Funding Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 381943**Salary**:

- £25,000 - £27,000- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant
Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 12 month contract**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Blackburn, Blackpool, LancasterAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- We are looking for a Funding Officer to join the enthusiastic, friendly Lancashire team in the North West Region. You will play a major role in ensuring our funding supports a wide variety of communities and places across Lancashire and the North West region.**Job description**:
**12 month Fixed Term Contract - based in Lancashire**

In your role you will work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and the necessary legislation, in line with our vision and principles. You will gain an understanding of our vision, our commitment to equity and inclusion and our funding programmes.

The role is varied and will require you to:

- Be responsible for your own caseload: visiting projects, liaising with grant recipients, identify and manage risks and supporting organisations to delivery their projects and measure their impact
- Understand and respond to the different needs of our applicants and grant holders by providing advice and feedback and be willing to have challenging but constructive conversations.
- Represent the Fund within your local area, at funding fairs and external meetings and create opportunities for people to come together.
- Share learning from your conversations, events, grant holder reports and evaluations to support the Fund in maximining our impact as a grant maker.

**Interview Date**: In person interviews - Week commencing 16th January

**Location**: Mobile working - Flexible and hybrid working - Home and community based

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- Communication skills: Strong listening, written and verbal communication with an emphasis on written communication for assessment purposes.
- Relational skills: Ability to nurture, develop and promote effective relationships and communication with colleagues, community organisations and other external agencies with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion
- Knowledge of the local areas you would be covering and their charity sectors.

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience working with under-represented communities in the area of Lancashire
- Understanding of financial planning and business plans, ability to analyse accounts and numerical data.
- Demonstrable IT skills and the ability to learn detailed processes quickly and accurately.
- An ability to manage your own workload with mínimal supervision

**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.

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.)

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £25,000, The National Lottery Community Fund contributes £7,242 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.A full list of our benefits can be found on our website using the link:

- Generous Civil Service Pension scheme
- Flexible working
- Enhanced paid maternity/paternity leave
- Paid volunteering leave
- Season ticket loan

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**Selection process details**:
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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- Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.-
**Diversity and Inclusion**:

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