Senior Grants Officer

Description

Our client is the industry-led skills body for the UK’s screen industries – film, television (high-end, children’s, unscripted), VFX, animation and games. They are supporting economic recovery and future innovation and growth across the whole of the UK by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the global success of the screen sector.

They are funded by industry contributions to their Skills Funds and with National Lottery Funds awarded by the BFI as part of its BFI Bursaries Programme to help people get into the industry and progress within it.

The Senior Grants Officer will support the Finance Manager in maintaining the smooth running of grants and bursaries giving process. The Senior Grants Officer will also be responsible for the processing of our client’s grants and bursaries ensuring that projects fall within budget, are contracted in a timely manner and subsequently monitored. They will work collaboratively across the wider organisation to ensure that funders’ requirements are met.

Contract: Fixed Term, 12 months, Full Time (35 hours per week)

Salary: £33,000 - £38,000 per annum depending on experience

Reports to: Finance Manager

Location: London/Hybrid (Min 2 day a week in the office)

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Essential:

3 – 5 years’ work-related experience.Proven experience of working in a similar role within the finance department.Proven experience of data analysis and manipulation.Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Experience of setting up processes to ensure master templates and contracts are reviewed.Excellent organisation skills – ability to effectively manage varied tasks with competing priorities with minimum supervision.Attention to detail and ability to produce accurate work.Excellent IT skills including intermediate Level of Excel.

Preferred:

Previous working experience of Blackbaud Grantmaking, SUN accounting system using Q&A.

Other Skills and Attributes:

Excellent teamworkInnovative ThinkingCustomer FocusCommitment to ExcellenceFlexibilityCommercial Awareness

Our client offers benefits including:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidaysEAP – Access to financial, physical and mental wellbeing supportSeason Ticket LoanEye Care schemeCycle to work schemeAccess to Reward Gateway – popular retailer discountsLife Assurance

Early application is encouraged as our client will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Our client is happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during their application and selection process as part of their reasonable adjustments approach.

In the last two years, our client has helped 48,447 people across eLearning, training, events, mentoring, bursaries and stepping up programmes such as Trainee Finder, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to them. They particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering after a career break, women, people who are LGBTQ+, minority ethnic people, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, from a less advantaged socio-economic background as well as any other under-represented group.

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