Grants and Membership Administrator Apprentice

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

Training:

Off the job training will take place one day a week at Oldham College

Training Outcome:

Full time position for the right person

Employer Description:
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.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Problem solving skills,Administrative skills,Number skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative