Introduction à l'emploi
The William Grant Foundation’s vision is a Scotland where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We receive a share of the company’s annual profits to distribute to good causes and currently make £4-5 million in grants per year, focusing on Scotland. Our grant-making addresses diverse themes from the environment, arts and heritage, through young people and families, to health and wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to join a flexible, proactive, independent funder and support our continuing development and drive for effectiveness.
To apply, please complete our online application process via the Apply button below. Please attach a copy of your supporting statement within the 'Attach CV' section of your application. We kindly request that you provide a statement indicating how you believe your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role. You can do this before or after you submit the online application.
Responsabilité du rôle
Learning is at the heart of everything we do at the Foundation. In this new role, you’ll ensure that we’re making best use of evidence and insight to advance our work as a thoughtful and collaborative grant-maker. Your expertise in research and knowledge management will enable you to drive new processes and practices within our team and volunteer-led grant-making groups, and bring a step-change to our collaboration and communications with grantees, external partners and the fields we work in. Working closely with our small team and family stakeholders, you’ll work flexibly across our broad portfolio to apply existing knowledge and facilitate internal data analysis, reflection and sense-making to ensure we perform our role as an independent funder as effectively as we can.
Notre candidat idéal
You will bring experience of designing and leading work to generate and apply learning and evidence, and facilitating reflection and sense-making, ideally in public services, civil society and/or the social or environmental sectors. Your understanding of the principles of knowledge management and familiarity with related tools, practices and processes mean you’ll be capable of designing and building our organisational capacity and capability in this area. And your excellent communication skills mean you are adept at creating engaging reports, presentations and content across a variety of media, both as an editor and contributor. Subject knowledge about one or more of our areas of interest would be ideal, but more important is your curiosity and interest in how change happens and the role that funding can play in achieving it and your creative, versatile and collaborative approach to getting things done.
Que pouvons-nous vous offrir
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
À propos de William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
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