Overview

Director of Grants and Operations

The Director of Grants and Operations is a senior role within the Jack Petchey Foundation with responsibility for leading our operations, partnerships and grant-making. You will ensure that our operations are agile, efficient, effective, forward-looking and robust. In addition, you will have strategic responsibility for ensuring our grants and partnerships teams deploy over £10m pa to benefit young people and strengthen the youth sector across London and Essex.

As a member of the Executive Team, you will play a crucial role in delivering our ambitious strategy, expanding our impact and investing more through JPF’s proven grants and partnerships. You will work to ensure that JPF programmes benefit more young people, particularly in areas and groups with the greatest need.

Responsibilities

• Lead our operations, partnerships and grant-making.
• Ensure operations are agile, efficient, effective, forward-looking and robust.
• Strategically deploy over £10m per year through grants and partnerships to benefit young people and strengthen the youth sector across London and Essex.
• As a member of the Executive Team, help deliver the organisation’s ambitious strategy and expand impact through grants and partnerships.
• Ensure programmes benefit more young people, particularly in areas and groups with the greatest need.
• Build and improve highly effective operations functions within a complex organisation.
• Provide strategic vision and operational excellence, ensuring systems and processes are robust, inclusive and future-focused.
• Bring experience in digital transformation, financial oversight and people leadership to create infrastructure that enables impact at scale.
• Be motivated by the mission, committed to youth empowerment, comfortable leading high-volume grant programmes, developing programmes to fill identified gaps and translating strategy into practical action.

Qualifications

We are seeking an experienced, forward-thinking leader with a proven track record of building and improving highly effective operations functions within complex organisations. You will bring strategic vision and operational excellence, ensuring that our systems and processes are robust, inclusive and future focused. With significant experience in digital transformation, financial oversight and people leadership, you will know how to create the infrastructure that enables impact at scale. At the same time, you will be motivated by our mission, committed to youth empowerment, comfortable leading high volume grant programmes, developing programmes to fill identified gaps, and skilled at translating strategy into practical action.

How to Apply

Click on the 'Apply on website' button below to apply online. The closing date for applications is Sunday 5th October 2025.