Grants and Learning Manager

Job Title: Grants and Learning Manager
Reporting to: Head of Grants
Responsible for: No direct reports
Based: The organisation's Head Office is based in Kensington, London SW7, but they have an agile working policy enabling people to work at another UK location up to 4 days/week. Requests for permanent remote working will be considered and they welcome applications from people based in other parts of the UK.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week. Requests for part-time (0.8

FTE minimum) or flexible working will be considered
Contract: Fixed term contract to the end of December 2027
Salary: £35,457 - £46,811 FTE per annum

This learned organisation was founded in 1831 and is a registered charity. They are creating a future where science is more relevant, representative, and connected to society. The organisation has ambitious goals to put people at the heart of science.

The organisation is seeking to appoint someone on a fixed term contract to the end of December 2027, to join their Grants Team in delivering The Ideas Fund, an exciting programme which looks to connect communities with researchers in order to develop and try out ideas related to mental wellbeing. The Fund is delivered in four areas of the UK – Oldham, Hull, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and North West Northern Ireland, although this role can be remote, based anywhere in the UK.

With support from the Head of Grants, they expect that you will have lead responsibility for grant management across these areas, building strong relationships with the Development Co-ordinators and contributing to the successful delivery of the overall programme.

You will oversee the support for grant holders to learn from what is working and feed this learning into an overall approach with the Fund, as well as sharing insights externally. It’s an exciting time for the Fund as they work to build partnerships with others who are interested in community-led approaches to working with research and researchers. You can read more about the emerging findings around ‘Reimagining Research’ at the next stage when you make your final application.

You will work with the existing Grants & Learning Manager to ensure that due diligence and grant reporting requirements are met, responding flexibly and creatively to issues that arise. Importantly, you will consistently focus on how learning can influence long term change in funding and research practice.

As noted in the job description, the employer also expects this role to include supporting the Head of Grants with developing the organisation's strategy around future grants programmes. This may include working across funding programmes other than The Ideas Fund as they are developed and funding secured.

• Work with the Head of Grants and the existing Grants and Learning Manager to continue to deliver an innovative programme that constantly evolves based on what theylearn.
• Ensure excellent grant-making using relational, flexible and participatory approaches with high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Champion innovation in supporting community/researcher collaboration, community-led research, systems change and grant making across relevant sectors including:
  • Developing and delivering strategies for sharing learning, practice and ideas with a broad range of stakeholders through a range of approaches
  • Representing the charity at external events to share innovation and learning
  • Developing and delivering events and/or content to showcase practice and share learning with a broad range of stakeholders using a range of approaches
• Support the implementation of learning and evaluation strategies and processes, reviewing and refining as needed.
• Manage relationships and/or contracts with learning partners where appropriate
• Oversee the smooth delivery of the programme, including budget management, payment processing, due diligence activity etc.
• Support local Development Co-ordinators to:
  • Work with grant holders, collaborating researchers and project partners to overcome challenges they might face in delivering their projects
  • Collate and share local learning as part of wider learning strategies
• Develo…