practices are applied across our grant making activities. The post holder will be responsible for overseeing CSE’s grant making schemes through a combination of direct scheme management and by supporting schemes managed by other CSE staff (for example, by providing templates, guidance, quality checks, advice and relationship management).
Pay and conditions
The role is full-time (37.5 hours per week).
The starting salary for the role will be £34,788. After your six-month probationary review, your salary may increase to between £35,934-£38,229 per annum.
• You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday (plus statutory holidays).
CSE offer a range of benefits including, subsidised bike purchase and Tech
Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash plan, retail discounts and discounted
breakdown cover and many more.
We will pay fees and expenses on relevant training courses.
Specific responsibilities
An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:
• Designing and developing high-quality grant giving schemes for a range of
stakeholders (e.g. community anchor organisations, voluntary community
groups, individuals and larger organisations), that enable the realisation of
CSE project and programme objectives.
• Make outbound calls to clients when required, such as booking home visits,
and keeping client records up to date.
• Developing and implementing a clear set of practices, and making sure they
are understood and adhered to, in order to identify, mitigate and monitor
potential risks associated with our grant giving projects.
• Maintaining tailoring and adapting our standard documentation (for example,
grant agreement template; application form; eligibility criteria; payment form) to
different grant schemes, ensuring they meet the individual needs of each
scheme and remain as accessible as possible.
• Ensuring efficient processes are in place for evidencing, instructing, and
monitoring grant payments, administering payment processes (such as raising
and/or checking grant payment requests with our finance team) and that you
handle any personal data appropriately.
• Ensuring that high-quality and proportionate project management is in place
across our portfolio of grant giving projects, that funders receive the updates
and information they need, and grantees are well supported and able to deliver
to their objectives efficiently.
• Support project teams with managing relationships directly with grant
recipients, including by maintaining strong communications and acting as the
main point of contact with CSE; collecting and collating monitoring data;
celebrating successes; addressing concerns (for example with review
meetings or action plans); escalating issues as appropriate.
• Facilitating learning, networking, and sharing between grantees, ensuring that
effective monitoring, evaluation and learning practices are embedded within
existing grant-making projects.
• Using learning and feedback to inform how CSE designs future grant
programmes and ensure learning is shared effectively with funders with the
aim of shaping the broader grant making sector.
• Staying up to date with developments in the grant making sector (including
keeping abreast of legal obligations and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion p
practices), learning from others and continually improving and developing our
systems and processes.
To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.
Essential attributes for this role include:
• Experience of delivering multiple, public and competitive grant schemes for
community organisations and groups – including the contractual, financial and
reporting elements - from beginning (design) to end.
• Highly skilled in use of Manage people and relationships across different
projects.
• Engage with funders to improve the future design of their grant programmes.
Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to
Disability Confident.
