Job Description
You will work across the whole lifecycle of grant-making (design and pre-application, assessment, decision making and grant management), placing the customer at the heart of what we do.
As a natural self-starter and organised person, you will be comfortable working at pace and able to use your initiative to complete given tasks. Bringing strong relationship building skills and experience to help identify communities, relationships and connections that will help us achieve the aims of our programmes.
As part of your role, you will work closely with customers to capture and understand their ideas, strategic approach, delivery plans and the potential of their ideas to deliver system change and benefit people and communities across the UK. You will spend time having in-depth conversations with applicants, their stakeholders, beneficiaries and the broader sector in your effort to understand their wider ecosystem, barriers and opportunities.
You will write thorough progress and assessment reports for the UK Funding Committee and Panel to update them on the progress of our work and seek strategic input or to provide them with evidence-based recommendations on how proposals fit with the Fund’s strategic objectives, enabling them to make fair and informed decisions.
You will develop relationships with funding teams and other colleagues across our four Directorates and proactively create opportunities for exchange of learning and best practice. You will also reach out to them to seek advice on their local context.
You’ll use a variety of communication channels and tools to share learning internally and externally promoting learning through networks and platforms. You will be curious and excited about innovation in funding, and you will participate and contribute in peer review meetings driving discussion, debate and challenge.
You will identify opportunities for developing our pipeline, linking up with what is happening and making connections between similar initiatives within the Fund and externally by actively participating in networks, events etc.