Job summary
Join RUHX - Be part of something extra extraordinary.
At RUHX, we're more than the Official NHS charity of the Royal United Hospitals Bath. We go further to give every patient the extra extraordinary care they deserve, while supporting our staff to do what they do best and furthering innovation within our hospitals. We're out there in our community, collaborating with the people and organisations who drive real change. And we're making sure that every penny we raise goes towards improving health, happiness and wellbeing for everyone in our community.RUHX are seeking a motivated and collaborative Charity Impact Manager to lead our internal grants programme and ensure that charitable funds deliver measurable impact for patients, families and staff.
You will play a key role in implementing our new grant-making system to strengthen monitoring, compliance, approvals and financial forecasting across all restricted and unrestricted funds. Working closely with clinical, operational and fundraising teams, you will help shape a strong pipeline of strategically aligned projects and support the delivery of donor-funded initiatives, including restricted grants and major donor commitments.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong analytical skills, excellent relationship-building capability, and a passion for improving patient and staff experience through effective, transparent and high-impact charitable investment.
Main duties of the job
No two days in our team are the same. In this role you will spilt your time working onsite in the office in Bath, so that you can meet clinical colleagues across the hospital, with opportunities to work flexibly from home. You will have a varied role which involves managing a wide range of duties and tasks including.
- Lead the RUHX internal grants process, ensuring all charitable expenditure is compliant and aligned to strategic priorities and donor intent.
- Support the implementation and management of a new grant-making system that tracks assessments, approvals, expenditure, commitments and fund forecasting.
- Build strong relationships with RUH teams to encourage and support high-quality, high-impact grant applications.
- Work with the Development Team to deliver and monitor donor-funded and restricted-grant projects, ensuring accurate reporting for stewardship.
- Lead impact measurement and evaluation across all funded projects, producing clear and engaging reports for governance and donors.
- Monitor fund utilisation, project progress and risks, providing regular updates to senior leadership and the Charities Committee.
About us
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like more information about our charity, please visit the RUHX website atwww.ruhx.org.uk.
To read our latest impact report visithttps://ruhx.org.uk/having-an-impact/making-a-difference/
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. For more information, please seeSkilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like more information about our charity, please visit the RUHX website atwww.ruhx.org.uk.
To read our latest impact report visithttps://ruhx.org.uk/having-an-impact/making-a-difference/
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. For more information, please seeSkilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree / diploma level or equivalent experience in a related area (Charity, grant giving)
- Excellent standard of English - written, spoken and grammar
- Continued professional development
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Member of CIOF or equivalent professional body
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience / knowledge in developing strategies to deliver grant making programmes in line with strategic charity objectives.
- Experience of supporting teams to delivering complex and cost effective projects, on time and to budget, with clear outcomes, metrics and sustainability plans.
- Sound understanding of current UK laws, processes and procedures relating to grant making and charitable expenditure.
- Ability to interpret and implement with minimal guidance, legislation surrounding the grant making, national standards, and Institute of Fundraising Codes of Practice relating to donor engagement and grant making.
- Excellent understanding and experience of grant making governance, processes and best practice.
- Significant experience of developing excellent working relationships with, and the engagement of, both a wide cross section of the public and senior level professionals in the NHS, charity and other sectors. Knowledge and experience of working with healthcare provision in the NHS and its current priorities.
- Significant experience in a stakeholder management role providing high levels of stakeholder engagement and dealing with complex, sensitive relationships aimed at securing engagement and agreement.
- Significant experience or developing impact frameworks to record and report on impact of projects with against strategic objectives, value for money and sustainability.
- Significant experience of close Team working and co-operation to achieve best outcomes for an organisation's objectives.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the local community including excellent networks
- Knowledge of RUHX& its aims
Skills
Essential
- Ability to lead, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of policies and strategies within areas of responsibility
- Ability to plan complex charity projects, with an aptitude for organisational detail including developing comprehensive action and project plans for areas of responsibility.
- Ability to plan complex charity projects, with an aptitude for organisational detail including developing comprehensive action and project plans for areas of responsibility.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills at a senior level. Confident but sensitive telephone manner and face to face conversations. Confidence to find & articulate mutually beneficial opportunities for the charity & stakeholders
- Leading on the design and production of high quality resources for the communications of grant programmes and impact reporting.
- Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft Office software, plus knowledge of Raisers Edge NXT relationship management database to produce reports, publications & proposals
- Ability to budget and control the use of financial and other resources
- Ability and confidence to work under own initiative / motivation and able to time-manage and prioritise workloads in busy and demanding circumstances with tight timescales;
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree / diploma level or equivalent experience in a related area (Charity, grant giving)
- Excellent standard of English - written, spoken and grammar
- Continued professional development
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Member of CIOF or equivalent professional body
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience / knowledge in developing strategies to deliver grant making programmes in line with strategic charity objectives.
- Experience of supporting teams to delivering complex and cost effective projects, on time and to budget, with clear outcomes, metrics and sustainability plans.
- Sound understanding of current UK laws, processes and procedures relating to grant making and charitable expenditure.
- Ability to interpret and implement with minimal guidance, legislation surrounding the grant making, national standards, and Institute of Fundraising Codes of Practice relating to donor engagement and grant making.
- Excellent understanding and experience of grant making governance, processes and best practice.
- Significant experience of developing excellent working relationships with, and the engagement of, both a wide cross section of the public and senior level professionals in the NHS, charity and other sectors. Knowledge and experience of working with healthcare provision in the NHS and its current priorities.
- Significant experience in a stakeholder management role providing high levels of stakeholder engagement and dealing with complex, sensitive relationships aimed at securing engagement and agreement.
- Significant experience or developing impact frameworks to record and report on impact of projects with against strategic objectives, value for money and sustainability.
- Significant experience of close Team working and co-operation to achieve best outcomes for an organisation's objectives.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the local community including excellent networks
- Knowledge of RUHX& its aims
Skills
Essential
- Ability to lead, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of policies and strategies within areas of responsibility
- Ability to plan complex charity projects, with an aptitude for organisational detail including developing comprehensive action and project plans for areas of responsibility.
- Ability to plan complex charity projects, with an aptitude for organisational detail including developing comprehensive action and project plans for areas of responsibility.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills at a senior level. Confident but sensitive telephone manner and face to face conversations. Confidence to find & articulate mutually beneficial opportunities for the charity & stakeholders
- Leading on the design and production of high quality resources for the communications of grant programmes and impact reporting.
- Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft Office software, plus knowledge of Raisers Edge NXT relationship management database to produce reports, publications & proposals
- Ability to budget and control the use of financial and other resources
- Ability and confidence to work under own initiative / motivation and able to time-manage and prioritise workloads in busy and demanding circumstances with tight timescales;
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Combe Park
Bath
BA1 3NG
Employer's website
https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
