SALARY: £26,750

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street/Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service from Harlow Town Train Station and free parking onsite.
Hours: Full-time position, Blended working arrangement could be considered, with two days a week working from home.
Reports to: Transport Solutions Manager.

YOUR EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrable ability to prioritise when faced with a continuous flow of applications and variable workload.
• Previous experience in providing support to a busy team.
• Strong communication skills with the proven ability to build rapport with a range of stakeholders.
• Highly organised and with the ability to adapt to a variety of systems.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong IT skills including experience working with the MS Office suite including Excel.
• A desire to learn and develop skills.
• Prior experience of working in the disability sector or organisation-level grantmaking would be an advantage, but not essential.

HOW TO FIND OUT MORE?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at: recruitment@motabilityfoundation.org.uk

ABOUT THE ROLE:

At the Motability Foundation, we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose.
We’re building a Transport Solutions Team that can work flexibly across all the tools in our delivery kit – from grants and innovation pilots to research, partnerships, and commercial interventions. This includes a growing portfolio of projects tackling key challenges like inclusive EV charging, complex community transport funding opportunities, and large-scale research such as the National Centre for Accessible Transport.
We are now recruiting a number of Grant Administrators to help us deliver our vision. As a key member of the Transport Solutions team, you will work to provide operational support to the team and organisations applying to support their work in the disability transport sector.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• You will be the first point of contact for potential grant applicants answering their questions, processing submitted applications, and checking eligibility against criteria.
• Provide administrative support across the Transport Solutions funding portfolio, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations and high-quality service to applicants and grantees.
• Manage shared inboxes and correspondence, responding to enquiries and allocating tasks to team members, providing support where needed.
• Ensuring all of our data records are kept up to date including managing key documentation and ensuring information is recorded correctly for audit purposes.
• Preparing documentation for panel meetings, including agendas, decision packs and dashboards.
• Processing data submitted with monitoring reports which will feed into the overall impact demonstration of the programmes managed by the team.