The Grants Function in the Cabinet Office comprises a group of grants experts who coordinate and drive activities across government and the wider public sector, challenging the status quo, with a view to improving practice and securing better outcomes and value for money. The role is part of the Core Function and is located within the Assurance and Expert Services Team, which is tasked with supporting continuous improvement through its business partners, the provision of expert advice through the Complex Grants Advice Panel (CGAP) and assessing and reporting compliance with standards.
Grants are a vital tool for government, supporting the delivery of policy objectives in domestic areas such as education, research, civil society and innovation, and abroad through international aid projects.
The Core Team works across government to support the efficiency and effectiveness use of grant funding, in order to maximise grant outcomes and minimise risk, delivering the greatest benefit to the economy and citizens.
Assurance and Expert Services are a multi-disciplinary team supporting a broad and diverse stakeholder group, we assist with building capability and improving compliance with standards through:
* communicating the Standard for grant making across government departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies;
* monitoring the maturity of grant making departments’ processes, highlighting opportunities and risks;
* providing expert advice through our network of business partners; and
* convening the Complex Grants Advice Panel (CGAP), an independent, cross-government panel of experts, coordinated and chaired by the Cabinet Office – the panel is mandated for grant schemes that will deliver manifesto commitments – the panel provides critical challenge to high value, high-risk, priority grant schemes.
The post-holder will lead on compliance on behalf of the function, designing, developing and iterating the compliance framework, used to assess process maturity - via the Grants Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework (GCIAF) - and working with departments and ALBs to identify areas for improvement and develop associated action plans. The post-holder will also act as a business partner for one or two departments and manage a small team of grants experts.
Under the Cabinet Office People and Locations Programme the GGMF is moving towards being located in hubs in York and Glasgow, with a small number of the team in London.
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