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Motivated to make a difference and connect communities through sport, you'll be a proactive natural connector who thrives on helping others succeed. With effective communication and organisational skills, you'll confidently support grassroots groups and build lasting impact across the South East. Join Sported as a Regional Delivery Officer and you could be playing a vital role in the heart of our Field Team.
About the role
As the key contact for Sported groups across Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey, you'll play a vital role in helping community led organisations grow, become more sustainable and maximise their impact. You'll build effective relationships with these groups, understand their challenges and opportunities, and connect them to the support, resources and funding they need to thrive. This involves welcoming new groups to our network and supporting existing ones to develop.
Working closely with colleagues, volunteer consultants and partners, you'll help deliver projects and programmes that strengthens and develops them and creates positive outcomes for people and communities. You'll also contribute to volunteer engagement, partnership development, grant administration and project evaluation, while ensuring accurate records and data are maintained across your area.
About You
Are you passionate about the power of sport to strengthen communities and change lives? We're looking for someone who is enthusiastic about supporting grassroots organisations, ideally within sport (but please still apply if not in the sport sector), and who shares our commitment to inclusion, equality and positive social change.
You'll be a confident relationship-builder with a proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to build trust with a wide range of people. Organised and able to manage competing priorities, you'll be comfortable working independently while contributing to a collaborative remote team. You will also possessing a working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and have experience of database management.
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Benefits
Joining Sported means becoming part of a passionate, supportive team dedicated to ensuring there are opportunities for everyone, improving health and wellbeing, ensuring communities are empowered. We believe in creating a positive environment not only for the people we support, but also for our colleagues. That's why we offer flexible, home-based working, generous annual leave, a pension scheme, wellbeing support, and opportunities to give back through paid volunteering days. With paid study leave, wellbeing days, and ongoing learning and development opportunities, you'll have the support you need to grow professionally while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. At Sported, you'll be part of an organisation where your contribution truly makes a difference.
Act with Integrity. Champion Inclusion. Transform Together. Drive Change.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly candidates from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQ+ communities, disabled people, and those with lived experience of tackling inequality. We believe diverse voices are essential to creating meaningful and lasting change.
Please see the job pack, where you’ll find details of roles and responsibilities, and required skills and experience.
The closing date for this role is 9am on 21st August
Sported is an equal opportunities employer, and we warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities, as well as people with lived experience of tackling inequalities, because we value the insight and strength that diverse voices bring to creating meaningful change.
We want you to feel comfortable and supported throughout the recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to help make the process more accessible for you, please let us know.
If you wish to apply, please provide an up to date CV, together with a cover letter detailing how you meet the criteria shown in the person specification. You can use experiences gained from work, volunteering and life experiences. We will not consider applications without these two documents. We also ask you to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form, this is not compulsory but we use the anonymous data to help us improve our recruitment practices and ensure our approach reaches a diverse audience.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Sported is the UK's leading grassroots sports charity. We transform lives and strengthen communities by helping them unleash the power of sport.
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The Grants Compliance Officer plays an important role in supporting the effective financial management and oversight of AmplifyChange's grant portfolio. Working as part of the Grants Compliance Team, you'll help ensure grant funding reaches our Grantee Partners, is used for its intended purpose and is managed in line with our compliance and donor requirements.
Reporting to the Grants Compliance Manager, you'll lead the financial management of your own portfolio of grants, supporting due diligence assessments, reviewing financial reports and budgets, monitoring compliance, and helping to strengthen the financial management capacity of Grantee Partners. You'll work closely with colleagues across the Grants Support Team, Finance, Operations and Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation, providing practical advice and support throughout the grant lifecycle.
AmplifyChange is a bilingual fund, and this role has a particular focus on supporting French-speaking Grantee Partners across Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Fluency in spoken and written French is therefore essential.
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines financial analysis, relationship management and organisational strengthening. You'll build trusted relationships with Grantee Partners while helping to safeguard grant funding and support the delivery of high-quality projects.
