Our Grants Team, predominantly based out of our Belfast office, provides full end-to-end grant management support to national and international grant progammes to optimise the value delivered by the grants in achieving impact and policy outcomes while maintaining strong governance and financial control.
The right person will have skills in desiging, establishing and operating grant programmes, specifically including, but not limited to, experience of running grant programmes in the international aid and development sector. They will be adept at understanding the policy imperatives behind grant schemes and interpret their results, providing clear policy and risk management advice to clients, and using technology platforms and data visualisation tools to improve delivery. Ideally theirexperience will include overseeing grant-making to organisations operating in fragile and conflict-affected states with heightened risks of corruption and fraud.
About the role
This is a senior level appointment for a Senior Manager to be responsible for:
· Leading the delivery of grant schemes and/or workstreams of large complex funding programmes;
· Identifying market opportunities and playing a key role in business development opportunities;
· Building relatihonships with our key clients;
· Developing the careers of the people working with and reporting to you.
Requirements
Essential skills & experience
· Strong grants management track record with experience and networks within the UK domestic and international grants sectors including:
Ø Experience of leading large scale international grant programmes for funders such as the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and a strong understanding of the full grant life-cycle beyond fiduciary management and output verification of grants, including monitoring and evaluation of programmatic aspects;
Ø Understanding of grant management requirements including the Cabinet Office Functional Standards on Grants, Managing Public Money and reporting requirements such as the Government Grants Information System and the International Aid Transparency Initative (IATI);
· Experience in drawing policy insights and advice from grant management information;
· Strong understanding of fraud risk management and strategies to mitigate and manage fraud risk;
· Leading and developing teams;
· Understanding our clients’ business and showing strong commercial acumen;
· Senior stakeholder management and relationship building.
Desirable skills & experience
· A track record of new business sales;
· Experience of designing grant management platforms on Salesforce and using other data visulaisation tools;
· Experience of managing grants in fragile states and remote monitoring techniques in challenging environments where physical access is highly limited;
· Experience of safeguarding requirements and management strategies;
· Experience of developing thought leadership, new methodologies and propositions in this area.
PwC is assisting governments, donors, foundations and NGOs across the globe to help manage their international programmes, funds and internal operations to help alleviate poverty and boost global economic growth. You can find out more about PwC UK’s work in international development here: https://www.pwc.co.uk/industries/government-public-sector/international-development.html and in financial sector here: https://www.pwc.co.uk/industries/financial-services.html