About Us
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK – we support people and communities to prosper and thrive.
National Lottery players raise an incredible £30 million a week for good causes. This money funds projects and activities that transform communities, protect our heritage and enrich lives through arts, sports and culture. We are proud to be one of 12 distributors responsible for awarding this funding across the UK.
Thanks to National Lottery players, last year we were able to award over half a billion pounds of life-changing funding to UK communities, supporting thousands of projects making a real difference to people’s lives.
Over eight in ten of our grants were for under £10,000 going to grassroots groups and charities across the UK doing great things to support their communities, during a particularly tough time.
We also distribute non-National Lottery funds, working closely with Government on funding for important issues, such as tackling loneliness, multiple and complex needs, mental health and distributing Dormant Accounts money.
Over the last five years we’ve awarded a total of £3.4 billion, of which £2.7 billion is National Lottery money.
We fund things that matter – whether helping communities respond positively to national, regional or local priorities, or helping the UK achieve its big social ambitions. Our grants range from £500 up to multi-million-pound programmes – supporting people and projects to do extraordinary things and bring great ideas for their community to life.
About the role
Our London and South East & East Region has a new opportunity for an Executive Officer. You will be responsible for supporting effective grant-making across the region, helping to ensure that our grant holders have an excellent experience of the Fund.
As an Executive Officer in the Region, you’ll be part of a driven and passionate team, led by a Senior Head of Regional Funding. Within the team there are 2 Senior Grant Making Managers, 9 Funding Managers and 40 Funding Officers as well as 1 other Executive Officer. You will report into a Funding Manager and work both remotely and be based for some of the time in the London Office and/or could be present in other hub locations across London and the South East.
Organising will be at the heart of your role and you will be in regular contact with the team across the Region and with those undertaking similar roles elsewhere in the UK. Duties include organising and minuting decision meetings, managing Senior Managers’ diaries, booking travel and accommodation, and supporting the planning and running of a range of face to face and online meetings.
You will be responsible for capturing information from our applicants and grant holders throughout the funding process and organising communications to ensure excellent customer service.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
You’ll also need to work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and the necessary legislation, and in a way that is in line with our vision and principles.
You’ll support the team by taking responsibility for a range of activities including:
We are looking for applicants who can work in the office at least two -three days per week and up to five days if required.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered
Deadline for Applications: 29.08.2022
Interview Date: 7&8 September
Salary: £22,728 - £25,000.
Location:
Successful candidates will have the option to work from a fixed office location in London 2-3 days a week and working remotely/ flexibly from home the rest of the week. To fulfil a range of duties candidates would be expected to undertake occasional travel across the region. Occasional travel to other offices within the UK may also be required time to time.
Successful candidates will have access to the London Office, and you will be asked to complete national security vetting clearance so that you can access our Marsham Street Office. This involves passing a disclosure and barring check and Counter Terrorism Check.
If you would like to have a discussion ahead of applying, please do email Matt Kelly Matt.Kelly@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
For you
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.
We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:
Equal Opportunities
Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.
We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will proactively make reasonable adjustments if needed through the recruitment process and during employment. This can be related to a physical and mental health conditions.
We are also proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting our commitment to being a great place to work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) staff.
About the Role
Working to the Senior Head of Region, you will be one of two Senior Grant Making Managers (this role leading in the South-East and East of England, working alongside the other post covering London). The Senior Grant Making Managers play a key role in maximizing the impact of our funding. You will be a member of the Regional Leadership Team, developing our regional strategic direction and ensuring excellent management and oversight of day-to-day grant making and learning. You will own key stakeholder relationships within the Southeast and East of England and play a lead role in developing and delivering the funding strategy across the Southeast and East and ensuring operational excellence in our grant making and team leadership. You will be a key representative of the National Lottery Community Fund in the region.
Our London, south-east and eastern region spans a diverse and complex geography, taking in coastal shores, the rural fenlands, urban cities and beyond. It’s a region that has 146 local authorities and a complexity of deprivation in seemingly wealthy areas.
You will support the awarding of over £100 million in grants per annum within the London, South East and East region alongside being jointly responsible for a portfolio of approximately £200m grants in management. You will support the leadership and management of 50+ remotely based mobile team members in the region, with direct leadership of our South East and East teams (approximately 30 members) and line management of a team of six Funding Managers.
You will be a key member of the England Team, maintaining strong relationships with colleagues across the regional and partnerships teams and with other funding colleagues from our strategic and Third party programmes.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference through our funding, with a deep understanding of the communities we serve. You will have experience of building and leading teams and driving a culture of inclusion with an ability to coach, inspire, and empower people. Your ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a diverse range of senior level internal and external stakeholders will be second to none, you will have experience in creating connections and facilitating diverse stakeholder networks and you will be a confident communicator, comfortable in all environments. You will demonstrate an ability to work in an agile way, ensuring we are flexible and continue to improve in line with feedback and insights from customers and frontline staff.
If you would like an informal conversation about this role, please contact Helen Bushell our Senior Head of Regional Funding, London, South-East and East Helen.Bushell@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
Hours: 37 Hours per week
Location – London, South East and East of England - Mobile with frequent travel
For successful candidates based in London, you will be asked to complete national security vetting clearance so that you can access our Marsham Street Office. This involves passing a disclosure and barring check and Counter Terrorism Check.
Interview Date: 24 and 25 August with an analytical exercise to be undertaken on the 23 and 24 August
About You
As an experienced senior leader, you have a strong background in funding/grant making and significant experience of working with communities in the VCSE sector, and/or developing strategies involving stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds, designed to deliver greater joint impact. You will be responsible for achieving our strategic aim of being for everyone and you put a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of your leadership. You will need to be a good communicator, able to translate a vision into reality. The role will give you the flexibility to make the role your own and develop alongside the organisation; working collaboratively with the team to produce a broad portfolio of relationships and investments across the South East and East region.
Specifically, you’ll need to demonstrate the following Essential Criteria:
Furthermore, it would be advantageous if you could bring the following desirable criteria to the role:
We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. As such we particularly encourage applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.
For You
About us
Are you an ambitious communications professional looking for your next challenge?
Are you strategic in your thinking, able to focus yourself and others on priority areas and ensure consistent use of key messaging with a focus on the impact of our funding?
Could you help to manage a team of communications officers – with press and digital specialisms - and work with them to create and deliver strategic content across all our channels that tells the story of how our funding is changing lives across the UK and supporting people and communities to prosper and thrive?
We’re looking for a proactive and energetic communications professional with at least three years’ previous relevant experience to join our busy strategic and digital communications team as a manager. Ideally, you will be confident and comfortable in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to spot content opportunities across a wide-range of topics, and the strategic skills to decide which stories to take forward.
You will be keen (and have the skills) to get the best out of people and will be used to working in a matrix organisation, with the ability to break down silos and build relationships to deliver projects and ‘get the job done’. You will also have an understanding and willingness to support engagement activity to help us understand what matters to communities and key stakeholders/partners.
Contract Type: One permanent role
Location: London, Birmingham or Newcastle with Hybrid working – a combination of working from home and either the London, Birmingham or Newcastle office as a base, with occasional travel to other offices as required.
Interview Date: First interviews week commencing 15th August
You will need to demonstrate your experience, qualifications and skills in these areas: