Hybrid Grants Manager

at Motability Foundation

• Job title: Grants Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £34,510 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Harlow, United Kingdom

About the role

• Grants Manager managing grant applications and funding for Motability Foundation's projects in the disability transport sector. Engaging with organizations and assessing proposals to drive impactful change.

Responsibilities

• Manage grant delivery, including assessment, due diligence, contracting, monitoring, and closure, across our funding rounds.
• Engage with all levels of applicant and grantee organisations to understand their work, assess their proposals, and provide support and challenge to strengthen delivery and outcomes.
• Undertake financial, reputational, governance, and operational due diligence in line with our policies and risk appetite.
• Produce high quality assessments of applications for review by our grant panels, including award recommendations.
• Work with applicant organisations to develop and agree contractual grant agreements.
• Manage and monitor multi-year grant awards to ensure objectives and KPIs are achieved within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Ensuring all of our data records are kept up-to-date including reconciling payment schedules to grant records.
• Work closely with colleagues across the TST to provide insight from delivery into programme development, and to learn from others’ work across research, innovation and partnerships.
• Staying abreast of key issues facing the disability and transport sectors, to understand how these shape and influence applications to Motability’s grant programmes.
• Support delivery of non-traditional funding mechanisms such as challenge prizes, research calls, or commercial commissioning approaches, contributing to assessment and management.

Requirements

• Experienced in assessing, managing, monitoring and evaluating grant applications or similar roles related to charitable grant making.
• Understanding of not-for-profit structures, including charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations.
• Experience in writing a variety of styles including academic, reports, and impact.
• Demonstrable ability to prioritise when faced with a continuous flow of applications and variable work load.
• Experience of effectively engaging at all levels within applicant organisations leading discussions where necessary.
• Good with numbers, and the ability to understand and interpret budgets and accounts.
• Able to engage with grant applicants and build an ongoing positive rapport.
• Strong IT skills including experience working with the MS Office suite.
• Experience within the disability sector and/or direct or indirect experience of the mobility challenges faced by disabled people would be advantageous, but not essential.

Benefits

• Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service
• Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.
• Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.
• Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.
• Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.
• Our culture - In the Motability office we “dress for our day”, it’s an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.
• Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.