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SalarySanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.
Senior Community Investment Administrator
Worcester
£26,982 - £28,402 per year
35 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Community Investment team, part of the Sustainability Directorate at Sanctuary. You will work in a team of 5 and support charitable investment and the social value across the Sanctuary.
Our Community Investment team also work with a network of over 20 colleagues who invest in Sanctuary communities across England and Scotland. Our job is to help the Group to deliver the Community Investment Strategy, governing charitable funding, resources and time to enhance the lives of our customers and their communities. We ensure funding decisions are fair, accessible and inclusive.
The role of Senior Community Investment Administrator will include:
- Raising payments for charity groups including our new biodiversity fund
- Reviewing charity grant agreements, sending to community partners and filing
- Managing the community team inbox, responding to queries from charities and colleagues including funding requests
- Inputting charitable investment data including data quality checks
- Assisting with the team with annual audit process to assure community data
- Supporting the Community Investment Officer to process grant applications
- Assisting with the Volunteering Scheme
- Administrative support for the Community Investment Team including booking train travel/hotels, meeting rooms, organising team meetings
- Assisting Head of Community Investment with data for report writing which includes reports to Executive Committee, bid writing teams and team briefings
Skills and experiences:
- NVQ3 in relevant area (eg business administration, customer service)
- Track record of building positive and productive working relationships internally and externally.
- Confident in talking to people, representing our team in meetings and events
- A passion for people – keen to make a difference to our colleagues and customers
- Ability to multi-task and manage last minute requests for information as every day is different
- Strong organisational skills
- Flexible and adaptable
- Strong communication skills
- Attention to detail – aiming to ensure quality data processing
- Creative – we are a small team and welcome ideas to improve our impact
- Confident and proficient in using Microsoft tools including Excel and Sharepoint
Why work for us?
One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
- A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
- Life Assurance
- Employee Volunteering scheme
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
- Role salary is £26,982 per annum (rising to £28,402 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
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Closing Date: 10 July 2024
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
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Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.
