Grant Programmes Manager – The London
Community Foundation
Thank you for your
interest in joining The London Community Foundation (LCF). Our mission is to
tackle inequality by supporting a diverse civil society serving London’s communities.
We do this by amplifying the needs of London and inspiring donors to support
them. Our work spans across company and individual philanthropy as well as
public sector funds – supporting charities working to reduce problems such as
violence against women and girls, homelessness, food poverty and young people
at risk of gang violence.
Every role at LCF is
critical to our mission, including this job. Inside this pack you will find
information about the Grant Programmes Manager role and more about our work.
To represent London in
all its glorious diversity, our people must reflect our work. At LCF we are
committed to challenging ourselves to be more inclusive and diverse in how we
operate. This includes our recruitment experience. We have a series of
commitments to help us attract diverse talent and throughout our recruitment
process, we will:
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Ensure a diverse interview
panel wherever possible
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Provide additional
accessibility support for applicants, where requested
•
Share first-stage
interview questions with candidates beforehand
•
Never ask for your
current salary or degree level education
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Provide an opportunity to meet members of the team
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Always advertise the
salary for our vacancies (#ShowtheSalary)
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Seek active feedback
from you on the recruitment experience
With my thanks and best
of luck with your application,
Kate Markey
CEO, The London Community Foundation
A strong and diverse
civil society that tackles disadvantage and creates greater equity in London.
Through good
philanthropy, our knowledge and expertise, we convene donors to invest in
charitable organisations working to overcome the issues affecting London.
Our Team and Board come from diverse
backgrounds, with different skills, experience, and perspective, but unified by
their ambition for London.
We are Equitable,
Accountable, Responsive, Collaborative and Impactful.
We aspire to be Inclusive,
Adaptable, Trustworthy, Enterprising, Pragmatic, Respectful.
Our experience has shown
us that communities often characterised as poor, and disadvantaged are rich
with ideas and assets. Charities, social enterprises, and community groups that
spring from the communities they are trying to help often have a deep understanding
of the gaps that need filling. They know what works, how to gain trust and
build lasting relationships.
LCF was founded in 1995 and
we have made grant awards totalling over £100m. Our annual grant-making has
grown to circa £9m (pre-COVID).
Our grant awards are
typically made to small charities and community groups who understand issues at
a local level, but whose existence is generally below the public radar. The
grant awards can address a range of community- related issues such as child poverty,
unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic abuse
and violence affecting young people.
LCF is one of 47 community
foundations in the UK. Last year the UKCF network made £175m in grants, making
it the fourth largest grant maker in the UK, and holds endowments valued at
over £700m. During COVID, the network has been privileged to be the preferred
delivery partner of the National Emergencies Trust which has deployed almost
£100m.
Head of Grants and Impact
Grants and Impact
None
Permanent
Full time (35 hours per week, 9am-5pm, flexible hours
available)
Brixton, London (hybrid working available)
Start date:
from October 2022
£32,000 - £34,000
LCF is proud to be affiliated to and support:
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Living Wage Employer
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UK Community Foundations
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Fundraising Regulator
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Manage a portfolio of
grant-making programmes
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Support applicants and
grantees through the grant-making process from application to final reporting
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Ensure grant programmes
are compliant and in accordance with LCF grant-making policy and Standard
Operating Procedures
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Contribute to LCF’s
understanding and evidence of impact and the design of programmes to support
London’s communities
· Promote the values of
LCF as a community foundation
Grant-making:
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Manage grant-making
programmes, including design, fund set-up, shortlisting, assessments, decision-making
processes, payments, monitoring, donor reporting
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Ensure programmes are
delivered to a high standard, according to contractual and donor requirements
and in line with LCF’s approach, procedures and values
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Support grantees and
assess grant applications from a wide range of civil society organisations
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Manage a variety of programmes,
including independently leading on lower complexity programmes and working on
some high-value, complex funds with support from the Head of Grants and Impact
· Ensure all relevant data
is accurately collected and analysed to be able to fulfil our monitoring and
reporting requirements
· Ensure that work is
proportionate and within LCF’s operating model as a community foundation
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Support other colleagues
as required
Promoting LCF’s impact
as a community foundation:
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Contribute to programme
