Programmes Officer

Buckinghamshire Council; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Heart of Bucks, the Community Foundation for Buckinghamshire, is seeking a Funding Programmes Officer to lead several grant streams, act as team expert on priorities and operations, and deliver workshops that help groups understand the fund.

You will prioritise a busy workload, communicate with donors and grantees, analyse data for panel decisions, and support volunteer panel members during meetings. Salesforce CRM experience is helpful, with a willingness to learn.

Qualifications

• Ability to prioritise and manage a workload with multiple deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical thinker who can identify information gaps quickly.
• Strong administrative skills to organise grants panel meetings.
• Willingness to learn Salesforce CRM if not already proficient.

Responsibilities

• Deliver funding programmes and act as the team expert on priorities and operations.
• Run workshops to help groups understand the fund.
• Set up and run funding panels.
• Support volunteers on panel meetings and provide information for decision making.
• Engage with donors and grantees to maximise service impact.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Administration

Time management

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

In this role you will be responsible for delivering our funding programmes, making sure our grants and loans programmes run effectively. You'll be the lead officer for a number of the funding programmes so will be our "team expert" for all things related to the priorities and operations of those funds, right through from delivering workshops to help groups understand the fund, to setting up and running any funding panels.

To be effective in this role, you'll need to be able to prioritise, focus and manage a workload with multiple deadlines. Your great communication and interpersonal skills will enable you to engage with the broad range of stakeholders we work with including donors and grantees, helping them get the best out of our services. You'll need to be able to analyse information quickly, identify any gaps and seek out information to make sure our Grants Panels have the best available information to reach decisions. Strong administrative skills will be required to organise grants panel meetings effectively and to support our volunteer panel members.

Experience of Salesforce CRM would be really helpful in this role, but please don't be put off applying if you don't have all the skills we need, so long as you are willing and able to learn as you go.

We are Heart of Bucks, the Community Foundation for Buckinghamshire. Heart of Bucks is a registered charity working with some amazing donors to provide a broad range of funding to other charities and not for profit organisations across Bucks. Our programmes range from those helping to address health inequalities or community safety, through poverty and inclusion projects, sports and leisure, to education, arts and culture programmes, and everything in-between.