Grants and Membership Administrator Apprentice
ACTION TOGETHER CIO
OLDHAM, OL1 1DJ
Closes in 23 days (Friday 25 October at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 September 2024
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Summary
This role will support our strategic ambition to grow and transform as a local funder. You will support the awarding of grants to community groups and projects, making sure our funding gets where it’s needed most, in line with our commitments to the IVAR principles of open and trusting grantmaking.
- Annual wage
- £22,464 a year
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
36 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 28 October
- Duration
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1 Year 6 Months
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
You will offer a welcoming and professional first point of contact for our new members and work with our Operations Manager to maximise the engagement of our membership.
The main things you will be asked to do in this role:
· Ensure that all grant applications received are processed in a timely fashion and that all protocols are followed.
· Collect monitoring and assist with collecting and analysing learning and insight from our grants
· Promote details of grants awarded on our website.
· Provide prospective and new members with a warm welcome and information about Action Together’s offer
· Manage requests, create events, monitor bookings and support the hosting of our Meet the Funder online sessions
· Manage our membership data and ensure our membership numbers are up to date
· Promote investment opportunities on our website, through our comms and with teams to make sure groups know what is available and how to apply
· Keep accurate up to date records relating to our investments using our CRM database and MS Excel
· To support groups to ensure that where appropriate details of funded activities are added to our Activities Directory
General asks of everyone that works as part of the Action Together team:
· Support us in our charitable purpose, helping us to achieve our strategic aims and using our values as outlined below to underpin all that you do.
· Behave in a professional manner and adhere to our policies and procedures including safeguarding, health and safety, data protection.
· Be inclusive and work to combat all forms of discrimination and disadvantage, ensuring that the principles of equitable opportunities and social justice are implemented in your work.
Help us to achieve our strategic aims and priorities by contributing your skills and experience to projects and tasks when required
Where you’ll work
80 UNION STREET
OLDHAM
OL1 1DJ
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
THE OLDHAM COLLEGE
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
Off the job training will take place one day a week at Oldham College
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 4 subjects including English and Maths (grade Grade 4-9 (A*-C))
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Knowledge of the role and impact of VCFSE (voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise) organisations would be desirable.
About this company
Action Together works across Oldham Borough, providing a range of services to support the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector. The Action Together team is vital in achieving the charity’s purpose: to maximise opportunities to create positive social change, promote social justice and harness social benefit; and to strengthen the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector. Action Together’s values underpin all our activities. They are ways of working that we will always strive for, and we want to be held accountable to them. Our values should resonate with the perception and reality of working with, and for, us as an organisation. Our values are to: Believe it’s possible – vision and ideas matter. We have confidence in the power of people and communities, and we strive to release their potential to create the widest possible benefits whilst promoting social justice. Strengthen others – we work in ways that strengthen people, places and partnerships. We achieve this by working collaboratively, sharing skills and developing relationships between people, groups and agencies Be true – we are brave enough to share constructive insight in order to make progress. Our unique insight comes from our connections with, and amplification of, the diverse range of voices of people and groups that we work with.
https://www.actiontogether.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
As a member of the Action Together team you will also benefit from: • Flexible working opportunities • Membership of SimplyHealth • Ongoing professional development • Cycle and tech loan schemes
After this apprenticeship
Full time position for the right person
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE OLDHAM COLLEGE
Deborah Wynn
deborah.wynn@oldham.ac.uk
01617853586
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000278311.
Apply now
Closes in 23 days (Friday 25 October at 11:59pm)
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