Grant Making Manager

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 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 on 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 job description on our website.

How to apply

To apply, please download and complete the application form available from our website. Your
application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in
the person specification.

The closing date for applications is Thursday 17 October 2024.

Interviews are expected to take place Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 November, though this
is subject to change.

If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.