Data and Funding Manager

PeoplePlus is a leading provider working across the adult skills, apprenticeships, employability, and prison education markets. It is a purpose-led organisation with a commitment to making a direct difference to the lives of One million people by 2022. 

Today it has over 1300 employees and is focused on many activities such as helping people into sustainable work: building a skilled workforce for the future and developing careers and rehabilitating ex-offenders into society. To date, PeoplePlus has made a difference to over 540,000 people.  

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Data and Funding Manager to ensure data and funding processes are used effectively across the education department and to ensure the maximum drawdown is claimed.

You will ensure that work is compliant, generate and analyse reports and review current processes, looking for improvements whilst driving efficiency and maximising funding and data management. 

Have you got what it takes? 

You should have a passion for what you do along with relevant and recent experience. You will need to hold NVQ level 2 in Business Administration or equivalent and ideally you will have a management qualification or significant management experience.

You should be able to demonstrate highly developed interpersonal and communication skills along with excellent attention to detail and maturity to deal with people with challenging behaviour. You will be excellent at planning and organising your own workload whilst approaching everything with a positive 'can do' attitude.

What makes us unique

We are extremely proud to have been awarded a one-star Best Companies accreditation, meaning we’re ‘very good to work for’. In addition we are recognised as being one of the Top 25 Education and Training providers to work for. You can see our best companies profile here for more details https://www.b.co.uk/companies/peopleplus

For us here at PeoplePlus reward means far more than just pay. Your total reward package as a PeoplePlus colleague includes a variety of different benefits as well as incentive and recognition schemes. 

Our generous and competitive benefits package includes; enhanced annual leave of 25 days, a paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year, a paid Volunteering Day each year, a Pension, Life Insurance, an Employee Assistance Programme to access help and support 24 hours a day every day of the year, the opportunity to buy shares in the company through our Sharesave scheme, Refer a Friend reward scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and access to our benefits portal Additions which gives you discounts on hundreds of products, services, shops and entertainment. We also have our “Simply Dreams Come True” offering all colleagues the opportunity to turn their dreams into reality making the possibilities endless.

For full details of the role and the person specification please click the ‘available documents’ or for an informal chat please call the Recruiter, Katy McCorquodale-Hall on 07977 392738.

Please include your current salary and desired salary as part of your application, when prompted.