Grants and Impact Manager - Indicative banding - Band 6
Job Description
Job summary
This role is currently subject to NHS Banding.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Dudley Group NHS Charity in a newly created role during a period of growth. The Grants and Impact Manager will lead on securing significant grant income from trusts, foundations and statutory funders, managing relationships and delivering high-quality funding applications, with a focus on six-figure awards.
The postholder will also lead the development and delivery of the charity's impact and evaluation framework, ensuring robust monitoring, reporting and evidence of impact across all funded projects. Working closely with colleagues across the Trust, the role will play a key part in developing new charity projects, strengthening funder relationships, and supporting the charity's wider growth ambitions to enhance care for patients, staff and the local community.
Main duties of the job
- Secure grant income by researching, writing and managing high-quality funding applications to trusts, foundations and statutory funders.
- Build and steward strong relationships with funders, ensuring excellent communication, reporting and compliance.
- Lead the development and delivery of the charity's monitoring, evaluation and impact framework, producing clear impact reports.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the Trust to develop new charitable projects and compelling cases for support.
- Maintain accurate records, forecasts and reports to support income targets and strategic growth.
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
As part of the NHS People Promise, your wellbeing is our priority, and we are committed to ensuring our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance supported by our flexible working options and by making reasonable adjustments where possible. We believe no-one should have to sacrifice family, friends, or their personal interests for work. We are a modern employer able to attract and retain high quality staff through our commitment to the NHS People Promise.
As an employer, we foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best. We want to ensure that our workforce is representative of the population we serve. More information - inclusive practice people promise.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD Team. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values.
Please click below to view our EDI page: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (dgft.nhs.uk)
Job responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
- Research, develop and submit highquality grant applications to trusts, foundations and statutory funders to secure significant income.
- Manage and steward funder relationships, ensuring effective communication, reporting and grant compliance.
- Lead the development and delivery of the charitys monitoring, evaluation and impact framework, producing clear impact and progress reports.
- Work with clinical and operational teams across the Trust to develop new charitable projects and compelling cases for support.
- Maintain accurate records, forecasts and reports to support income targets and strategic planning.
Key relationships
- Head of Charity and the wider Charity Team.
- Trust clinical, operational and finance teams.
- External funders including trusts, foundations, statutory bodies and partner organisations.
Please attached job description for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Educated to degree / diploma level or equivalent experience in a related area (charity, grant giving)
- Excellent standard of English - written, spoken and grammar
- Continued professional development
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Member of Institute of Fundraising or equivalent professional body
Knowledge and Training
Essential
- Understanding of the importance of grant funding relationships in the charitable sector.
- Demonstrable evidence of successful trusts and foundation charity fundraising.
- Evidence of networking and relationship building in the fundraising sector.
- Knowledge of the UK Trusts and Foundations sector and trends.
- Understanding of a charity's reserves policy and the requirements of funders.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the local area and funding environment in West Midlands.
- Knowledge of NHS environment fundraising.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of preparation and submission of complex, successful, funding applications, including large (£100k+) awards from trusts, foundations, or statutory funders.
- Experience of securing and managing small, medium, and large grants from trusts, foundations, or statutory funders via diverse approaches.
- Experience of managing or developing strategic relationships from identification all the way through to securing a gift or grant.
- Experience of analysing and reporting information/data.
- Significant experience or developing impact frameworks to record and report on impact of work against strategic objectives.
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential
- Good numeracy skills and comfortable working with and reporting on data and budgets.
- Ability to analyse a wide range of information and statistics relating to impact and evaluation.
- Experience of working with databases (Harlequin at DGNHS).
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
- Ability to plan complex charity projects, with an aptitude for organisational detail including developing comprehensive action and project plans for areas of responsibility.
- Ability to develop comprehensive funding proposals, with budgets, costings and timetables.
- Ability and confidence to work under own initiative / motivation and able to time-manage and prioritise workloads in busy and demanding circumstances with tight timescales.
- May be required to work evenings and weekends, as required.
Desirable
- Organisation of funder cultivation events.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Willing and able to travel independently across the communities and geographical areas that the Trust services, or for networking purposes.
- Ability to act as the sole representative of the charity in a range of stakeholder engagement settings, utilising impact, passion and integrity.
- Ability to manoeuvre fundraising materials/equipment on a regular basis
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Trust Values
Essential
- Able to provide safe, caring, and effective services
- Values and behaviours that reflect the Trust values of Care, Respect and Responsibility
- Commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that is free from discrimination and where people feel they belong, and their contribution is valued
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Russells Hall Hospital
Charity Team, 2nd Floor, Trust HQ
Dudley
DY1 2HQ
United Kingdom
