Grants Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 310470**Salary**:

- £37,295 - £44,724- National: £37,295 - £41,425, London: £40,262 - £44,724. Pro-rata salary for job share.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Commercial Department**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement
- Commercial
- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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**Job summary**:
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government. Our diverse teams of over 2,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice, and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.

The Grant Office supports APHA by increasing its opportunities to widen its global, European, and national outreach. The Grants Officer will be a critical member of the Commercial Department and will be expected to work across all program areas within the agency, including collaborating with Finance Partners and Business Development Managers to ensure effective and efficient grant-making processes.

As a Grants Officer, you will assist APHA scientists in the identification, preparation, and submission of programme grants. In this role you will be responsible for disseminating information about funding calls to researchers and helping them in finding the best sponsor and scheme for their research ideas; for providing support and coordinating the development of proposals; and for ensuring that submissions are of the highest standards and meet tight deadlines.

The post holder will be instrumental in driving forward a sustainable research and technical assistance culture within the agency.

**Job description**:
The post holder will be expected to:

- Proactively keep up to date with the activities of funders (including funding consortia) that support research or capacity strengthening initiatives in fields relevant to APHA’s activities. This may involve attending funders’ info days.
- Facilitate grant relationships management including linking researchers across networks and liaising with national coordinators on submission and reporting of different funding and processes.
- Build APHA’s capacity in effectively collecting and communicating research impact evidence.
- Maintain working knowledge of the agency’s programs and priority funding areas and remain abreast of current research, activities, and trends in the wider One Health/ global health security sectors.
- Monitor and document the grant making portfolio, workflow processes, forms, templates, reports and data to assure full compliance with internal controls and audit/legal requirements.
- Capture and use grant-making information to enhance operational decision-making and grantee/grant seeker relationships, to enable learning and to document APHA’s research impact.

The tasks are not always routine, so a flexible approach is essential. You may be asked to perform other related work commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.

You will undertake any relevant and specific training and development as agreed with your manager and in line with job role and core behaviours.

**Person specification**:
This role requires an individual who can balance strong attention to detail and analytical skills with an engaging, consultative, relationship-focused approach to working with people.

Essential Person Specification:

- A Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of writing large and complex grant proposals and/or reports to both government and private funding sources.
- Strategic thinking, and a process and system mindset.
- Ability to quickly grasp the nature of a project and its requirements.
- Exceptionally strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to adjust working and communication styles to meet the requirements of multiple audiences and partners.
- Well-developed planning, prioritising, and problem-solving skills.
- Being comfortable delivering under tight deadlines and competing priorities.
- Experience in building effective working relationships with team members of diverse backgrounds and expertise, both in person and virtual
- Knowledge of or willingness to learn various internal APHA processes and procedures.

**Qualifications**:

- A Bachelor’s Degree is required**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing

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