Grants Manager

Motability Foundation; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A non-profit organization in Harlow is seeking a Grant Manager to oversee the grant delivery process and enhance support for organizations within the disability transport sector. The role includes engaging with applicants, managing multi-year grants, and collaborating with a diverse team to drive impactful projects. An exceptional opportunity to contribute to meaningful change while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

26 Days Holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays

Private health care with BUPA

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Pension contributions up to 15%

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience in managing and evaluating grant applications.
• Good communication skills and ability to engage at all levels.
• Familiarity with mobility challenges faced by disabled people is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage grant delivery from assessment to closure.
• Engage with applicants to strengthen proposal outcomes.
• Produce assessments for grant panels.

Skills

Assessing grant applications

Understanding not-for-profit structures

Report writing

Numerical interpretation

IT skills (MS Office)

Job description

Salary: £34,510

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.

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 several Grant Managers to join this team and help us deliver our vision. This role works within a dedicated team to assess grant applications from charities and organisations applying to the Motability Foundation for grant-funding to support their work in the disability transport sector.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, purpose-led team driving change in the transport system for disabled people and to work on some of the most interesting and impactful projects in the sector.

What you will be doing:

• Manage grant delivery, including assessment, due diligence, contracting, monitoring, and closure, across our funding rounds.
• Engage with all levels of applicant and grantee organisations to understand their work, assess their proposals, and provide support and challenge to strengthen delivery and outcomes.
• Undertake financial, reputational, governance, and operational due diligence in line with our policies and risk appetite.
• Produce high quality assessments of applications for review by our grant panels, including award recommendations.
• Work with applicant organisations to develop and agree contractual grant agreements.
• Manage and monitor multi-year grant awards to ensure objectives and KPIs are achieved within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Ensuring all of our data records are kept up-to-date including reconciling payment schedules to grant records.
• Work closely with colleagues across the TST to provide insight from delivery into programme development, and to learn from others’ work across research, innovation and partnerships.
• Staying abreast of key issues facing the disability and transport sectors, to understand how these shape and influence applications to Motability’s grant programmes.
• Support delivery of non-traditional funding mechanisms such as challenge prizes, research calls, or commercial commissioning approaches, contributing to assessment and management.

Your experience:

• Experienced in assessing, managing, monitoring and evaluating grant applications or similar roles related to charitable grant making.
• Understanding of not-for-profit structures, including charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations.
• Experience in writing a variety of styles including academic, reports, and impact.
• Demonstrable ability to prioritise when faced with a continuous flow of applications and variable work load.
• Experience of effectively engaging at all levels within applicant organisations leading discussions where necessary.
• Good with numbers, and the ability to understand and interpret budgets and accounts.
• Able to engage with grant applicants and build an ongoing positive rapport.
• Strong IT skills including experience working with the MS Office suite.
• Experience within the disability sector and/or direct or indirect experience of the mobility challenges faced by disabled people would be advantageous, but not essential.

️ WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU ️

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service

️ Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

️ Our culture - In the Motability office we “dress for our day”, it’s an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at: [e-mail]

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Equity, Diversity and Inclusion which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every applicant with a disability who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please tick the relevant box when filling out your application.