About Us

Do you have experience in seeking out and supporting bidding for new funding opportunities? Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are ambitious local authorities serving 500,000 residents across South-West London, aiming to maximise available external funding for the benefit of the boroughs and residents. This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your research skills, build relationships and impart bidding knowledge to secure more money for a range of worthwhile causes and projects across Richmond and Wandsworth. Can you help us secure the funding we need?

About the role 

Finding opportunities: you will seek out external funding opportunities for services to bid for from a wide range of sources, including central government; regional government; third sector and NGO funding programmes. 

Making connections: you will develop and sustain effective relationships with a broad range of services internally, and with external partners, linking people together for the benefit of maximising funding opportunities.

Training and guidance: you will create and enhance institutional knowledge on external funding, by facilitating training and guidance on bid writing for services and developing practical advice to assist colleagues in making successful applications. 

Data and evidence: you will develop and maintain evidence-based needs information to support the development of successful bids, with the support of policy and data analytics colleagues. 

Monitoring and tracking: you will monitor external funding bids that are being developed across the council(s), and whether or not they are successful.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

• Knowledge of major UK, regional and NGO funding programmes and emerging funding initiatives.
• Experience in supporting the writing of bids for external funding.
• Effective communication skills, able to share information relating to funding clearly and concisely to a range of stakeholders.
• Capable of researching, analysing and summarising key data about projects for a range of service areas.

Able to work accurately, to tight deadlines and with minimal supervision.

If you are eager to help secure funding for services such as public health, adult education, digital innovation, homelessness support, and flood mitigation amongst many other potential bid categories, we invite you to apply for this opportunity.

Closing Date:  21/04/24

Shortlisting Date: 28/04/24

Test sent out (remote): 29/04/24

Interview Date:  W/C 07/05/24

For an informal conversation please contact: Jamie Fisher, Policy and Review Manager via jamie.fisher@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. 

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.  

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils