Lottery Funding Specialist

Introduction

Do you have experience writing grant applications from the National Lottery Community Fund (previously The Big Lottery Fund) Awards for All, Reaching Communities, Partnerships, #iwil Fund, The UK Fund, and the Climate Action Fund in the UK? You will be responsible for the overall administration and management support of the Lottery-funded projects and actively contribute to preparing new Lottery project proposals.

Duties and Responsibilities

Proposal Writing

• Mapping of the Lottery Fund and international funding opportunities and private investors funding.
• Conducting research, analysis and documentation.
• Conceptualisation, visualisation and iterative challenging of new project ideas.
• Design the Lottery Fund and international projects.
• Consortium-building, introduction to relevant consortia, and partners’ recruitment for the Lottery funding applications.
• Writing the Lottery fund project proposals including scientific excellence, societal impact and project implementation, budget, deliverables, and planning.
• Submission of the Lottery Fund project application forms and proposals.

Project Management

• Lead on the successful implementation of the Lottery Fund project deliverables and develop and manage an implementation timetable to ensure delivery of project targets to a high quality and within the contracted timeframe and budget.
• Plan project activities, and supporting project leads to ensure detailed project implementation plans are in place, understood by team members, and effectively implemented as scheduled.
• Track progress against programme objectives, ensuring full completion as per programme work plans.
• Ensure effective systems to monitor and evaluate the quality of project delivery are in place.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of comprehensive and cost-effective project visibility and communication strategies, reaching out to all project stakeholders.
• Ensure quality reporting of project achievements and documenting best practices and lessons learnt in the course of implementation.
• Work closely with support departments (Finance and ΙΤ) to ensure adequate support for project delivery.

Budget Management

• Be responsible for designated project budgets, including monitoring expenditures against budget lines and ensuring funds are appropriately utilised in meeting project objectives.

Degree

• Academic background in International or another relevant field with a Bachelor’s or/and preferably a Master’s degree. Those without a degree, but with a vast amount of experience are welcome to apply. We will discuss this with individual candidates.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Lottery Fund policy and decisions about health, education, climate change, social issues, human rights, democracy, technology, environment, territorial cooperation etc.
• Responsibility, consistency, and adherence to strict deadlines.
• Proven track records in drafting and implementing Lottery-funded projects.
• Administrative, organisational, and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a can-do attitude.
• Intercultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Good problem solver, enjoying the variety and delivering efficient, scalable, and project-focused solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work on own initiative.
• A drive to achieve quality in all aspects of the role

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English (both written and oral).
• You must be based in the UK.

Technological Awareness:

• Fluency in office software, email, web-based applications, and databases.
• Command of social media.
• Actively seeks to apply technology to appropriate tasks.