Engagement Manager (Midlands and East)

The National Lottery Heritage Fund; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Lottery Heritage Fund in Cambridge is recruiting a full-time Engagement Manager on a permanent contract, based in our Cambridge Office with hybrid working. You will coordinate engagement and inclusion activities across the Midlands and East region, helping to stimulate high-quality applications and support outreach strategies under Heritage 2033.

The role focuses on ensuring heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, working with the Engagement Team and partners.

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 Engagement Manager on a permanent contract based in Cambridge Office (Hybrid Working). Salary is £28,329 to £31,019 per annum (Range 2).

The primary purpose of this post is to work as part of the Engagement Team to deliver engagement and inclusion activity across the Midlands and East region including stimulating and supporting the flow of good quality applications; contributing to and implementing outreach strategies targeted at Heritage 2033 strategic initiatives as required and contributing to the wider work of the Midlands and East team particularly focussing on the East of England area of this region.

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 30 September 2026 at 23:59 pm.
• Interviews are expected to take place on 22 October 2026.

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.