- Location: Hybrid, London
- Salary: £37.5k to £49k pro rata
- Contract: 12-month contract (with possibility of extension)
- Hours: Part-time (22.5 hours/week over 3-4 days)
- Application deadline: 25th January 2026
Rocket Science are looking for a confident and capable Grants Operations Manager to join our team and help to deliver high-quality grants management. This is a great opportunity for someone with hands-on experience of grant making, who is comfortable managing people and can hit the ground running.
You’ll be joining Rocket Science: a mission-driven consultancy working across the UK to reduce inequalities and improve lives. Since 2001, we’ve combined insight, evidence and empathy to help transform services and systems. We work on things that matter- employment and skills, health and social care, poverty and welfare, criminal justice, and community resilience - through research, evaluation, grant design and management.
This role reports to the Director of Consultancy and will be the most senior grants team member in the business. You’ll play a key part in overseeing and delivering programmes, supporting the day-to-day running of our grant making operations - from assessments and grantee support to monitoring and reporting and manage our Grants Officer who will be working part-time (2 days/week).
To apply, please send your CV (no more than 2 pages) and a cover letter (no more than 2 pages) outlining how your experience meets the key requirements to: [email protected] before midnight on 25th January 2026. Interviews will take place during the week commencing 2nd February 2026.
You can find the job specification here.