Senior Grants Manager

Our client is a young, growing grant‑making charity dedicated to transforming mental health support for young people aged 11–25 yrs across the UK. Founded in 2020, they invest around £8m each year in services and research that prevents and treats anxiety and depression, strengthens the evidence base for what works, and helps proven approaches reach the young people who need them the most.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with the trust to recruit a Senior Grants Manager to join its small but busy and experienced team, in this key role based at lovely offices in Central London.

The role:
This role will work closely with the Head of Grants within a small but experienced and hard-working team, making a significant contribution to the delivery of the Trust’s objectives, focusing on larger grants and strategic planning. The primary aim of this role is to bring senior grant-making expertise and knowledge to the team, in addition to growing the Trust’s expertise in the field of youth mental health.

This is a unique opportunity to work with and support a range of organisations, initiatives and individuals who are seeking to create vital change. It will involve designing and delivering programmes, managing relationships with grantees and exercising sound judgement whilst capturing learning to inform future decision making and strategy. There will also be an important database and reporting aspect to this role, where accuracy and process management expertise will be essential.

The responsibilities will also include identifying and building a pipeline of relevant activities focussed on delivering the aims and objectives of the Trust. This is a very relational role with emphasis on building consensus, attending events, forums and conferences to further harness sector learning relevant to the work of the organisation, and to inform future developments.

The role is full-time and will be primarily office based at lovely offices in Central London. 

The person:
The successful candidate will have substantial grant-making experience and will ideally have gained this with a community driven Funder, Grant-maker of Charity in the UK. An environment which ideally reflects the thematic aspects of the trust’s work around young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Exposure to impact measurement tools and methodologies will also be very useful.

A solid understanding of the challenges faced by charities and individuals in this space is essential and having hands-on experience of tackling funding and resourcing issues will be very valuable. Thoughtful, analytical and highly organised, this person will be a collaborative self-starter in addition to having excellent communication skills.

Team work, professionalism and accuracy are all keys to success in this role so evidence of having worked in high paced and busy teams, in similar areas of work will be very important, in addition to being able to work independently and to manage your own time.   

The trust believes that a greater diversity of ethnicity, gender, disabilities, religions and sexual orientation, in addition to views, skills, and approach make for a more successful team. They actively encourage applications from people with as diverse backgrounds as possible to achieve this aim.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.