About the role
Grant Making:
- Identify and assist charities to apply to the Foundation;
- Assess grant applications including peer review and presenting applications at panel meetings;
- Manage the Foundation’s grants in your region;
- Be the Foundation’s representative and identify opportunities for the Foundation in your region;
- Work collaboratively with funders, charities, sector representatives, regional bodies and Lloyds Banking Group in your region;
- Manage the relationship with Enhance providers (development consultants);
- Contribute to the development of future grant-making programmes and new ways of working;
- Provide feedback for unsuccessful charities.
Support for Charity Partners:
- Develop trusted relationships with charities in your region;
- Work with charities to identify their development needs, and mutually creating and managing packages of support to meet these needs;
- Where appropriate work directly with charities to support their development needs;
- Identify opportunities to link and network grant holders;
- Create connections and networks between charities that create learning and add value;
- Refer charities for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) mentors and support the relationship as required.
National work:
- Work collaboratively with the Policy, Communications and Research team to ensure the insights and perspectives from grant making in your region are captured and reflected effectively in the issues we champion as a Foundation;
- Support our strategy and policy development and lead project work including managing budgets.
Representing and informing the Foundation:
- Be the Foundation’s representative in the region and feed local knowledge and experience back for the purpose of influencing and informing the Foundation’s work;
- Proactively develop and maintain an appropriate network of contacts both in the grant making sector and local voluntary and community sector, relevant to our mission to inform current and future working
Other duties as may be reasonably required.
How to apply
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This is an exciting role at a key time of change and challenge. If you would like an informal conversation to discuss the role in advance of making an application, please contact Richard Paynter, Head of Grants (South) at rpaynter@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk.
If you have technical issues submitting your application, please contact: recruitment@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk. Note that we do not accept applications via this email address.