Programme Manager - Grants
Employer: Sported
Location: Home-based
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week (full-time)
Salary: £38,245 - £43,709
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Sported is looking for an experienced and professional Programme Manager to join our expanding Partnerships team.
The Programme Manager (Grants) will be responsible for the management and delivery of a £1.9m Partnership Grant Programme, awarding funding to organisations delivering sport and physical activity for wider social purpose. They will lead in the distribution of funds awarded across England, Scotland and Wales, working closely with our Grants Lead and Regional teams to ensure funds are awarded to those communities that need it most.
The creation of this new Programme Manager role is intended to develop and implement this large grant programme, driving insight-led, grant giving to deliver maximum impact and value for Sported and our partner.
Role Overview
• Scoping, design and implementation of the funding programme.
• Oversee programme delivery across England, Scotland and Wales, developing a thorough project plan with detailed responsibilities and a clear timeline.
• Manage the grant programme end-to-end, including development of fund criteria and guidance, applications and assessments, monitoring and reporting.
• Manage regional specific grant budgets across England, Scotland and Wales.
• Work with our wider team to deliver internal and external communications to promote the programme and partnership - and demonstrate impact on funded groups.
• Report delivery progress and manage end of programme impact reporting and learning.
• Build the relationship with our partner, maximising opportunities for renewal.
Responsibilities
Grant management:
• Develop programme eligibility criteria and guidance, working with our Grants and EDI leads to ensure grants are targeted at communities that need it most.
• Devise and set up application forms and processes specific to the grant programme while using learning from previous years.
• Manage the application and assessment stage, carry out due diligence and monitor the funding risk of the grant portfolio, undertaking reviews where needed.
• Oversee the grants on our online platform, maintaining accurate and up to date information on all grant applications, assessments and payments.
• Provide the necessary financial information to the finance department, supporting them to process and issue awards.
• Work with the EDI Lead to support the delivery of an accessible approach to grant giving.
• Work with the Grants Lead to help drive the continuous improvement of grant-making systems, policies and processes and ensure consistency across our organisational grant programmes.
Team engagement and management:
• Motivate and skill our national and regional teams, leading on the creation of detailed plans to deliver our target amount of grants on time.
• Support our internal teams to enable grant-holders to deliver the work and project outcomes, and report against associated monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Line management of Grants Administration Officer to support with assessments, grant admin, payments and communication with applicants.
• Collaborate with the wider Sported team, including colleagues in finance and fundraising, sharing insights and learning for wider opportunities.
Communications:
• Work with the Fundraising team to design a Communications plan for the programme, delivering external communications to promote our partnership and programme impact.
• Conduct outreach to identify potential applicants and assist with promotion of the funding programme.
• Ensure the teams identify and detail a regular pipeline of compelling case studies to storytell the impact of the funding on people and groups for our use and for the use of our funders.
• Conduct learning and monitoring visits, fostering positive relationships with funded groups
Monitoring and evaluation:
• Work with our Insight team to develop project review forms, specific to the grant programme but consistent with our wider organisational measurement tools.
• Support the team to request, chase and collate relevant monitoring and evaluation data from funded groups.
• Collect, review and assess data and insights from the funding programme to ensure quality grant evaluation and impact reporting.
• Support the Finance team with the collection and checking of finance information and expenditure.
• Prepare and provide timely reporting on the distribution of funds and impact for the partner.
• Create a learning log to continue to develop and implement best practice across grant programmes.
• Collaborate the Fundraising and Insight teams by providing relevant data to monitor and demonstrate the impact of our funded programmes.
Skills and Experience Required What we are looking for:
We are also interested in hearing from applicants who may not have the specific experience listed but have relevant transferrable skills.
• Experience of managing high value, high profile, UK-wide grant programmes.
• Experience of working in the third sector, with community and voluntary organisations.
• Passionate about making a difference to marginalised communities and individuals, putting equity and fairness at the heart of decision making.
• Capacity to learn from previous/current grant programmes, turning that knowledge into plans that improve our grant giving in the future.
• A confident communicator, with excellent planning and project management skills. Comfortable making decisions and presenting these to colleagues and partners.
• Excellent data literacy to analyse complex information on our impact, summarise learning and deliver reports.
• Ability to identify and propose solutions in areas of risk, specifically related to programme delivery and grant giving.
• A self-starter - able to work flexibly and under your own initiative, managing varying competing priorities.
• Comfortable under pressure - happy to work at high speed and mange numerous tasks (alongside a supportive team).
• Happy to work remotely in the main - but with regular opportunities to come together and collaborate with the team.
• Confident to share and represent the work of Sported to external audiences.
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