Grants and Contracts Manager
Manchester, Greater Manchester

About Us

Nationally significant and focused on a fair and equal society, we are the LGBT Foundation, a charity supporting the needs of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans.

Serving over 40,000 people each and every year, we provide information to a further 200,000 individuals online, making us one of the most significant charities of our kind in the UK. We help all LGBT people to achieve their full potential and aim to be ‘here if you need us’, living by our hashtag #EqualityWins.

We are now looking for a Grants and Contracts Manager to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £30,514 per annum
- Generous leave allowance of 25 days plus Bank Holidays
- Sector leading 10% employers’ contributory pension
- Staff counselling scheme
- Free annual flu jab
- Agile working to support a healthy work/life balance

This is a brilliant opportunity for a successful fundraising professional with an excellent leadership style to join our team and help grow our sustainable income streams.

The funding we receive makes all the difference to the services and programmes we are able to offer those who need our support and your role will have a direct impact on our income going forward.

You’ll have the chance to make a positive difference to our organisation, share your expertise and gain brilliant experience in the charity sector whilst enhancing your own skill set and knowledge.

So, if you are looking for a rewarding career with lots of great benefits and an inclusive working environment, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Grants and Contracts Manager, you’ll work with the Income Generation Team and the Senior Leadership Team to submit fundraising applications, ensuring we reach our income targets.

In this important role, you’ll focus on researching, writing and submitting high-quality fundraising applications to statutory sources and Trusts and Foundations. Submitting bids at a local, regional and/or national level, you’ll enable us to continue our important work supporting people when they need it most.

You’ll develop and maintain excellent working relationships with our funders and stakeholders, ensuring exceptional donor care and always seeking out new opportunities for repeat funding.

Additionally, you will:

- Manage medium and long term fundraising applications
- Lead the project initiation stage of new funding agreements
- Lead on contract compliance across all grants and contracts
- Line manage the Income Generation Co-ordinator

About You

To join us as a Grants and Contracts Manager, you will need:

- Experience of writing and submitting successful funding applications to trusts, foundations and statutory sources
- The ability to formulate persuasive arguments and effectively communicate them
- Experience of analysing and preparing financial information and presenting it in an accessible format
- Line management experience
- Excellent numeracy and financial literacy skills
- Excellent administration and IT skills including MS Office Suite and databases
- A commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of the issues faced by LGBT communities
- An understanding of the need to be discreet and tactful and respect confidentiality
- Knowledge of the current and emerging external policy landscape, particularly in relation to changes to funding mechanisms

Experience of the tender process would be beneficial to your application.

Other organisations may call this role Fundraising and Grants Manager, Grant and Bid Writer, Grants and Fundraising Lead, Income Generation and Engagement Manager, or Trust and Foundations Manager.

The closing date for applications is 9am on the 30th November 2021.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week.

We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans, non-binary and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our leadership team.

*Trans is an umbrella and inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross dressers and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth. business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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