Head of Grants and Partnership

Job Title: Head of Grants and Partnerships

Salary: SCP 50 £48,313

Responsible to: Deputy CEO

Location: Working hours divided between BVSC Offices (Latham House, Paradise Street, Birmingham, 1 2AJ) and home address, as agreed by BVSC

Hours of work: 35 per week

Join Our Team as our Head of Grants and Partnerships

Are you passionate about empowering the Voluntary and Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCSFE) Sector through fair transparent, and impactful grant-making? BVSC is seeking a Head of Grants and Partnerships to lead our grants and contracts management function, driving programme development, delivery, and partnership building to support our mission.

If you have a proven track record in developing robust monitoring systems within complex organisations, a keen eye for detail, and strong numeracy and financial analysis skills, we want to hear from you!

Role Overview

The Head of Grants and Partnerships will be responsible for leading BVSC s grants and contracts management function, including program development, delivery, partnership building, process improvement, and ensuring fair transparent, and impactful grant-making to support the Voluntary and Community Sector.

If you have experience of developing, maintaining and improving robust and efficient monitoring system in a complex organisaiotn, excellent attention to detail, and proven numeracey and financial analysis experience, we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall grant and contract management function.
• Develop and maintain grant and contract management approaches that reflect the ethos of a CVS
• Secure on-going opportunities and to create new opportunities in line with the needs of the sector.
• Develop relationships with key partners across all sectors to support the development and delivery of the grant making function.
• Responsible for the end-to-end management of each grant program, including but not limited to: bidding guidance, eligibility criteria, launch and advertising.
• Manage and understand the outcome and outputs we are contracted to deliver and to ensure data is collected in a robust and timely manner for internal management purposes and that information is reliable and reconciled to the measures used by the funders. To develop management tools to provide accurate and timely information.
• To monitor the quality and quantity of information of grant making programmes to support the monitoring and reporting process.
• Ensure that all the reporting criteria for each grant program is met.
• Manage contract variations when required and to manage the risk associated with each program.
• Line manage staff as required.
• Organise and attend project meetings as and when required.
• Respond positively and constructively to internal performance management processes and to contribute to the ethos of continuous improvement within the Corporate Services & Finance directorate and BVSC.

What We re Looking For

• Experience: Proven experience of excellent attention to detail, accuracy, numeracy and financial analysis experience.
• Skill: Working on own initiative, good communication and presentation skills, ability to work effectively within a team.
• Attitudes/Behaviour: Understanding and committed to the ethos of BVSC. Empathy with the values of the voluntary sector and the context within which BVSC operates and creative and enthusiastic with a positive and solution-focused attitude.
• Values: Commitment to BVSC s ethos, equal opportunities, and values

What We Offer

• A supportive and inclusive work environment.
• A chance to make a tangible impact within the voluntary sector.
• Flexible working arrangements (where applicable).

Working for BVSC

Our organisation s culture is underpinned by our 4 core values Commitment, Collaboration, Inclusion and Integrity. These values are demonstrated in the work of our staff team, who are integral to the achievement of our mission to support and advocate for a vibrant, resilient voluntary sector in Birmingham.

Please visit our website for more information about working with BVSC.

We encourage applicants to think creatively about how they can meet the requirements of the role and person specification if there are essential criteria you do not meet, so please describe this in your application. We are looking for talented individuals who align with our values and support our mission there are no barriers to how you demonstrate this.

We are a Second Chance Charter employer, committed to ensuring that people with convictions can access employment. DBS checks will be conducted once a job offer has been made and accepted. This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Closing date for applications 9th January 2025

Interviews to take place 21st January 2025 at the Latham House office

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by 10th January 2025. If you have not been contacted by 10th January 2025 you should assume you have not been shortlisted.