As Government Grants Manager, your primary focus will be to oversee, organise and co-ordinate the work of the Grant team. You are the first point of contact for the department internally. You will take the initiative to motivate the team, supervise their work and output providing them with regular constructive feedback. You will also be responsible for co-ordinating the team’s interaction with locations and regular contacts including other relevant internal departments such as Regional Security.
In this role you will be working closely with the Director of Operations to ensure all the terms and conditions of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant are adhered to and generate the paperwork required for the Home Office, who are the sponsors of the Grant.
In addition, you will also work closely with the Grants Team Analyst regarding process improvements and efficiencies.
You must be a team player, and have:
- Good administrative and organisational skills with attention to detail
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- A creative mind with an ability to propose improvements
- Strong people manager who can lead and inspire a team
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and remains calm under pressure
- Proactive and results orientated with the determination to see projects through from start to finish
- Customer-orientated and understanding of the urgency of replying in a timely fashion
- Reliable and loyal to corporate culture
- A strong experience in project management is desirable
Your key responsibilities for this role are as follows:
REPORTING
- To be responsible for the oversight of all the reporting requirements for the grant.
- To decide what the team needs to produce as a department.
- To be responsible for the grant budgets, maintaining a high level of accuracy and to report financial highlights to the DOO.
- Produce a timeline and work within it to provide reports to the DOO.
- Assess problems and identify innovative solutions and keep management apprised of ongoing problems.
- To be responsible for liaising with the Home Office on matters of Grant reporting and process-flow.
TEAM AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT
- Allocate the workload appropriately across team members.
- Promote cooperation and positive inclusive atmosphere towards common goal.
- Motivate and manage team to meet deadlines to the best possible standard.
- Deal with difficult situations or complaints from grant locations.
- Manage the team in line with the organisation’s HR policies and guide for ongoing training and development.
- Schedule and perform monthly catch ups, setting clear objectives and dealing with feedback appropriately.
- Lead weekly grant meeting and send out minutes.
- Drafting template emails for communication.
- Ensure all internal and external Grant processes are completed to high standards, including the preparation of yearly and monthly project plans.
AUDITING & ASSURANCE
- Perform monthly and quarterly audits for financial variance and governance using Excel and MS Dynamics.
- Process payments in Sage and MS Dynamics.
- Lead the annual audits to demonstrate compliance and governance.
- Record and monitor budget to spend and income and expenditure.
- Review Sage bank amendments.
- Oversee monthly external audit.
- Raise accruals and recognise income in Sage.
- Using Excel functions to calculate, manipulate and record data.
Please note:
- All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK at the time of application.
- The role holder is subject to a basic level DBS check.
- Offer will be subject to satisfactory reference checking.
- First stage interviews: 3rd August 2026
For more information about the role, or to receive a personal recommendation, please contact our recruitment team. Melissa – melissa@theworkavenue.org.uk or Yael – yb@theworkavenue.org.uk
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