Grant Jobs

The Trusts and Grants Manager will develop and implement a strategy to grow income from trusts, foundations, and institutional funders. This role requires a highly organised, results-driven individual with excellent written communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with funders.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of securing five- and six-figure grants, be confident in designing persuasive proposals, and can analyse financial and project data to ensure accurate reporting.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about making a tangible difference to the lives of people living with migraine.

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Holborn London, Hybrid Working available

Salary: circa £47,000

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) is the governing and regulatory body for horseracing in Great Britain. It is the BHA’s role to act for and on behalf of the whole sport, ensuring that the highest standards apply on and away from the racecourse. It is responsible for promoting, and regulating the sport, which is at the heart of a major leisure and entertainment sector, a leading betting product and the focus of an important breeding sector.

The Finance department are looking to recruit an integral new role as Finance, Grants and Contracts Business Partner, reporting into the Senior Finance Business Partner.

This role will manage all BHA led and coordinated stakeholder grant applications to industry funders (including HBLB, Racing Foundation). This will involve managing the grant process from application through to drawdown and reporting to funders (including coordinating KPIs).  Support with internal monthly management accounts reporting, as well as the key industry forums such as the Industry Programme Board.

You will be responsible in leading the proactive management of the BHA’s major contracts including LGC (equine drug testing) and Weatherby’s (Racing administration).

Operational finance support will also be required for routine monthly transactional posting, Ad-hoc finance department tasks and projects including support of business partners.

The successful candidate will be highly organised with an ability to multitask and deal with high volumes of work. You will be able to gain an understanding of the wider team’s deadlines to ensure tasks are completed within desired timeframes, while maintaining a calm demeanour. You will have the ability to deliver high quality customer service and excellent attention to detail and accuracy are essential.

Being an enthusiastic team player, with a good sense of humour is also desirable.

Equal opportunities

We acknowledge that having a diverse and inclusive workforce is fundamental to our success and we actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives, and experiences. People with disabilities or from ethnically diverse communities are currently underrepresented in the organisation and therefore we welcome these candidates to apply.

For more information, please see the job description here.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 January 2025.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact us to provide further details.

Overview

The Skinners’ Company is recruiting an experienced Grants & Administration Officer to join their team in a part time capacity, three days per-week. The role supports the effective management and delivery of The Thomas Wall Trust and offers administrative support to the Membership and Philanthropy of the Company.

Thomas Wall Trust work includes:
- Providing secretarial duties to the Board of Trustees (producing agendas, papers, minutes)
- Managing the Trust’s programme of funding (to both charities and individuals)
- Facilitating the effective administration of the charity.

Membership & Philanthropy work includes:
- Supporting the Membership functions of The Skinners’ Company
- Administrating the Membership and History Committees (producing papers and minutes) 
- General administrative duties 

For full details, please see the attached Job Description.

We are looking for a candidate with skills including secretarial, committee support, grant making and general administration who will enjoy a varied role in a modern and dynamic membership organisation committed to education and philanthropy.

About The Skinners’ Company

The Skinners’ Company’s mission is to ensure our communities of young, old and the vulnerable have an improved quality of life. We invest in education and unlock potential, we provide sheltered housing and enable security, we give grants to those in need and create hope.

Our strength is our people, connected by a belief to shape a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive society, ensuring a legacy of impact and fellowship for future generations to build on.

The Skinners’ Company dates from the 14th Century and is one of the City of London’s Great Twelve Livery Companies, each established to represent their respective trades. The Company is no longer aligned to the fur trade and focuses its resources on charitable impact, supported by its Members.

About The Thomas Wall Trust

Thomas Wall II created his Trust in 1920 for the “encouragement and assistance of educational work and social service”. Today, the Trust continues to assist in these areas by providing grants to individuals and organisations.

 

Employee Benefits
Generous (15%) pension contribution
Health Insurance
Interest free season ticket loan
Gym subsidy
Death in service

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of up to two pages outlining why you would be suitable for the role.

The closing date for applications is Friday 31 January.

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 11 February, with a second stage meeting with the Company Clerk (CEO) and the Thomas Wall Trust Chair.

At Independent Age, we believe that no older person should face financial hardship. That’s why, by 2027, our goal is to have improved the lives of one million older people.

Our impact across policy, campaigning, information and advice, grant-making and partnerships improves lives by increasing the financial well-being of older people in financial hardship, enabling greater choice and independence in wider areas of life. We want to find talented individuals from diverse backgrounds to join us on this journey. 

