Senior Grants Manager, Environment and Communities

Rothschild Foundation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization in the Greater London area seeks a Senior Grants Manager to lead its environmental grant-making portfolio. The role involves strategic development of programs focused on sustainability, identifying funding opportunities, and collaborating with grantees for effectiveness. Ideal candidates will have experience in environmental sectors and a strong understanding of ecological restoration. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in environmental sustainability.

Qualifications

• Highly motivated and dynamic individual with strategic work experience.
• Experience in developing new areas of work.
• Strong understanding of ecological restoration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the Environment programme focused on sustainability.
• Maintain an overview of 'Environment' grants and share learning.
• Identify funding gaps and emerging opportunities in the sector.
• Support potential applicants and ensure due diligence standards.
• Collaborate on programme evaluation and enhance effectiveness.
• Produce regular updates for Trustees and share funding impact.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Experience in environmental or conservation sectors

Understanding of nature-based solutions

Program evaluation skills

Job description

Senior Grants Manager, Environment and Communities

We are seeing an experienced environmentalist to lead the development and delivery of our grant-making portfolio focused on Environment and Communities.

As Senior Grants Manager, you will identify, assess, and manage grants that contribute to these evolving areas of interest. A particular focus of the role will be developing strategic grants and partnerships that contribute to Environmental Sustainability. This is a developing area of interest, supporting activity that restores the natural environment and enabling practices such a nature friendly farming and community growing. Current grantees include the Sustainable Food Trust, the Wildlife Trust, and local farer clusters.

The foundation has recently launched a 'Green Fund' pilot, supporting Buckinghamshire grantees to deliver progress in environmental sustainability. The role will lead on the delivery of this programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic development of our Environment programme, including current explorations in community growing, nature friendly farming and nature restoration
• Maintaining an overview of the portfolio of 'Environment' grants, sharing learning and identifying connections across grantees
• Keeping up to date on sector development, identify funding gaps, and emerging opportunities
• Identifying and supporting potential applicants, conducting visits, guiding proposal development, and ensuring due diligence standards are met
• Supporting programme evaluation in collaboration with the Impact and Evaluation Manager, responding to learning from grantee reports and data to enhance programme effectiveness
• Producing regular updates for Trustees, including project updates and data insights, and contribute to creative ways of sharing the impact of our funding.

You will be a great fit if...

You are a highly motivated, dynamic and experienced individual with experience in thinking and working strategically. You will also be used to taking the lead to develop new areas of work, and have experience working in environmental or conservation sectors with a strong understanding of nature-based solutions and ecological restoration.

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