Healthcare Grants Programme Lead

Great Ormond Street Hospital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing schemes

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is seeking a Grant Funding Programme Manager to shape and deliver our healthcare funding portfolio at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

You will collaborate with clinical colleagues to develop funding schemes and turn ambitious ideas into investments that benefit children and families. The role requires a postgraduate healthcare qualification and strong grants experience, with a hybrid working arrangement (minimum 2 days in the office).

Qualifications

• Strong grants management experience in healthcare funding.
• Experience delivering funding schemes and peer review.
• Postgraduate qualification in healthcare or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic areas of our healthcare funding portfolio, developing a strong understanding of the relevant hospital landscape, and using this insight to inform future charitable funding decisions.
• Work closely with senior clinical and hospital colleagues to review significant and sometimes complex funding proposals, helping turn ideas into well-designed programmes with clear outcomes.
• Design new funding schemes and approaches, establishing the processes, governance and ways of working needed to make them successful.
• Assess funding proposals and provide thoughtful, constructive challenge around need, strategic fit, deliverability, sustainability and impact.
• Prepare clear recommendations and present proposals and portfolio updates to senior decision-making forums, including our Trustee-level Grants & Impact Committee.
• Manage funding programmes throughout their lifecycle, from application and assessment through to monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Build trusted relationships across the hospital and Charity, creating an environment where people can explore ideas while ensuring funding decisions remain robust and evidence led.
• Stay curious about developments across healthcare and the NHS, identifying where charitable funding could unlock innovation or create greater impact for children and families.

Skills

Grants management

Healthcare funding

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

Education

Postgraduate qualification in healthcare or related discipline

Job description

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is seeking a Grant Funding Programme Manager to shape and deliver our healthcare funding portfolio at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

You will collaborate with clinical colleagues to develop funding schemes and turn ambitious ideas into investments that benefit children and families. The role requires a postgraduate healthcare qualification and strong grants experience, with a hybrid working arrangement (minimum 2 days in the office).