Grants Administrator

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street/Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service from Harlow Town Train Station and free parking onsite.

Hours: Full-time position, Blended working arrangement could be considered, with two days a week working from home.

Reports to: Transport Solutions Manager.

At the Motability Foundation, we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose.

We're building a Transport Solutions Team that can work flexibly across all the tools in our delivery kit – from grants and innovation pilots to research, partnerships, and commercial interventions. This includes a growing portfolio of projects tackling key challenges like inclusive EV charging, complex community transport funding opportunities, and large-scale research such as the National Centre for Accessible Transport.

We are now recruiting a number of Grant Administrators to help us deliver our vision. As a key member of the Transport Solutions team, you will work to provide operational support to the team and organisations applying to support their work in the disability transport sector.

• You will be the first point of contact for potential grant applicants answering their questions, processing submitted applications, and checking eligibility against criteria.
• Provide administrative support across the Transport Solutions funding portfolio, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations and high-quality service to applicants and grantees.
• Manage shared inboxes and correspondence, responding to enquiries and allocating tasks to team members, providing support where needed.
• Ensuring all of our data records are kept up to date including managing key documentation and ensuring information is recorded correctly for audit purposes.
• Preparing documentation for panel meetings, including agendas, decision packs and dashboards.
• Processing data submitted with monitoring reports which will feed into the overall impact demonstration of the programmes managed by the team.

• Demonstrable ability to prioritise when faced with a continuous flow of applications and variable workload.
• Previous experience in providing support to a busy team.
• Strong communication skills with the proven ability to build rapport with a range of stakeholders.
• Highly organised and with the ability to adapt to a variety of systems.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong IT skills including experience working with the MS Office suite including Excel.
• A desire to learn and develop skills.
• Prior experience of working in the disability sector or organisation-level grantmaking would be an advantage, but not essential.

Benefits

WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service

Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

• Our culture - In the Motability office we "dress for our day", it's an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at:

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Equity, Diversity and Inclusion which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every applicant with a disability who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please tick the relevant box when filling out your application.