Job Description
Barnwood is not your typical funder. We drive change so that disabled people and people with mental health conditions have choice of opportunities, access their rights, and are included where they live. We bring people together for a different conversation and explore big ideas. Through learning and collaboration, we influence the change that’s needed. By partnering with local organisations and looking for better ways to fund, Barnwood makes a difference in Gloucestershire.
As part of this work, we provide grants to individual people, and we are looking for people who are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of disabled people and people with mental health conditions to join our busy funding team.
As an Individual Grants Coordinator, you will award, distribute and interpret learning from the grants we provide to individuals, whilst contributing to the development and evolution of grant-making partnerships with the organisations who refer them to us across Gloucestershire.
We want to diversify our team to better reflect the work and communities we support – this means we would particularly welcome applications from people who:
- ·have lived experience of disability and/or mental health conditions.
- ·are from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds.
We want our application process to be right for you as an individual. If there’s anything we can do to make this process more straightforward for you, please email [email protected] discuss what support we may be able to provide.
Our careers page on our websitehas some examples of things we may be able to put in place for people who request extra support.
Should you have any questions or require any of the following information in a different format please email the recruitment team directly at [email protected]
Contract Terms: 1 x Full Time (Permanent Contract)
This role is permanent, and we welcome applications from people looking for full time hours (37.5hrs per week).
We offer a flexible start between 8am and 9.30am Monday to Friday
- Salary £28,561 p/a
- 36 days holiday inc. bank holidays
This position is based in our office in central Cheltenham with occasional opportunities for home working
Summary of Key Duties:
- Review and process grant applications from individuals and referral organisations via our online application portals, gathering any additional information needed to further the grant application to next stage.
- Provide additional assistance to individuals and referrer organisations to make an application to Barnwood Trust where reasonable adjustments to the process are required
- Approve invoices and vouchers for payment within the agreed funding amount and forward to finance for payment.
- Maintain clear, consistent and up-to-date records on our database (Flexi-Grant) and other internal databases.
- Monitor, analyse and report survey results, feedback and comments from all applicants and potential applicants to the Individual Grants Manager.
- Work collaboratively with the wider Funding Team to feed learning and evaluation findings through to the Funding Policy and Evaluation Manager.
- Contribute to the development, evolution, and improvement of the individual grants, working collaboratively with the Individual Grants Manager to suggest and test solutions to challenges.
- Actively engage with Experts by Lived Experience and the Engagement Team in the formation and review of the individual grants. Contribute your knowledge and experience of Barnwood’s individual grants to discussions on how to deepen the Trust’s impact on disabled people and people with mental health challenges in Gloucestershire.
Referral organisation coordination and development
- Using learning and evaluation data from the individual grants, contribute to the ongoing development of the referral organisation role in the distribution of Barnwood’s funding to individuals.
- Support the Individual Grants Manager to maintain and coordinate relationships with referral organisations, including contributing to and attending learning and networking events to gain knowledge on best practice and potential improvements to the individual grants.
Essential Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience of organising, processing, prioritising, and planning workload as part of a busy team.
- Experience of contributing to the ongoing evolution and improvement of a programme of work, suggesting solutions to streamline and improve existing processes and ways of working.
- Experience of developing effective processes to coordinate projects which involve external stakeholders.
- Experience of working with vulnerable people and dealing sensitively but proactively with telephone and email enquiries is beneficial.
- Experience of working for, or coordinating projects/relationships with, organisations that directly support vulnerable individuals is beneficial.
Key Skills:
- Strong self-awareness, enabling the establishment and maintenance of exceptional working relationships with a wide range of people using tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity.
- Good numerical and analytical skills.
- Ability to work meticulously and methodically, demonstrating attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a positive and flexible manner.
- Capacity to manage a varied workload, establishing priorities.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Strong IT skills (demonstrable proficiency in using MS Office, Word and Excel) and the ability to use technology to achieve work plans and objectives.
Benefits:
- Work within an organisation that is committed to improving equality and diversity.
- Competitive salaries and fantastic pension contribution rates.
- Excellent personal development plan and extensive training which includes a commitment to training employees to be confident when working with people with a wide variety of impairments, disabilities, and mental health conditions.
- Friendly and collaborative working culture; everyone’s voice is heard.
- We have a range of supportive wellbeing policies and almost a third of our employees, are qualified mental health first aiders with Mental Health England.
- Our offices in central Cheltenham are wheelchair accessible, have free accessible parking on site and great facilities.
- Assistance dogs are welcome!
Guidance On Applications
All applications for this role must be made via our website using our application form
For full guidance on how to make an online application and what you should include within it, it is recommended that you read the job pack attached which also provides a full and detailed job description and person specification.
Guaranteed Interview:
In the application pack we describe some ‘essential skills or experience’ (a few things we really need the person applying to be able to do). If you have a disability (this includes mental health or long-term health conditions) and have these essential skills or experiences, we will guarantee you an interview.
To be invited to interview or assessment in this way, you must detail in the answers to our ‘Competency Questions’ document how you meet the essential criteria for the role and then check the box next to the question asking if you would like your application to be considered for this.
A request under the guaranteed interview scheme does not guarantee an applicant a job. At interview, the best candidate will be offered the role. If you are invited to interview you will receive your invite and we’ll ask you about any reasonable adjustments that you may need.
Closing date, interviews and start date:
- Deadline for applications: 12.00 noon on Friday 16th June 2023.
- First interviews: Friday 23rdJune 2023.
- Second stage interviews: Friday 30thJune 2023.
- We would like the successful candidates to start as soon as possible.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £28,561.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 16/06/2023
Reference ID: IGC 0623 FTP