Director, England, Midlands and East

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 Director, Midlands and East on a permanent contract based in any of the Heritage Fund's offices in Midlands and East: Birmingham, Cambridge and Nottingham (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this post is to lead on all aspects of delivering Heritage 2033 across the Midlands and East Area including leading and managing a dispersed team to ensure efficient, coordinated and integrated delivery. The Director is responsible for stakeholder engagement and ensuring the successful delivery of our strategic initiatives across the Area. They lead the team responsible for assessing and monitoring a large, varied and complex portfolio of applications and projects in delivery. This includes overseeing delegated decisions on applications for grant of up to £250,000 and supporting the work of the Area Committee which decides on larger bids as well as undertaking some advocacy work on behalf of the Heritage Fund. The Director is also involved in aspects of cross-organisational collaboration including working with the Executive Director, Business Delivery and fellow Area and Nation Directors to lead and manage the work of the department.

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 24 November 2024.
• Interviews are expected to take place on 13 December 2024.

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.