ROLE DESCRIPTION

Role title: Grant Panel Member

Responsible to: The Football Foundation Board of Trustees

Purpose of the role

To act collectively with the Chair of the Football Foundation Grants Panel (The Panel) and other Panel Members, to ensure that all funding applications to the Football Foundation are scrutinised independently, to ensure that they have been assessed in accordance with Football Foundation Board of Trustees (the Board) approved processes and criteria, good practice, and any legal and statutory requirements. The Panel is further required to ensure that all grant awards have the potential to achieve the aims and objectives of the National Football Facilities Strategy and, in doing so, will achieve value for money. Where applications exceed the financial powers that have been delegated to it by the Board, the Panel is responsible for making recommendations to the Board, as it deems appropriate.

General responsibilities

Panel Members are required to:

○ Work with the Chair and other Panel Members to scrutinise grant applications that have been assessed by the Foundation Grant Management Team, to ensure consistency of assessment against Board-approved processes and criteria, good practice, and any legal and statutory requirements.

○ Approve grants and/or make recommendations as appropriate, in accordance with the financial powers delegated by the Foundation Board and with regard to public accountability.

○ Prepare for, attend, and contribute to Panel meetings in accordance with the Panel’s Terms of Reference (ToR).

○ Undertake the role in a way that adds to public confidence and trust in the Panel. In doing so, uphold the fiduciary responsibilities of the role, especially with regard to the Foundation’s governance process and the responsibilities invested in it by the Board.

○ Comply with any legal and regulatory requirements, and act within the confines of funding scheme criteria approved by the Board and the Panel’s ToR.

○ Maintain absolute confidentiality with regard to any sensitive information received in the course of undertaking duties as a Panel Member.

○ Commit to acquiring appropriate levels of personal understanding and knowledge of all areas and issues that funded projects will be aiming to impact upon.

○ Uphold the ‘four corners’ of the Football Foundation.