Thank for your interest in applying for this role at Imperial Health Charity. We’re looking for an experienced and highly-motivated individual to lead our grants team. In this key role, you’ll be responsible for planning, managing and delivering our grants programmes and ensuring the funding we award generates the greatest possible impact for our beneficiaries.

As a member of the senior management team, you’ll report to the Chief Executive and other colleagues in leadership roles to ensure our funding principles and priorities are closely aligned with our strategic objectives and the ambitions of our partner NHS trust.

You’ll be responsible for administering a grants portfolio of around 450 grant awards (£7.7m) as well as overseeing more than 300 restricted special purpose funds. This includes several established funding programmes, such as our hardship fund for hospital patients facing financial difficulty, our research fellowships scheme helping NHS staff progress their academic careers and our innovation programme investing in pioneering healthcare improvements. You’ll also drive forward our community funding initiative, Compassionate

Communities, as well as overseeing donor restricted, strategic and capital awards with an average annual expenditure of around £4.5m.

In this challenging role, you’ll work closely with key NHS stakeholders as well as internal colleagues in our finance and fundraising teams, to enable optimal funding decisions that are compliant with our core governance principles. This post will suit a dynamic individual who is confident managing a heavy workload and motivated by a desire to improve healthcare for patients.

1. Operations

In this role you will:

• Oversee all aspects of our grant operations, from pre-award to post-award stage, ensuring effective processes and procedures are in place for good grant-making practice

• Identify, develop and manage key internal processes with the finance and fundraising teams to streamline the administration of special purpose funds.

• Present information and recommendations to our key decision-making grants committees and the Board of Trustees.

• Organise, implement and manage operational plans for the grants team on an annual basis.

• Take responsibility for grants payable audit requests.

• Provide accurate data to internal colleagues for presentation in our annual reports and impact reports.

• Oversee appropriate methods of reporting, monitoring and evaluation of our grant awards and funding programmes.

• Take responsibility for relevant financial approval procedures and managing invoices.

2. Strategy and governance

In this role you will:

• Contribute to the development, implementation and review of our long-term organisational strategy, with a particular focus on key funding initiatives.

• Influence and guide our senior management team with regard to grant-making, providing recommendations for strategic and capital expenditure that will lead to significant positive impact for our beneficiaries.

• Build strong relationships with research partners, including the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research centre, co-funders, and other relevant external bodies for the benefit of strategic expenditure and future philanthropic income.

• Develop and embed governance guidelines to ensure efficiency with regard to the administration of our special purpose funds.

• Strengthen grant governance, policies and procedures in line with best practice, ensuring compliance with data protection legislation, intellectual property guidelines and other legal matters where required.

3. Leadership and management

In this role you will:

• Lead and manage our grants team, currently consisting of five additional members of staff: two direct reports and three non-direct reports.

• Proactively develop and motivate the members of our grants team, providing clear strategic vision and direction of the grants programme.

• Take an active role in our senior management team, working collaboratively to identify and improve areas outside the role’s direct responsibility.

• Work with our communications team to promote our grant awards and funding programmes.

4. General duties

In this role you will:

• Keep abreast of current healthcare issues, particularly those of special relevance to the charity and our partner NHS trust.

• Represent the charity at conferences, workshops and external meetings.

• Support the Director of Development and Director of Finance & Resources as required, providing accurate grants payable information to inform decision making.

• Maintain accurate records for stakeholders, adhering to our data protection obligations and records management principles.

• Take an active part in and collaborate with colleagues across the charity, bringing your own experience and perspective to make the most of our shared contributions.

• Participate in regular supervision, objective-setting and performance monitoring, and actively engage in your own professional development throughout the year.

• Champion our Code of Behaviour and act as a role model, ensuring our key policies and procedures are adhered to at all times so as to protect the people we work with and our reputation.

A job description does not constitute a ‘term and condition of employment’. It is provided only

as a guide to assist the employee in the performance of their job. The charity is a fast-moving

organisation and therefore changes in duties may be necessary from time to time. The job

description is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of tasks and may be varied from time

to time after consultation/discussion with the post holder.

Personal development

We will agree annual objectives and a personal development plan, which will include training as well as other learning opportunities as an essential element of the role. Where an appointee doesn’t fully meet the person specification when starting in role, these areas will be addressed as a priority for the post-holder to complete within their first six months.

We’re looking for a candidate who can demonstrate skills, experience and knowledge in the

following important areas:

1. Previous experience and qualifications

You will have:

• Significant experience in grants management, developing and implementing effective grant applications and assessments, and monitoring policies and procedures.

• Demonstrable experience of managing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Experience of and confidence in using online grant application systems.

• Experience of formal report writing.

• Demonstrable experience of developing new policies and procedures.

• Evidence of recent continuous professional development.

You may also have:

• Experience working in the charity sector.

• Experience working in a health-related organisation.

• Experience working across programme and fundraising teams.

2. Skills, knowledge and ability

You will have:

• Excellent strategic thinking skills, with the ability to plan, manage and deliver projects in line with strategic objectives.

• A strong knowledge of evaluation and impact measurement techniques.

• Excellent presentation skills and high standards of literacy, with the ability to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences with clarity and precision.

• The ability to prioritise tasks and manage a workload effectively, completing tasks to agreed deadlines.

• A good standard of numeracy, with the ability to review financial information and provide basic analysis.

• An enthusiasm to learn and grow in the role, pursuing appropriate training and development opportunities.

• Strong people management skills, with the ability to supervise other members of a team, delegate tasks, provide feedback a challenge constructively.

• An excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• A thorough understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and the wider health sector.

3. Personal qualities

You will have:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.

• Strong organisational skills, taking pride in attention to detail.

• A friendly and personable manner, with an interest in building effective professional relationships.

• A commitment to collaborative and inclusive working, ensuring quality and valuing diversity.

• Excellent public speaking skills, with the confidence to engage, explain and advise.

• The ability to think critically to identify potential or current problems and implement solutions.

• High standards of personal conduct, honesty and integrity to engage and inspire the trust and confidence of multiple stakeholders.

• A customer-focused approach, seeking to make systems, processes and information accessible and user-friendly.

• The ability to manage a varied workload and work flexibly under your own initiative.

4. Other requirements

You will have:

• A commitment to the values and principles of the NHS.

• The ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the role.

• The ability to travel between our hospital locations in north west London as required.

• No envisaged barriers to obtaining DBS disclosure.