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Location: Hybrid - remote and office based - you will be required to attend the Generation office in Dublin once per fortnight minimum, and the role will require periodic travel within Ireland for events and meeting partners. People in the UK & Ireland team are also expected to travel for team and all-hands gatherings once or twice per year (travel/accommodation covered).
Salary: London – €39-47k (subject to experience)
Contract: Full-Time (40 hours a week) or part time considered. Flexible working hours available.
Deadline for applications: 16th May
Interviews: Week commencing 19th and 26th May
ABOUT GENERATION
Generation is a charity in Ireland with the mission to support people facing significant and multiple barriers to employment into life-changing careers they otherwise could not access.
We achieve this with a unique methodology of profession-specific skills bootcamp training, focussed on in-demand careers (specifically in the tech, healthcare and green sectors), with extensive, ongoing pastoral support and matchmaking to employer partners.
Since launching in Ireland in 2020, we have trained more than 600 people. Our work focuses on supporting those from diverse groups facing barriers to desirable employment. For these learners, we have achieved an industry leading c. 70% job placement rate with learners now placed at >200 employers.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As Generation Ireland’s first dedicated Funding and Grants Manager you’ll secure, manage and develop relationships with our funders and partners. Your remit will include every aspect of the grant, funding and partnership lifecycle from developing new opportunities to reporting on live delivery and evaluating completed work.
Working within a passionate and effective team across Ireland and the UK, you’ll manage a portfolio of our funders to ensure key milestones and requirements are captured for each funder; reporting is timely and accurate; and partners are meaningfully engaged in and delighted by our work through volunteering, class visits and life-changing stories. This will be particularly important for new public sector funders as Generation Ireland takes on new and larger contracts in this sector.
You’ll play a key role in securing new partnerships and grants proposing plans for and negotiating renewals with existing partners, scoping and converting new private sector corporate and trust/foundation opportunities, and leading proposals to Irish public sector bodies (ETBs, Skillnets, Solas…).
The role has the following key responsibilities:
* Manage and develop our existing grants and funding partnerships across the public and private sectors (c.60% of time)
* Play point on relationships with a portfolio of c.10-15 funders across public and private sector
* Convert contracts/grants into operational and reporting plans and guide delivery teams
* Provide detailed, data-based, reporting to partners in the formats they prefer
* Lead claiming, evidencing, compliance and audit processes for public sector projects
* Develop strong relationships through excellent comms in meetings and in reports/emails
* Deliver delight/engagement initiatives to maximise chance of funding renewal (e.g. support and organise c.3-4 yearly volunteering events for partner staff, comms opportunities)
Identify and manage a pipeline of new opportunities and develop proposals to secure new and repeat funding to drive Generation’s growth from a c.1m euro charity (c.30%)
* Create compelling proposals to extend and repeat partnerships of existing funding contracts
* Research and network to identify new funding and partnership opportunities for Generation
* Create and manage a pipeline of opportunities with the potential to drive growth to hit our targets
* Submit expressions of interests, secure introductions or reach out cold to begin building relationships
* Write proposals end-to-end drawing on expertise and support from colleagues where you need it
Contribute to the wider success and growth of Generation in Ireland & globally (10%)
* Work closely with Generation Ireland operational colleagues to understand opportunities and blockers and contribute to problem solving and ideation sessions
* Work closely with Generation UK and Generation global colleagues to support global multi-country proposals and grant management, sharing information/learnings
* Get close to our impact and work as a charity, devoting time to delivering mock interviews for learners on cohorts, and helping out with interviewing prospective applicants
* Contribute to a culture of idea generation, feedback and learnings on a 1-1, team and organisational level
ABOUT YOU
Here are the core attributes we think you’ll need to be successful in the role:
* You’re a highly organised and self motivated professional, able to manage multiple projects independently and ruthlessly prioritise, whilst always staying focussed on your overarching goals.
* You’re a people person, excelling at quickly building new, lasting relationships with partners
* You’re an effective communicator, able to talk to a range of people and comfortable with delivering difficult or complex messages to partners in writing or discussion
* You’re passionate about the cause, with a demonstrated interest and motivation to support those from a disadvantaged background and see the importance of what we are trying to achieve in the long term
* You’re a strong writer, you have an engaging, concise and compelling writing style for proposals and reports
* You’re detail-oriented, willing and able to compile and report detailed grant management submissions, ensuring both the quantitative and qualitative aspects are accurate
* You’re comfortable with numbers analysing data in spreadsheets and dashboards to identify key trends, managing targets and creating budgets
ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE
To be best set up for success, we think you’ll need experience of the following areas. However, if you meet only some of these criteria, or even none but believe you have transferable skills and experience we would still strongly welcome your application.
* Managing and/or reporting on reasonably sized public sector projects (preferably in Ireland, ideally with examples>50k euros/year)
* Managing and/or reporting on multiple private sector funded projects (preferably charity projects funded by corporates and/or trusts and foundation, ideally with examples >50k euros in value)
* Writing grant applications/proposals to secure 5 and 6 figure grants/contracts
* Identifying new funding and partnership opportunities though research and networking
ABOUT THE PROCESS
Applying through the ‘Workable’ system we’ll ask you to upload your CV and answer a few questions on your experience (no cover letter needed!). We’ll then ask candidates successful at each stage to complete a short online pre-recorded video interview, before completing a short offline task ahead of a live interview with a panel. Depending on the quality and number of candidates we may then add another interview stage.
Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.
We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset.
We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.
At Generation, we're changing people’s lives. Purpose and social impact at the heart of work in itself gets us out of bed each morning! However, beyond this, working with the team, you’ll get:
* Autonomy to own and take forward your own workstreams as part of an ambitious, fast-growing charity with awesome colleagues
* Flexible/hybrid working accommodating your preferred working pattern and needs and a WFH allowance
* Professional development opportunities including an annual personal development budget, up to 5 days training/study leave and calendarised, protected time for your own learning and development
* Volunteering opportunities with the chance to support our learners with mock interviews
* Holiday buy-back scheme with up to a month extra leave each year
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