Grants and Project Operations Officer

Job Title: Grants and Project Operations Officer

Salary: £31,545 per annum (dependent on experience)

Location: Bristol (Office/home based) with occasional UK travel

Job Type: Full Time, 9 Month Fixed Term Contract with a provisional end date of 28 February 2026

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Closing Date:22nd April 2025

About Us:

Together for Short Lives is the UK children's palliative care charity. We work to make sure the 99,000 seriously ill children and their families can make the most of every moment they have together - whether that's for years, months or only hours.

We work with families and the brilliant people and services that support them - in hospitals, in children's hospices and in the community - to ensure that children and families get the support they need.

About the Role:

This postholder will provide operational support to ensure the smooth delivery of PSD activity.

In addition, they will maintain systems to ensure that delivery can be monitored, and that outputs and outcomes can be recorded for reporting purposes.

Key Aspects of the role include:

• Operational Delivery for PSD
• Monitoring and Reporting Facilitation
• Project Management Support
• General Administration

About you:

Qualifications:

• A level or equivalent (Essential)
• Health or social care or qualification (Desirable)

Experience:

• Providing information to a range of service users (Essential)
• Keeping records and producing reports (Essential)
• Providing support to a team (Essential)
• Previous involvement in grant programmes (Desirable)
• Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality protocols (Desirable)
• Managing levels of stock (Desirable)

Skills & Abilities

• High level of IT ability (Essential)
• Confident telephone manner (Essential)
• Excellent writing skills; able to write in different formats and to a range of audiences. (Essential)
• Confident face-to-face communicator (Essential)
• Ability to input into and interrogate databases (Essential)
• Ability to prioritise workload in a demanding environment (Essential)
• Good organisational skills (Essential)
• Updating web copy using WordPress (Desirable)
• Report writing (Desirable)

Personal Qualities (Essential):

• Ability to work effectively in a team and as an independent worker
• Comfortable engaging with new audiences
• Empathy
• Good time management

Benefits:

We offer a great reward package, which includes:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Staff assistance programme

Additional Information:

We regret that at this stage we can only consider candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Please click the APPLY button and check your emails for further instructions on how to complete your application.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Project Operations Assistant, Charity Project Operations, Non-Profit Operations Officer, Grant Project Officer, Grant Project Coordinator, may also be considered for this role.