Grants Management
Whether it is to manage and administrate grant giving schemes and distribute funding (Grants Makers) or to manage internal or grants applications (Grants Seekers), Grants Management is requires a raft of skills and processes for their entire lifecycle. Pre and Post award capabilities include:
- grant discovery
- budget forecasting and distribution
- peer to peer collaboration
- regulatory compliance
- project costing
- proposal submission and approval
- administrative reporting
- public reporting and transparency
- project tracking
Any robust and suitable Grants Management System should provide:
- enhanced workflow, systemised approvals management and visibility of grants’ status
- intelligent and easily accessible reporting and analysis
- robust data structure
- easily extractable data into common use formats e.g. Excel
- enhanced APIs
- enhanced communication and client management
- the opportunity to work more efficiently
- sleek integration with prime software e.g. Office 365
- enhanced transparency to all stakeholders
- Web Based Software as a Service (SaaS)
Our Team and Approach
Our consultants possess a wealth of knowledge across the intricacies and complexity of grants and awards systems.
We bring expertise, experience, and a deep understanding of both the "outside-in" aspects of an applicant's end-to-end lifecycle alongside the "inside-out" aspect of what is required to deliver a customer-pleasing product and service – with experience across solution design, development, deployment and enhancement.
Industry-leading research and best practices across the entire IT landscape, including a rich project framework specifically targeting the rapid assessment of Commercial Off the Shelf packages and custom / bespoke applications.
Leveraging our framework and toolset allows us to conduct accelerated assessments, tap into research analysts to provide industry insights, and generate a coherent vision of which component parts/services (including Open Source) can be selected/incorporated into a Grants Management solution.
Knowledge Transfer is a key part of every stage of our delivery. We work alongside client internal teams (technical, grant administrators, key stakeholders) to maximise opportunities for sharing know-how throughout the delivery.
What we will do
Typically, our team of grants management experts will work closely with you to:
Analyse Business Needs
- Compile and model customer use cases
- Conduct stakeholder interviews
- Conduct an accelerated business needs and requirements prioritisation
- Rapidly detail and model updated business process models
- Develop a Requirements Traceability Matrix
Vendor and Solution Selection
- Consider current market capabilities
- Consider existing local solutions
- Research and market assessment
- Assess potential software solutions and vendors
- Recommend a pragmatic approach to vendor selection
- Rapid application assessment and recommendation
Design and Plan Implementation
- Review implementation considerations and build a high-level roadmaps
- Construct the solution building blocks
- Create project governance plan
- Evaluate project metrics
Implement and Embed Solution
- Project manage the implementation
- Conduct solution design workshops
- Create solution design documentation
- Alongside your internal team and other software experts, implement the solution
- Manage and guide the formal testing of Alpha release
- Communicate and deploy new solution
- Provide end user training
- Provide ongoing solution support