THE PERSON

As well as exceptional customer service, to join us you’ll need an in-depth knowledge of best practice in respect to grant-making across more than one country of the UK. You will need to have significant experience of working in a grant-making capacity, and with charities and/or third sector organisations. Whatever your background, you’ll be efficient, accurate and show a real customer focus in all you do. What we offer you We expect you to look after our beneficiaries. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme. We offer annual leave up to 32 days (pro rata) per annum plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. This will be a home-working position with very occasional travel to the Foundation’s office in central London which put the needs of the service they deliver at their heart.

Grants Officer Home-based, 21 hours per week (the post holder will be required to work on Fridays to cover service delivery), permanent Salary per annum - £36,705 pro rata Please note this position is a home-based contract with one day face-to-face in London HQ every quarter At the RCN Foundation, we are committed to supporting, strengthening and championing the nursing profession. As a charity and grant-maker, we do this by funding research and projects, as well as education and hardship, which support nurses, midwives and Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) to innovate and progress in their careers. As the Foundation’s Grants Officer you will work across the Foundation’s grant-making activities and be responsible for checking eligibility and allocating education grant applications to external reviewers and support the Benevolent team with hardship grant applications. Both grant programmes are bespoke to the nursing and midwifery profession, and this role is essential in running a smooth first-class service relating to our grant making activity to individuals in need. In this varied role every day will be filled with possibilities. You will work across the Grants and Impact team and use the online application portal to manage all grant applications. You will manage enquires relating to the Foundation’s grant-making and work with the RCN Foundation Grants Manager to provide support to applicants.