Grants Officer
£30,000 - £35,000
Full time, permanent
Central London and remote

The Legal Education Foundation is an independent grantmaking foundation distributing around £6million a year through our own grants and programmes, alongside participating in funding partnerships.

Our vision is of a society that fosters the principles of justice and fairness, where people understand and use law to bring about positive change and to prevent harm and where public systems and structures uphold the rule of law. Our focus is on 'the law of everyday life' - including people's rights in housing, employment, community care, immigration and welfare benefits.

The Grants Officer is an important role, part of a small collaborative grants team delivering the Foundation's 5-year strategy to 2025 and the Justice Together initiative. Our priority is to develop stronger relationships with our grantees, which will enable us to better support them and to learn more from what we fund. There are opportunities to shape the job by leading on areas of particular interest within the grants portfolio.

The Grants Officer role is one of three at the Foundation, and will join us at an exciting time as we strengthen the team and develop our processes to ensure we can meet the Foundations commitments to be an open, inclusive and transparent funder.

The Grants Officer will report to the Head of Grants, and will work closely with colleagues across the Foundation including in administration and policy.

People with lived experience of social welfare legal issues are underrepresented in our organisation, so we are actively recruiting and prioritising candidates who bring this understanding alongside other skills and expertise. (We do not expect people to describe their personal experience at any stage during this recruitment process or during their work at the Foundation.)

The post-holder would need to be based in the London office for 2 days per week but could choose to work from home for part of the week.

Accessibility

The Legal Education Foundation is a Disability Confident employer.

The Foundation is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you have any access requirements or would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact Belinda Berry at belinda.berry@thelef.org
We guarantee any applicant who declares they have a disability will be offered an interview if they meet the minimum requirements of the job specification.

How to apply

For an informal and confidential discussion about the role, please contact our recruitment partner:
Simon Lloyd, Director, NFP Consulting
T: 07961 988 523
E: simon.lloyd@nfpconsulting.co.uk

Your application should comprise a CV along with a supporting statement of around two sides of A4 indicating how you meet the person specifications of the role and your motivations for applying.

Closing date: 23rd June

First Interviews: Friday 30th June

Second Interviews: Friday 7th July

Following pre-qualification by NFP Consulting, there is a two-stage process for shortlisted candidates comprising an initial remote interview followed by a panel interview held on site at our central London office.