The England Awards for All Team have several Funding Officer vacancies (fixed term until both 31 August and 31 October 2026). The successful candidates must be based near to and be able to easily travel to either Birmingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as this role may require office working from time to time.
Working as a Funding Officer within the England Central Funding team, you will join our Awards for All Programme.
You will be assessing applications for funding from a wide range of customers, dealing with grant management and related queries and looking at risk management. This will include contact directly with grant holders and applicant organisations and with a range of colleagues. You will have a strong understanding of our vision and our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. You will manage your own caseload.
Interview Date: Week commencing 17 November
Location: Working from our Birmingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne office/hybrid working
If you would like an informal conversation about this role, please contact: [email protected]
On application, please align your supporting statement to the criteria below
Essential:
- Ability to analyse a range of information in order to make evidence-based judgements, to challenge when appropriate and to manage risk.
- Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to learn and apply a variety of detailed processes and technology systems (MS office and Salesforce).
- Good planning, organisation and time management skills. Managing your workload to meet targets and handle competing priorities.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships, working within a large team and demonstrating a strong commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Confidence to continually seek and act on feedback to evaluate and improve your own performance.
Desirable:
- Understand the communities we work with and how we make a difference through our funding.
- The ability to understand and assess data and financial information.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.
We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition).