Job Description

Working hours:

35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:

Permanent

Location:

Gloucester

Job Ref:

204084

About the role

Benefact Trust

, are looking for a

Grants Administrator

to join our

Gloucester

office.

As

Grants Administrator

you'll be acting as the first point of contact for Benefact Trust and providing high-quality administrative support across the full grants cycle, ensuring efficient and impactful grant-making.

Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that's committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group--where all profits go to charity and good causes.
What you'll be doingActing as the first point of contact for applicants, beneficiaries, and other external parties, providing effective support and guidance
Logging new grant applications on the grants management system, carrying out initial eligibility checks, and inputting supplementary information
Providing administrative support for the post-grant award process, including scheduling grant payments and communicating outcomes to beneficiaries
Leading on the administration of multi-year payments for grants made on the
Trust's previous grants management system, including processing and sending cheques, updating payment records and reporting to finance colleagues
Ensuring that records are managed and retained in accordance with Trust and Group policies
What you'll need to haveProven administrative and organisational skills
Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
Good attention to detail and the ability to undertake repetitive tasks with a high degree of accuracy
Good working knowledge of database management and IT systems, ideally grants management systems
Effective relationship management experience
What makes you stand outDemonstrates a positive and accommodating attitude
Engages well with others in the team but also content working alone
Confident and helpful when dealing with enquiries and questions
Excellent attention to detail
What we offer

A competitive salary - let's discuss it


Hybrid working


Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution


Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%


25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme


An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance


200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice


Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year


Employee Assistance Programme


Full study support to gain professional qualifications
Access to virtual GP
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Hear from the hiring manager"We are a small and supportive team, passionate about what we do, driven by the impact our grants can have, and inspired by the many fabulous organisation we support."


About us

Benefact Trust

was built on a simple, but ambitious idea - to be one of the UK's most impactful Christian grant-making charities.
This idea is at the heart of everything we do, it has defined our ownership of Benefact Group - which is made up of specialist financial companies whose available profits go towards funding our charitable giving.
We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.