Grants Administrator

Benefact Group
£25,627 - £32,449 a year
Gloucester, England
Full time
5 days ago

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent


Location:
Gloucester

Job Ref: 204084


About the role

Benefact Trust, are looking for a Grants Administrator to join our Gloucester office.


As Grants Administrator you'll be acting as the first point of contact for Benefact Trust and providing high-quality administrative support across the full grants cycle, ensuring efficient and impactful grant-making.


Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

  • Acting as the first point of contact for applicants, beneficiaries, and other external parties, providing effective support and guidance
  • Logging new grant applications on the grants management system, carrying out initial eligibility checks, and inputting supplementary information
  • Providing administrative support for the post-grant award process, including scheduling grant payments and communicating outcomes to beneficiaries
  • Leading on the administration of multi-year payments for grants made on the
  • Trust’s previous grants management system, including processing and sending cheques, updating payment records and reporting to finance colleagues
  • Ensuring that records are managed and retained in accordance with Trust and Group policies

What you'll need to have

  • Proven administrative and organisational skills
  • Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
  • Good attention to detail and the ability to undertake repetitive tasks with a high degree of accuracy
  • Good working knowledge of database management and IT systems, ideally grants management systems
  • Effective relationship management experience

What makes you stand out

  • Demonstrates a positive and accommodating attitude
  • Engages well with others in the team but also content working alone
  • Confident and helpful when dealing with enquiries and questions
  • Excellent attention to detail

What we offer

  • A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  • Hybrid working
  • Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  • Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  • An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  • £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  • Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Full study support to gain professional qualifications
  • Access to virtual GP
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager

“We are a small and supportive team, passionate about what we do, driven by the impact our grants can have, and inspired by the many fabulous organisation we support."


About us

Benefact Trust was built on a simple, but ambitious idea - to be one of the UK's most impactful Christian grant-making charities.

This idea is at the heart of everything we do, it has defined our ownership of Benefact Group - which is made up of specialist financial companies whose available profits go towards funding our charitable giving.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

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