About the Trust
The Prudence Trust is a young, growing grant‑making charity dedicated to transforming mental health support for young people aged 11–25 years across the UK. Founded in 2020, they invest around £8m each year in services and research that prevents and treats anxiety and depression, strengthens the evidence base for what works, and helps proven approaches reach the young people who need them the most.
About the Role
Prospectus is delighted to be working with Prudence Trust to recruit a Senior Grants Manager to join its small but busy and experienced team, in this key role based at lovely offices in Central London.
Responsibilities
The Senior Grants Manager will play a leading role in the design, assessment and management of our funding programmes. Reporting to the Head of Grants, this role will lead the assessment of complex proposals, manage a varied portfolio of grants, build strong relationships with grantees and partners, and contribute to shaping the Trust’s grant‑making strategy and growing our expertise in youth mental health. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced grants professional ready to step into a more senior role to contribute to shaping Prudence Trust’s grant‑making and make an impact in an important field.
This role will make a significant contribution to the delivery of the Trust’s objectives. The primary aim of this role is to bring senior grant‑making expertise and knowledge to the team, in addition to growing the Trust’s expertise in the field of youth mental health.
This is an opportunity to work with and support a wide range of organisations and individuals. It will involve designing and delivering funding calls, managing relationships with grantees and exercising sound judgement, whilst capturing learning to inform future decision making and strategy. There will also be an important database and reporting aspect to this role, where accuracy and process management expertise will be essential.
The role is full‑time and will be primarily office‑based at lovely offices in Central London.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will have substantial grant‑making experience alongside previous exposure to the thematic aspects of Prudence Trust’s work on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Exposure to research and/or impact measurement tools and methodologies will also be very useful.
This role would be suited to an adept grant‑maker who brings strong sector awareness and is energised by continuously deepening their understanding of youth mental health. Thoughtful, analytical and highly organised, this person will be a collaborative self‑starter in addition to having excellent communication skills.
Team work, professionalism and accuracy are all keys to success in this role, so evidence of having worked in high‑paced and busy teams, in similar areas of work will be very important, in addition to being able to work independently and to manage your own time.
Commitment to Diversity
Prudence Trust believes that a greater diversity of ethnicity, gender, disabilities, religions and sexual orientation, in addition to views, skills, and approach, make for a more successful team. They actively encourage applications from people with as diverse backgrounds as possible to achieve this aim.
