Job Description:

Senior Grants and Compliance Manager

Location: UK Flexible with home working – monthly visit to London office for team meetings
Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35
Salary: Circa £47-50K per annum (depending on eligibility for Inner London Weighting)

Do you want to help ensure the British Red Cross (BRC) continues to deliver its services to those in need through providing leadership on our grant performance, contracting, grant management and compliance for our Performance and Accountability Department?

If so, then we have an exciting and rarely advertised opportunity for a Senior Grants and Compliance Manager that may just be for you.

How you’ll make a difference…

This is a new position which will provide the successful candidate with a unique opportunity to shape the BRC’s Grant management, accountability and compliance processes including with our international Red Cross and Red Crescent National Society partners.

This role is integral to the BRC and therefore vital to helping us achieve our mission of helping people in crisis.

What you will be doing…

This role will be central in providing leadership on grant contracting, grant management and compliance in the Performance and Accountability Department, with a particular focus on Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) funding to the British Red Cross and International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC).

You will be responsible for BRC’s contracting with FCDO and the development of agreements with Red Cross Red Crescent Movement partners. You will maintain oversight of the FCDO grant portfolio, which includes funding for emergency responses and for longer term programmes. As part of this oversight you will establish and monitor the operation of appropriate controls to ensure compliance with donor requirements, enabling the BRC and its partners to act as trusted stewards of FCDO funding.

You will work with the BRC compliance team and senior management on institutional level compliance matters as they apply to the FCDO grant portfolio. This role will also be the International Directorate lead on risk management, aid diversion and grant agreements between BRC and other parts of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. You will have line management responsibility for 2 team members.

What we are looking for…

• Evidenced ability in negotiating agreements with donors and partners for complex and large-scale programmes and funding pledges (UK Government preferred)
• Demonstrated decision making and risk management capabilities on significant institutional compliance issues
• Demonstrated ability to lead the on the delivery of a significant portfolio of complex grant agreements and funding alongside wider corporate and strategic initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage significant compliance initiatives with rigorous timelines and deliverables, including in emergency contexts
• Strong knowledge of effective grant management processes within complex organisations and funding environments
• Developed understanding of effective and reasonable due diligence processes

Closing date for applications is 23:59 on the 23rd April 2023 with interviews to follow shortly after.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include:

• 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays) per annum
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• Up to 6% contributory pension
• Flexible working policy
• Discounts from a wide range on online and high street retailers with our employee discount scheme and Blue Light Card
• Access to mental health resources
• Genuine investment in your personal and professional development

The British Red Cross, incorporated by Royal Charter 1908, is a charity registered in England and Wales (220949) and Scotland (SC037738).

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