Investment Officer in Loughborough

Level of Clearance Required: basic DBS - provided by Brook Street for successful candidate.

Hybrid - 1 day in the office; flexible for the rest, with some travel as required. Exact pattern will be discussed at interview. Parking is available at the workplace.

If you love turning messy information into reliable insight and you want your work to directly support decisions that help sport and physical activity across England, this is a brilliant opportunity. Our Client is hiring for a reputed client for an Investment Officer (Data), providing essential data and operational support across the grant lifecycle.

What you'll be doing:

• Coordinate operational delivery of the Open Investment Programme, supporting applications across the full grant lifecycle.
• Maintain accurate grant records, programme data and statutory datasets, ensuring information is complete, reliable and decision-ready.
• Carry out initial due diligence and programme administration, ensuring applications are processed in line with programme policies, governance requirements and service standards.
• Support programme governance by coordinating peer review/decision processes, preparing documentation, recording outcomes and keeping a full audit trail.
• Help ensure timely, accurate communications with applicants and grant recipients throughout the lifecycle.
• Support statutory reporting for Lottery and Exchequer investments, ensuring data is accurate, complete and compliant with external requirements.
• Validate, reconcile and cleanse programme data to improve quality, integrity and consistency across funding systems and reporting datasets.
• Produce and maintain programme performance information to support monitoring of key performance indicators and operational decision-making.
• Assist with implementing data and reporting improvements driven by policy changes, system developments and external reporting standards.
• Build positive working relationships and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, customer-focused team culture.

What you'll bring:

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to agreed timescales.
• Excellent attention to detail, working accurately and consistently in line with agreed processes.
• Confident written and verbal communication, building effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong digital skills, including confidence with Microsoft Office and business systems to manage, analyse and present information.
• Experience working with data, able to validate information, spot inaccuracies and ensure data is fit for reporting and decision making.
• Strong teamworking skills, contributing to shared objectives.

If you're meticulous with data, confident with stakeholder communication, and motivated by work that improves how funding decisions are made, we'd love to hear from you.

Brok Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.