Nuclear Waste Services has an exciting opportunity for a Grants Manager to join our team!
As a Grants Manager, you will be responsible for the disbursement and management community investment funding, of up to £1million per year, within communities that are engaged with the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) siting process. The Grants Manger, working with a Grants Officer, ensures community investment funding processes comply with NWS governance requirements and the Government Functional Standards for General Grants. You will act as the lead point of contact between a community, including other grant funders, and NWS with respect to community investment funding. The role supports the reporting and evaluation of the socio-economic activities within NWS and our parent body, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
This role is to support the Theddlethorpe Community Partnership. This role will have a home working contract but regular travel will be required in an around the town of Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire.
In this varied role, and you will provide support to the management and delivery of NWS’s community investment funding activities in a Community Partnership Search Area. The Community Partnership can award grants up to a total value of £1million over 12 months. Activities will include:
- Support the Head of Social Impact to ensure NWS meets the obligations of the relevant Working with Communities policy, RWM’s community investment governance requirements and the Government Functional Standards for General Grants;
- Process grant applications from a Community Partnership Search Area including advising applicants, scrutinising financial accounts and governance documents, assessing applications, preparing paperwork and attending award panels;
- Assess applications applying proportionate due diligence and make recommendations on which applications should be considered for funding;
- To take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of certain grants;
- Ensure sufficient and appropriate information is available for each full application to enable informed decision making;
- Implement funding decisions, including communicating with partners, initiating grant payments, visiting projects, building strong partnerships and ensuring appropriate and proportional monitoring reporting and evaluation is in place;
- Promote and communicate funding opportunities to potential stakeholders, internally and externally, in order to ensure sufficient relevant, high-quality applications;
Develop and maintain constructive relationships with applicants, supporting them to develop their funding requests; - Contribute to the development of NWS grant making strategy;
- Provide effective line management for the Grants Officer;
- Play a supporting role in ensuring that NWS becomes a partner trusted by communities
- Support the regular activities of the Community Engagement team, including activity and budgetary reporting, team meetings etc.
- Liaison with other NWS teams operating in the area, as appropriate
Essential
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge of grant making processes
- Experience and knowledge of partnership working, especially in a community setting
- Financially literate
- Good administrative skills, including meeting deadlines and prioritising workload
- Self-motivated and with high personal resilience
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
Desirable
- Experience of grants-making software (NWS uses grantFlex)
- Experience of working with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally
- Experience of using a variety of communication channels, including social media
- Able to analyse, use and effectively present relevant data and insights
- Knowledge of government programmes/ projects that impact communities
- Experience of managing public meetings/ events
- Awareness of local area issues/ politics
- Track record of delivering and reporting against targets
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload effectively
- On appointment to an RWM, full-time staff are entitled to a generous annual holiday allowance of 38 days’ annual leave. LLWR up to 43 days in addition to a buy/sell scheme
- Rewarding performance (bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous above average pension scheme
- learning and development support
- payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. We are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, we welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.