Responsibilities and Person Specification: 

This role at Independent Age is a brilliant opportunity to work on our grant funding programmes, involving support of grant management, applications, assessments, and funding administration. The postholder will foster positive connections with funded organisations, service partners and individual grant holders, contribute to the review and analysis of grant and partnership reporting and evaluations, and help communicate the impact of grants working with multiple stakeholders. You will support with creating value-adding opportunities for grantees, from organising engaging training to hosting networking events.

A strong understanding of grant making and experience in supporting partnerships, a project, or programme of work, your collaborative approach, outstanding interpersonal skills, and commitment to customer service will be important for this role. You should also have excellent administrative and organisational skills, a keen eye for detail and be experienced in data management. 

For full details on the role and requirements, please review the job description and person specification.  If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with all of the criteria in the person specification but you do meet most of them and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply anyway.

This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, which you can choose to work over five days or a 9 day fortnight.

What it’s like to work at Independent Age: 

We celebrate diversity at Independent Age and champion the differences that make each of us unique. We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We aim to attract and retain a wide range of talent and create an environment where everyone can feel safe, protected, welcome and included. 

We offer great benefits including 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, and fantastic learning and development opportunities. We also offer a number of enhanced leave provisions and benefits. 

We know that a good work life balance helps us perform at our best and supports wellbeing. Flexible working hours and hybrid working is standard for all (those contracted to work in the office usually attend 1 day per week). But if you need a different form of flexibility, we are always happy to talk flexible working.

You can find out more about what it’s like to work at Independent Age by visiting the Careers page on our website.

Application Process: 

To apply, please visit our website to submit a CV and a Supporting Statement, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification (please do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific requirements and need support to apply in an alternative format). 

To support our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion our hiring managers use anonymous shortlisting. Therefore, please do not include your name, photo, or information to indicate your gender or age in your CV and supporting statement. Please do not omit dates of employment. Please ensure the title of any uploads does not contain your name.

Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application documents you submit and, if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer. A Basic DBS Certificate will be required for this role. 

Closing Date: 23:59 on Sunday 26th January 2025

Interview Dates:First Interviews will be held on 5th February 2025

Grants and Trusts Fundraiser
Location: Thames Valley with the ability to travel
Hours: 22.5 hours a week (3 days)
Salary: £28,000 pro rata
Contract: Permanent

Hope After Harm is an established, registered charity, delivering a range of support services to those who are vulnerable or at risk of exclusion. We want to see a society where everyone feels safe and can thrive, regardless of who they are and where they come from. We enable adults and young people in their journey to recover from harm and trauma. Through support, advocacy and education we empower people to rebuild their lives and reclaim their future.And we inspire others to do the same, creating safer, more inclusive communities.

Purpose

To take the lead in making sure that Hope After Harm is maximising its income from grants and trusts. You will be scanning the horizon for opportunities large and small – and your compelling content will give us a high success rate. You will work closely with the CEO to submit outstanding bids to a variety of funders both local and national.

Responsibilities

• Researching grants and trust and other similar opportunities and working with the CEO to prioritise these
• Contacting grants and trusts where appropriate for information and guidance to maximise bid success
• Writing and submitting applications for grant and trust opportunities, with support from CEO and others depending on scale of opportunity
• Creating a library of collateral/case studies quotes for inclusion in bids
• Ensuring grant and trust reporting is tracked and delivered to time
• Maintaining and updating the pipeline and carrying out other administrative tasks associated with fundraising including input to reporting
• Developing relationships with local and national funders as appropriate
• Ensuring that feedback from funders and funder requirements are fed back to Hope After Harm to encourage learning and inform our strategic thinking.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Please note: While we know experience is important, what is most critical is your attitude to learning, working in a team, and taking initiative.

Our ideal candidate would have:

• Energy and Passion for our cause
• Great written communications
• Basic understanding of charitable fundraising
• Experience of bid writing and an understanding of what grants and trusts are looking for
• Research skills
• Organisational skills in particular ability to work to deadlines
• Networking and collaboration
• Ability to manage own workload
• Team player able to collaborate and make links internally
• Basic IT skills including use of Excel and CRM systems e.g Salesforce
• Ability to create collateral using tools such as Canva

The closing date for applications is: Friday 14th February 2025 at 17:00hrs
Interviews (Virtually): TBC

Thames Valley Partnership trading as Hope After Harm is an equal opportunities employer; the aim of our policy is to ensure no job applicant, employee or worker is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age or disability. We do not disbar applicants with criminal convictions and are mindful of the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974.

