Vacancy at Tudor Trust
Programme Officer
Salary £ 41000
London
Details
The Programme Officer role sits at the heart of Tudor's grant-making ambition: to build ecosystems for change, work through abundance rather than scarcity, and create the conditions in which communities can exercise genuine self-determination. This isn't just about distributing funds - it's about laying the foundations of a new system, one relationship at a time.
This is not a traditional grant-making role. Tudor's approach is relational, emergent and systems-led, and this role reflects that. If you're energised by complexity, comfortable sitting with uncertainty, and genuinely interested in how power and change interact - we'd love to hear from you.
This is a role for someone who enjoys bringing people, ideas and activity together. You will support programme delivery, partner relationships, events, learning and coordination across a wide range of work, helping ensure things move forward thoughtfully, reliably and with care. There is also real space for curiosity, reflection and growth - contributing insights, noticing patterns and helping Tudor learn from what we are hearing, seeing and experiencing.
You will join a collaborative, reflective team that works closely together through shared learning and collective problem-solving. We're looking for someone organised, thoughtful and dependable - someone who takes satisfaction in building strong relationships, holding tasks through to completion and working with the whole team and beyond to put ideas into action.
The programme team, under the leadership of the Deputy CEO, holds shared responsibility for making informed decisions about how Tudor's resources are stewarded and deployed in service of our mission. This asks you to lean in: to stay curious, to keep the mission and the communities we serve at the heart of everything, and requires a willingness to place Tudor's work/mission and the interests of the communities we serve above personal preference. You will contribute to a culture where colleagues hold one another accountable with care and integrity.
This is also a role designed to grow with you. We're not looking for someone who arrives with all the answers - we're looking for someone with the behaviours and the commitment to develop their practice over time within Tudor's evolving approach.
Role Purpose
Relationships and ecosystem-led resourcing
- Develop and sustain relationships with partners, community organisations and peers over time.
- Support conversations through listening, follow-up, coordination and relationship stewardship.
- Contribute to the development and recommendation of grants and other forms of support.
- Prepare briefings, summaries, reflections and internal papers to support collective decision-making.
- Contribute to learning-focused grant stewardship, including check-ins, note-taking, capturing reflections and maintaining accurate records.
- Notice and share emerging patterns arising from partner relationships and programme activity.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure partners experience Tudor as thoughtful, relational and responsive
- Coordinate programme activity, meetings, events, visits and partner gatherings from planning through to delivery and follow-up.
- Manage logistics, scheduling, preparation materials and documentation for programme activity.
- Track actions, timelines and commitments across multiple strands of work to ensure activity progresses and is completed reliably.
- Support the smooth running of programme systems, processes and internal administration.
- Maintain organised and accurate records, notes and programme information.
- Work closely with colleagues to help create clear, thoughtful and accessible ways of working across the team.
- Take ownership of practical follow-through, ensuring work is carried through to completion with care and attention to detail.
- Bring reflections, questions and learning from practice into team conversations, Learning Circles and reflective spaces.
- Participate in collective sense-making, including working with uncertainty, emergence and partial insight.
- Contribute to shared learning notes, reflections and synthesis in accessible and useful ways.
- Support Tudor’s learning-led approach by helping connect insights across relationships, programmes and wider ecosystems.
- Contribute to a culture of curiosity, reflection and continuous learning across the organisation.
- Work collaboratively with Programme Officers and colleagues across Tudor.
- Participate in retreats, learning sessions, team gatherings and cross-organisational activity.
- Contribute to a supportive, thoughtful and mutually accountable team culture, where colleagues hold each other and are held to each other's commitments.
- Represent Tudor’s values and behaviours in relationships and day-to-day practice.
- Support collective delivery by contributing flexibly to shared priorities and organisational needs.
As our organisational change initiatives progress, the Programmes Officer role will evolve, facilitated and managed by ongoing reviews conducted in collaboration with the Deputy CEO.
- Working in community, voluntary, grant making or social justice contexts
- Experience in relationship-based work - whether that’s within community, funding, advocacy, or in other settings
- Experience of facilitating or participating in learning, reflection, and adaptation processes
- Coordinating projects, programmes, events or collaborative activity
- The power dynamics inherent in this role and an openness to untangling them in order to build trusting relationships with grant partners through active listening, curiosity, collaboration and compassion to build trust over time
- Alternative approaches to grant-making and philanthropy
- Adaptive Project Management skills: Able to plan, coordi
- nate, and deliver complex work, while working in an emergent and iterative way, through changing contexts and an evolving organisation
- Communication skills: Both written and verbal, to articulate key themes, develop reports, communicate with partners and represent Tudor externally, effectively conveying the organisation's mission and values
- Strong organisational skills: Able to manage work consistently through to completion and to follow through on commitments
Alongside a commitment to Tudor’s behaviours, you should be able to demonstrate:
- Commitment to justice, equity and community-led change
- Curiosity, creativity and reflective practice
- Ability to work relationally and collaboratively, with humility & care
Tudor values and celebrates the differences that make us who we are. We respect the unique differences that everyone brings to the table, whether it’s age, cultural heritage, disability, ethnicity, race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, or social background. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
If you’d like to know more about the role before you apply, and would like to chat to one of the team, please email resources@tudortrust.org.uk
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible. Please let us know if you require any adjustments at any stage of application, interview or within your role.
If you’d like to know more about the role before you apply, and would like to chat to one of the team, please email resources@tudortrust.org.uk
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible. Please let us know if you require any adjustments at any stage of application, interview or within your role.
Benefits
- Annual Leave: 26 days per year plus Bank Holidays
- Christmas Closure: Between Christmas and New Year
- Pension: 12% employer contribution; team members can also contribute if they wish
- Private health insurance: with Vitality
- Life Insurance: 4x annual salary
- Income Protection: to cover 2/3 of basic salary
- Volunteering Leave: 3 days per year
- Coaching: 3 sessions with external providers during the probationary period
- Professional Development: Courses, workshops, training or mentoring aligned to Tudor's values and organisational objectives, and to support career progression
- Wellbeing & Health: Annual individual budget
- Cycle to Work Scheme: save up to 42% on a bike & accessories
- Eyecare: Paid annual eye test & contributions towards glasses