Job Description
Consortium’s LGBT+ Fund is a central part of our work to resource, strengthen and sustain LGBT+ organisations and groups across the UK. Through the Fund and our wider grant-making activity, we move resources to a diverse and intersectional range of LGBT+ organisations, with a particular focus on communities and organisations that are under-resourced, marginalised or facing increased pressure.
This role sits at the heart of Consortium’s 2026-30 strategy, particularly our commitment to grow investment in LGBT+ communities, strengthen sector capacity, and use data and learning to better understand where resources are most needed. It will support the long-term ambition of the LGBT+ Fund to become a sustainable, trusted and community-led source of investment for LGBT+ organisations across the UK.
Our grant-making is participatory, community-led and rooted in lived experience. Community Panellists are not an add-on to our process: they are central to how we understand need, assess applications and make funding decisions. This role will help ensure Panellists have the information, systems access, support and conditions they need to make fair, informed and equitable decisions.
We also aim to practise relational funding, recognising that many LGBT+ organisations, particularly smaller and grassroots groups, need funding processes that are accessible, proportionate and supportive. This means building respectful relationships with applicants and grantees, offering clear guidance, reducing unnecessary barriers, and ensuring that our processes work for the communities they are designed to support.
Working as part of our Giving team, the successful candidate will support the effective administration of our current grant-making programmes, which will involve funding from multiple sources. The role will help ensure our grant-making processes are well managed, accessible and equitable, and that applicants, grantees and Community Panellists are supported throughout the process.
The role will also play a key part in the effective use of our bespoke CiviCRM Grants Management System, helping to maintain accurate application, assessment, due diligence, decision-making, payment, monitoring and reporting records. This will be essential to running accessible grant processes, supporting Community Panellists, meeting funder requirements and generating useful learning about the needs of the LGBT+ sector.
Learning from our grant-making activity continues to help us identify priority areas for resourcing across LGBT+ communities. These include trans and non-binary organisations, older people’s organisations, organisations working with LBT+ women, organisations working with D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, and organisations working with people from the Global Majority / People of Colour.