Grants Officer (maternity cover) vacancy

Salary: £24,750 – £27,705 depending on experience
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Contract: 9 months fixed term maternity cover
Line Manager: Grants Manager

The Foundation aims to deliver a successful grant-making programme that encourages strong applications from voluntary groups and charities, critically assesses them and makes recommendations to Donors to distribute funds.

As Grants Officer you will play a pivotal role in the programme team – assisting with marketing, planning, delivering and reporting on our grant-making programme to ensure targets are met.

Job Specification

• To identify groups and input marketing ideas to reach programme and fund spend targets
• To process/ oversee the processing of grant applications including advising applicants, scrutinizing accounts and governing documents, assessing applications, preparing paperwork, creating reports, evaluating monitoring and attending donor panels
• To take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of certain programmes
• To build specialist knowledge of Foundation database
• To take an active role in continuous improvement and best practice initiatives

Profile

Our Grants Officers require:

• Excellent communication skills
• Proven customer-facing skills
• Confident numeracy skills
• Commitment to quality
• Dedicated team spirit

Previous experience of working in the charitable sector or of community engagement is desirable.

In addition the successful candidate will have:

• Proven eye for detail – be able to produce, analyse and proofread reports/communications to a high standard of accuracy
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office and proven experience of using databases

The successful Grants Officer will be a positive and focused individual who can take the initiative as well as follow prescribed processes. Flexibility, enthusiasm and a commitment to our lively and ambitious team are key to our future.

Other terms and conditions

Location: Hybrid remote and office working. Some travel to meetings across the county (some rural locations) is required as are occasional evening meetings and events. Driving license and access to a vehicle is desirable.

Flexible working: We offer flexible working hours within overall working hours of 08:00 – 18:00; staff may request to work their contracted hours in a preferred working pattern.

Leave: 27 days a year plus public holidays. Option of trading up to 5 days of available holiday allowance each year.

Pension: All staff are auto-enrolled into the Foundation’s pensions scheme provided by NEST with a 7% employer contribution

Probation: The post is subject to a 3-month probationary period.

Equality: We are inclusive and happy to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment
process. Please contact Ruth – ruth@cambscf.org.uk

Applications

Closing date: we are keen to have the Grants Officer (maternity cover) in post as soon as possible and will be reviewing applications as soon as they come in

Interviews: Interviews will be held online as suitable candidates apply

Data notice: For information about how the Foundation uses data please visit our policy page

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Due to the volume of responses we receive, we are not able to give feedback to individuals. If you have not heard back within 7 days from the application deadline, please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for.