Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team Manager

The National Heritage Memorial Fund; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is recruiting for a full-time Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team Manager. The role is permanent with hybrid working and offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham.

You will lead the Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team to ensure high-quality assurance across our grants portfolio. You will oversee the development and management of the Grant Management Assurance Framework to ensure compliant grant

Responsibilities

• Lead the Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team to deliver high quality, consistent assurance services.
• Oversee the development and management of the Grant Management Assurance Framework to ensure compliance with internal processes and standards.

Job description

Vacancy Information

Vacancy Type Permanent/Full Time Salary £51,822 to £61,443 (R5) Location Any of the Heritage Fund’s offices in the following locations: Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham (Hybrid Working) Application Deadline Sunday, November 8, 2026

About the National Lottery Heritage Fund

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.

Mission and Strategy

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.

Job Summary

We are currently recruiting for a full time Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team Manager on a permanent contract, based in any of the Heritage Fund’s offices in the following locations: Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this post is to lead the Grant Management Compliance and Assurance Team ensuring the team is a highly valued business partner delivering high quality, consistent assurance services.

The postholder will lead the ongoing development and management of the Heritage Fund’s Grant Management Assurance Framework, ensuring the Heritage Fund’s management of its grants portfolio is compliant with internal processes, policies and Grant Management Standards.

The postholder will also ensure that grant management processes and practices are effective and so provide stakeholders with assurance that the Heritage Fund is an efficient and effective funder of heritage.

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.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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.