Location: Head Office
Salary: £37,432
Hours: 35
Department: Development
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

We also offer:

- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a discretionary Christmas closure
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption scheme
- Benefits platform with discounts on retail, dining and days out
- Salary sacrifice schemes for gym, bicycles and nursery/childcare
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Scheme to support you inside and outside of work

Location: 2 days per week at Head Office (Victoria) or our central visitor centres, remaining from home

Flexible working: Typical working hours of 9am – 5pm. Flexible working requests are available from day one. We would also consider applications from part time applicants working 4 days per week or compressed hours.

Role & Responsibilities

London Wildlife Trust (LWT) is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces. Over 41% of our wildlife species have declined since the early 1970s, and 15% of our species like skylark and linnet are threatened with extinction from much of London. Our fundraising team are pivotal to our success, raising crucial funds to build on our success of recovering London’s nature. You’ll be instrumental in growing our grant income through research, strategic planning, and building strong relationships with funders.

Research & Strategy: research potential new funders, stay updated on fundraising trends and developments in the conservation sector, and collaborate with the Head of Fundraising to develop and maintain a dynamic fundraising pipeline.

Proposals and reporting: build strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, create compelling cases for support and gather impactful case studies, lead on the submission of high-quality grant applications

Stewardship: build and develop relationships with funders to foster long term support, act as the primary contact with the Landfill Communities Fund regulator (ENTRUST), ensuring compliance with regulations, and maintain an up-to-date internal database

Our ideal Senior Grants Officer

- Experience writing and submitting successful funding applications
- Excellent desk-based research skills with an eye for detail, and the ability to clearly record and share researched information.
- Experience of creating accurate, high quality and tailored funding applications and reports.
- Experience of developing and maintaining strong positive relationships with external partners/funders.

(Please see job description for full person specification)

Closing Date: 31st January at 9am

Interviews: Are scheduled to take place on 6th and 7th February and reasonable adjustments will be offered to all candidates including the choice to meet online or in-person.

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

Our vision is a London alive with nature, where everyone can experience and enjoy wildlife. In order to achieve our goal of engaging everyone in protecting London’s wildlife for the future, we know that our staff team needs to better reflect and represent all of London’s communities. Read more about London Wildlife Trust’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here on our website. We are also committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children, young people and adults at risk is at the heart of our engagement with people, read more about London Wildlife Trust’s commitment to Safeguarding on our website.

London Wildlife Trust (LWT) is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces. Over 41% of our wildlife species have declined since the early 1970s, and 15% of our species like skylark and linnet are threatened with extinction from much of London. Our fundraising team are pivotal to our success, raising crucial funds to build on our success of recovering London’s nature. You’ll be instrumental in growing our grant income through research, strategic planning, and building strong relationships with funders.

Benefits: Discount Club, Salary Sacrifice schemes, Pension scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Supportive and Inclusive Policies

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ReachOut is a national youth development charity and a strategic partner for schools. Through collective mentoring and engaging activities, we build socio-emotional skills that transform outcomes for young people constrained by circumstance.

Our Grants and Trusts Manager is responsible for managing and developing ReachOut’s income from Trusts and other Grant-making bodies. Working closely with the partnerships team and the Head of Programmes & Impact they will make evidence-informed decisions and collaborate across the organisation to meet our strategic aims. This role is currently reporting to the CEO for an interim period, but longterm will report to the Head of Marketing and Partnerships.

2025 is an exciting time to join ReachOut as we launch our new organisational strategy. You’ll be joining a friendly and supportive team, helping us make a real difference to the lives and futures of young people across London and Manchester. 

As the Trusts, Foundations and Grants Senior Manager you will provide strategic leadership in trusts and foundations fundraising and grants management to make our work more impactful and effective. You’ll be developing, growing, and managing strategies, networks and leading technical proposal-writing to increase funding from mid-size trusts, foundations and other donors. Alongside, you will manage All We Can’s grants to partners, including restricted and unrestricted funding, overseeing the Programmes and Partnerships (PPT) grant budget and will manage grants received by All We Can, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, including reporting and financial oversight.

You’ll be able to shape our trust and foundations strategy and put it in practice to raise money to make a difference to our partners locally led work. You’ll join small and passionate team of people on the journey of decolonising international aid and working in partnership approach. Your work will be crucial to growing our income and developing our work.

