Proposal Budget & Grants Officer | CARDET

CARDET is the largest independent research and development organisation in Cyprus with a strong presence in Europe and the region. At CARDET we envision a just and sustainable world where people learn and flourish. Our mission is to design innovative education and services that inspire and empower individuals and communities to thrive.

We believe that education can be a powerful force for change. A large part of global problems and challenges results from a lack of knowledge, skills, and competencies. Our approach to education aims to have a strong social impact and help shape a better world through education, training, capacity building, awareness raising, and communication.

Equal Opportunities & Safeguarding

CARDET is an HR Award-winning, equal opportunities and disability-confident employer of choice. The organisation has been accredited with the Sound Industrial Relations 2014 Standard and is fully committed to promoting a safe, inclusive and respectful working environment, as well as safeguarding and preventing all forms of sexual abuse, exploitation and misconduct

Proposal Budget & Grants Officer (Hybrid / partly remote)

We are looking for a detail-oriented and analytically minded Proposal Budget & Grants Officer to join our Programme Development team and contribute to the preparation of high-quality funding proposals across European and other funding programmes.

This role offers meaningful exposure to programmes such as Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, INTERREG, and AMIF,and other funding schemes, while providing the opportunity to develop strong expertise in proposal budgeting, grants administration, financial compliance, proposal documentation, and submission platform management.

You will play an important role in shaping financially sound and well-coordinated proposals, by contributing to budget development, preparing grant documentation, coordinating partner inputs, and identifying potential administrative, financial, or compliance risks.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, European Studies, Public Administration, or another relevant field.
• Experience with EU-funded projects or proposals (e.g. E+, Horizon, Interreg, etc) in the framework of European-funded projects.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a similar role containing administrative coordination, proposal support, project administration, grants administration, budgeting support or a similar role.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• Confident user of administrative and financial systems and applications.

Desirable

• A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, European Studies, Project Management, Public Administration, Social Sciences, Education or another relevant field is considered an asset.
• Experience using customer relationship management systems, project-management tools, proposal trackers or reporting dashboards would be an advantage.
• Experience mentoring or supporting colleagues is desirable.

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