About the role

  • Funds Analyst role in the Elevate Programme to fund projects and manage the grant lifecycle. Involves clear communication, risk management, and relationship building in a hybrid working environment.

Responsibilities

  • Join Elevate Programme to help fund real projects and protect public money
  • Work across multiple live schemes and learn the full grant lifecycle
  • Turn applications, evidence, and reporting into clear stories and recommendations
  • Spot risk early and fix issues before they become challenges
  • Improve how schemes run, ensuring good applicants move faster and weak submissions handled consistently
  • Guide applicants through requirements, assessing applications against published criteria
  • Write sharp assessment summaries for decision panels
  • Track delivery against milestones and outputs
  • Analyse recipient financial and performance reports
  • Identify delivery, financial, and compliance risks and escalate with options and evidence
  • Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Find process fixes that reduce risk and improve quality

Requirements

  • Clear writing and confident communication
  • Strong analysis and attention to detail
  • Ability to interpret rules and apply them consistently
  • Sound judgement, with confidence to escalate early
  • Continuous improvement mindset
  • Grant lifecycle experience, especially in government or public-sector delivery is a plus
  • Exposure to due diligence across different applicant types is a plus
  • Spotlight and or Creditsafe experience is brilliant but not essential

Benefits

  • Performance review every 6 months and potential salary uplift at 12 months
  • Ongoing training and development support through one-to-one coaching
  • Access to award-winning trainers
  • Health cash plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Opportunity for conversion into a permanent role at 12-24 months
  • Clear progression options into senior operational roles or specialist streams

Job title

Funds Analyst

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£26,250 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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