Senior Statutory Funding Manager

Age UK is seeking a Senior Statutory Funding Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and growing our statutory income-fuelling our mission to improve the lives of older people across the country.

In this exciting role, you'll take the lead on securing and managing national contracts and grants from central government, national lottery funders, and public sector bodies. You'll collaborate with a range of stakeholders to transform a funding stream that has been underperforming through a lack of resourcing and a challenging market but one that is now a strategic priority and has the potential to become a major source of income for the organisation.

We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office - currently once a week on a Thursday and may involve occasional travel for meetings and cultivation events. Travel costs to the London office are the responsibility of the postholder and are not covered by the charity.

Age UK internal grade: 4L

Last date for applications Monday 9 th March 2026.

Must haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Experience

• Experience in securing six and seven figure statutory contracts or grants for charities. (A, I)
• Experience of managing relationships with key individuals from public sector bodies. (A, I)
• Experience managing individuals or teams, providing excellent leadership and people management skills. (A, I)

Skills and knowledge

• Strong understanding of statutory funding processes, including commissioning and procurement. (A, I)
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral - with the social skills and presence to communicate complex issues to a variety of audiences. (I, T)
• High levels of gravitas and influencing skills: credible and confident with senior level contacts internally and externally. (I)
• Excellent levels of financial management and numeracy with significant experience of putting together, managing and monitoring budgets. (A, I)
• Ability to distil complex information and convey it powerfully to a variety of different people, including distilling complex issues to understandable and actionable items. (I, T)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment, ensuring our prospects and donors are at the heart of our fundraising (A,I)
• Sound administration skills, including a good working knowledge of MS Office products and databases. (I)

Personal attributes

• A passion to join Age UK in supporting older people and a belief the support from statutory fundraising is critical to achieving our strategic goals. (A, I)
• Takes ownership of responsibility - able to identify and deliver the key activities - whilst collaborating and challenging others - that ultimately provide the best pathway for the organisation to realise statutory funding opportunities. (I)
• Has an entrepreneurial approach - makes things happen, links with others, thinks outside the box, spots where new opportunities can be created, and then delivers at pace (I)
• Thrives on collaboration - linking with others with a friendly and engaging approach that enables close working cross-organisationally, two-way challenging conversations and the ability to work confidently and effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (A, I)
• Is resilient to change
  -flexible, pragmatic, and able to quickly adapt plans in alignment with organisational priorities. (I)
• Excited by the challenge of developing and growing statutory fundraising - currently an underdeveloped fundraising steam for Age UK. (I)

Great to haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Experience

• Experience of working with local statutory commissioners. (A, I)
• Experience in project management, reporting and analysing results. (I)

Skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge of new digital tools, including AI, that can support efficient and effective statutory fundraising (I)

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
• Blue Light Card Scheme
• You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250
• Many additional benefits

Additional Information

Supporting statements and anonymisation
Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your…