Contract: 12 months FTC
Salary: £40,517 - £47,377 ( London), £36,264 - £43,123 ( Outside London) - Actual salary will be pro rata based on contracted hours
Closing Date: 13th August 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 25th August 2025
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Partnerships Grant Giving Officer to shape and deliver a pioneering funding programme. This hybrid role offers home working with an average of two days per week in our London, Manchester or Bromsgrove offices.
About us
Centrepoint supports over 16,000 young people every year—offering housing, health support, life skills and pathways to employment. Our vision is to end youth homelessness by 2037, and this role sits at the heart of our newest strategy for scalable, sector-wide impact.
You’ll lead delivery of the More Than a Roof Grant programme, an ambitious grant-giving scheme funded by Nationwide. The programme supports over 100 partner charities, enabling them to turn institutional hostels into safe, personalised spaces that help young people heal and thrive.
About the Role
As Grant Giving Officer, you’ll:
- Manage all stages of grant-making—from outreach and application to funding decisions and evaluations
- Work closely with Centrepoint’s Grant Allocations Board
- Coordinate the launch and delivery of three grant rounds
- Build relationships with grantees, stakeholders and sector partners
- Maintain accurate data and a compliant grants management system
- Monitor the impact of funded projects through evidence-based reporting
This is Centrepoint’s first externally-facing grant fund—so you’ll help shape a groundbreaking model that reaches smaller youth homelessness organisations with specialist local knowledge.
About You
We’re looking for someone who is:
- A strategic thinker with strong relationship-building and communication skills
- Empathetic and committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable young people
- Detail-oriented and confident managing data, systems, and governance
- Curious and proactive, always seeking better ways to serve the sector
- Capable of delivering in a fast-paced envrionment with real social impact
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Partnerships Grant Giving Officer click ‘Apply’ now!
