Application deadline: Sunday, 04 May 2025– 23:45
Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid working, minimum one day per week in Cambridge)

Full-time: 35 hours per week
Contract: Open-ended

Salary: £30,000 per annum plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave : 

BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.

We are looking for a Small Grants Manager who will coordinate the Small Grant Mechanism for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)’s investment in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot. In this role you will be ensuring the effective running of the Small Grant Mechanism by supporting all steps in the grant-making process and by providing administrative, financial and compliance oversight of the programme.

How you will do this:

Ideally you will have:

• Degree in environmental conservation and/or finance or equivalent experience.
• Professional qualifications in grants management (with specific financial training) are desired.
• Experience in grants management in the conservation sector or a similar field.
• Financial competency, administrative skills, and experience with donor compliance.
• A proven record of accomplishment in project management, grants management or financial management; this could also include experience with quality compliance from regulated sectors.
• High motivation, extreme attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and ability to work to high standards with tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Willingness and openness to work with individuals and organisations from various social, ethnic and religious backgrounds across the Mediterranean Basin.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and generate pragmatic solutions.
• Flexibility, ability to work independently and with team members based in different locations and time-zones. 
• A creative problem-solver.
• Computer literacy in all standard Microsoft office applications, especially Excel, and Teams.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills. Other Mediterranean languages desirable e.g. French, Arabic, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian.
• Ability to travel at least 2 times per year (normally 1 week per trip). Willingness to travel at short notice when required.
  

See the full job description here.

Some of our benefits:

• We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.
• A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’
• A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.
• Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.
• Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.

Please note: Under the UK Government criteria this role does not qualify for Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship.

Interviews: Interviews will be held in the week commencing 12 May 2025.