Erasmus+ Grants Lead

PurposePhil Career; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

British Council in the UK is recruiting a Grants Manager to lead the end-to-end grants lifecycle across a defined portfolio, ensuring compliance, accountability and excellent customer experience.

Reporting to a Senior Grants Manager, you will manage a team of Grants Officers, apply programme rules and eligibility criteria, build strong stakeholder relationships and drive continuous improvement in delivery and risk management.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering grants or similar regulated funding programmes.
• Experience supervising or leading staff within a customer-facing or operational delivery environment.
• Experience working with compliance, risk, audit or assurance processes.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong operational grants management experience.
• Ability to interpret and apply complex programme guidance, funding rules and eligibility criteria.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate, auditable records.

Responsibilities

• Leading the delivery of grants management activity across the full grant lifecycle, from application and assessment through to award, monitoring, change control and closure.
• Ensuring grant-making activity is delivered in line with programme rules, European Commission requirements, British Council standards and agreed KPIs.
• Allocating and managing workloads across the team to support efficient delivery of the annual work programme.
• Ensuring grant assessments, funding decisions and programme records are accurate, consistent and audit-ready.
• Monitoring performance, management information and assurance activity to identify risks and support operational decision-making.
• Line managing Grants Officers, providing coaching, guidance and day-to-day operational leadership.
• Supporting performance management, development planning and capability building across the team.
• Fostering a high-performing, customer-focused and accountable team culture.
• Applying quality assurance frameworks and supporting actions arising from audits, reviews and assurance activity.
• Identifying and managing operational risks, escalating issues appropriately where required.
• Ensuring compliance with safeguarding, data protection and information governance requirements.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across Compliance, Customer Experience, Digital, Marketing and Sector teams to resolve delivery issues and improve processes.
• Supporting implementation of programme updates, guidance changes and system improvements.
• Contributing to lessons learned activities and continuous improvement initiatives across the grants function.

Skills

Grants management

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Compliance & risk

Programme governance

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

British Council in the UK is recruiting a Grants Manager to lead the end-to-end grants lifecycle across a defined portfolio, ensuring compliance, accountability and excellent customer experience.

Reporting to a Senior Grants Manager, you will manage a team of Grants Officers, apply programme rules and eligibility criteria, build strong stakeholder relationships and drive continuous improvement in delivery and risk management.