Grants and Compliance Officer
- Employer
- Harris Hill
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £30k - 35k per year
- Closing date
- 12 Mar 2019
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- Function
- Fundraising, Administration, Operations & Service Delivery, Finance & Legal, Trusts & Foundations
- Sector
- Professional & Commercial, Environment / Conservation, International
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
An environmental charity are looking for a Grants and Compliance Officer to develop and implement systems and processes that enable the charity to manage their growing portfolio of grants effectively.
With strong experience of grant management and compliance you will work closely with colleagues from a range of teams to assist in understanding, communicating and meeting funders/donor's requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
-Working with colleagues to develop proposals and budgets which meet both the charity's and donors' requirements
-Reviewing funding opportunities and providing input on contractual requirements (e.g. eligibility criteria) to inform decision making on the pursuit of grant opportunities.
-Developing and maintaining a grants information management system to support accurate income tracking and reporting.
-Engaging with project leads across offices to coordinate resourcing across projects, with specific attention to co-funding requirements and implications for staffing.
-Building staff capacity and providing support to ensure grants are managed in compliance with donor requirements.
-Leading grant and contract administration, including reviewing grant agreements to understand donor requirements, communicating with donors to resolve problems and addressing donor information requests.
-Working with finance and legal teams to manage grant and contractual financial processes and minimise the risk of ineligible costs.
Skills and Experience required:
-Experience in a field relevant to grant management (e.g. business administration, social sciences, accounting, legal administration, international development).
-Experience identifying compliance issues and developing tools, processes or procedures to improve compliance.
-Experience using resource management and planning skills to develop efficient systems and processes to support effective grant management.
-Experience or demonstrable understanding of donor contract and budget management, reporting and cost eligibility and compliance.
-Excellent attention to detail and general administrative skills.
-Strong ICT skills and ideally experience of fundraising databases desirable
Company
Harris Hill has been providing the Charity and Not-for-Profit sector with high quality recruitment solutions for over 27 years. In the past year we have worked on more than 3,000 charity vacancies (approximately 2,000 permanent and 1,000 temporary) and are continuing to grow, developing new teams to respond to the strong demand for specialist charity professionals.
Our teams focus on specific functions within charities including Fundraising, Marketing/PR/Digital, Data Management & Business Support, Finance, Human Resources, Temporary and Executive-level roles.
We are committed to delivering a level of excellence to both candidates and clients alike and have an unrivalled reputation for finding talented people their ideal charity jobs within the UK's leading national and international charities and non-profit organisations.
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- Telephone
- 020 7820 7300
- Location
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London
London
SE1 8ND
United Kingdom
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