About the role
Grant-making:
- Provide support to grant-making programmes, including the development stage, fund set-up, shortlisting, assessments, decision-making processes, payments, monitoring, donor reporting
- Lead on lower complexity programmes with support from the Grant Programmes Lead or relevant Grant Programmes Manager
- Support applicants and assess grant applications from a wide range of civil society organisations
- Ensure all relevant data is accurately collected and analysed to fulfil our monitoring and reporting requirements
- Adhere to LCF’s grants policy and operating procedures
Promoting LCF’s impact as a community foundation:
- Contribute to programme design and donor influencing as appropriate
- Write high-quality donor reports, including data and impact analysis, and highlight opportunities to promote LCF’s impact more widely
- Champion and advocate for LCF’s vision, mission, values and approach internally and externally
Team & administrative support:
At peak times, provide support including:
- First point of contact for general enquiries (phone and email) and for visitors to the office
- General application support
- Support with eligibility checks and administrative support for the grant-making process as needed
- Support with grant panel meetings, internal meeting minutes and other support as required
General:
- Maintain accurate grants information on Salesforce – including data cleansing, retention and management
- Manage and be accountable for your own workload using Salesforce dashboards and other tools
- Identify and raise issues/risks to Programmes Lead and Heads with solutions
- Embed learning and feed into continuous improvement and development of LCF’s grant-making
How to apply
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At LCF, we are committed to ensuring that how we are governed, our team and our partnerships all reflect the true diversity of London. We need to challenge ourselves and be challenged. We will fall short at times, but we will continue to learn and to support proactive long-term change for grassroots organisations and the communities they serve. We actively encourage applications from those from a BAME background and other under-represented communities.