Grants Manager

Overview:
This is a new and exciting role at a significant time of growth for the School for Social Entrepreneurs. In the coming year. We are developing new programmes, working with leaders who are developing small community led social and
environmental projects as well as leading larger charities and social businesses developing social investment and housing solutions.

You will work with our Grants Team, Project Co-ordinators and Assessment Lead to develop and support grant management across a range of programmes. Your role will be to lead on specific programmes, including supporting assessment, onboarding and grant management. You will ensure that grantees are fully supported to manage their grants and ensure that grant management is compliant, auditable, efficient, and timely. You will support the development of grant policies and processes, writing grant paperwork and documentation, overseeing payments, and reporting to the wider Programmes Team and others about our work.
We are committed to inclusion and have a wide range of applicants from diverse communities, who may experience difficulties in applying for a range of reasons language, confidence, neurodiversity, disability and other barriers. You will support team members to make the application process welcoming and accessible

Grant Management:

• Leading grant management for specific programmes, working closely with the Project Co-ordinator and Programme Manager to lead grant management for that programme, from development, to assessment, grant offers, grantee support, payments, monitoring, reporting and evaluation
• Support the wider grants team on assessment and management of other programmes as required.
• Support the development of programme related guidance notes, assessment processes, induction and training of assessors, and onboarding of grantees.
• Writing grant documentation in line with SSE requirements, legislation and partner contracts and requirements
• Support for grantees, including help and advice with onboarding, access to banking, developing appropriate financial systems and support them to manage their grant.
• Undertaking finance checks on grantees to support compliance with grant conditions, including Match Trading.
• Supporting payment process and grant payments to ensure they are accurate and timely.
• Support the development of effective grant management procedures and processes that are appropriate for social enterprise grants and that are auditable, efficient and timely.
• Supporting Grant Panel processes, ensuring that these are run within SSE delegated procedures, and are reported to Board in a timely manner
• Supporting wider reporting on grants across SSE and to partner organisations.
• Supporting the Head of Grants 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 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 and environmental 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