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Grant Programmes Manager - The London Community Foundation

Salary:          Salary range £36,000 - £40,000 per annum 

Contract:      Full-time, permanent

Deadline:      11:59pm Tuesday 14 June

About the role 

Role purpose:

  • Manage a portfolio of grant making programmes
  • Ensure grant programmes are compliant and in accordance with LCF grant making policy and Standard Operating Procedures
  • Contribute to LCF’s understanding of impact and design of programmes to support London’s communities
  • Work with the Development Team to support donor engagement and to create compelling evidence and ways for donors to give to London.
  • Promote the value of LCF as a Community Foundation

Job description:

Grant Making:

  • Manage all aspects of grant making programmes (including design, fund set up, shortlisting, assessments, decision making processes, portfolio management, monitoring, donor reporting)
  • Independently managing funds, ensuring high quality delivery of grant making, according to contractual and donor requirements and in line with LCF’s operating model
  • Manage high value, complex funds, with support from the Head of Grants and Impact
  • Working closely with Development Team colleagues to provide proactive donor relationship management
  • Ensure all relevant data is accurately collected and analysed to be able to fulfil our monitoring and reporting requirements 
  • Managing sub-contractors and/or contracts with external suppliers as needed

Promoting LCF’s Impact as a Community Foundation:

  • Contribute to programme design, advising and influencing donors’ grant making approaches
  • Writing donor reports, including data analysis and demonstrating impact
  • Ensure that work is proportionate and within LCF’s unique operating model as a Community Foundation

General Duties:

  • Champion and advocate for LCF’s vision, mission, values and approach internally and externally
  • Embedding learning and feeding into continuous improvement and development of LCF’s grant making
  • Mentoring and support to colleagues
  • Responsible and accountable for workload management, using Salesforce dashboards and other tools
  • Identifying and raising issues/risks to Head of Grants and Impact with solutions
  • Any other tasks which are commensurate with the role which may be required. This likely to include occasional work or events in the evening / out of regular working hours

How to apply 

For more information and the full job description click here 

To apply to become The London Community Foundation’s Grant Programmes Manager, please submit your CV and cover letter to jointheteam@londoncf.org.uk by Tuesday 14 June 2022 at 23:59. Please clearly outline your experience and how you meet the requirements of the role by addressing each point in the Person Specification within your cover letter.

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