design and donor influencing as appropriate
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Write high-quality donor
reports, including data and impact analysis, and highlighting opportunities to
promote LCF’s impact more widely
General:
· Champion and advocate
for LCF’s vision, mission, values and approach
internally and externally
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Embed learning and feed
into continuous improvement and development of LCF’s grant-making
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Identify and flag
learning, success and impact as well as issues and risks
to Head of Grants and Impact, with suggested solutions
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Manage workloads
effectively, using Salesforce dashboards and other tools
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Attend occasional work
or events in the evening/out of regular working hours
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Experience of managing end-to-end
grant programmes
· Experience of assessing
grant applications with a good understanding of key elements: financial,
governance, safeguarding, organisational capacity to deliver and impact
· Experience of reviewing
monitoring reports to identify progress, learning, successes, impact, risks and challenges
· Enthusiastic, proactive,
adaptable and pragmatic with the ability to work in a
fast-paced environment
· Able to write concise, high-quality
donor reports, analysing and summarising complex information
· Good verbal and written communication
and presentation skills, and the ability to adapt to different audiences
· Proficiency with IT,
including customer relationship management (CRM) systems
· Excellent time
management, organisation and able to manage different projects concurrently
· Strong interpersonal
skills and ability to work well in a team
· Commitment to LCF’s
vision, mission, values and behaviours
Desirable
· Experience of assessing capital
or core funding applications
· Experience of working
with donors, including statutory donors, to deliver grant-making programmes
· A working knowledge of
social impact, including Theories of Change, developing and reporting
metrics
· Experience managing
grant programmes with additional elements such as external evaluations or
organisational development components
· Understanding of social
issues, civil society and need in London
Being part of the team
At The London Community
Foundation, we want people to grow and succeed.
Alongside our values, we expect everyone to display the
behaviours needed to contribute to our vision and purpose. See 6 behaviours
below:
· Pragmatic
· Enterprising
· Trustworthy
· Adaptable
· Respectful
· Inclusive
In return we seek to offer an inclusive, rewarding, and
collaborative environment and several benefits.
Key highlights include:
Stay and grow
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25 days holiday (33 incl. bank holidays) pro rata
with incremental rises of 1 extra day a year after the first two full years of
service, up to a max of five extra days.
· Mid and annual
performance review with development plans
· Team training and
development opportunities
· Up to 10% employer match
contribution pension scheme
· 0% loans for continuing
education
· Death in service
insurance (Ts&Cs apply)
Keeping
healthy
· Employee assistance
programme
· Flexible working
· 3 x ‘close-down’ days
over Christmas
· Buy and sell holiday
allowance
·
0% loans for bike purchase
Great
environment
· Hybrid working is
supported
· Quarterly full team
sessions
· Opportunities to engage
with Board
of Trustees
· 2 x volunteering days
per annum
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter to jointheteam@londoncf.org.uk by Sunday 2 October 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.
Please let us know if you will require any special
provision because of any disability or other accessibility needs, should you be
called for interview.
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.
We are committed to
increasing accessibility for people from diverse backgrounds to join our team.
We seek to collect equalities data at the first stage of application so we can
analyse and challenge where and how we recruit. We encourage candidates to
complete our diversity monitoring form for this reason. Equalities data is collected and
stored separately to applications to adhere to data regulations. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times, and
welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds.
Staff from a Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)
background are currently under-represented within the Grants and Impact Team,
therefore we actively encourage, and will commit to interview, all applicants
from a BAME background who meet the minimum essential person specification. We
invite any candidates who identify themselves as from a BAME background to
state this as part of their cover letter, alongside addressing each point in
the person specification.
· Deadline for applications: 23:59 on Sunday 2 October 2022
· First Interview:
Thursday
6 Oct 2022
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Second Interview:
Tuesday
11 Oct 2022
First interview: This interview will focus on skills
and experience for the role. In line with our commitment to supporting
candidates, you will receive the questions 24 hours before the interview, along
with details of joining an interview.
Second Interview: Candidates who score the highest in the
skills and competencies of the role will be invited back for a second
interview. The second interview will focus on values and culture at LCF. We are
planning for second interviews to be held in person at our offices in Brixton.
Queries
If you have queries on any aspect of the appointment
process, need additional information or would like to have an informal
discussion about the role, please contact Sam Fox, Head of Grants
and Impact via email: jointheteam@londoncf.org.uk