To be successful in this role, you will:

1. Be an experienced fundraiser, with a strong track record of raising funds from large technical trusts and foundations who also brings a network of strong and established relationships with relevant trusts and foundations.
2. Have passion for locally- led development
3. Have a strategic mindset, with experience developing a strategy for unrestricted and restricted funding that meets the needs of the applicant organisation and needs and capacity of partners who will receive grants through successful proposals. 
4. Have experience pulling together teams of technical experts from within the organisation and relevant partner co-applicants, and leading and managing these teams to design and draft winning proposals, leveraging the skills of various team members as needed. 
5. Have proven experience managing a range of grants (development and/or emergency grants), including managing partner agreements and compliance, interfacing with partners, managing databases as well as guiding others to use databases.
6. Have ability to and passion for contributing to the organisation culture.

For full list of responsibilities and role requirements, please download the application pack.

Grants and Welfare Officer (12-month maternity cover)

Line Manager

Support Services Manager

Job Location

Remote/Hybrid – This role will require attendance at Cavell’s office in Redditch, Worcestershire on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Hours

Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week (we’re open to discussions about flexible working)

Salary

£27,000 - £30,000

Holiday

Cavell offers 30 days annual leave (pro rata) which includes 3 fixed days between Christmas and New Year in addition to bank holidays.

Pension

Up to 8% employer contribution

Cavell is the charity that transforms the lives of nurses and midwives facing crisis and tough times. The need for Cavell has never been greater and the charity is at its most critical point in its 107-year history as the demand for support is at an all-time high and still increasing while there is a need to refocus income sources.

Over the past 10 years, the nursing and midwifery professions have faced multiple challenges, including covid, staff shortages, pay disputes, the cost of living, and now burnout. Cavell is here to help the professions when they need life changing and practical support. We help the financial and mental health of nurses and midwives, enabling them to continue to provide the care that supports the ‘nation’s health’.

Cavell is a dynamic charity that strives to deliver exceptional, holistic support to the nursing and midwifery family when they need it most. Our reach extends across tens of thousands of lives. For more information on the work of Cavell, visit our website.

In this role, no two days will be the same but here’s the types of thing you may get up to:

· To provide effective and appropriate support to individuals seeking financial assistance, information, and advice from Cavell.

· To deliver support services and Cavell’s charitable objectives.

· To work with external charities and organisations for the benefit and wellbeing of individuals seeking support through Cavell.

· To contribute to the overall strategic objectives of Cavell.We’re committed to helping our people to grow and there will be opportunities to flex and work on other exciting projects in alignment with your career aspirations and charity need.

What we do at Hampton Fund is simple: we relieve the burden of financial, physical and emotional hardship and create opportunities to live well in our local community, here within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Each year, we do this directly by helping with the costs of gas, electricity and other household essentials for over 2,000 local residents. But we also do it through financial support to 50+ local voluntary sector organisations. Our vision is for an empowered, resilient and compassionate local community where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.

We are seeking a highly organised and proactive administrator.  You will play an integral part in the distribution of critical funds, and support the development new ways of working as we implement an ambitious new strategy.  You will use your excellent customer care skills to provide support directly to those applying to us for help, and work closely with the small staff team to provide meaningful change in peoples’ lives within the local community.

Position: Grants Administrator

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Location: Hampton, TW12 2SA (this is an office-based role as you will be dealing with grant applicants in person).

Salary: £26,500 per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent, Part time - 0.6 (22.5 hours per week)

How to apply: Click the Quick Apply button below. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and a short 1-page statement about your relevant skills and motivation.

Closing date: 3rd February 2025.

Please note, we’re actively reviewing applications and interviews will be held on a rolling basis. The ad may close early if a successful candidate is found.

What you will be working on:

• Supporting the assessment of Individual Grants, under the supervision of the Individual Grants Manager.
• Answering enquiries by phone, website, email and in person. 
• Working with Grants Managers to prepare papers for grant committees, and other trustee meetings.
• Maintaining records on our grants databases, both setting up new grant records and editing existing ones. From this you will be running reports and preparing additional analysis, for quality assurance or other purposes.
• Supporting the smooth running of the office, and working with the team to maintain and develop systems or processes that support the efficient running of the grants programmes and the office more broadly.

• Supporting the delivery of key strategic projects. 
• Supporting communications, outreach and marketing work to promote Hampton Fund’s work and grant making programmes.

 About you:

This is a wide-ranging role, which will suit someone who is happy assisting with a variety of tasks, taking a proactive approach and with a good eye for detail.

This role is for you if…

• Are someone with a passion for community based support, and a team player with strong organisational and customer care skills.
• Have the ability to work comfortably with numerical and financial information.
• Have some relevant previous experience that demonstrates administrative skills such as using databases and Information Management Systems.
• Are caring and compassionate, with good listening skills and understanding of vulnerabilities.
• Have good IT skills, and are familiar with MS Office (including Word, Teams, Excel, Outlook)

Report to: Chief Executive Officer

Hours: 35 hours per week – could accommodate 22hrs

Type: 12 months with possibility of permanent depending on success

Salary: £30,000 per year pro rata for part time plus car allowance of £1,095 per year

Location: Hybrid/home working with occasional travel to locations across Greater Manchester and beyond. Option for 1 day a week in office base – this may be reviewed.

                                                                     What We’re Looking For

 To be successful in this role you will be an enthusiastic individual who can build/take projects from inception to successful delivery, provide leadership to others, and have experience of working in the charity sector. You will lead on our fundraising and grant management, working closely with the CEO to cement and secure the future of Being There. You will have experience in operational and donor management and a wide range of skills befitting this sort of role. Working with our able team, you might be expected to get involved in event management, finance and a range of other things as is often the case in a small charity.

                                                                      Purpose of the Role

The post holder will be responsible for the management of the charities fundraising and supporting individual fundraising on behalf of the charity. This includes working with the CEO and Deputy CEO to maximise income and manage our grants programmes. The post holder will also need good financial knowledge, specifically relating to the charity sector. This role requires an enthusiastic individual who can build and take fundraising projects from inception to successful delivery, provide leadership to others, and work closely with partners in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.

                                                                     Main Areas of Responsibility 

· Development and delivery of the sustainability plan

· Source grants and lead on their submission

· Ensure compliance with all relevant policies and procedures, both internal and regulatory.

· Lead and manage the charities fundraising events

· Lead and support on individual fundraising events

                                                                                 Key activities

· Lead a review of our current fundraising programmes and strategies, working to make Being There more sustainable, making recommendations to CEO and board.

· Assist the CEO and Finance Manager with the management of fundraising targets

· Source new funding streams

· Providing leadership to the fundraising project to ensure that targets are met. Collect, analyse, and interpret data to measure effectiveness and return on investment of different programmes in order to inform future activities.

· Liaise with volunteers, clients, contractors, and other stakeholders as necessary

· Promote the Charity’s work, assisting with demonstrations and fundraising and awareness events as appropriate.

· To perform any other reasonable tasks as requested

                                                                               Person Specification

                                                                         Knowledge and Experience

· Recent experience of working in a charity environment, or experience in related areas.

· A track record in developing and delivering fundraising strategies and plans that support organisational growth and income generation targets

· Demonstrable experience of developing donor relationships and leading (or supporting) major donor fundraising with individual and/or corporate major donors (which we define as those making gifts over £1000)

· Knowledge of current fundraising trends, emerging opportunities, and best practice

 

                                                                                    Skills & Abilities

· Ability to create and implement strategic plans

· Proven ability to build strong and lasting relationships with a range of external supporters and influence and negotiate with external stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes

· Excellent coordination and organisational skills

· Strong communicator with the ability to communicate Being There’s vision and activities to a range of audiences using a range of formats (written, verbal, digital)

· Excellent working knowledge of key digital tools including social media platforms, CRM/contact databases, Microsoft Office Suite.

                                                                          Personal Qualities & Attributes

· Self-motivated and a self-managing attitude

· High levels of determination and willingness to take on new challenges and responsibilities and be collaborative and supportive

· Willing to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias and commitment to the ethos and values of Being There

· Effective team leader and team player

Starting Date: April 2025

Contract type: Full-time and open-ended

Salary: London: 57’400 GBP; Delhi: INR 3,042,400; Lahore: PKR 6,77,600; Abidjan: 43,200 EUR, all commensurate with relevant skills and experience

Location: London, Delhi, Lahore, Abidjan

Application closing date: 5 February 2025

Background

Better Cotton is the world’s largest cotton sustainability programme. Our mission: to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment. In challenging times, we are meeting the challenge head on. Through our network of field-level partners we have trained over 2.5 million farmers - from the smallest to the largest - in 23 countries in more sustainable farming practices. A quarter of the world’s cotton is now grown under the Better Cotton Standard. We have united the industry’s stakeholders behind our efforts, from ginners and spinners to brand owners, civil society organisations and governments. Everyone who cares about cotton and its sustainable future can now be part of something better.

The Better Cotton Growth and Innovation Fund (Better Cotton GIF or the Fund) is a global programme designed to support Better Cotton in achieving its goals and reaching cotton farming communities that need the most support. The focus of the Fund is field-level investment. The Fund invests in sustainable farming practices, training and capacity building, data collection and research to benefit farmers, farm workers and the environment.

About this role

As Grants Manager you will work closely with a portfolio of implementation partners that the Better Cotton GIF funds. You will assess applications for funding, review project reports, manage the Fund’s relationship with these organisations and, together with the Programmes team, play a key role in recommending what funding and support should be committed to them. The ideal candidate will have lived in South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa or visited them extensively. If you have a particular expertise in gender, climate change, soil health, pest control, or smallholder livelihoods, that would be an enormous advantage.

This challenging role offers excellent opportunities for personal and professional development, together with a competitive benefits package.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Better Cotton GIF team to manage GIF grant-making workflow and calendar, including:

• Coordinating application processes, including managing incoming grant proposals.
• Assessing grant applications to the Better Cotton GIF– analysing the quality and potential impact of proposals and organisational viability; obtaining appropriate advice and references; reaching a judgement or recommendation for submission to the Field Impact and Investment Committee and handling relationships throughout the process until the application is either successful or declined.
• Supporting regular meetings of the Field Impact and Investment Committee which is responsible for approving the investment portfolio.
• Preparing and sending funding agreement letters to grantee partners
• Managing and monitoring grants, through the review of reports and project visits, to ensure their effectiveness and delivery against project design and targets.
• Support programme partners to innovate, introduce new solutions to challenges and deepen the impact of their projects
• Ensure project budgets are developed and spent appropriately and in-line with project plans

• Maintain the GIF grant management database: Ensuring that all grant and grantee information is entered consistently and accurately. Generating reports and dashboards for the programme and finance teams. Regularly proposing ways to better track grants, budgets, and managing the database.
• Collaboratively evaluate, develop, implement new and refresh ways of managing the Fund’s workflows, processes, policies and procedures to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Capturing and analysing information on the delivery of programmes and reporting on progress to the relevant stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Better Cotton country team Programmes teams to support their relationships with GIF funded partners, through coordination around grant management and programme review processes.
• Support the Monitoring and Evaluation team to ensure that MEL processes and frameworks are effectively used with partners, and learnings integrated into programme implementation. Support the delivery of project baseline and endline evaluations.
• Keep abreast with developments in the cotton/environment sectors to inform the Fund’s future grant programmes.

Each Grant Manager also takes responsibility for one of the smaller sub funds and one or more other areas of work according to interest and/or need, for example, livelihoods or gender, or workers

The role is expected to evolve in line with Better Cotton and GIF priorities.

Profile

The selected candidate will have the following skills, knowledge, and experience:

 

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Degree in Agronomy, International Development, Anthropology or other relevant subject, or equivalent work experience
• Considerable project/grant management experience gained in the not-for-profit sector
• Experience of rural development, gained through project or grants management of projects in SS Africa or South Asia
• Effective in developing relationships with organisations at all levels – and with the personal credibility, communication and analytical skills to provide advice and support on the challenges they face
• Cross-cultural understanding and perspective and the ability to communicate with, and learn from, a wide range of partners and colleagues
• Resourceful and proactive, with initiative and a problem-solving disposition
• Good understanding of logframes, other project design tools, and project MEL
• Experience reviewing budgets and financial reports
• Proven track record of an organised and methodical approach to work, combining numerical accuracy with attention to detail and an ability to meet deadlines
• Strong IT skills, including word processing, use of spreadsheets, use of databases to process information and electronic communications.
• An ability to work creatively and flexibly in a small team, supporting other colleagues, and with a strong personal commitment to learning and improvement
• Fluency in written and spoken French
• A commitment to the aims of Better Cotton

Desirable

• Expertise in smallholder agriculture
• Experience of providing support to partners on organisational development
• Experience of communicating with donors and reporting on grant use

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working – Two to three days/week in the offices central London, Delhi, Lahore or Abidjan
• The opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to one month per year
• Flexible working, with core hours from 10 am to 4 pm local time
• Continuous learning and development
• 25 days paid annual leave, plus 8-9 Bank Holidays and a further 3 discretionary days off over Christmas/year end period.
• Enhanced parental benefits
• A warm, positive working environment where everyone is valued
• The opportunity to make your mark and make a difference.

