The London Community Foundation

Grant Making, Recruitment, Senior Recruitment

Head of Grant Operations

The London Community Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of London’s most disadvantaged. Child poverty, unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence and gang crime are just some of the issues being tackled through grant making. To date, they have raised over £100m for community-based organisations, deploying more than £80m in grants and building up an endowment of £20m. The charity holds a unique position in the Capital; they collaborate across public, private (individual) and corporate donors to raise funds to support London’s grassroots organisations. They support donors to achieve their philanthropic aims whilst meeting the needs of London’s communities. This dual purpose makes LCF unique as a grant maker in London. Following the launch of a new strategy in April of this year, the ambition is to grow LCF’s reputation as a leading vehicle for London’s giving. 

Reporting into the Director of Grants and Impact, The Head of Grant Operations roles support the delivery of quality efficient and effective operations to ensure delivery of LCF’s objectives. Key deliverables include grant operations management, donor relationship and account management, people management, and senior programme management as a key member of the middle management team. As Head of Grant Operations the postholders would overseeing grant operations processes, donor relationship management, staff development and bespoke project and programme management. They would also have the opportunity to develop and continuously improve operational standards leading a small team to ensure the delivery of high quality, efficient and effective grants and donor relationship management.    

The first candidate appointed has held several senior roles in a number of charities and had experience covering: Grant making and management, Governance reviews, strategy writing and reviews, theory of change work and fundraising/bid writing.

The second candidate appointed has in-depth experience of the charity and grants sector and in their previous role was undertaking a ten-year strategic review of the Fund’s grant-making, reviewing the processes, conducting analysis of the grants made and how best to capture the Fund’s impact.