United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Corporate Grant Manager

Organization: Save the Children UK
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 12 Oct 2014

About us:

Save the Children is the world’s independent children’s charity. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Over the past few years, we have achieved unprecedented growth and have set ourselves even more ambitious targets for the next few years. Our Corporate Partnerships Team has taken a step change in activity to meet our ambition, growing by 640% over the last four years. A strategic focus on ‘Shared Value’ partnerships is transforming collaboration with companies and pushing the boundaries across the whole sector. We work with companies who share our vision to create lasting change for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children.

About the Role:

Within our Global Programmes division this role sits in the Programme Partnerships department and you will join a team which includes a Head of Team, a Proposal Writing team, Corporate Partnership Grant Management team and a Programme Matching and Information team.

The Grant Manager will work closely with the Corporate Partnerships account management team to ensure delivery of targets and objectives for each of the grants in the partnership, helping to ensure we are able to make a significant difference for children’s lives across the globe. This role is split into four main functions, and your responsibilities will include:

1. Grant Managing (~45%) and overseeing the design, implementation and budget monitoring of current and new grants, ensuring all donor requirements and project objectives are fully understood by all stakeholders.
2. Donor Communications and Reporting (~25%)to lead and drive progress on the accounts and grow the donor relationship, and ensuring timely and effective reporting and communication to the donor.
3. Monitoring and troubleshooting (~20%) to effectively monitor grants, ensuring that learning is both gained and applied, proactively addressing key risks to project delivery and troubleshooting as necessary with country programmes and finance.
4. Proposal Development (~30%)through project managing and leading the development and writing of high quality bespoke concepts, proposals and budgets in collaboration with Country Programmes, Programme Policy and Quality teams, Finance and Regional PortfolioTeams,

About You:

We are looking to engage a highly motivated and experienced Grant Manager to drive the progress of our portfolio of grants funded by GSK. You will have:

• Significant experience of grant management and donor financial reporting
• Proven track record of high level project management delivering results (preferably on an international level)
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written; ability to produce high quality proposals, reports and presentations
• A high level of numeracy skills, and ability to carry out budget analysis

What we offer:

In return we offer a negotiable salary of £33,000 - £36,000 + pension, structured career development and travel opportunities.

How to apply:

https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/1093/description