Job Title: Trust Administrator

Salary: £33,596 (FTE)

Location: Office based at The Peak, 5 Wilton Road, SW1V 1AP with opportunities to work from home.

Working hours: This role is part-time 17.5 hours per week, with flexibility in how the hours are worked. The successful candidate could choose to work over 2.5 days or spread their hours more flexibly across the week.   

Flexibility is also needed to support meetings as required, which may be scheduled on different days. The working pattern can be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate to support both the needs of the Trust and work-life balance.

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About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to The Headley Trust, supporting it to achieve its philanthropic ambitions by providing effective administration for its grant making.

The Headley Trust funds Arts and Heritage UK, Health & Social Welfare, Cathedrals, Education and Overseas projects and programmes. It is a part of The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), the operating office of 17 grant-making trusts established by five generations of the Sainsbury family.

You will be responsible for providing grant administration, using the in-house grant management system and assisting in the preparation or paper and reports for Trustee meetings. You will also support these meeting and other Trust events and provide wider administration to support the dedicated team of Grantmakers.

About you

With previous experience in an administrative role, you will have a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to work, ensuring that tasks are completed with precision and consistency. The ideal candidate will be thorough and diligent, with the ability to spot errors and maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail when proofreading documents, and ensuring grant information is inputted into our in-house management system.

You will have an in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and be able to grasp unfamiliar IT/Digital systems quickly and support the team to embrace new technologies.

You will be a team player, willing to help other members of the team and work across different Trusts as required.

Application and timeline

Close date: 9am Monday 14th April   

Initial online interviews will take place on Thursday 24th April, followed by a face-to-face interview at our offices in Victoria on Tuesday 29th April. The interview will include a short assessment task.

Our recruitment platform anonymises your responses and focuses on your actual skills that are relevant to this role. This benefits you by giving you a greater chance of expressing your skills in this objective selection process.

We want everyone who works for us to feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued. We believe everyone should be treated with equity, and that diversity of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences helps us achieve better things in our work.

If you need any further information about our recruitment process or to discuss any support or reasonable adjustments that you may require to make an application, please contact the People team people@sfct.org.uk

Guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace. As part of the commitment, we offer a guaranteed interview for candidates with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role, as set out in the person specification. If you would like to apply under this scheme, please contact people@sfct.org.uk

If you would like to apply under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.

Our Benefits

Core benefits include a generous pensions scheme (12% employer contribution), life assurance, income protection, private health and dental care, annual health checks and Employee Assistance Programme, along with a range of benefits designed to promote your work/life balance and make your time with us enjoyable and rewarding.

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Please note that we may close this vacancy earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.