Our Vacancy

Charity People is delighted to be partnering with The Justice Together Initiative to recruit an Influencing and Grants Manager. The Justice Together Initiative was launched in 2020 with a decade-long vision that people who use the UK immigration system can access justice fairly and equally, enabling them to get on with their lives. It is a unique and ambitious collaboration of several funder partners who have pooled more than £15 million of new funding to strategically invest in legal advice, strengthen immigration sector organisations over the long term, and local and national influencing to support the lawful and fair functioning of immigration, nationality, and asylum processes. It is hosted by Justice Collaborations which is an independent charity and wholly owned subsidiary of LEF. As Influencing and Grants Manager you will work with colleagues, funder partners, sector experts and directly affected communities to lead the implementation of Justice Together's influencing strategy. Primarily an influencing role, the postholder will also be responsible for managing a small number of influencing grants and will work closely with the Grants Manager and Grant Partner Community Manager to ensure that the process for grant renewals runs smoothly. Contract: Permanent position, offered on either a full-time (35 hours) or part-time (28 hours) per week basis Salary: £45,000 per annum full-time salary (£36,000 pro rata for four days per week) Location: Hybrid role between home and London office, with one day per week in the London office Closing date for applications: 9am on Friday 15th May Interviews: First stage interviews will be held remotely week commencing 25th May, with potential for second round interviews week commencing 1st June Justice Together has entered a new phase and is investing in influencing work to harness the organisation's partnerships, expertise, information and connections, both as a funder collaboration but also alongside grant partners and directly affected communities. This coupled with a change in government presents new opportunities to influence change in the way immigration advice is funded and delivered, and the broader functioning of the immigration system and how people access justice. This is an exciting role, which offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of stakeholders to develop and implement Justice Together's influencing strategy Core responsibilities within the role will be as follows: