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  • Advertised from 24th May 2022
  • 210189

Role

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK – we support people and communities to prosper and thrive.

National Lottery players raise an incredible £36 million a week for good causes. This money funds projects and activities that transform communities, protect our heritage and enrich lives through arts, sports and culture. We are proud to be one of 12 distributors responsible for awarding this funding across the UK.

Thanks to National Lottery players, last year we were able to award over half a billion pounds of life-changing funding to UK communities, supporting thousands of projects making a real difference to people’s lives.

Over eight in ten of our grants were for under £10,000 going to grassroots groups and charities across the UK doing great things to support their communities, during a particularly tough time.

We also distribute non-National Lottery funds, working closely with Government on funding for important issues, such as tackling loneliness, multiple and complex needs, mental health and distributing Dormant Accounts money.

Over the last five years we’ve awarded a total of £3.4 billion, of which £2.7 billion is National Lottery money.

We fund things that matter – whether helping communities respond positively to national, regional or local priorities, or helping the UK achieve its big social ambitions. Our grants range from £500 up to multi-million-pound programmes – supporting people and projects to do extraordinary things and bring great ideas for their community to life.

About the Role

As a member of our Communications and Engagement team, you will lead on the delivery of our proactive media relations work, media rebuttal and integrated communication campaigns that tell the story of our National Lottery funding in Scotland. You will directly line manage two Communications Officers within the team.

A key part of this role is leading on regular announcements of our funding awards to the media and identifying stories that pique the interest of journalists across Scotland. As a team which cross promotes our content, we are looking for someone who can also adapt stories for our social media and wider online audiences.

Responsible for protecting our reputation you will lead on media rebuttal across a range of funding programmes, as well as providing briefings for our Scotland Committee and accompanying them to public facing events.

As part of an integrated communications team, you will manage and deliver successful, targeted, and strategic communications activity. This will include UK wide thematic campaigns involving our grant holders in Scotland.

Working closely with funding colleagues you will identify and write project case studies for online publications and reports. You will also be responsible for delivering media relations training sessions for our grant holders.

Application notes

Application closing date: 06/06/2022

For further information and to apply, please visit our website tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/about/jobs