**Contract type**: Fixed term contract / Attachment till 31/12/25
**Location**: Salford (Home/office - Hybrid)
**Salary**: £25,300 - £28,433 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for thi...
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### **Package Description**
**Job Reference:** 23111
**Band**: B
**Contract type**: Fixed term contract / Attachment till 31/12/25
**Location**: Salford (Home/office - Hybrid)
**Salary**: £25,300 - £28,433 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
**• Excellent career progression** – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
**• Unrivalled training and development opportunities** – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
**• Benefits** - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our [candidate pack](http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/courses/this-is-your-bbc/#/).
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
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](https://www.bbc.com/freelancers/how-you-will-be-contracted).
### **Job Introduction**
BBC Children in Need is adopting a new funding strategy designed to enhance our support to disadvantaged children and young people. This expands the current portfolio of emergency and responsive grant programmes with an additional focus on partnership funding.
BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. Our refreshed objectives and activities will ensure the impact we have on children’s lives is front and centre of the work the charity undertakes over and above the projects and services we fund.
### **Main Responsibilities**
The Grant Operations Officer will provide a high level of service to all applicants and grantees who contact the charity by phone, email and post.
You will give detailed advice to applicants and provide support throughout the application process, enabling the highest quality applications to reach the charity.
You will process grant applications for the charity’s responsive programmes and will assist in the design and delivery of the new grant making processes.
The Grant Operations Officer will support all aspects of the grant making functions and work as part of a team when required to support the charity’s Appeal Operations team.
### **Are you the right candidate?**
The successful candidate must have experience of working in the charity, voluntary or public sector, preferably in a grant making environment.
- You will also have extensive experience of using databases regularly as well as working under pressure with high volumes of work and, importantly, experience of prioritising workloads effectively.
- You will be an advocate of great customer care with extensive experience of dealing regularly with the public.
- You will be computer literate with strong MS Office skills, including the ability to analyse and manipulate data and also interpret both written and oral information.
- You will be able to produce written communications which are clear and well written and also be a great listener by drawing out information over the telephone.
- Experience of assessing grant applications against specific policies.
- Specific knowledge of children and young people’s services would be an advantage.
### **About the BBC**
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours [here](https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf).
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click [here.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/)
Please note; If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
