Funding Officer

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Funding Officer to join our team at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation. As a key member of our team, you will play a central role in ensuring the positive impact of our grant making and special purpose funds for patients and staff at the Trust.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and manage a portfolio of grants, advising and guiding applicants and grant holders, with appropriate support from Funding Managers where needed
  • Manage questions and issues on grant or fund expenditure as escalated by the Funding Operations team, or delegated by the Funding Managers
  • Manage initial enquiries from Trust staff, responding to potential applicants and progressing ideas as agreed
  • Support the Business Manager to co-ordinate Committee meetings for all three Charities, including liaison with applicants and progressing meeting actions
  • Build strong relationships with the Fundraising and Communications teams, supporting robust information flow between the teams
  • Build strong relationships with grant holders, Special Purpose Fund holders and other Trust contacts, helping to raise the profile of our three Charities and spot opportunities to develop and fund work
  • Become familiar with the Charities' Special Purpose Funds (SPFs), supporting annual requests for spending plans, coordinating approvals, and developing and managing a process to monitor fundraising income into SPFs and allocation of restricted donations
  • Work with the Trust Engagement Business Manager to design reporting that enables robust pipeline and grant management, and supports monitoring and evaluation
  • Support improvement projects as needed, such as improvements to funding schemes, funding operations or business systems
Requirements
  • Experience in a customer-facing role, ideally in a funding or fundraising environment or similar
  • Managing relationships with stakeholders, and particularly helping them to navigate complexity
  • Using a database to manage information and projects
  • Experience of working with budgets and other forms of financial information
  • Using reports to gain insight, assess progress and inform plans
  • Analysing narrative and/or financial information to make decisions
  • An interest in health, philanthropy, and diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
  • Able to manage and analyse financial information
  • Able to build strong relationships with stakeholders and customers, to help them achieve their objectives
  • Able to grasp complex situations quickly and navigate complicated structures
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrable listening ability
  • Empathy and patience
  • Problem-solver, able to use initiative and find pragmatic solutions
  • Comfortable managing and prioritising a varied workload and multiple stakeholders
  • Keen to learn and develop new skills
Benefits
  • Up to 12% employer pension contributions
  • Annual personal development budget
  • Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements
  • Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups
  • Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities
  • Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit
  • Shower facilities and bike lock area
  • Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
  • Subsidies for glasses
  • Employee Assistance Programme

At Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation, our mission is clear – to build the foundations of a healthier society.

As part of our team, including Impact on Urban Health and three NHS charity brands, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:

  • how we approach recruitment
  • our team, culture and values
  • the benefits of working with us and
  • our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion; health & wellbeing; and learning & development.

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