Join our Talent Bank
London Funders is excited to be developing a Talent Bank to grow our network of consultants, freelancers and contractors to help support our mission to bring funders together to build a better London by taking action on what matters to our city and our communities.
As a small team of 12, we sometimes need to call on the talents of others, for short-term pieces of work to help us achieve our ambition. Although it might change from role to role, the type of skills we are most likely to be looking for are around; convening, facilitation and chairing, action learning, and research and policy development. We’re therefore looking to develop a small bank of people who could work with us as consultants, on secondment, or be employed for fixed periods as projects require. People on the bank will be brought in for smaller or one-off pieces of work to provide the team with additional short-term capacity as required – if something requires a longer-term response we will advertise these as separate jobs or tenders as appropriate, and will recruit to these through our usual processes.
If you’d like us to consider adding you to the talent bank please just send across your CV with a cover note (no more than two sides of A4) highlighting any particular skills you have, or the types of projects or work you’d be interested in doing for us, together with a note on your preferred method of engagement (if as a consultant can you also tell us what your day rate is, if on a secondment or a fixed-term contract basis please let us know what your salary expectations would be).
About Us
We’re at the heart of a great network of over 170 member organisations, focused on funding in London. This includes every local authority in London, City Hall, independent trusts and foundations, businesses, social investment organisations, housing associations and more. Together, our members invest hundreds of millions of pounds every year in civil society through all aspects of London’s life, from arts through to welfare, so that people across our communities can live better lives. We’re the place where funders come together to connect and collaborate, where ideas are generated and acted on, and where people work to ensure that resources are channelled to the right places. You can read more about our ambitions here.
Over the past year we’ve grown in number and have several new programmes of work underway. From setting up the Collaboration Circle, uniting people and money for change, to championing the importance of place, to mapping the current state of funding for equity and justice infrastructure. We are keen to work with talent across our networks to ensure that the work we deliver is impactful for our communities.
What you can expect from us
If you’re selected to work with us we’ll give you a full onboarding to London Funders with one of our Directors being your main point of contact. We’ll also invite you to join our growing aLONdi network, bringing together all past and present employees and trustees of London Funders.
We have a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and we pride ourselves on being an employer that values and promotes staff wellbeing, and we’ve thought hard about how we can put this into practice.
We are committed to putting inclusion and equity at the heart of how we recruit, support and manage our staff. We’ve signed up to a number of initiatives to help us deliver on these commitments:
- 10,000 Interns Foundation programme: each year we pledge to take an intern from each initiative (Black and Able interns), offering paid internships that create new pathways into the sector that promotes equity of opportunity
- Show the Salary: only advertising permanent jobs (members and our own) with salaries to stop perpetuating pay gaps which evidence shows most affect women, racially minoritised staff and people who are LGBT+
- Living Wage Employer: we are a Accredited Living Wage Employer, paying the real Living Wage to everyone who works for us
- Menopause Workplace Pledge: we’ve signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge to take positive action to make sure everyone going through the menopause is supported
- Disability Confident Employer: we are joining a movement of change, to encourage employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people
London Funders is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. You can read more about what it’s like to work with us here.
We're proud of the diversity and vibrancy of our city, and work to champion equity and justice in all that we do. We are actively working to make sure we reflect our community in our staff team, and are particularly welcoming of applications from people from Black and racially minoritised communities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and from people with disabilities, to help strengthen the diversity of thought and experience in our team that we know will make our work even stronger.
If you need any alternative formats or would like to discuss anything else please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@londonfunders.org.uk.
Next Steps
To join the talent bank we ask that you send across your CV with a cover note (no more than two sides of A4) highlighting any particular skills you have, or the types of projects or work you’d be interested in doing for us, together with a note on your preferred method of engagement (if as a consultant can you also tell us what your day rate is, if on a secondment or a fixed-term contract basis please let us know what your salary expectations would be). You can send these across to info@londonfunders.org.uk.
After the closing date of 30 September we will contact you to determine if you will be on our talent bank and ask for references. Following this we will contact you via e-mail with any relevant opportunities that match your skills, experience and preferences.
Please feel free to get in touch with us at any time by contacting info@londonfunders.org.uk