Senior Investment Manager (Midlands and East)

The National Lottery Heritage Fund; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to preserving the UK's heritage. As a Senior Investment Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing investment activities, ensuring that heritage is accessible and inclusive for everyone. This permanent, full-time position offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to balance office and home working effectively. You'll collaborate with a passionate team, providing guidance to applicants and overseeing large-scale projects that make a real difference in communities. If you're eager to contribute to a meaningful cause and champion heritage, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing investment projects and providing guidance to applicants.
• Strong understanding of heritage and community engagement.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver investment activities across the Midlands and East area.
• Assess and monitor complex applications and projects.

Skills

Project Management

Investment Assessment

Community Engagement

Heritage Knowledge

Education

Degree in a relevant field

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 the 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 Senior Investment Manager (Midlands and East) on a permanent contract, based in any of our offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, or Nottingham (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this role is to work as part of the Investment Team to manage and deliver investment activity across the Midlands and East area, including providing advice and guidance to applicants; assessing and monitoring a wide range of applications/projects, especially those that are complex and large-scale; post-completion work; participating in outreach activities; and supporting the delivery of the Midlands and East area team plan. The role also involves contributing to the wider work of the Midlands and East area team.

If you are passionate about ensuring heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, we want to hear from you.

Applications close on 1 June 2025, and interviews are expected to take place on 13 June 2025.

Our Values

Our Values and Behaviours are at the core of our work and are central to our recruitment process. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important 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 judgment

Flexible Working

The National Lottery Heritage Fund promotes a flexible, hybrid working approach, supporting our business needs. Most employees work from their contracted Heritage Fund office at least twice a week, with the option to work from home on other days. Time spent on site visits or meetings at other offices counts as part of those two days.

Disability Confident Employer

We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for each vacancy. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments and discussing any specific requirements before interviews.

Proud to be a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

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