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Business Delivery Assistant

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

City of Edinburgh

Hybrid

GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

A prominent heritage funding organization is looking for a full-time Business Delivery Assistant to provide essential administrative support across their Grant in Aid team. The role offers the flexibility of hybrid working from various office locations in the UK. Ideal candidates should have strong administrative, communication, and collaboration skills. This position plays a crucial part in ensuring that heritage is accessible and inclusive for everyone.

Qualifications

  • Experience in providing administrative support to teams.
  • Ability to use Microsoft Teams for remote collaboration.
  • Strong communication skills to engage with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Provide a wide range of administrative support across the Grant in Aid team.
  • Support the team in delivering engagement and investment services.
  • Assist with project-related tasks as required.

Skills

Administrative support
Communication
Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Job description

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.

Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from The National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.

We are currently recruiting for a full time Business Delivery Assistant on a permanent based in any of the Heritage Fund’s Offices in the following locations – Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this post is to provide a wide range of administrative support across the Grant in Aid team. This is a small team of eight people dispersed across the UK, which usually works remotely using Microsoft Teams. Tasks will be varied, with the post supporting the Grant in Aid team to deliver a mixture of engagement and investment / Grant Making services across a number of programmes.

If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.

Applications close on 11 August 2025.
Interviews are expected to take place on 26 August 2025.

Our Values

Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.

Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
Collaborative by working and learning together
Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement

Flexible Working

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.

Disability Confident Employer

We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for every vacancy. We always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments and special requirements can be discussed and arranged before an interview.

Disability Confident Employer

The National Lottery Heritage Fund pledges to provide an inclusive working and learning environment for our people which prioritises fairness, equality, diversity and inclusion as well as dignity and respect for all. We will create a workspace where intimidation, discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation are not tolerated and actively prevented and opposed.

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