Job Description

The School for Social Entrepreneurs is looking for an experienced grants manager to work closely with the Head of Grants and Assessment to develop and support SSE’s grant management, including developing new systems, to ensure that our processes are compliant, auditable, efficient, and timely.

You’ll bring a good understanding of social enterprise finances, together with an ability to assess social enterprises, including understanding and assessing business models. Ideally you’ll have experience of bidding for and managing grants for a charity or social enterprise, or of starting up and running a social enterprise.

Purpose
The purpose of this role is to work with the Head of Grants and Assessment to develop and support grant management, including developing new systems appropriate for social enterprise grants, to ensure that grant management is compliant, auditable, efficient, and timely. Developing and embedding grant policies and processes, writing grant procedures, documentation, overseeing payments, and reporting to Board and other teams.

Key responsibilities:

Grant Management:
• Grant management for identified programmes (alongside the wider freelance grants team), including assessment, grant offers, grantee support, payments and monitoring.
• Work with the Head of Grants and Assessment to develop effective grant management processes that are appropriate for social enterprise grants and that are auditable, efficient, and timely.
• Developing and embedding grant policies, procedures and processes
• Supporting the development of generic assessment processes and procedures
• Working with Programme Managers and Programme Co-ordinators to support the development of programme related guidance notes, assessment processes, induction and training of assessors.
• Writing grant documentation in line with SSE requirements, legislation and partner contracts and requirements
• Supporting the Head of Grants and Assessment with overseeing Grant Panel processes, ensuring that these are run within SSE delegated procedures, and are reported to Board in a timely manner
• Supporting payment process and grant payments
• Maintaining appropriate financial records for the SSE.
• Delivering the Match Trading license partnership (project management and grants management)
• Supporting the Head of Grants and Assessment to seek appropriate legal advice and advising the Board on compliance with Charity Commission law and guidance with regard to grant making
• Supporting the Head of Grants and Assessment to work with the Finance Team, Director of Operations and Safeguarding Lead, to ensure that risks associated with assessment and grant management systems are identified
and mitigated, and that systems are compliant with data protection legislation, equalities legislation, safeguarding requirements, UK Subsidy legislation, SORP and other relevant guidance and legislation.

Quality Improvement and innovation:
• Support a culture of evidence-based review, reflection and learning across SSE’s programmes and learning activity, using this to drive innovation and continual improvement.
• Keep abreast of the needs of social entrepreneurs, community businesses and social sector leaders to inform the content, targeting and development of SSE’s current and future grant making, and use this insight to keep the wider organisation updated about trends and opportunities.

General:
• Carry out other tasks that are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the role.

For further information, view the recruitment pack.

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