Grants Manager (Community Funding)

High Wycombe / Beaconsfield

Salary: £38,000 – £40,000 p/a (pro rata for P/T hours)

Contract: FTC 12 months

Part time: 20 per week to be worked Monday to Friday

3 full or any other reasonable combination that suits the business

Our client are a non-profit provider of affordable housing with a strong social purpose to enable their residents to live and work in thriving communities and neighbourhoods. They are looking for an experienced grants officer or grants manager who can take the lead across grant giving activities. They will need to be confident in building relationships with their partners to get the best out of their collaboration with them. Above all, they want to make sure that they work with committed and effective organisations who can help them to improve the financial resilience and wellbeing of their customers.

Our client funds a grant programme to support its work as a social landlord in partnership with other organisations and local communities and voluntary groups. The programme works with partner organisations which help their residents to sustain their tenancies, and to support them through financial inclusion and other health and wellbeing projects, for example by providing debt and benefit advice services. The programme also funds local projects which improve the environment and neighbourhoods for residents. A significant part of the programme will be to work with their Operations team to help groups of residents access grant funds directly for local projects which will improve their community and environment.

Underpinning all of this, the successful candidate will have the knowledge and experience to set up a system which ensures that the grant programme is managed well and can target and deliver the impacts which they want to deliver for their beneficiaries.

The ideal candidate will be somebody with experience of setting up and managing similar grant programmes, and with an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach to securing positive benefits from well designed projects, including by levering in other funding contributions. If you are not the ideal candidate but can show them how you have the equivalent skills or experience to achieve in the same way, they would love to hear from you.

Our client can offer flexible working arrangements including working from home, but they would expect the postholder to be in their head office at Glory Park or their other offices or with partner organisations for at least one full day/week on average.

About Our Client Group

Our client are one of the South East’s leading housing providers. They manage over 15,000 homes across 33 different local authorities.

Our client work hard and strive for excellence. In return they offer a great place to work and an attractive range of benefits, including a Health Cash Plan, bonus potential, competitive pension options and 25 days holiday plus 3 days closure at Christmas.

Our client welcome applications from all sections of the communities they work in. Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.

Please note that they will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time, therefore reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified