Grants & Compliance Director

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Role: The Grants & Compliance Director will work within the Operations team to process outgoing and incoming grants, help ensure organisational compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and support various risk management functions, like cybersecurity. This role is in-person, based in London.Grants are central to Longview's mission of reducing risks from global challenges through high impact philanthropy. We make grants to world-leading experts and organisations making progress and pursuing solutions in these critical areas. The Grants & Compliance Director will process millions of dollars of grants annually, ensuring grantees have the resources they need to continue their important work.Compliance underpins everything we do at Longview. The Grants & Compliance Director will work to mitigate regulatory risks, meet legal requirements, and thereby enable the organisation as a whole to continue its activities in pursuit of impact.ResponsibilitiesMaintain and improve our grants processing systems, including processing the receipt and disbursement of millions of dollars worth of grants annually.Help the organisation meet its legal and regulatory requirements, with a particular focus on Longview's UK entity.Support various risk management activities, including cybersecurity and insurance.Report to Andrew Player, our Head of Grants Management & Compliance.Grants ManagementProcess outgoing grants to Longview's grant recipients.Ensure all grants conform to our Grantmaking Policy and meet legal requirements.Ensure adequate grantee reporting.Facilitate incoming grants to Longview itself.Manage and improve grants tracking systems.ComplianceWork with our accountant to prepare and review our UK financial statements.Fulfil UK statutory reporting requirements for our UK entity.Ensure our UK entity's board meets its compliance requirements.Implement UK compliance policies across the organisation.Lead on forming and implementing our cybersecurity plan.Lead on reviewing and managing our insurance covers.Support on our due diligence processes on external stakeholders.Support our overall risk management process.OutcomesWithin three months of starting, autonomously process grants from our US and UK entities to charitable grantees.Manage and start improving grants tracking systems.Understand and start to prepare UK statutory filings.Create a plan for managing organisational cybersecurity.Review and evaluate organisational insurance coverages.Who Should Apply for This Role?At least 3 years' experience in nonprofit operations roles.Experience in nonprofit legal compliance and/or grants management.Abilities and AttributesFamiliarity with the UK nonprofit legal and regulatory context.Familiarity with grants management processes at a charity or foundation, ideally in the UK.Interest in systems improvements: ability to continually assess and improve systems to increase efficiency of our processes.Excellent communication skills: the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with internal and high-stakes external stakeholders.Outstanding attention to detail: ability to execute on high-stakes tasks without error.Desired Skills, Abilities, and AttributesFamiliarity with US nonprofit legal and regulatory context.Familiarity with multi-entity organisational structures.Familiarity with Longview's cause areas.Solid spreadsheet skills, especially with Google Sheets and/or Airtable.What We OfferSalary of £65,000 - 85,000 p.a. dependent on experience and skills.Benefits include: 10% employer pension contribution, equipment budget, training budget, £5,000 p.a. well-being budget, private health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, income protection insurance, lunch provided in the office, 4 months' fully paid family leave.We also have flexible working hours and team members occasionally work from home.How to ApplyWe will conduct interviews on a rolling basis starting the week of January 20th, 2025. The starting date for the position will be determined together with the successful applicant. The ideal candidate would start by April 2025. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Location:
Camden Town, England, United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime

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