Museum Funding and Grants Officer

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Job Title: Museum Funding and Grants Officer

Fixed Term Contract for 2 Years

Type: Police Staff

Closing Date: 8/5/2025

Employee Type: Parttime

Salary Minimum Salary 27747 (pro rata)

Maximum Salary 31296 (pro rata)

Location: Birmingham (much of the work can be completed on an agile basis)

ABOUT THE ROLE

Helping to support the work of the West Midlands Police Museum your job would involve researching and applying for various grants and funding opportunities. This could include funding with a heritage education accessibility or community focus.

Reporting to the Heritage Manager you will be responsible for managing a calendar of funding and sponsorship opportunities working on completing and submitting bids and applications and building a network of stakeholders through West Midlands Police and partners.

The role would be agile meaning you would be provided with a laptop and be expected to work 14 hours 36 minutes a week 0.4fte). Whilst the work could mainly be done from home and via Teams meetings there will be some requirements to come into the museum for face to face meetings.

ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE

Essential experience:

• Experience of administrative duties
• Experience of working on own initiative and managing time effectively
• Experience of working in partnerships with multiple stakeholders and be able to adapt your approach to a variety of audiences and be enthusiastic and selfmotivated.
• Structured and methodical approach and be able to deal with several competing demands in a busy environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and confident in both writing reports and presenting to senior managers.
• Educated to Alevel or equivalent
• Excellent IT skills and experience using a range of applications including MS Word Outlook and PowerPoint with demonstrable advanced level Microsoft Excel skills.

Desirable:

• Previous experience of writing funding bids / completing funding applications particularly in a museum environment

Essential skills:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with attention to detailto be able to gather information from stakeholders relay information to funders and complete applications to a high standard
• Ability to seek out and identify funding opportunities
• Able to interpret information from different sources and use own initiative to address requirements of different funders
• Ability to work largely alone and unsupervised to tight timescales
• Excellent time management skills
• Strong organisational skills and administrative skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Ability to analyse data and present findings in reports and presentations.
• Research skills to assist with identifying new funding opportunities.
• Proactive selfmotivated and able to work independently with guidance.
• Ability to work flexibly in response to opportunities and deadlines.

Probationary Policy:

Under the Probation Policy if you are currently in your probation period during your probationary period you will not be permitted to apply for alternative police staff roles within the Force unless there are exceptional circumstances. In such cases you would require the support of your line manager prior to applying for alternative roles and if successful your probationary period will start Probation Period (Police Staff) ()

Vetting:

Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearancescrutiny prior to commencing their role this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks which may include a test.

Hours: 14 hours 36 mins per week

Location: Birmingham / agile

Interviews: will take place Monday 19 May West Midlands Police Museum Birmingham

Contact: Corinne Brazier via

By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:

Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave in additional to public holiday entitlements

Discounts across travel parking daily costs of living and leisure activities

A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support free eye tests and flu jabs

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as highvolume seasonal and highpeak times the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and nondisabled people. In these circumstances the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job as they would do for nondisabled applicants.

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