Title: Associate Consultant – Grants
Office Location: 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 3BP
Reports to: Senior Manager, Grants
Working hours: 9am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday standard working hours, dependent on client demands.
Summary
Are you a recent STEM graduate eager to make an impact in the world of innovation and funding? Ayming UK is looking for a Grants Associate Consultant to join our dynamic London team. This is your opportunity to work with cutting-edge businesses, develop your expertise, and play a key role in securing funding for groundbreaking projects across the UK.
The Associate Consultant will support the writing of grant funding applications for businesses. This role involves preparing for client meetings to gather essential information. You will also assist the team in converting this data into a customised project proposal that meets specific funder criteria. Additionally, Associate Consultants will be expected to actively research the grant market for new funding opportunities.
With eight years of consistent year-on-year growth, Ayming is the perfect place for you to take your career to the next level. Defying the industry trend of stagnant salaries and shrinking opportunities, Ayming continues to soar, and we’re looking for eager and ambitious talent to take us forward.
Join Ayming and take this fantastic opportunity to work with innovative and exciting UK businesses to address the world’s most important problems and make a real impact. What are you waiting for? Apply today!
Experience and requirements:
- STEM-related degree, MSc/PhD graduate preferable.
Responsibilities
- Scouting grant opportunities: Researching and assessing funding options that align with clients’ strategic priorities.
- Crafting winning applications: Write compelling, high-quality grant proposals that clearly articulate the value, innovation, and impact of client projects.
- Engaging with clients: Conduct in-depth interviews to uncover eligible R&D grant funding and capital investment projects.
- Bringing technical narratives to life: Translating complex technical concepts into clear, persuasive applications that differentiate projects from existing approaches.
- Business Acumen: Ability to understand the client’s business through market analysis, pricing models, and investment cases.
- Detailing project plans & risks: Structuring strong project plans, risk registers, and execution strategies to strengthen applications.
Skills and personal qualities
- Dependable: You align with client needs, adhere to application requirements, and collaborate among team members on projects and approaches.
- Critical thinker: Curious and actively initiating deep research into new topics; investigating and solving problems using available resources.
- Eager to learn: Open, excited, and willing to learn more about the capital and innovation grant funding, as well as its impact across different industries.
- Proactive: Proactively engage in tasks, research, and with clients.
There’s a reason why our mantra is “Further Together” – We can achieve more if we work together!
When our people are valued and rewarded, their potential is limitless. We offer highly competitive remuneration packages to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance and the market.
We offer
- 💷 Competitive salary
- 🏠 Hybrid working environment
- 🎊 Vibrant, purposeful, and social environment with a nominated social team to arrange regular socials and activities.
- 🏢 Being a part of a great team of over 70 Aymers in our London office.
- 🌱Extensive career development, progression, and training – Continuous development and support for your professional qualifications, personal goals, and aspirations so we can grow together.
- 👩🏽🎓 Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.
- 🌍International mobility.
That’s not all – we also offer more Employee perks
- 🗓25 Days Holiday per annum with the option to buy an additional five days – a time to step back, relax, and focus on the things that are important to you.
- 🎉 An extra day off for your birthday.
- 💷 5% Company Pension matched contribution – Looking after your future when it’s time to step back and relax.
- 💛 Immediate membership to Healthshield, a ‘well-being’ medical health scheme.
- 🏥Day one access to Help@hand, an app-based service providing remote GP services and enhanced health support.
- 💻Company Laptop & iPhone.
- 🏥 Private Health Cover
- 💷 x4 Basic Salary Death in Service Benefit.
- 🚲Cycle to Work scheme
- 🏋🏽♂️ 25% off Gym memberships, Leisure centres, Bootcamps or Yoga studios.
- 🛒Access to our Employee Benefits Platform (Sodexo) – multiple discounts across Highstreet stores, Grocery Shopping, Travel and Leisure activities.
- 🌞 Summer Fridays – Log off early on Fridays during the summer months to kick off your weekends a little earlier.
What to expect
We value drive, determination, teamwork, and a desire to learn. We believe you get the best of both worlds at Ayming – the credentials of a top-tier consulting firm and the entrepreneurial spirit and culture of a boutique. You’re not going to be a small cog in a big machine here – we’re a team where every contribution counts, and when you go that extra mile, you’ll get the recognition you deserve. Our teams are empowered to take ownership of their work, delivering exceptional results for clients and making a genuine contribution to the growth and success of the UK business.
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