Grants Operations Lead - Funding & Impact

Harris Hill Charity Recruitment Specialists; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Hill is delighted to be supporting a leading healthcare charity to recruit a Senior Funding Operations Manager in London (Hybrid). This newly created role sits within the Funding & Impact team and oversees the full grant lifecycle from application to closure.

You will lead operational delivery of grant-making processes, improve systems and reporting, liaise with applicants, grant holders and reviewers, and develop policies to ensure governance and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in grants management or funding operations.
• Experience within a charity, academic, healthcare, research or funding environment.
• Experience using grants management, CRM or database systems.
• Experience improving complex processes and workflows.
• Good knowledge of charity governance, compliance and GDPR.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Confidence handling complex data and Excel; excellent communication and stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operational delivery of the charity's grant-making processes and annual funding cycles.
• Coordinate grant review and decision-making processes, ensuring accurate and timely information is available.
• Support the administration and monitoring of donor-funded and restricted grants.
• Act as a senior point of contact for applicants, grant holders, reviewers and internal colleagues.
• Lead the day-to-day management and development of grants management systems.
• Improve processes, workflows, automation and the user experience across funding operations.
• Ensure high standards of data quality, governance and reporting.
• Develop and maintain funding policies, procedures and guidance.
• Ensure grants are administered in line with organisational policies, delegated authorities and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to reporting, compliance and wider Funding & Impact projects.

Skills

Grants management

Funding operations

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Process improvement

Excel

CRM systems

Job description

Harris Hill is delighted to be supporting a leading healthcare charity to recruit a Senior Funding Operations Manager in London (Hybrid). This newly created role sits within the Funding & Impact team and oversees the full grant lifecycle from application to closure.

You will lead operational delivery of grant-making processes, improve systems and reporting, liaise with applicants, grant holders and reviewers, and develop policies to ensure governance and regulatory compliance.