Grants Officer

Grade 4 on the Vivensa Foundation Pay Spine:  currently £34,506 (rising to £35,541 pa on 1^st August 2025) plus 12% contribution to pension, health cash plan, life assurance and income protection and on-site gym. 30 days’ holiday + public holidays.

Range of family-friendly leave benefits after qualifying period. Flexible work proposals considered.

Location: hybrid (office base is in central London with a minimum expectation of two days per week in the office).

In the spring of 2025, the Vivensa Foundation launched its new strategic framework and identity. Formerly known as the Dunhill Medical Trust, it was back in the 1980s that our founder's niece recognised that the shifting demographics would drive a need for investment in a high-quality research base to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of ageing and ageing-related disease, together with the delivery of innovation to improve health and social care services for older people.

Our charitable objects were never more relevant than they are today and the opportunities are immense to support our academic and clinical researcher community to make real systemic change.

Today, we are the stewards of an endowment valued at around £170M, and have committed to distributing at least £30M over the next five years in in grant funding. We have also ring-fenced a part of our endowment for social investment. You can read more about our Strategic Framework here.

We now have a full time, permanent vacancy for an aspiring grants management professional to help us to deliver our strategic plan. As a member of the Grants Team and reporting to the Director of Research, you will be a primary point of contact for organisations applying for funding for academic or clinical research, as well as working with the team to develop, implement and evaluate our funding streams. As such, you will make key contributions to the development and delivery of our core services, reinforcing our reputation for high quality and support for the research community. If you’d like to explore using your grants management experience or research training in a subject area relevant to the work of the Foundation in a slightly different context, identify with our values and have the great attention to detail, flexible “can do” attitude and restless curiosity essential to the success of a small, expert team, go to our website to download the full job description and person specification and find out how to apply.

To arrange an informal conversation about the role and/or find out more about us, drop us a line at jobs@vivensafoundation.org.uk.

How to apply

Send your CV, with a covering letter of no more than two pages addressing how you meet the needs of the person specification to jobs@vivensafoundation.org.uk, together with an optional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) form.

CVs without covering letters will not be considered.

While we do not use AI in the process of reviewing applications, we also recognise its potential to contribute to the creative process and we encourage its ethical and constructive use. This includes acknowledging it whenever it is used. Therefore, please reference generative AI in your written application if you have used it.

EDI form

The work we fund means that we know all too well the negative impacts of inequity. We are therefore committed to promoting EDI in all areas of our work. Our EDI form is optional and you do not have to answer any / all of the questions. However, gathering this data helps us to know if we are succeeding in involving different groups of people, and to change our approach if some groups are not represented.

Your application will be anonymised before it is considered by the recruiting panel and the panel will not have access to any information you have provided in our EDI form.

Data Protection

The information you provide in your application will only be processed for the purpose of this recruitment process as described above. By applying for this role you have consented that the data you provide will be processed and stored as described above. For more information, please read the Vivensa Foundation’s Privacy Notice.

Closing date: noon, 25^th July.