Partnerships Funding Officer (REF 128)
Are you passionate about crafting winning proposals and driving our success?
Are you seeking the opportunity to positively impact the lives of young people?
We are seeking an individual with excellent writing skills to support the organisation’s Impact Partnerships project. The Partnerships Funding Officer will be responsible for supporting Sport 4 Life UK’s Impact Partners to complete grant applications. The role will work closely alongside Sport 4 Life UK’s Bid Manager and National Partnerships Manager, supporting Impact Partners to identify and apply for grant funding opportunities.
Sport 4 Life UK is driven by a set of values that define our mission:
- All that we do is focused on CHANGING the LIVES of young people.
- We are a TEAM
- QUALITY runs through the core of the organisation
- We do not stand still – we are a PROGRESSIVE organisation
Ready to join our mission? Then here’s your chance to join us in shaping and supporting the next generation.
Job summary
Salary
£28,000 – £31,000
Contract type
Full-time
Number of vacancies
1
Start date
ASAP
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Application deadline
Friday 23rd May 2025 (midnight)
Interview date
Tuesday 3rd June 2025
Location
Sport 4 Life office (Digbeth)
Job description
Income Generation
- Prepare high-quality written grant applications for both Sport 4 Life UK and its Impact Partners.
- Identify and pursue suitable funding opportunities on behalf of Impact Partners.
- Lead the coordination and project management of partnership and consortium bids.
Develop Partner Relationships
- Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with Sport 4 Life UK’s Impact Partners.
- Collaborate with partners to gather key information needed for high-quality funding applications.
- Facilitate joint working between partners on collaborative partnership and consortium bids.
Funder Stewardship
- Provide excellent stewardship to existing funders, encouraging continued and increased engagement.
- Ensure accurate, timely data input and reporting across all relevant systems and databases.
- Maintain an up-to-date and auditable record of funding activity via the internal Funding Log.
If you’re detail-oriented, love a good challenge, and have a knack for persuasive writing, we want you on our team.
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience of bid writing, grant writing and/or content writing in a professional context
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, or equivalent relevant experience
- Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to craft persuasive and compelling proposals and reports
- Meticulous attention to detail to review and analyse bid documents ahead of submission
- Excellent time-management and organisational skills to ensure completion of bidding activities against competing deadlines
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with external funders and stakeholdersÂ
- Ability to be a strong team player and work effectively with all Impact Partners and teams across the organisation and build positive relationships
- Ability and confidence to work aloneÂ
- Excellent organisation skills
- Ability to complete administrative tasks, and use computers (e.g. email, word processing)Â
- A polite, professional appearance & mannerÂ
- High levels of self-motivation, energy and determinationÂ
- Evidence of commitment S4L’s vision
Desirable
- Experience of securing large funding awards via written applications
- Experience of bid writing and/or grant writing in the charitable sector
- Experience of managing a robust bid library/database
We recognise the importance of diversity within our teams and are fully committed to embracing and maximising talents. See also our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement. We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments, where possible, to recruitment, workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please contact us.
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Thank you for showing an interest in this role with Sport 4 Life UK. To apply, please tell us a little more about you and your skills.
As a business centred around team culture, people are always at the heart of everything we do. We believe in the richness of ideas and power of each other’s differences, and we’re striving to be an organisation packed full of people that are truly representative of the world that we live in. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is more than a tick box.
We want to hire people, not statistics or stereotypes, who bring fresh ideas to our work and young people. For impartiality, our applications are divided into two sections. Both sections must be completed to successfully apply for this role.
- Part one: Questions about your experience and relevancy to the role – this excludes any personal information and is reviewed by the hiring manager.
- Part two: Contact information and legally required questions – this is reviewed by our HR team for legal reasons and is not disclosed to the hiring manager prior to the interview.