Job summary
- Main area
- Strategy and Joint Grant Management Office
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 18 months (fixed term charity funded)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 271-CA-7349256
- Employer
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £72,921 - £83,362 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of the Joint Grant Management Office
Band 8b
Job overview
Help us turn strategic intent into life-changing outcomes by heading the newly created Joint Grants Management Office (JGMO) at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
You will coordinate the full lifecycle of grants, connecting hospital and charity to ensure every investment delivers real results for children with rare and complex conditions. This hands-on, operational role is for someone who thrives on making things happen. You will manage applications, post-award processes, finance, workforce, and reporting, while supporting teams to deliver projects effectively and achieve measurable outcomes.
You will also help shape ways of working, build the JGMO into a highly effective central hub, and ensure every grant is seamless and impactful.
Working closely with and reporting to the GOSH Strategy Director and the GOSH Charity Head of Grant Funding, you will be the vital link between hospital and charity, driving coordinated delivery of our shared priorities portfolio.
This is a rare opportunity to shape how we work and play a pivotal role in turning charitable investment into life-changing results for children with rare and complex conditions
Main duties of the job
- Lead the day-to-day operations of the JGMO, ensuring the office functions as the central hub for all charitable grant activity and oversight.
- Support the Strategy Director by providing insight, intelligence, and operational oversight across the grant’s portfolio.
- Act as a bridge between hospital executives, clinicians, charity colleagues, and external partners to ensure alignment and communication.
- Anticipate and resolve operational challenges, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of grant processes across both organisations.
- Provide senior leaders with accurate data, insight, and analysis to support evidence-based decisions about charitable investment.
- Champion and actively drive forward the strategic alignment of grant-funded projects with Trust and Charity priorities.
- Supporting development and reporting of JGMO key performance indicators
Working for our organisation
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we’ll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women’s networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential criteria
- Our Always values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- Master’s level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Project or Programme Management Qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working across multiple sectors, ideally combining healthcare, charitable, and/or private sector environments, with the ability to navigate different organisational cultures and priorities.
- In-depth knowledge of the full grant lifecycle, including pipeline, application, review, approval, monitoring, impact reporting, and closure.
- Demonstrated ability to oversee governance and reporting cycles
- Strong experience with finance colleagues in forecasting spend, monitoring budgets, and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Experience in portfolio reporting aligned with organisational planning and performance cycles.
- Experience in process and system improvements, including digital workflow or portfolio systems.
- Proven ability to support others in preparing high-quality proposals, cases for support, impact reports, and Board-level papers.
- Experience building and managing complex stakeholder relationships, including executives, clinicians, researchers, funders, patients, and families.
- Experience of using electronic grants management tools and programme management tools
- People Management skills, including staff management, staff development and team building.
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Exceptional organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong financial acumen, confident in scenario planning and resource monitoring.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
- Skilled at facilitating and delivering capacity-building sessions.
- Data-literate, able to use insight and evidence to inform decisions.
- Competent in portfolio and workflow management systems.
- Strategic thinker with operational rigour.
- Strong problem-solving skills and confidence in senior stakeholder engagement.
- High computer literacy and presentation skills.
- Experience building and managing complex stakeholder relationships, including senior leaders, clinicians, researchers, funders, patients, and families.
- Driving a collaborative approach, understanding drivers and supporting alignment
- Demonstrable experience in getting things off the ground, working proactively, under own steam and being solutions focussed
- Ability to use and interpret complex information to make robust recommendations for evidence – based practice and decision making.
- Able to manage work of self and others to accommodate competing priorities and meet demands and deadlines.
- Ability to inspire confidence in staff across the organisation and to influence and negotiate at a senior level
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ella Vallins
- Job title
- Strategy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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