Funding Officer

Working as a Funding Officer within the England Central Funding team, you will join our Awards for All programme.

The England Awards for All Team have several Funding Officer vacancies, both permanent positions and fixed term contracts until December 2024. The successful candidates must be based near to and be able to easily travel to one of our centres in Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as this role may require office working from time to time.

You will be assessing applications for funding from a wide range of customers, dealing with grant management and related queries and looking at risk management, or supporting our Advice Team. This will include contact directly with grant holders and applicant organisations and with a range of colleagues. 

You will have a strong understanding of our vision and our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. You will manage your own caseload.

Contract Type: Permanent and Fixed Term – Please state which you are open to in your application, this can be both.

Hours: Full time, 37 Hours per week. Flexible – Part time hours will be considered

Interview Date: Week commencing 18th December.

Location: Working from our Birmingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne office/hybrid working

If you would like an informal conversation about this role, please contact: jane.kay@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Any questions regarding the recruitment process, please email: Recruitment@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Essential:

• Ability to analyse a range of information in order to make evidence-based judgements, to challenge when appropriate and to manage risk.
• Ability to learn and apply a variety of detailed processes and technology systems (MS office and Salesforce).
• Good planning, organisation and time management skills. Managing your workload to meet targets and handle competing priorities, alongside confidence to continually seek and act on feedback to evaluate and improve your own performance.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships, working within a large team and demonstrating a strong commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable:

• Understand the communities we work with and how we make a difference through our funding
• The ability to understand and assess data and financial information
• Knowledge of the social policy environment and the role of the third sector
• Proactively share learning, knowledge and information, and make improvements by working with colleagues

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to drive transformative change and make a real impact on communities across the UK.
• Excellent benefits.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• A chance to be part of an organisation that is deeply committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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.

Job contact :

• Name : jane.kay@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
• Email : jane.kay@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk