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
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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.