Grant Processes Officer

We’re looking for a Grant Processes Officer to support the Academy’s grant operations, helping to ensure our funding programmes run smoothly, efficiently, and in line with best practice. In this role, you’ll become a key user and point of contact for the Grant Management System (full training provided). You will work with teams across the Academy to support the launch of new funding rounds, maintain accurate and high-quality grants data, and ensure that grant changes are processed in a consistent and compliant way.

A key part of the role will be helping colleagues use the system and its related grant processes confidently. You’ll maintain clear guidance, develop training materials (including content for our internal learning platform), and support new colleagues through system onboarding. You’ll also manage the central grants inbox and serve as the first point of contact for system and process queries, ensuring colleagues receive timely and reliable support.

You will help drive improvements to our funding delivery by testing new system features, helping to refine cross-team processes, and supporting team change initiatives. You’ll stay engaged with universities and the wider research administration community, helping us remain aligned with sector developments and best practice in grant-making. The role also includes broader operational support, including coordinating the regular meetings that help keep our team’s work running smoothly.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys learning new systems, supporting others, and working collaboratively. If you thrive on organisation, attention to detail and making processes work better for everyone, we’d love to hear from you.

Application closing date: 15/02/2026

Interview date: w/c 23/02/2026

Interview location: London

Our light, spacious head office is based in central London with views over St James’s Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation, and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public.

With a diverse workforce and an inclusive and supportive culture, we look to attract candidates from wide and different backgrounds who have a passion for the role engineering plays in society. Our aim is to make the Academy the best place to work for the staff we have and those we seek to attract.

We’re looking for people who are driven to make the world a better place. If you’re passionate about what you do and want to work collaboratively with talented colleagues to make change happen now and for future generations, we want you to get in touch.

This is the perfect time to join us. We have a dynamic, visionary CEO, a strong leadership team and an ambitious and exciting strategy. The value we bring as experts in our field and change agents is highly recognised and makes the Academy a motivating place to be. Our work today builds on a long, proud history with a focused and ambitious future which we’d love you to be part of.

The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.