Working arrangements

The position is full-time (40 hours per week) and will be based in the London, Lahore, Delhi, or Abidjan offices. Better Cotton offers flexible working, with core hours being 10 am – 4 pm and the option to work from home one day per week.

The position will require some travel to countries funded by the GIF (approx 20 days/year). These currently comprise: India, China, Pakistan, Turkey, Mozambique and Mali (possibly Côte D’Ivoire).

Applications

Interested applicants with the required attributes are asked to send a detailed CV (2 pages maximum) and a brief cover letter (1-page maximum) by or before 05.02.2025 via this link.

In your cover letter, please include an explanation of why your experience is specifically relevant to this role at Better Cotton. We want to see your personal style – what makes you tick and why you think your next opportunity is here with us.

About Better Cotton

Better Cotton is a global not-for-profit organisation supporting the production of more equitable and sustainable cotton at farm level. We exist to catalyse the cotton farming community with partners, governments and others to continuously drive positive impact by setting standards and facilitating the supply and demand of more sustainable cotton from farm to brand. In just 15 years we have aligned more than a fifth of the world’s cotton with our standard and helped farmers and farming communities thrive. Join us in building a better, more sustainable future for cotton worldwide.

About our Values

The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our workplace values which are:

• Trustworthy (including honest, transparent, credible)​ 
• As having Integrity (including responsible, authentic)​ 
• Positive (including problem-solving, pragmatic)​ 
• Engaging (including adaptable, inclusive, holistic)​ 
• Daring (including courageous, innovative, game-changing) ​ 

Being you @ Better Cotton

Better Cotton is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to good practice and transparency in the management of natural, human, and financial resources.

 

We have a zero-tolerance approach to any attitudes or behaviours that put children or adults at risk of harm. Safeguarding incidents are acts of serious misconduct and are grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including, dismissal and referral to relevant authorities for criminal prosecution. Therefore, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

Are you looking for a role where you can be fundamental to change? Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity are hiring for a Grant Operations Officer to join our growing grants funding team.

Key Responsibilities

As a Grant Operations Officer, you’ll take on a varied role where you’ll be involved with:

• Supporting the logistical and secretariat process for the senior grant advisory and review panels. 
• Lead on the preparation of administrative aspects of all funding streams, including setting up funding rounds and applications on the Grant Management System (GMS; Grant Tracker).
• Supporting in the peer review process.
• Managing grant funding operational and administration processes. 

If you’re looking for an environment where you can lead on process improvement projects and work in a dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience within a grants funding position.
• Exceptional attention to detail. 
• Previous administration experience. 
• Project Management skills. 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish good working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

This role focuses on scientific and healthcare grants, so any experience working or studying within a scientific discipline is highly desirable. 

How to apply

Please click on the apply button, where you will be taken to our careers page.

Closing date: 27th January 2025

Location: London (remote working within the UK is possible)

Hours: Full-Time or Part-Time (5 or 4 days per week)

Remuneration: £42,000 - £45,000 depending on experience 

Contract: We are recruiting for 2 roles Permanent & Fixed term (12 months)

Reports to: Grant Manager or Head of Grants 

About FILE

The Foundation for International Law for the Environment (FILE) was set up in 2018 to be the major philanthropic re-granter scaling up legal action globally to tackle the climate and the biodiversity crises.

We work as movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, using the law in pursuit of three interconnected system-level goals:

• Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to protect the climate
• Safeguarding nature
• Delivering climate and environmental justice

We pursue these goals not just by supporting legal action directly. We believe in growing the strength of the climate and biodiversity legal movement globally, and in enabling people and movements to use legal action to shift narratives.

As movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, we at FILE do not ourselves bring litigation. As a regrantor, FILE is not an endowed foundation, but rather we engage in fundraising to secure resources to support our partners globally.

The Role

The Grants Coordinator will play a key role within the Grants Team, a growing team at FILE.  This role will work closely with the Grants Managers and Heads of Grants across key FILE portfolios to ensure that programmes and partnerships are delivered at pace and to schedule. Whilst initially this is largely an administrative role, it is an opportunity to gain an insight in the workings of an international philanthropic organisation focused on systemic change through partnerships with a variety of outstanding legal strategists and NGO partners.

