About the role
As an integral part of an expanding team, you’ll play a key role in enabling music opportunities to transform children and young people’s lives.
As a Grants and Learning Officer, you’ll be helping us to deliver our ambitious, nationwide grants programme. We currently support over 500 grassroots organisations and 18-25 year old creatives, and relationship management is at the heart of the role. As well as supporting applicants and funded partners, you’ll be making funding recommendations, administering grants, visiting projects and providing feedback and support. You’ll manage an assigned portfolio of grants, and liaise with a wide range of other stakeholders relevant to your areas of work.
You’ll also help us in our influencing role, catalysing change in sector practices around equality, diversity and inclusion and closing the gap between young people learning and earning in music.
We’d love to hear from people who’ve been involved with organisations like the ones we fund or who’ve worked in the music industries. Youth Music’s grants programme supports children and young people who face barriers because of who they are, where they live or what they’re going through. We’re keen to receive applications from people with lived experience of these issues.
You’ll know how the funding system works through being a grant applicant or recipient. If you’re experienced as a Project Manager, Music Leader, Freelancer or a Company Director then we’d love to hear from you.
You have an eye for detail and as a skilled administrator, you’re not fazed by monitoring, reporting, spreadsheets and databases. As a clear communicator you’ll be equally comfortable talking to young people as you are providing people with funding advice, guidance and support.
You’ll be passionate about listening to and understanding young people’s views and advocating for change. You’ll be excited by the opportunity to build up your knowledge of how organisations are run, and to network like-minded people and organisations.
You’re a collaborative worker who enjoys being part of a friendly team, as well as travelling on your own to build new relationships with a diverse range of people. As a grants manager you’ll have an instinct for what’s important – when to give advice, and when to step back.
You will have a broad understanding of some of these key areas; children and young people and their engagement with music, equality diversity and inclusion, safeguarding, and the music industry.
How to apply
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