CLOSED: Grants and Events Coordinator, National Community Land Trust Network

Why join us

Would you like to work in a dynamic organisation that is behind a growing movement of people building genuinely and permanently affordable homes and is part of a cutting edge collaboration to scale up community-led housing?

Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a vital force for social good. They are local organisations set up and run by local people to develop and manage homes as well as other assets important to that community, like community enterprises, food growing or workspaces. The CLT’s main task is to make sure the homes are genuinely affordable, based on what people actually earn in their area, not just for now but for every future occupier.

The community-led housing movement has gained momentum over recent years, particularly following the commitment from Government to invest £60 million a year in the sector. The sector is now on the cusp of significant expansion and there is real potential to move it from a niche emerging market into the mainstream. To achieve that, the National CLT Network, as well as delivering a plan for strategic growth, has entered into a strategic collaboration with UK Cohousing and CDS Cooperatives to work on advocacy, policy and awareness-raising projects.

More about us

The National CLT Network was established in 2010. As the national Charity for CLTs in England and Wales, it represents and supports 225 CLTs nationwide and is a membership body. The National CLT Network provides funding, resources, training and advice for CLTs and works with Government, local authorities, lenders and funders to establish the best conditions for CLTs to grow and flourish. In the short time that the organisation has been around it has achieved a significant amount and it is known as one of the most effective lobbying organisations in Westminster. In December 2016, it joined forces with the UK Cohousing Network and CDS Cooperatives and formed a strategic collaboration to maximise its influence amongst policy and decision makers, raise awareness more widely and work together to make community-led housing a mainstream option.

About the role

This role will be central to shaping and delivering the National CLT Network’s grants and events programme and an events programme for the UK Cohousing Network and CDS Cooperatives, including shared events. The opportunities and challenges are many, including:

Playing a key role in working with grantees and potential grantees, providing support and guidance to enable them to access funding and deliver successful affordable housing schemes;
Liaising with funders and ensuring that they have appropriate, accurate and well-presented information to make decisions on grants;
Designing, developing and delivering an exciting events programme for various audiences, including community-led housing activists, decision-makers at national and local government, housing professionals, funders and other key partners;
Juggling a busy schedule of events and meetings, being meticulously organised and also highly personable and hospitable.

About you

This is an exciting and career-enhancing role. It could be the right opportunity for a range of potential candidates. Your motivations might be many and varied, from wanting to develop your career in either grants or events, to having a passion for housing or communities, or because you want more responsibility and to develop your management potential. This is an opportunity to join an organisation and collaboration that is working in an area that is increasingly gaining both widespread attention and traction, at Ministerial level, among Parliamentarians, and among housing activists and the wider housing sector. The opportunities will be many and the work varied and challenging. Whatever your motivations, the National CLT Network would like to hear from you – particularly if you enjoy a variety of tasks and challenges, are creative, enterprising, flexible and ambitious, and have a flair for organising and enjoy making things happen. You will also feel strongly about the importance of social justice and the difference that CLTs and Community-led housing can make.