As Grants Coordinator, you ensure the quality of FILE’s grant-making processes and provide support to the Grants Managers and Heads of Grants during the entire life cycle of a grant. As well as working closely with the Grants Team, you will be working together with all the relevant stakeholders at FILE, i.e., grantee partners and our colleagues in finance, legal strategy, impact & learning and operations.  

This is a unique opportunity to support world-leading non-profit partners in delivering strategic legal interventions to impact.  We are looking for a candidate who is excited at the prospect of working for a dynamic and fast-growing organisation with a mission to solve the climate crisis. 

Key Responsibilities

• Grant administration – support the internal processes of contracting, payment approvals and tracking financial disbursements. Lead on grantee communication regarding payments and reporting. 

• Ensure timelines and the approval process for grants and contracts run to schedule, ensuring all relevant information is presented to senior FILE team colleagues and decisions are documented. 

• Ensure grant data and documentation is up-to-date and filed appropriately, including input into FILE systems as required. 

• Perform data capture and maintain database records. Support the management of FILE’s key grants database, including supporting development and revision of database processes, structure and workflows. 

• Regular communication with applicants and grant holders, particularly when supporting the due diligence process for applicants. 

• Collaborate with the Grants Manager on annual planning, grants development, in-life grants management, pipeline planning and partnership building with partners. 

• Work up to managing and holding relationships with partners for a small number of grants. 

• Performance & outcome monitoring – support the Grants Manager to effectively monitor the progress and outcomes of projects and grants together with the Legal Strategy and Impact and Learning teams. This will include the scheduling of reporting requirements, and supporting the evaluation, impact and learning processes.

• Support other portfolio teams if required and time allows.

Key Competencies  

• Ability to work unsupervised, a motivated self-starter, with robust problem solving, administrative, multi-tasking skills and is good on follow-through.

• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to assimilate and digest large volumes of information. 

• Strong attention to detail and strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage workload effectively and to work with changing priorities and time pressures. 

• Ability to occasionally adjust working hours to fit with multiple time zones as required. 

• Strong written and communication skills.  You will be able to present information in a compelling way through proposals, memos and PowerPoint presentations.

• Ability to communicate effectively with people from different cultures and backgrounds 

• Desire to contribute to new ideas and ways of working to develop improved models, processes and use of technology in grant-making.

• Outstanding partnership management skills, with the ability to support and establish highly collaborative internal and external partnerships.

• Experience with databases/grant-management or CRM systems highly desirable 

• Financial and budget management skills desirable but not necessary. 

• Ability in French and/or Spanish desirable but not necessary. 

About you

• Works unsupervised, with robust problem solving, administrative and multi-tasking skills
• Is good on follow-through – completes with consistency and to high standard
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to assimilate and digest large volumes of information
• Strong attention to detail and strong organisational and project management skills
• Manages workload effectively and pivots around changing priorities and time pressures
• Strong written and communication skills
• Presents information in a compelling way through proposals, memos, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Communicates effectively with people from different cultures and backgrounds
• Contributes to new and innovative ways of working to develop improved models, processes, and use of technology in grant-making
• Outstanding relationship management skills, with the ability to support and establish highly collaborative internal and external partnerships
• Experience with databases/grant-management systems desirable but not necessary
• Financial and budget management skills desirable but not necessary
• A willingness to occasionally adjust working hours to fit with multiple time zones as required

Applications

We look forward to receiving your application. Please do ensure that your application details your interest in joining FILE, how your skills and experience match our vision for this position, and the contribution you think you could make to the our overall mission in this space.

This role is open for applications immediately, closing date 19 January 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role so encourage you to submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Working for FILE

FILE is a collaborative community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about climate, nature, and justice. Together, we share knowledge and experience to support our mission.

Individuals are empowered to work as both part of a wider team and individually to make impactful change and deliver to a high standard. Roles here are ideally suited to those who are highly flexible and happy to change and grow in line with the ever-changing challenges of the Foundation – those who are willing to get stuck in and make an impact.

FILE is committed to challenging inequality, valuing diversity in all areas of life.  We firmly believe that we are strengthened by the diversity of our staff.  We actively work to ensure an inclusive culture where colleagues feel welcomed and supported to succeed and thrive.

Diversity & Inclusion

As an equal opportunities employer, FILE is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join FILE.