Grants and Impact Officer

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:Permanent

**Location**:Remote - commutable distance to our London office

**Job ref**:201223

**About the role**:
The **Grants and Impact Officer** is a new hybrid role within the Trust’s Grants Team. Using practical experience from the field of impact measurement and reporting, the **Grants and Impact Officer** will lead on the development and delivery of the Trust’s approach to measuring and evaluating its impact, enabling the Trust to better understand and communicate the value of its work.

**Key responsibilities**:
**Impact Officer**
- Guiding the Trust’s approach to measuring and evaluating its impact, enabling the Trust to better understand and communicate the value of its work.
- Taking the lead role for ongoing collation of quantitative and qualitative evidence and the production of an annual Impact Report.
- Working alongside Communications and Marketing colleagues to identify/create appropriate content to illustrate the Trust’s impact to a range of audiences.

**Grants Officer**
- Presenting grant recommendations at Grants Committee and monthly small grants meetings, responding to Trustees’ questions and seeking clarification on their behalf as appropriate.
- Monitoring a caseload of multi-year grants, including reviewing progress reports and payment requests, meeting with beneficiaries to assess progress and supporting the impact reporting process.
- Representing the Trust to beneficiaries, fostering relationships with key personnel across Christian denominations, within the heritage sector and in other charities.
- Attending and presenting at national and local forums, such as Archdeacons’ Forums and the national Churches Together in England Forum.
- Servicing Committees of the Board, preparing agendas and board papers and ensuring the implementation of management actions.
- Maximising the effectiveness of IT systems, tools and processes to support grant operations and ensure ease of use for applicants.
- Identifying and feeding content to the Communications team, taking part in PR activity and approving regular additional content for the Trust’s social media channels and blog pages.
- Contributing to wider Trust activity, including working with colleagues within EIO and other key stakeholders.
- Acting as an ambassador for the Trust.

**Knowledge, skills and experience**
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- Demonstrable experience of developing and implementing frameworks and methodologies for impact measurement and reporting, preferable in a grant-making context
- Grant giving experience
- Ability to manage financial information and interpret charity accounts
- Effective communication skills
- Experience of relationship management
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects
- Experience of Microsoft packages and bespoke databases
- Strong understanding of Social Media and its influence
- Good understanding of the environment that small and local charities are operating in
- Proven administrative ability with attention to detail
- Sympathy with the Trust Christian ethos and values

**What we offer**:

- A competitive salary
- Flexible working
- Competitive Group Personal Pension
- Annual bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- A holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare

**About us**:
**Benefact Trust** was built on a simple, but ambitious idea - to be one of the UK's most impactful Christian grant-making charities.

This idea is at the heart of everything we do, it has defined our ownership of Benefact Group - which is made up of specialist financial companies whose available profits go towards funding our charitable giving.