Deadline: Wednesday 29 July 2026
Consortium has implemented practices that aim to reduce bias in our recruitment process. When reviewing applications, the information provided in your covering letter will be viewed independently, without access to information from your CV or the personal details provided.
We are committed to improving representation across our organisation and believe that Consortium’s team should reflect our diverse communities. With that in mind, we are particularly keen to hear from people with an understanding and appreciation of the specific and intersectional issues faced by LGBT+ communities, including from lived experience.
Appointments will be based on merit. Equity is important to the success of our team and work. We don’t want any barriers to applying so if you would like to discuss particular aspects of our approach or get a better understanding of whether Consortium is right for you, then please contact Heather, our Head of Partnerships and Development, at: heather@consortium.lgbt.
Background and role purpose
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. We also recognise that many other areas of community-led LGBT+ work need support. Through our ongoing fund development work, we aim to grow the LGBT+ Fund and secure additional resources for distribution across the sector.
This role will work closely with our Participation and Support Officer, who provides direct support to applicants and grantees, and our LGBT+ Fund Development Manager, who leads on developing and growing the LGBT+ Fund.
At a time when voluntary sector funding remains under significant pressure, and when LGBT+ communities are experiencing rising demand, increasing hostility and sustained attacks on our rights, this work is more important than ever. It is also an exciting opportunity to help strengthen one of the UK’s most important sources of dedicated support for LGBT+ organisations, and to contribute to a long-term plan for the sustainability and resourcing of LGBT+ activity across the country.
What you will help make possible
In this role, you will help move funding to LGBT+ organisations and groups that are often closest to community need but furthest from traditional sources of power and resource. You will support fair, accessible and community-led grant-making processes, help Community Panellists make informed decisions, and ensure our grants data and systems give us a stronger picture of where investment is needed.
This is a practical, detail-focused role, but it is also a movement-building role. By helping the LGBT+ Fund work well, you will be helping to strengthen the foundations of LGBT+ organisations across the UK.
Working with us
We work hard to maintain a supportive, friendly and inclusive working environment. We are proud of our organisational culture, which centres team wellbeing, trust, flexibility and the conditions people need to do their best work.
Employee benefits:
- Working from home, as part of a fully remote organisation.
- A 4-day working week.
- Discretionary working from home payment.
- Flexible working environment.
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme.
- Birthday leave.
- Consortium days leave over the festive period.
- A supportive team culture with regular supervision, learning and reflection.
Person specification
Please download the full Job Description, including Person Specification by clicking on the link below. It is vital that you read this document before you start your application.
LGBT+ Fund Grants Lead – Recruitment Pack
Application form
Applicants are required to provide a covering letter focussing on how your experience links to the skills and person specification outlined in the recruitment pack, including examples.