Grant and Funding Officer

The Academies For Character And Excellence, Totnes, TQ9 5TZ

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 18 hours per week
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 month Contract
• Actual salary: £14,347
• Hourly rate: £15.33

What skills and experience we're looking for

For the Trust, we are looking to appoint an exceptional Grant and Funding Officer, who will play a crucial role in identifying and securing funding opportunities for the schools within the Academies for Character and Excellence (ACE), to support increased income generation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and securing funding opportunities and support school initiatives related to fundraising and grant management, writing compelling grant applications, managing relationships with funders, and ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with grant terms.

The purpose of this post is to make a significant impact on the educational experiences of all of our pupils. ACE take great pride in their learning environments and educational spaces, continually striving to innovate, develop, and enhance these areas. Therefore, seeking both capital and revenue funding will be a crucial aspect of your role.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To support the coordination and preparation for major funding projects on behalf of the Trust including identifying appropriate contractual deliverables, negotiating with funding bodies, managing communications channels and portals, liaising with the CEO and communicating with collaborative partners, and preparing and submitting funding claims
• To be responsible for writing persuasive and compelling grant applications and tenders to secure funding and partnerships.
• To monitor and complete all necessary reporting required of any secured funding and grants.
• To manage the generation of funding to support both Trusts through the development of partnerships and fundraising activity.

What the school offers its staff

The Academies for Character and Excellence has twenty primary schools across Devon & Somerset, making up a dynamic and innovative learning organisation.

We live our mission and return to this constantly to help guide every action. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional Trust comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of collaboration, community, equity, and of course uncompromising excellence.

We are truly collaborative, and we work together within and across our schools to ensure that all our children and staff members achieve their potential. Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum offer allowing everyone to flourish - we translate our vision of excellence into our everyday practice. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants and confident individuals.

We aim to serve our communities, and our schools make every effort to connect with families, local community groups and organisations to ensure that our children and families are nurtured, supported and provided with opportunities through our schools.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Grant and Funding Development Officer JD PS .pdf - 157 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Academies For Character And Excellence

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Academies For Character And Excellence website
• Email address: recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
• Phone number: 07915071143
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-academies-for-character-and-excellence

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