Job title: Consultant – Grants
Location: London, UK – Office at 88 Leadenhall Street, EC3A 3B
Working hours: 9am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday
Reports to: Head of Grants
Summary
Do you have experience in grant writing or consulting? Are you looking for your next challenge? Ayming UK is looking for an Innovation Grants Consultant to join its rapidly growing, successful team in the heart of London.
Ayming’s grants team write engaging and rigorous applications that win funding for their client’s critical projects. As a Grants Consultant, you will play a leading role in writing grant funding applications for our clients. This will involve co-ordinating client meetings to gather necessary information and converting that information into a project proposal customised to suit specific funder criteria. You’ll also be expected to maintain excellent client relationships across a portfolio of cases.
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
Essential:
- STEM-related bachelor, MSc/PhD graduate is preferable.
- At least 2 years professional experience in grant writing, consulting, or in industry
Though not essential, prior experience in one or more of the following areas would be beneficial:
- Engineering: project lifecycle stages such as feasibility, pre-FEED, FEED or EPC.
- Sustainability consulting: lifecycle assessments, quantitative analysis.
- Finance: financial data (e.g. balance sheet) and investment analysis (e.g. discounted cash flow)
- Research: in industry (R&D) or academic (MSc/PhD) environment.
Responsibilities
- Client facing: Interviewing clients to identify projects that are relevant for capital and R&D grant funding.
- Grant report and application management:
- Using clear, compelling language to convince the reader about the importance of a future project.
- Explaining technical aspects of a project, including its difference from existing approaches.
- Presenting project plans and risk registers with rigour and detail.
- Grasping the client’s business, including market valuations, pricing models and investment cases.
- Research and analysis: Scouting new grants opportunities and interpreting their fit in relation to defined client priorities.
Skills and personal qualities
- Strong communicator: Good verbal communication skills and strong ability to write clearly on complex topics.
- Dependable: Attention to detail, high-quality output, adhering to deadlines, and collaboration among team members on projects and rationales.
- Critical thinker: Ability to grasp technical challenges in the industry, understand processes, and identify opportunities for improvement.
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
- 💷 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.
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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