Senior Grant Monitoring and Assurance Officer
| Posting date: | 16 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,156 to £45,112 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £41,156 - £45,112 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405126/3 |
Summary
The Directorate has responsibility for:
- Developing new schemes.
- Overseeing the delivery of schemes (including assessing applications and in some cases due diligence processes).
- Finalising awards and monitoring each award to ensure they meet agreed outcomes.
- Reconciliation, assurance, compliant closure and recovery of government funds as necessary.
- Being the gatekeeper for all DBT grant funding.
This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the GDD working directly with business and other stakeholders as we deliver our schemes and grow our role as new grant schemes transfer to us. Our role in awarding and monitoring grants across a wide range of policy areas requires us to ensure that while working with partners and businesses and designing delivery to place the minimum burden possible, we also comply with the Government Grant Standards and HMT’s Managing Public Money to ensure best value for money and protect the taxpayer.
Given the diverse range of work within the team, a matrix management structure is in place. Whilst you will be allocated to a functional line manager, you may also work with other managers where required.
We are currently looking for talented and ambitious individual/s to join our high-performing team as Grant Monitoring and Assurance Officer.
Your workload will form part of a wider oversight of grant development and delivery to provide assurance to Ministers and the Accounting Officer, delivering high-quality outputs that can withstand external audit and investigation.
You will be required to support the development of new programmes and the compliant operational delivery of both new and legacy schemes across their full life cycle.
Where required you may also be asked to lead the appraisal of applications for grant funding, including conducting appraisals against scheme criteria; acting as the primary contact between DBT and the applicant throughout the appraisal process.
The successful candidate will sit in the DBT Grant Delivery Directorate and will be expected to juggle a variety of schemes and issues at the same time. You will need to be comfortable understanding each of the schemes in your portfolio sufficiently to translate that into clear, simple recommendations to SCS and Ministers. You will need to be proactive, working across the team and DBT to leverage the expertise of others.
Responsibilities will include:
- Working with internal and external stakeholders maintaining regular communication and ensuring that key achievements and timelines are met.
- Undertaking scheme development preparedness, drafting associated papers, presenting to approval boards and seeking Ministerial clearance.
- Reviewing the grant recipients’ progress against the terms of the funding agreements and approving claims for payment. This will include the testing and confirmation of grant claim evidence and other important metrics.
- Identifying and proactively managing delivery risks using your judgement to raise and remedy issues where appropriate in a timely manner.
- Ensuring management information and project records are accurate and kept up to date, in accordance with finance, management and audit requirements.
- Where required you may also be asked to lead on assigned cases (as Appraisal Officer) and the communication to and from the applicant and ensuring that key milestones and timelines are adhered to.
- Where required you may also be asked undertake appraisals, supporting specialist appraisals on assigned cases, drafting associated papers (including Ministerial submissions and management updates) and presenting to approval boards, as well as drafting offer letters and variations in a timely manner.
- You may be required to undertake line management duties for HEO Appraisal and Monitoring Officers.
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