An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time funding and grants officer within the Heritage Team of West Midlands Police.
Helping to support the work of the West Midlands Police Museum, your job would involve researching and applying for various grants and funding opportunities. This could include funding with a heritage, education, accessibility or community focus.
Excellent networking and communication skills are essential, to build relationships with funders and maintain a good understanding of museum specific funding programmes.
Reporting to the Museum Lead, you will be responsible for managing a calendar of funding and sponsorship opportunities, working on completing and submitting bids and applications and building a network of stakeholders through West Midlands Police and partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifying and engaging organisations and partners to support the effective delivery of WMP Museum priorities and initiatives
- Researching available grants/funding opportunities available to the Museum
- Coordinating the application process for grants and funding opportunities to help support the delivery of the Museum Business Plan.
- Build effective working partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders across various sectors. - Support governance and engagement processes to ensure and support the effective financial management of WMP Museum.Ensuring the Museum is complying with their funding and grant obligations, assessing performance, risks and outcomes and identifying opportunities for development and improvement.
- Manage funding opportunities and ensure the smooth operation of our income generating activities, coordinating funding applications and reports and researching new funding opportunities, including supporting community engagement activity.
- Assist the Museum Manager and Heritage Manager in identifying new funding and grant opportunities by researching potential opportunities applicable to WMP Museum.
- Maintain a calendar of upcoming application and reporting deadlines, coordinating submissions and ensuring deadlines are met and records are accurately maintained.
- Lead on community initiatives, supporting volunteers, to identify funding and income opportunities.
- Assist in researching and developing corporate hire opportunities for WMP Museum.
A full detailed list of role responsibilities and competencies required for this post are detailed within the role profile
Contact: For further information regarding this role, please contact Corrine Brazier on corinne.brazier@westmidlands.police.uk
Hours of Work and Flexibility:-
The role would be agile, meaning you would be provided with a laptop, and be expected to work 14 hours 36 minutes a week (0.2fte). Whilst the work could mainly be done from home and via Teams meetings, there will be some requirements to come into the museum for face to face meetings.
Vetting:
Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background and financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical:
Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test.
Interviews: will take place on Thursday 7th May 2026.
Benefit Statement:
- By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:
- Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
- Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
- Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
- A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs
Comprehensive benefits including pension, Blue Light Card, and employee assistance programme.
Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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