Grants Officer

John Ellerman Foundation is an independent grantmaker, awarding around £5.8m in grants each year. We are looking for a Grants Officer to join our small but ambitious Grants Team and help us make a difference against our organisational aim of advancing the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world. 

The Grants Officer will provide administrative and organisational support for our grantmaking operations and the wider organisation. The role includes managing a portfolio of up to 30 grants and participating in special projects the Grants Team is working on, such as monitoring and learning activities. You will work closely with the rest of the staff, particularly the Grants Team, and with our Board of Trustees. You will also be a key point of contact for applicants, as well as our grant-holders and the wider sector.

This is an exciting time to join us. Our 2022-25 strategy calls on us to deliver our work with 100% of our assets – namely our grantmaking, our investing, and our operations. For our grantmaking, this means ensuring that we embrace and deliver best and promising practice. We are focusing on offering more ways of receiving pre-application advice, further refining our core funding offer, working more collaboratively, convening and connecting organisations we fund, investing more time and resource into learning and reflection, and delivering a wider offer of support to those we fund. The Grants Officer role will be crucial in helping us to deliver against this vision.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about our work and that of the wider charitable sector. The successful candidate will be someone who has great communication and networking skills, with a proven ability to work independently and collaboratively within small teams and organisations and manage a varied workload with a range of different deadlines. Our ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, with experience of database management and office systems, and be interested in using our data and learning to consider how we can evolve and improve our grantmaking offer.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within our staff team and welcome applications from everyone. You can find out more about our approach to DEI in our DEI Policy and our organisational strategy, both available on our website on the 'strategy and policies' page. 

The deadline for applications for this role is 12pm (midday) on Monday 12th February.