About Us:
In the last two years, new leadership at ScreenSkills has reshaped the organisation and refocused our strategy on the screen industries, clarifying our purpose and value. Our mission is to lead on building skills and talent, creating a properly inclusive workforce to power sustainable growth for the UK's screen industries.

Our Board and Advisory Councils comprise committed senior industry leaders from across the screen sector - film, television, visual effects, animation and games - representing large and small organisations across the UK

Role Purpose:
The Bursaries Assistant will primarily be responsible for the smooth running of ScreenSkills' schemes, the internal administration of investment panel meetings and the handling of queries received by the team.

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 the first point of contact in relation to all bursary queries.
• Be the administrator for all panel discussions regarding bursary decisions and offers.
• Provide any administrative support to the Fund Team as reasonably required.
• Assist with regular reporting about bursaries

Essential skills and experience and/or qualifications:
Educational experience:
• GCSE (grades 4-0 or grades A*-C), Level 2 Diploma, Level 2 NVQ)
Work related experience:

• 1 - 2 Years - Entry Level

Essential:
• Experience of working in a small team and managing a busy workload
• 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 of all MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Aptitude to learn GIFTS

Preferred:
• Experience or knowledge of grant making
• Experience of using GIFTS
• Experience or knowledge of the screen industries
• Customer service training

Corporate responsibilities:
• Take ownership of, and contribute to, internal and external communications activity both in their job role and as part of ScreenSkills' overall strategic objectives.
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to embracing and promoting ScreenSkills' positive approach to the achievement of acceptance, openness, and equality of opportunity at work for people from under-represented groups (i.e. such as those with disabilities and from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities).
• Promote and develop individual and organisational activities which support and enhance environmental sustainability and health and safety objectives.
• Establish good working relationships with both internal and external customers and provide a high quality service which meets their needs.
• Support yours and your colleagues' activity through a commitment to effective and correct use of corporate tools and resources, including the Wire (ScreenSkills' intranet) for internal communications and file management, and authorised systems for contact management.

This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive. It is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing. Your manager will, in discussion with you, review the job description at appraisal. It is ScreenSkills' intention to work with you to update and incorporate changes to your job description as required. However, if agreement cannot be reached, ScreenSkills reserves the right to impose changes.

ScreenSkills is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the creative screen industries.