Bursaries Administrator (Part Time)
Contract: Fixed Term to March 2026. Part time 0.6 FTE 21 hours per week
Salary: £15,126 - £16,200 per annum (FTE £25,210 - £27,000 per annum) depending on experience
Reports to: Bursaries Programme Manager
Location: ScreenSkills London/Hybrid (Min 2 day a week in the office) / Remote
ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the UK’s screen industries – film, television (high-end, children’s, unscripted), VFX, animation and games. We are supporting economic recovery and future innovation and growth across the whole of the UK by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the global success of the screen sector. We are funded by industry contributions to our Skills Funds and with National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI as part of its BFI Bursaries Programme to help people get into the industry and progress within it.
The Bursaries Administrator will be responsible for the smooth running of ScreenSkills’ bursary programme, related meetings and the handling of queries received by the team as well as communicating with applicants and potential applicants.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Review submitted applications for completeness and accuracy, including following up with applicants on necessary amendments.
- Assess applications to open bursary schemes, obtaining appropriate advice and references, reaching a judgement or recommendation for approval to senior members of the delivery teams
- Be a point of contact in relation to bursary queries
- Issuing offer letters and declinations to applicants, ensuring all internal procedures have been followed beforehand
- Checking correct evidence has been supplied at end of the bursary life cycle
- Processing payment requests for each bursary award
- Tracking live bursary awards against their expected start and end dates
- Provide any administrative support to the Fund Team as reasonably required.
- Assist with regular reporting about bursaries
- Making sure website content is up to date and accurate – suggesting changes where necessary
- Representing bursaries at events both face to face and remotely
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Essential:
- Experience of working in a small team and managing a busy workload with multiple concurrent deadlines
- Experience of following processes that require significant attention to detail, ensuring accuracy at all times
- Experience working in a customer facing role, providing high standard of customer service
- Proven experience of office administration
- Understanding of processing financial and confidential information
- Ability to devise, improve and maintain administrative systems
- Excellent IT skills including the ability to use MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Aptitude to learn Blackbaud Grantmaking (BBGM) grant management software
Preferred:
- Experience or knowledge of grant making
- Experience of using Blackbaud Grantmaking
- Experience or knowledge of the screen industries
- Customer service training
- Experience working in a matrix environment
Other skills and attributes:
- Excellent teamwork
- Innovative Thinking
- Customer Focus
- Commitment to Excellence
- Flexibility
- Commercial Awareness
ScreenSkills offers benefits including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- EAP - Access to financial, physical and mental wellbeing support
- Season Ticket Loan
- Eye Care scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Reward Gateway – popular retailer discounts
- Life Assurance
How to apply:
Please submit a CV and cover letter, or ScreenSkills job application form and CV to jobs@screenskills.com.
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In the last two years we have helped 48,447 people across: eLearning, training, events, mentoring, bursaries and stepping up programmes such as Trainee Finder, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering after a career break, women, people who are LGBTQ+, minority ethnic people, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, from a less advantaged socio-economic background as well as any other under-represented group.
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