Grants and SPF administrator

The Royal Free Charity is seeking an ambitious and talented grants and spf administrator to join their grants and research team.

• Salary: £27,000 – £28,080 per annum (subject to skills and experience)
• Hours of work: 37.5 hours a week over five days
• Location: Pears Building and hybrid working

The role

The grants and spf administrator will report to the grants manager.

Job purpose

This is a varied role supporting the team by providing administrative support.

The role sits within the grants team and a significant part of the role involves working closely with the charity’s finance team processing payment claims from grants and special purpose funds (SPFs). This will involve daily use of the charity’s finance system ‘Access’ for data entry, coding of invoices and first line approvals for expenditure. No previous knowledge of Access is needed; you will be trained on the system. You will be the first point of contact for the RFL and University College London (UCL) colleagues that are making the submissions for the claims.

You will provide grants management admin support which will include liaising with applicants on the status of their applications and admin support at the panel review meeting. Your role will include day-to-day administrative tasks relating to grant management and processing.

The broad remit of this role offers an exciting opportunity to sit within the grants team and see the difference the funding from our generous donors can make to staff and patients.

The team

Grants Department:

• Works strategically with the RFL to align funding with objectives and priority areas. The department allocates grant funding to RFL and UCL through its grant programmes. Furthermore, we oversee expenditure from SPFs (designated pots of money given for a specific purpose).
• Is responsible for overseeing the charity’s grant funding programmes and SPFs ensuring they adhere to high governance standards, monitoring the progress and impact of the projects we fund.

Organisation

The Royal Free Charity stands at the threshold of its most important period of development.

Our vision is for everyone served by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) to have access to world-leading healthcare, delivered by a thriving workforce, and driven by medical research that has a global impact. We support the 17,000 staff of the RFL and their two million patients across Barnet, Chase Farm, North Mid and Royal Free hospitals and more than 30 NHS services.

Through the services we provide, and the programmes and equipment we fund, we make a profound and immediate difference to patients’ experiences of care.

Closing date: it is an open, rolling campaign. CVs will be reviewed as submitted and interviews organised.

Please note, we may close this job advert early if we receive a large volume of applications.

Apply for this role

To apply for this post, you will need:

• Your CV (please include your last employer and dates of employment)
• A cover letter addressing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description and person specification

Applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered for this role.

If you require more information regarding this vacancy, please contact our office on 020 7472 6677.

As an equal opportunities employer, the Royal Free Charity is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Royal Free Charity.

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