Head of Grants

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

- 356389**Salary**:

- £76,125 - £97,760- GCO Pension, GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay available on accreditation.**Job grade**:

- Grade 6- Associate Commercial Specialist**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GCF - Department of Health and Social Care**Type of role**:

- Commercial**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Leeds, Liverpool, London, ReadingAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

The Commercial Directorate is a strategic and enabling function that supports all DHSC’s commercial interactions with third parties and supporting ministers in delivering their agenda. Our mission is to ensure that health and care policy is implemented at best value for the taxpayer.

We do this by leading and overseeing the department’s direct commercial activity, implementing commercial policies across DHSC and its arm length bodies, and acting as advisors to the Secretary of State. Our vision is to provide a world-class commercial service to enable the health and care system to deliver for the public - we aim to be the best in government commercial for technical expertise and customer focus.

**Job description**:
The DHSC Head of Grants is responsible for leadership of the DHSC grants hub and performs the ‘grants champion’ role, representing the Department across government as the first point of contact on grant-related matters.

The role is in a dynamic and fast paced working environment and priorities will change as required; these include providing assurance, process improvements, ensuring compliance, budget management, and leading reporting to Cabinet Office, DHSC Finance and other stakeholders on all grant-related matters.

**Person specification**:

- Lead and manage a quality grants service, working collaboratively with policy teams, promoting compliance with the Government Grants Functional Standard and Departmental policies and processes- Review the grants operating model in DHSC, considering the optimum role and purpose of the central Grants hub vis a vis others supporting grants within policy teams and driving changes as neededDevelop and execute a strategy for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of grant-making moving forward, considering where a managed grant service could be appropriate and ensure robust tools and guidance for those involved
Lead efforts to strengthen grant management capability and expertise within the team and wider department
Provide advice and engaging early to shape grant proposals, offering constructive challenge to support delivery of objectives, drawing in experts across legal, finance, commercial, counter-fraud and risk, as requiredProvide support and advice to policy leads during business case development and drafting of grant agreements to ensure they are robust, are signed off through the appropriate Departmental approvals processes and acting as a second line of defence in the assurance processEnsure that policy teams monitor performance and risk, including fraud risk, throughout the life of a grant and seeking evidence that funding has been provided for eligible activities only and has been properly accounted forCollaborate with cross-government networks and sharing best practice within the Department and across governmentStrive for continuous improvement, conducting periodic self-assessments of maturity against the Cabinet Office Functional Standard, and implementing Government Internal Audit recommendations through the empowerment of staff, refining processes and communications, to improve the quality of service we provide to our colleaguesBe an inclusive leader who embraces diverse ways of working so that everyone feels they are able to flourish and work at pace to deliver expert advice
Be an active member of the wider Commercial Directorate management team, seeking opportunities to both support and learn from wider commercial teams and working collaboratively with your peers, including commercial business partners, to maintain an excellent commercial service to the business.

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- **Assertive **- An excellent team leader who can motivate and engage those around you, strive for excellence in outputs while fostering and inclusive and supportive environment
- **Manages Complexity **- Good organisational skills and proven ability to plan, drive improvements and managing competing priorities
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