Learning & Communications Officer

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK – we support people and communities to prosper and thrive. We award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to community projects that bring people’s ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of projects across our 4 mission areas of Community, Health, Environment and Children & Young People. Our grants range from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound projects.

National Lottery funding is open to everyone, but we focus on those communities and people facing the greatest needs.

These are exciting opportunities to join our small team as a Knowledge and Learning Officer, working on a variety of projects to provide informed insight on a range of grant-making themes.

As part of our Knowledge and Learning Team here in Wales, you will work alongside our Funding and Communications Teams, as well as Knowledge and Learning colleagues across the UK. The role is flexible and varied, responding to the needs of colleagues and stakeholders to lend research or policy expertise, facilitating engagement events and sharing findings and recommendations.

As part of the role, you will:

• support the development of our grant programmes and demonstrate their impact to our stakeholders
• Help us to understand and respond to the needs of communities across Wales
• Deliver activities and events that share and exchange knowledge and learning to support our work and that of others.

 As well as using knowledge & learning to inform policy and practice within and outside of the Fund, you will also facilitate learning activities for staff, grant holders and stakeholders. You will lead activity around our priority learning themes and support our three regional teams in Wales to do so, too. You will also scan the external environment for information on what others are doing and advise colleagues and decision makers on how our funding can achieve the greatest impact.

Interview Date: Friday 12th July, Online, 1 hour

Location: Cardiff or Newtown

We have a hybrid approach to working, and a work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidates. The role can be based in either our Cardiff or Newtown office.

Please align your supporting statement to the criteria below, this is how your application will be scored

Essential criteria

• Research and analytical skills
• Ability to write and speak about complex ideas and information in an engaging and simple way
• Facilitation skills – experience of convening and facilitating discussions where people share and discuss ideas using a range of approaches
• Ability to work flexibly and handle multiple competing priorities within a small team

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the Welsh policy environment, especially Welsh Government
• Knowledge of the voluntary and community sector in Wales
• Ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh
• An understanding of quantitative research methods, and how they can be used to support qualitative analysis of data.