Grants Assistant (part-time), Fight for Sight

Fight for Sight is the UK’s largest charity dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. Fight for Sight is seeking a part-time (25 hours per week) grants assistant to provide administrative support to the Director of Research in managing the charity’s research programme. This includes administering the charity’s annual grants round, monitoring of all awards made by the charity and ensuring that the information about the charity’s funded research is available on the charity’s website.

The applicant should have at least one year’s administrative experience, an organised and methodological approach to work, strong written and verbal skills, attention to detail and good knowledge of MS Word and Excel. A job description and person specification is available via the link below. The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Friday 3 June 2011. The first round of interviews will take place on Wednesday 15 June 2011 with follow up interviews on Tuesday 21 June 2011. To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to [email protected].

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