Grants Assistant

Fundraising & Partnerships- Fixed Term - Full Time- Salford, GB, M50 2BH- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 11/14/2024**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
**Job Reference**: 13933

**Band**: A
**Location**: Salford (Home 3/2 Office - Hybrid)
**Contract**: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment until 31/12/24
**Salary**: £21,368 - £22,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

**Note: Interviews will be held 25th & 26th of April 2024**

**- Excellent career progression** - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
**- Unrivalled training and development opportunities** - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
**- Benefits** - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more

**Job Introduction**:
BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be. We are committed to being there for children across the UK when they need us the most. Together with the BBC and our partners, we inspire the nation to support this work.

BBC Children in Need is here to make sure that every child has the childhood they deserve - and the support they need to thrive. We are committed to funding the grassroots organisations and project workers across the UK that provide the vital positive relationships children need to help them navigate the challenges in their lives. Our project workers support, inspire and champion them to ensure they have opportunities and can reach their goals. And that will always be our approach.

We fund thousands of charities and projects in every corner of the UK, that support children and young people to feel and be safer, have improved mental health and wellbeing, form better, more positive relationships and be given more equal opportunities to flourish. The purpose of the role is to deliver transactional services and processing activity to a teaM/Function within the BBC. This generally involves providing information, managing data and executing process delivery while following clearly defined process, in line with pre-defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

**Main Responsibilities**:
The Grants Assistant will process a high volume of grant acceptance documentation to tight deadlines ensuring all bank details are updated accurately on our database.
They will send grant-making decision letters ensuring that they are sent out accurately and to a high quality.
The Grants Assistant will plan and organise online and face to face conferences delivered across the UK. This involves liaising with a range of colleagues, booking rooms, arranging catering, sending invites, hosting Zoom conferences and producing and distributing documentation packs.
- You will be an advocate of great customer care with extensive experience of dealing regularly with the public.
- You will have excellent customer service skills and a strong telephone manner with the ability to handle challenging conversations.
- You will have demonstrable evidence of excellent organisational and administrative skills, the ability to efficiently prioritise an often busy and diverse workload and you will have contributed effectively and positively within a team.
- You will also have extensive experience of using databases regularly as well as working under pressure with high volumes of work and, importantly, experience of prioritising workloads effectively.

**About the BBC**:
We don’t focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Read about them here

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

**DISCLAIMER**:
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.