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We’re a highly collaborative team here at the Vivensa Foundation. We like to plan and be prepared, but we also like to be flexible and responsive to new ideas. We’re committed to making our contribution to understanding what it takes to improve health outcomes in older age and to the much-needed systemic change in health and social care for older people – so we want to work with people who share that commitment. We list our current vacancies and other opportunities to work with us here.

Grants Manager

£42,903 – £46,497 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. Flexible working proposals welcomed.

Closing date: 12 October 2026 at noon

Interviews due to be held on 21 and 22 October 2026

Location: your normal working arrangement will be at our central London office (Thanet House, 231-232 Strand, London WC2R 1DA), with hybrid working arrangements available.

At the Vivensa Foundation, our vision is that everyone in the UK can age well. To achieve this, we invest in those with great ideas and methods for improving the health and well-being of older people – and in the connections and knowledge that help those ideas flourish.

In the spring of 2025 we launched our new Strategic Framework, which outlines our research priorities for the 2025-30 strategic period, as well as the values that underpin all of our work.

Today, with the UK’s population ageing and growing increasingly diverse, our charitable aims have never been more relevant. Against this backdrop, the opportunities to support our academic and clinical research community to make real systemic change are immense. We are the stewards of an endowment valued at over £200m and have committed to distributing at least £30m over the next five years in grant funding, alongside building a growing portfolio of social investments in support of our mission.

We now have a full-time, permanent vacancy for a grants management professional to help us to deliver our strategic plan. As a member of the Grants Team, reporting to the Senior Grants Manager, you will be a primary point-of-contact for those applying for funding for academic or clinical research, and play an important role in developing, implementing and evaluating our funding streams. As such, you will make key contributions to the development and delivery of our core services, reinforcing our reputation for funding high-quality work and our support for the research community.

We are looking for someone who shares our values and approach to grant-making. If you’re interested in using your grants management experience to support our work, have great attention to detail, and the flexible “can-do” attitude and restless curiosity essential to the success of a small, expert team, download the full job description and person specification and find out how to apply below.

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

How to apply

Send your CV, with a cover letter (a maximum of two pages) addressing how you meet the needs of the person specification to jobs@vivensafoundation.org.uk by noon on 12 October 2026. Please note that CVs without cover letters will not be considered. You can also complete an optional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) form.

We also recognise the potential of generative AI 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 or all of the questions. However, gathering this data helps us to know if we are succeeding in reaching and 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.

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