Summary
As Conservation Grants Administrator, you will be working with our team of heritage and conservation professionals and volunteer specialist committees dedicated to the preservation of historic churches and their furnishings. You will be a key link between funding, expertise and the parishes.

This post is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to provide administrative support for a 5-year grant that has been awarded to the Church of England Conservation Grants Programme to support the conservation of historic furnishings in places of worship, training for emerging conservation professionals and research into historic furnishings in churches.

Please note this is a 5-year fixed term contract.

About the Department

The Cathedral and Church Buildings Department of the National Church Institutions of the Church of England, is a national resource offering comprehensive information, advice and conservation support to 16,000 Anglican parish churches and 42 Anglican cathedrals in England. It works with government, Historic England and the wider heritage sector to develop policy, leverage funding and sustain the crafts and heritage skills needed to conserve our nation's remarkable historic church buildings and their interiors.

What you'll be doing

In this role you will:

• Be the first point of contact for enquiries.
• Support the administration of 6 Conservation Grants Committees and Conservation Chairs' meetings including preparing papers for meetings, taking minutes of meetings and writing grant application decision letters.
• Book meeting rooms, arrange catering, and visitor passes and administer expense claims.
• Administer grants throughout the cycle, from initial enquiry to grant claim.
• Review grants filing systems, where appropriate making recommendations for improvements to how records are organised.
• Maintain excellent relationships with grant applicants and potential grant applicants.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

• Experience in grant giving, particularly in the heritage sector.
• Experience in financial processes.
• Competence in MS Office and SharePoint, with experience in grants management systems an advantage.
• Demonstrable interest in heritage and heritage conservation.
• High level spoken and written communication skills.

For a full person specification, please see the attached job description.

The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to recruiting disabled people. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.

We Include. You Belong.

Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.

Living out our values in all that we do, we:

• Strive for Excellence
• Show Compassion
• Respect others
• Collaborate
• Act with Integrity

We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we're looking for then we would like to hear from you.