Charity Engagement and Impact Officer | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

A local healthcare charity is seeking a motivated individual to provide administrative support to the funding team in Newcastle. This role involves maintaining records, ensuring efficient grant payments, and assisting with the development of an Engagement and Impact Strategy. The position emphasizes organizational skills and attention to detail, ideally suited for someone looking to make a difference in healthcare. Flexible working arrangements can be accommodated.

Qualifications

• Excellent organizational skills including record keeping and time management.
• Strong interpersonal skills and understanding of digital communication methods.
• Ability to work in a busy, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Associate Director and Engagement and Impact Manager with Charity grant-making.
• Provide high quality, effective administrative service for grant-making.
• Liaise with finance team to ensure efficient grant payments.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

IT literacy

Attention to detail

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the team on a 12-month fixed-term basis to help shape the future of Newcastle Hospitals Charity as we make a real difference for our patients, our staff and our region. As a key member of the team, the post holder will play a pivotal role in supporting the Funding and Partnerships function.

This role will join a collaborative and supportive funding team responsible for a busy portfolio of grant making, ensuring accurate records are kept and having a key role in requesting and reviewing impact from the amazing projects with fund.
• Interview Date: Wednesday 3 September 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Newcastle Hospitals Charity makes grants in support of initiatives that help to improve the health and wellbeing of the patients, people, and wider communities of Newcastle Hospitals.

This role provides crucial admin support to the team with the delivery of an Engagement and Impact Strategy for grant-making. You will provide a high quality, effective and efficient administrative service, liaising with colleagues in the Charity's finance team to ensure that grant payments are made quickly, accurately, and efficiently, and maintaining efficient records of grant applications, awards and monitoring. You will have excellent organisational skills including record keeping and time management.

We're also looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills, understanding of digital communication methods, IT literacy, and the ability to work within a busy, fast-paced environment. You will be comfortable supporting applications with applying for funding and guiding them through the process.

You will have excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

· Freeman Hospital

· Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

· Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

· Newcastle Dental Hospital

· Newcastle Fertility Centre

· Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

· Northern Genetics Service

· Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• To support the Associate Director and Engagement and Impact Manager with Charity grant-making
• To support the Engagement and Impact Manager with the development and delivery of an Engagement and Impact Strategy for Charity grant-making, and to support the Charity Committee, a sub-committee of Trust Board, to fulfil its grant-making duties as defined in the Charity Policy and the Trust’s Constitution.
• To provide a high quality, effective and efficient administrative service to the grant-making of the Charity
• To liaise with colleagues in the Charity’s finance team, and with applicants, to ensure that grant payments are made quickly, accurately, and efficiently.
• To maintain efficient records of Charity grant applications and awards and assist with the monitoring and evaluation of Charity grants, analysing, and interpreting data and reporting on the cumulative and individual impact of grants made.
• To work with the Associate Director and the Engagement and Impact Manager to ensure that effective relationships between the Board of Directors, Council of Governors and Trust’s membership are maintained.
• To support the Engagement and Impact Manager with implementation,
monitoring, and audit requirements of grant-making governance for the Charity Committee to ensure compliance with the regulatory framework of the Charity Commission and associated bodies
• To provide publicity, training and education on Charity grant-making, grant programmes and the grant application process
• To prepare reports for the Charity Committee and Charity Working Groups
• To work as a key member of the Charity team, contributing to broader
engagement and administrative work that contributes to the Charity’s overall effectiveness.


This advert closes on Sunday 17 Aug 2025