Project Manager - Inclusive Grant Making

Overview

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being. We are seeking a Project Manager – Inclusive Grant Making to lead a review of our grant making processes to minimise bias and promote equitable practice, and to work with stakeholders to develop and implement improvements.

Details

• Salary: Starting from £51,925 per annum (negotiable depending upon experience)
• Contract: 12 month contract
• Hours: Open to full time (35 hours) and part time working arrangements
• Location: London based (Farringdon). Staff have the option to work part of the week from home
• Closing: 09:30am (GMT), Monday 2nd February 2026

Role and responsibilities

• You will lead a review of grant making procedures to identify actual, potential or perceived bias across assessment criteria, application guidance, decision-making processes and structures, use of peer reviews, and communications with applicants.
• The review will present options and make recommendations to senior leadership to minimise bias and promote equitable practice.
• You will work with stakeholders across the organisation to develop an implementation plan for agreed measures.
• There are additional projects and initiatives that you may support depending on your skills and experience, such as developing and managing the Foundation’s outreach plan and shaping approaches to supporting Early-Career Researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, and strengthening relationships with Black researcher communities.
• As well as experience in grant making, you will be a skilled project manager with responsibility for scoping, planning, managing dependencies, risk assessment and budget, balancing activities to improve fairness with other priorities.
• You will have excellent stakeholder management skills to ensure collaboration and consultation across the organisation.
• You should be familiar with other research funders and networks, be proactive and able to work independently, and be enthusiastic about embedding equity, diversity and inclusion in all work.

Qualifications and attributes

• Experience in working with grant making organisations or similar; strong project management capabilities including defining scope, planning, dependency management, risk assessment and budgeting.
• Strategic ability to align and balance activities to improve fairness of grants processes with organisational priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across various seniority levels.
• Familiarity with other research funders and networks; proactive, independent, and committed to embedding equity, diversity and inclusion.

About us

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being. We fund and undertake rigorous research, encourage innovation, and support the use of sound evidence to improve people’s lives. We tackle complex questions to open up opportunities and improve lives for individuals, families and communities within a just and inclusive society. We address inequalities, discrimination and vulnerabilities and consider the social and ethical implications of scientific and technological advances. We are the founder and co-funder of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and the Ada Lovelace Institute.

Further information and how to apply

For further information about the role, please click through to the vacancy listing on our website. The closing date for applications is 09:30am (GMT) on Monday 2nd February 2026.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and accessibility

We are committed to inclusive working practices and during the application process we commit to:

• As a Disability Confident employer, we will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the essential criteria for the job.
• Making reasonable adjustments – for example providing documents in different formats, arranging for a sign language interpreter for interviews, etc.
• Paying for travel costs (and any childcare or care costs) for interviews where in-person attendance is required

Benefits

• Genuine flexibility – requests for part-time hours, compressed working weeks, or job shares
• 28 days holiday per annum plus public holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days (pro rata for part-time staff)
• A salary exchange pension scheme with employer contributions up to 11%
• Life assurance
• Family leave policies with enhanced pay
• Cycle to work scheme and loans towards season tickets
• Regular learning and development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring and dedicated reading days
• Support for physical, mental and financial wellbeing (employee assistance, private GP, health reviews, will planning, Mental Health First Aiders)
• A warm, inclusive workplace culture with peer groups and networks

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