Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a grants administrator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a grants administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Grants administrators handle the pass-through track of grants, often given out by the government to the grant recipient. They prepare the paperwork such as the grant applications and give out the grants. They are also responsible to make sure that the grant recipient spends the money correctly according to the terms laid out.

Also known as grants and contracts officer, grants administration funding officer, grants and contracts administrator, proposals administrator, grants & contracts officer, grants and trusts administrator, research grants administrator.

Technicians and associate professionals 26 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: grants management officer, 50%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
grants management officer 50% covered passport officer 44% covered street warden 26% covered immigration officer 25% covered licensing officer 24% covered grants administrator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from grants administrator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a grants administrator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A grants administrator needs 8 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • advise on grants application communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow up the issued grants management skills
  • give out grants management skills
  • instruct grant recipient communication, collaboration and creativity
  • complete administration management skills
  • grant concessions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage grant applications information skills
  • financial management business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a grants administrator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Grants administrator is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a grants administrator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.