We believe that people’s sight matters and wish to strengthen our committed and passionate team by appointing a grants operations and data manager to join our grants and research team.

The grants operations and data manager is a newly created role, within Moorfields Eye Charity's grants and research team, to support, manage and develop grant funding operations. This is an exciting time to join the team as this position will play a key role in the ongoing optimisation of the teams grants management system (Flexigrant) and the underpinning funding operations to support the delivery of our first grants strategy, due to be launched in early 2026.

We have ambitious plans. We have put into action a five-year business plan that is supporting our growth from raising and funding around £6 million annually to becoming a £10 million a year charity.

This is an exciting opportunity for the grants operations and data manager to bring passion and experience to our dedicated team, ensuring we have robust and effective processes to select and award the most impactful projects and programmes, and enable the monitoring of outputs, outcomes and impact.

Experience in grants management is essential and the successful candidate will be able to think creatively, plan, solve problems, and make effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.

About the role

You will be joining a supportive grants and research team who are committed to ensuring the charity has robust grant making mechanisms to determine best use of charitable funding together with monitoring and evaluating projects and programmes.

You will be involved in optimising the grants management system and funding processes, driving effective data collection and reporting, and corresponding work-flows. The role is highly collaborative, requiring you to develop professional working relationships with stakeholders at various levels. It will suit a candidate who is motivated and ambitious, confident delivering change, and in taking initiative.

About you

You will have an established track record, ideally in a health or medical research charity. You will have experience in grants management and the delivery of grant-making programmes, working with complex data and databases. You will have a keen interest in improving operational processes and developing/analysing reports for data driven grant making activities and showcasing the impact of funding.

As an effective communicator, you will build confident working relationships at all levels. You will bring strong interpersonal skills along with the ability to work collaboratively and to influence, lead others in matrix style working.

To apply

Find out more and how to apply via the 'Apply' button above.

If you think you could do the role, but don’t have all the desirable experience, we would still welcome an application from you.

The closing date for applications is 16 September 2025.

Interviews are expected to be week commencing, 29 September 2025.

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