Funding and Grants Manager

Title: Funding and Grants Manager

Type: Full-time

Workplace: Hybrid remote

Job Description:

 

Location: Hybrid - remote and office based - you will be required to attend the Generation office in Dublin once per fortnight minimum, and the role will require periodic travel within Ireland for events and meeting partners. People in the UK & Ireland team are also expected to travel for team and all-hands gatherings once or twice per year (travel/accommodation covered).

Salary: London - ?39-47k (subject to experience)

Contract: Full-Time (40 hours a week) or part time considered. Flexible working hours available.

 

As Generation Ireland's first dedicated Funding and Grants Manager you'll secure, manage and develop relationships with our funders and partners. Your remit will include every aspect of the grant, funding and partnership lifecycle from developing new opportunities to reporting on live delivery and evaluating completed work.

Working within a passionate and effective team across Ireland and the UK, you'll manage a portfolio of our funders to ensure key milestones and requirements are captured for each funder; reporting is timely and accurate; and partners are meaningfully engaged in and delighted by our work through volunteering, class visits and life-changing stories. This will be particularly important for new public sector funders as Generation Ireland takes on new and larger contracts in this sector.

You'll play a key role in securing new partnerships and grants proposing plans for and negotiating renewals with existing partners, scoping and converting new private sector corporate and trust/foundation opportunities, and leading proposals to Irish public sector bodies (ETBs, Skillnets, Solas.).

You'll work closely with our Head of Grant Management and Funding, as part of the UK and Ireland wide Growth, Data and Operations team. This is an exciting team focussing on innovation and growth, including fundraising, new programmes, new partnerships, data processes and research.

However, you'll also work closely with Generation colleagues focussed on delivery in Ireland, including the Ireland Director - who also plays a significant role on funding in Ireland - to ensure proposals and reporting reflect and capture local priorities.

The role has the following key responsibilities:

Manage and develop our existing grants and funding partnerships across the public and private sectors (c.60% of time)

• • Play point on relationships with a portfolio of c.10-15 funders across public and private sector
  • Convert contracts/grants into operational and reporting plans and guide delivery teams
  • Provide detailed, data-based, reporting to partners in the formats they prefer
  • Lead claiming, evidencing, compliance and audit processes for public sector projects
  • Develop strong relationships through excellent comms in meetings and in reports/emails
  • Deliver delight/engagement initiatives to maximise chance of funding renewal (e.g. support and organise c.3-4 yearly volunteering events for partner staff, comms opportunities)

Identify and manage a pipeline of new opportunities and develop proposals to secure new and repeat funding to drive Generation's growth from a c.1m euro charity (c.30%)

• • Create compelling proposals to extend and repeat partnerships of existing funding contracts
  • Research and network to identify new funding and partnership opportunities for Generation
  • Create and manage a pipeline of opportunities with the potential to drive growth to hit our targets
  • Submit expressions of interests, secure introductions or reach out cold to begin building relationships
  • Write proposals end-to-end drawing on expertise and support from colleagues where you need it

Contribute to the wider success and growth of Generation in Ireland & globally (10%)

• • Work closely with Generation Ireland operational colleagues to understand opportunities and blockers and contribute to problem solving and ideation sessions
  • Work closely with Generation UK and Generation global colleagues to support global multi-country proposals and grant management, sharing information/learnings
  • Get close to our impact and work as a charity, devoting time to delivering mock interviews for learners on cohorts, and helping out with interviewing prospective applicants
  • Contribute to a culture of idea generation, feedback and learnings on a 1-1, team and organisational level

Requirements

ABOUT YOU

Here are the core attributes we think you'll need to be successful in the role:

• You're a highly organised and self motivated professional, able to manage multiple projects independently and ruthlessly prioritise, whilst always staying focussed on your overarching goals.
• You're a people person, excelling at quickly building new, lasting relationships with partners
• You're an effective communicator, able to talk to a range of people and comfortable with delivering difficult or complex messages to partners in writing or discussion
• You're passionate about the cause, with a demonstrated interest and motivation to support those from a disadvantaged background and see the importance of what we are trying to achieve in the long term
• You're a strong writer, you have an engaging, concise and compelling writing style for proposals and reports
• You're detail-oriented , willing and able to compile and report detailed grant management submissions, ensuring both the quantitative and qualitative aspects are accurate
• You're comfortable with numbers analysing data in spreadsheets and dashboards to identify key trends, managing targets and creating budgets

 

ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE

To be best set up for success, we think you'll need experience of the following areas. However, if you meet only some of these criteria, or even none but believe you have transferable skills and experience we would still strongly welcome your application.

• Managing and/or reporting on reasonably sized public sector projects (preferably in Ireland, ideally with examples>50k euros/year)
• Managing and/or reporting on multiple private sector funded projects (preferably charity projects funded by corporates and/or trusts and foundation, ideally with examples >50k euros in value)
• Writing grant applications/proposals to secure 5 and 6 figure grants/contracts
• Identifying new funding and partnership opportunities though research and networking

 

 

Benefits

At Generation, we're changing people's lives. Purpose and social impact at the heart of work in itself gets us out of bed each morning! However, beyond this, working with the team, you'll get:

• Autonomy to own and take forward your own workstreams as part of an ambitious, fast-growing charity with awesome colleagues
• Flexible/hybrid working accommodating your preferred working pattern and needs and a WFH allowance
• Professional development opportunities including an annual personal development budget, up to 5 days training/study leave and calendarised, protected time for your own learning and development
• Volunteering opportunities with the chance to support our learners with mock interviews
• Holiday buy-back scheme with up to a month extra leave each year