Director of Grants & Operations

JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent charity organization in London seeks a Director of Grants and Operations to lead operations, partnerships, and grant-making. The ideal candidate will have experience in digital transformation and operational excellence, overseeing significant annual grants to benefit youth. This role offers a chance to impact young lives, focusing on those in greatest need.

Qualifications

• Experience in building and improving operations functions.
• Significant experience leading high volume grant programs.
• Proven track record of strategic vision and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead grant-making and operations functions.
• Ensure operations are agile, efficient, and effective.
• Expand impact and investment through proven grants and partnerships.

Skills

Leadership in complex organizations

Digital transformation

Financial oversight

People leadership

Operational excellence

Job description

Director of Grants and Operations

The Director of Grants and Operations is a senior role within the Jack Petchey Foundation with responsibility for leading our operations, partnerships and grant-making. You will ensure that our operations are agile, efficient, effective, forward-looking and robust. In addition, you will have strategic responsibility for ensuring our grants and partnerships teams deploy over £10m pa to benefit young people and strengthen the youth sector across London and Essex.

As a member of the Executive Team, you will play a crucial role in delivering our ambitious strategy, expanding our impact and investing more through JPF’s proven grants and partnerships. You will work to ensure that JPF programmes benefit more young people, particularly in areas and groups with the greatest need.

We are seeking an experienced, forward-thinking leader with a proven track record of building and improving highly effective operations functions within complex organisations. You will bring strategic vision and operational excellence, ensuring that our systems and processes are robust, inclusive and future focused. With significant experience in digital transformation, financial oversight and people leadership, you will know how to create the infrastructure that enables impact at scale. At the same time, you will be motivated by our mission, committed to youth empowerment, comfortable leading high volume grant programmes, developing programmes to fill identified gaps, and skilled at translating strategy into practical action.

Please see the attached document for further information about the role.

How to Apply

Click on the 'Apply on website' button below to apply online. The closing date for applications is Sunday 5th October 2025.