Grants and Programmes Officer

We are here to support , promote and develop voluntary and community action in Middlesbrough

About Us: The Woodsmith Foundation is an independent charity launched to leave a positive and lasting legacy from the Woodsmith Mine to the boroughs of Redcar & Cleveland, the former borough of Scarborough and the North York Moors National Park.

Background: The Woodsmith Foundation has been successful in securing a fully paid 12 month contract for a new member of our team as part of the Rank Foundation’s Time to Shine programme. This exciting programme offers the candidate a chance to develop their leadership potential skills and talent within a charity or social enterprise setting. This is a 12 month fixed term role.

15% of this role will be made up of Time 2 Shine activities with regular meetings and residentials. This is an essential, non-negotiable, aspect of this role. As per the programme requirements we can only employ someone who identifies themselves as being either currently unemployed or underemployed.

Rank Foundation defines underemployed as ‘an individual working below their current skillset or training.’ If you have any questions regarding this please contact Rebecca Wagner on  to discuss further.

Role

Purpose:

The Grants and Programme Officer will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of our new small grant funding programme and will also lead researching and developing approaches to support new entrants to the VCSE sector, emerging and current leaders, community leaders and youth leaders. This role will also take a lead in creating new marketing and communication approaches to improve reach into the VCSE sector to support these two tasks.

Responsibilities: The Grants and Programmes Officer primary duties will include:

• Assist the Grants and Programmes Manager to implement and deliver a new small grants programme by:
  • Maintaining and updating grant management systems, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
  • Logging grants on grant management system (Salesforce).
  • Preparing and sending outcome correspondence to applications.
  • Collating payment information and assist colleagues in preparing payments.
  • Assisting in tracking grant progress, collecting monitoring reports and providing feedback to grant holders.
• Research and develop proposals for leadership programmes and approaches for the VCSE in our area of benefit by:
  • Taking part in all Time to Shine activities and support offered by Rank Foundation.
  • Bringing the learning back to our area of benefit, understanding the local context and exploring with VCSE organisations and others their workforce development needs in partnership with the local infrastructure organisation.
  • Completing desk research on private and public sector, VCSE, community and youth leadership opportunities that exist and reporting on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
  • With the support of the Chief Executive, developing option papers for how new entrants to the VCSE, emerging and current leaders, community leaders and youth leaders might be encouraged, nurtured, empowered and supported by the Foundation in the future.
  • Testing preferred options with the Foundation’s Learning Partner and Trustees to develop concepts further and prioritise actions.
  • Creating a final report, recommendations and draft action plan.
• Alongside our marketing support from Anglo American and with the Grants and Programmes Manager, deliver new marketing and communication activities to improve the Foundation’s reach into the VCSE sector by:
  • Advertising the work of the Foundation on social media by creating and re-sharing content.
  • Trialling the creation and management of a Foundation newsletter.
  • Attending events to share the work of the Foundation.
• Additional…