Grants Co-ordinator

2 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

The Growth Company (GC) are looking for a highly motivated Grants Co-Ordinator to join their busy team. Within this role, you will be reporting to the project manager, where you will be assisting the delivery team by developing and maintaining robust claims and compliance systems and processes. The Grant Co-Ordinator will also ensure accurate and robust verification of clients grant claims with high compliance.

GC Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across Greater Manchester to realise their ambitions. Since 2011, the Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing finance guidance, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. We work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.

Please note that this role is a fixed term opportunity until 31 March 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Developing and maintaining robust claims and compliance systems and processes to enable efficient, accurate and timely processing of client grant claims.
  • Compiling a high standard of documentary audit trails for robust verification of client grant claims.
  • Create and maintain an effective tracking system that monitors the progress of all individual grant claims and overall project performance.
  • Ensuring all company files are up-to-date and maintained for all beneficiaries- making sure they are well-presented and fully compliant with funding requirements.
  • Working to deadlines to create to produce management information reports, reports for the senior team as well as the boards/partners- But also making sure all financial admin is completed accurately i.e raising purchase orders/sales invoices, processing claims and invoices and completing financial period reconciliations.
  • Creating and producing packs of information for the Head of Innovation when appraising grant applications.
  • Liaising with clients to provide advice and guidance to the grant claims process and evidence requirements.
  • Handling general enquires such as calls, correspondence, web, email and face-to-face- Making sure they are dealt with effectively and accurately.
  • Accurately inputting data/information into the CRM system and other databases. Where applicable conduct your own desk-research and pass down the information to colleagues, partners, and clients.

Experience:

  • Previous experience handling finance/grant claims.
  • Worked previously in a Project environment.
  • Provided administrative support to a diverse team.
  • Good knowledge of Grant processes and procedures.

About you:

  • Brilliant communication skills- Both verbally and written.
  • Great problem-solving skills.
  • Educated to A level or higher.
  • Confident IT Skills- Word, Excel, and database management.
  • Confident in working in a team but also individual

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We're supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at or call us on

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

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