The role includes some international travel to visit Grantee Partners and support compliance activities will be required.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Grant Compliance and Financial Management
You'll support effective financial management and compliance across your grant portfolio by:
- Managing a portfolio of approximately 100–120 grants.
- Reviewing and approving project budgets, providing detailed feedback and guidance to Grantee Partners.
- Reviewing and approving financial reports, providing advice on budget management, exchange rates and financial compliance.
- Supporting Grantee Partners with budget revisions where required.
- Reviewing documentation relating to due diligence recommendations, supporting ongoing compliance and organisational strengthening.
Due Diligence and Risk Management
You'll help safeguard AmplifyChange's funding by:
- Supporting funding round processes, including financial eligibility checks, initial financial assessments, due diligence and operational support.
- Carrying out light-touch and full due diligence assessments of prospective and existing Grantee Partners operating in diverse and complex contexts.
- Analysing due diligence findings and making recommendations to strengthen organisational systems and financial controls.
- Carrying out expenditure verification and identifying potential instances of fraud or financial irregularity.
- Reviewing organisational policies, audited financial statements and project audit reports to assess compliance and financial risk.
Partner Support and Capacity Strengthening
You'll build trusted relationships with Grantee Partners and strengthen their financial management capacity by:
- Acting as the first point of contact for financial management and compliance queries within your grant portfolio.
- Providing technical advice and guidance to support effective financial management and compliance.
- Designing and delivering webinars and organisational strengthening sessions on financial management, reporting, due diligence and grant compliance.
- Conducting compliance monitoring visits and delivering compliance sessions during in-country partner convenings.
- Supporting our online Grantee Partner community through the Circle platform.
Collaboration and Continuous Improvement
You'll work collaboratively across AmplifyChange to support effective grant management and continuously improve our processes by:
- Working closely with the Grants Support Team, Finance, Operations and Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation teams throughout the grant lifecycle.
- Supporting the Grants Compliance Manager with donor reporting, monitoring and evaluation, and other organisational priorities.
- Contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of grant management systems, processes and ways of working.
- Sharing learning and feedback to strengthen compliance practices and improve the experience of Grantee Partners.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
We're looking for someone who is organised, collaborative and committed to supporting effective grant management. You'll have excellent attention to detail, strong financial and analytical skills, and the confidence to build positive working relationships with Grantee Partners and colleagues across AmplifyChange. You'll be comfortable managing your own workload, working across multiple priorities and contributing to a purpose-driven organisation.
Essential
- Sensitivity to, and support for, the values and general aims of AmplifyChange.
- Fluency in spoken and written French.
- Experience in a finance, grants, audit or risk management role, including experience of due diligence, financial reporting or compliance.
- Educated to A-level or equivalent.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office and advanced Excel
- An interest in working within the international development and sexual and reproductive health and rights sector.
- Experience of working in a collaborative team environment and building effective relationships across diverse teams.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
- Good financial awareness, analytical skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage a varied workload, prioritise effectively and meet deadlines.
- Ability to use initiative and apply a proactive, solution-focused approach to work.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
- Willingness and ability to undertake international travel.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a charity, grant-making or not-for-profit organisation.
- Experience of grants management systems, with Fluxx experience advantageous.
- Experience of working in sexual and reproductive health and rights and/or international development.
- Experience of working with organisations across Africa, South Asia and/or the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Fluency in Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese or another language relevant to the fund.
WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
Reports to the Grants Compliance Manager.
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week).
Some international travel to visit Grantee Partners and support compliance activities will be required.
AmplifyChange operates a hybrid working model, with at least one day per week based in our Bath office. Requests for flexible working arrangements will be considered.
Unfortunately, we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from those with proof of the right to work in the UK.
SALARY AND PACKAGE
Basic salary range £31,000 to £34,000
Holiday 25 days per annum on full time basis
Pension 8% employer contribution
Life insurance Life assurance scheme
Benefits Employee Assistance Program & Health Cash Plan
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