Programmes Officer
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £24,000 to £29,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 4% employer pension contribution |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Weston Turville, Aylesbury |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Heart of Bucks |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
In this role you will be responsible for delivering our funding programmes, making sure our grants and loans programmes run effectively. You’ll be the lead officer for a number of the funding programmes so will be our “team expert” for all things related to the priorities and operations of those funds, right through from delivering workshops to help groups understand the fund, to setting up and running any funding panels.
PLEASE READ THE "HOW TO APPLY" INSTRUCTIONS AT THE END OF THIS DESCRIPTION
Main Duties
• Responsible for delivery of assigned funding programmes
• Accurate and complete recording of all funding data using Salesforce CRM
• Advice and support to applicants and potential applicants including occasional outreach visits.
• Reporting on activity as required
Specific Responsibilities:
Grant and loan programme management:
• Grants and loan programme management including:
• be the team “expert” on your programmes
• pre-launch development of programme and systems
• Salesforce/CRM recording and programme related development
• application enquiries
• due diligence and eligibility assessment and enquiries
• facilitating Grant Panel meetings and other relevant decision-making meetings
• communication with groups and preparation for payment.
• End of grant monitoring assessment and reporting
• Work as a team to ensure that group mailboxes and telephones are monitored between 9am and 5pm, Mon to Fri.
• Work with the Finance Team to ensure that the grant and loans programmes are delivered within the available budget.
Community Engagement/Outreach
• Undertake VCSE engagement to extend and maximise impact of our grant making, including online and in-person funding advice, new programme promotion, occasional site visits to grantees and potential grantees and other meetings with groups
• Support grantee user testing as required.
Communications, Marketing and Events
• Identify appropriate case studies and news stories
• Provide content for the promotion of your programmes
• Contribute to the smooth delivery of HoB events
Record keeping and reporting
• Use of our Salesforce database to ensure records are accurate, up to date and GDPR compliant
• Provide activity and other reports on your area of work as required
General
• Develop a good working knowledge and understanding of the local VCSE sector
• Develop a good working knowledge of external funding and other information and advice sources
• Ensure compliance with all HoB policies and relevant external legislation (eg GDPR)
• Other reasonable duties as required.
HOW TO APPLY
To help us to shortlist you for interview, please look at the Heart of Bucks website www.heartofbucks.org/news to find the full job description (JD) and person specification. To apply you should email your CV together with a covering letter explaining how you meet the Person Specification (It's in the JD)
PLEASE READ THE "HOW TO APPLY" INSTRUCTIONS AT THE END OF THIS DESCRIPTION
Main Duties
• Responsible for delivery of assigned funding programmes
• Accurate and complete recording of all funding data using Salesforce CRM
• Advice and support to applicants and potential applicants including occasional outreach visits.
• Reporting on activity as required
Specific Responsibilities:
Grant and loan programme management:
• Grants and loan programme management including:
• be the team “expert” on your programmes
• pre-launch development of programme and systems
• Salesforce/CRM recording and programme related development
• application enquiries
• due diligence and eligibility assessment and enquiries
• facilitating Grant Panel meetings and other relevant decision-making meetings
• communication with groups and preparation for payment.
• End of grant monitoring assessment and reporting
• Work as a team to ensure that group mailboxes and telephones are monitored between 9am and 5pm, Mon to Fri.
• Work with the Finance Team to ensure that the grant and loans programmes are delivered within the available budget.
Community Engagement/Outreach
• Undertake VCSE engagement to extend and maximise impact of our grant making, including online and in-person funding advice, new programme promotion, occasional site visits to grantees and potential grantees and other meetings with groups
• Support grantee user testing as required.
Communications, Marketing and Events
• Identify appropriate case studies and news stories
• Provide content for the promotion of your programmes
• Contribute to the smooth delivery of HoB events
Record keeping and reporting
• Use of our Salesforce database to ensure records are accurate, up to date and GDPR compliant
• Provide activity and other reports on your area of work as required
General
• Develop a good working knowledge and understanding of the local VCSE sector
• Develop a good working knowledge of external funding and other information and advice sources
• Ensure compliance with all HoB policies and relevant external legislation (eg GDPR)
• Other reasonable duties as required.
HOW TO APPLY
To help us to shortlist you for interview, please look at the Heart of Bucks website www.heartofbucks.org/news to find the full job description (JD) and person specification. To apply you should email your CV together with a covering letter explaining how you meet the Person Specification (It's in the JD)
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