Job Details:
Grants & Contracts Manager

Job Description

Special Terms: Full-Time – 37 Hours per week, Permanent 
Salary: £33,816 + 10% pension
Accountable to: Head of Contract Development
Accountable for: Grants & Contracts Coordinator

Closing Date: 20/01/2025

Interview Date: 28/01/2025 – 29/01/2025

Panel:                                    
Daniel Walsh – Head of Contract Development
Rachel Bottomley - Managing Director
Geraldine Achieng - Business Development Manager

Role Summary

LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. We are looking for a Grants & Contracts Manager to join our small but dynamic team at LGBT Foundation. They will work with the Income Generation team and the Senior Leadership Team, helping to ensure LGBT Foundation achieves its income targets and meets our strategic goals. This will be primarily through:

1. Researching and submitting major funding applications to statutory sources and Trusts and Foundations, at either a local, regional or national level. 
2. Leading on contract compliance across all grants and contracts, including leading project initiation processes for new funding, funder stewardship, overseeing management of online systems (e.g. Salesforce, online fundraising platforms), and ownership of relevant fundraising targets.

We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.

*Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.

Role Accountabilities

1. To work with the Head of Contract Development, the Grants and Contracts Coordinator,  and our Leadership Teams, primarily researching, writing, and managing medium-term and longer-term larger fundraising applications to statutory and trust sources. This would include: 
2. Regularly researching and reviewing the giving criteria and patterns of existing and potential supporters, to identify best prospects and ensure opportunities for generating income for LGBT Foundation work are maximised. 
3. Writing compelling and clear applications and business cases for funding our existing and expanding work programme. 
4. To lead on the research and submission of tenders, either in our own right, or as a partner with external applicants. 
5. Working with the Director of Finance & IT to compile project budgets.
6. To source, develop and manage excellent working relationships with our funders and stakeholders, for example by identifying and managing relationships with potential future partners for funding and tender applications, stewarding relationships with funders, and exploring avenues for repeat funding.
7. To source long term and sustainable funding
8. To maintain effective fundraising systems and files and implement improvements and changes where necessary.
9. To lead the project initiation stage of new funding agreements (for example through chairing Project Initiation Meetings, uploading funding information to LGBT Foundation’s CRM System, and ensuring funding information and budgets are communicated to our Finance Team).
10. To support with contract compliance, for example through tracking monitoring reports, sending annual accounts, and supporting colleagues with monitoring reports where required
11. To lead on other areas of regulatory and administrative compliance, such as ensuring we are operating in line with the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice, renewing memberships of the Fundraising Regulator and other relevant bodies, and informing staff of any relevant changes in regulation/good practice
12. To contribute to LGBT Foundation’s overall ongoing and annual business planning and budgeting processes

LGBT Foundation Accountabilities 

• Display a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of the issues faced by all LGBT communities. LGBT Foundation will challenge any discriminatory behaviour or language if it occurs. 
• Further, LGBT Foundation has a commitment to using the insight gained through its work to make the organisation more inclusive and representative of all LGBT communities.  
• Completion of specific tasks allocated through work plans, project plans and the annual business plan of LGBT Foundation. 
• Provision of monthly information (accurate data and informative commentary) within your areas of responsibility for performance management purposes. 
• Compliance with LGBT Foundation’s policies, procedures, management and monitoring systems. 
• We are a learning and development organisation and will consistently provide and support opportunities for staff to exceed theirs and our expectations. In common with all staff, you have a responsibility for drawing attention to your own training needs as well as those of colleagues that you work with that LGBT Foundation will then aim to support you with. 
• Any other duties in line with your skills and abilities, as directed by your line manager. 
•  All staff are expected to maintain a flexible approach to their roles and respond to LGBT Foundation’s changing needs.  The responsibilities of this post may be changed subject to review, over a period of time.  This will be done in consultation with the post holder. 

• Generous leave allowance (26 days annual leave - rising to 31 days after 5 years’ service)
• Sector leading 10% employers’ contributory pension
• Subsidised Staff counselling scheme
• Cycle to Work / Technology Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Free annual flu jab
• Free VDU eye care test
• Staff social budget
• Dedicated training budget for each member of staff and support with personal development plans
• Flexible working to support a healthy work/life balance (including time off in lieu and flexi-time)
• Relaxed dress code