Knowledge and Learning Officer

Details : Reference number :

• 357892 Salary :

• £25,019 - £27,010- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% Job grade :

• Executive Officer Contract type :

• Temporary Length of employment :

• 12 Months Type of role :

• Administration / Corporate Support

• Human Resources Working pattern :

• Full-time, Compressed hours Number of jobs available :

• 2Contents

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About the job

Benefits : Things you need to know

Location

• Cardiff, NewtownAbout the job

Job summary : 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.

Job description : We have two fixed term (12 months) full time vacancies within the Knowledge & Learning Team in Wales Directorate. 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

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone - therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)

Person specification : 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.

Benefits :

• Alongside your salary of £25,019, The National Lottery Community Fund contributes £6,755 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Things you need to know

Selection process details :

• Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security :

• People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements : This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland

• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, w