Museum Funding and Grants Officer
West Midlands Police
AI insight: this role at a glance
This part-time Museum Funding and Grants Officer role involves researching and applying for grants and funding opportunities to support the West Midlands Police Museum. It suits individuals with excellent networking and communication skills who can build relationships with funders and stakeholders. The role requires managing a calendar of funding opportunities, completing bids and applications, and ensuring compliance with funding obligations.
Key points
- Part-time role (14 hours & 36 minutes a week) with agile working
- Based at the West Midlands Police Museum, Birmingham
- Requires Recruitment Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny
- Medical checks, including a hearing test, are part of the appointment process
- Interviews will be held week commencing 7th September
- West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader
You'll need
- Excellent networking and communication skills
Helps to have
- Experience of researching and applying for grants and funding opportunities
- Knowledge of museum-specific funding programmes
How to stand out
- 1Emphasize your ability to build relationships with funders and stakeholders in your application
- 2Highlight your experience of managing funding opportunities and ensuring compliance with obligations
- 3Showcase your research and bid-writing skills, particularly in a heritage, education, accessibility, or community context
- 4Demonstrate your understanding of the West Midlands Police Museum's priorities and initiatives
- 5Be prepared to discuss your approach to community engagement and volunteer support
- 6Familiarize yourself with West Midlands Police's Diversity and Inclusion Vision and be ready to explain how you can contribute to it
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Job description
Prospective Staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
Purpose Of The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time funding and grants officer within the Museum team of West Midlands Police.
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.
Excellent networking and communication skills are essential, to build relationships with funders and maintain a good understanding of museum specific funding programmes.
Reporting to the Museum Lead, 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.
- Identifying and engaging organisations and partners to support the effective delivery of WMP Museum priorities and initiatives
- Researching available grants/funding opportunities available to the Museum
- Support governance and engagement processes to ensure and support the effective financial management of WMP Museum. Ensuring the Museum is complying with their funding and grant obligations, assessing performance, risks and outcomes and identifying opportunities for development and improvement.
- Manage funding opportunities and ensure the smooth operation of our income generating activities, coordinating funding applications and reports and researching new funding opportunities, including supporting community engagement activity.
- Lead on community initiatives, supporting volunteers, to identify funding and income opportunities.
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Contact: For further information regarding this role, please contact museum@westmidlands.police.uk
Hours of Work and Flexibility:-
The role would be agile, meaning you would be provided with a laptop, and be expected to work 14 hours & 36 minutes a week. 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.
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