Grants Officer

Role: Grants Officer

Salary: £35,000 per year

Organisation: John Ellerman Foundation

Reporting to: Senior Grants Manager

Working hours:  35 hours per week, with flexible working arrangements considered on a case-by-case basis

Benefits: 25 days of annual leave (with an extra day added for each year of service after five years with a maximum entitlement of 30 days), 12.5% employer pension contribution, and other benefits of private health insurance, life assurance at three times annual salary and a season ticket loan

Location: Hybrid/Remote

CLOSING DATE: 12th February 2024 at 12pm midday

John Ellerman Foundation is an independent, endowed grantmaker and our organisational aim is to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world. The main ways in which we achieve this are by:

1. Awarding grants of circa £5.8m to charities for work which has national significance in the arts, environment and social action, and
2. Investing and managing our funds in such a way that balances the desire to maintain grantmaking capacity, operate in the long-term and seeking to ensure that our investments are not poorly aligned to our aim and values.

We are looking for a new Grants Officer, to join our small but ambitious Grants Team and provide administrative and organisational support for our grantmaking operations (and the wider organisation as needed), as well as managing a portfolio of up to 30 grants and participating in special projects the Grants Team is working on, such as monitoring and learning work.

This role requires close and collegial working relationships with the Senior Grants Manager, the Grants Manager and the Director, as well as the wider team. You will also be working closely with our Board. You will also be a key point of contact for applicants, as well as our grant-holders and the wider sector.

This is an exciting time to join us. We are well into the delivery of our organisational strategy for 2022-25. Our strategy calls on us to deliver our work with 100% of our assets – namely our grantmaking, our investing, and our operations. For our grantmaking, this means ensuring that we embrace and deliver best and promising practice, with a focus on offering more ways of receiving pre-application advice, further refining our core funding offer, working more collaboratively, convening and connecting organisations we fund, investing more time and resource into learning and reflection, and delivering a wider offer of support to those we fund.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about our work and that of the wider charitable sector. The successful candidate will be someone who has great communication and networking skills, with a proven ability to work independently and collaboratively within small teams and organisations and manage a varied workload with a range of different deadlines. Our ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, with experience of database management and office systems, and be interested in using our data and learning to consider how we can evolve and improve our grantmaking offer.

You do not need a degree for this role, but we would like to see demonstrable experience, including transferable experience, of the requirements we have set out in the job description and person specification.

To apply for this role, we ask that you submit your CV and a supporting statement to [email protected] by Monday 12^th February 2024 (at 12pm midday). The documents submitted should total no more than four sides of A4 altogether. Interviews will take place on Monday 19^th February. If you would have difficulty with the interview date, please do flag this to us in advance.

If you would like to submit an application as a job share, then we ask that you and the person you intend to share the role with submit your CVs and your separate supporting statements in one email to the recruitment inbox.