Senior Impact Officer, Children in Need - Salford, United Kingdom - BBC

BBC

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Fundraising & Partnerships- Fixed Term - Full Time- Salford, GB, M50 2QH- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 24/05/24
THE ROLE:
Package Description:

Job Reference:15136

Band:
C

Contract:
Fixed Term Contract/Attachment till 31/12/24

Salary:
£31,215 - £36,418 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

This role is to cover parental leave until the end of December 2024. _
_Interviews will take place on site in Salford._

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Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
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Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

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Benefits:

We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction:

BBC Children in Need is currently looking for a Senior Impact Officer on an internal attachment until the end of December 2024.

This role will support the Head of Impact in our central team by taking responsibility for the operational delivery of team responsibilities.

The Senior Impact Officer based in the central Design & Delivery Team has a specific central and UK-wide remit.

The primary purpose of this role is to provide a support, leadership and coordination function, helping to effectively deliver and optimise BBC Children in Need's grant making processes and grant making policy.

Working effectively with colleagues and drawing on internal and external learning and expertise, the role will support to identify and embed change, focusing on continuous improvement across all types of grant (including partnerships with external organisations).

The role will work with teams across the UK and centrally, playing an active and lead role in driving quality and supporting to embed a continuous improvement approach.

The role will include oversight of administrative activities, monitoring and reporting of grant making and management activity, active risk assessment, management and learning.

Our team of Senior Officers work together to support the overall output of our Design and Delivery function, but each with their own areas of specialism.

This role will primarily focus on supporting our processes, workflow and programme design, helping us to make sure our grant making is working smoothly.

This could involve work to develop new process design, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, and helping us to keep operations functioning well.

BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.

This role supports our mission to focus on finding and funding the inspiring ideas that change children's lives.

Main Responsibilities:

Whilst all Senior Impact Officers will work in a collaborative manner to support the delivery of the team Business Plan and Objectives, individuals will develop a specific area of focus

They will:

Develop strong relationships and work collaboratively with the rest of the charity
To provide advice and guidance to our regional, national and central grant teams on issues of grant making and grant management and our policies. To raise the need to change policy, to research and propose those changes. To contribute suggestions for policy and wording, and to implement and advise within the wider team

Tasks may include:

Managing Grant Calendar
End to end Assessment Management
Management of freelance assessors including recruitment, contracting, training, guidance, allocating, queries, performance management, payments, exit etc.
Process management for all grant making needs
Providing full and accurate guidance, training and communication of processes
Identifying and implementing improvements to processes
Systems expertise (grant management system) data compliance, checking coding, building dashboards
Complaints management (for team)
Line management, training, workflow, and resource management for Officers and Assistants
Responsibility for GDPR best practice in grant making processes
To undertake observations of panel / meeting processes
Experience of end to end process design and management
Excellent database / data management skills
Experience of grantmaking or grant management processes
The ability to manage multiple workstreams and meet deadlines
Excellent relationshi