Recruitment

Roles at the Community Foundation and opportunities to give time to local charities.

Funding Officer (Maternity Cover)

Part time 28 hours a week
Salary : £30,900 (£24,720 pro rata for 28 hours per week)

Newcastle upon Tyne

At Community Foundation North East, we share a love for North East England and believe in the importance of giving and philanthropy, backing local charities and championing disadvantaged people.

Every year, we award grants to hundreds of local charities and community organisations through funds set up by donors and partners.

As our Funding Officer, you’ll assess funding requests we receive and make recommendations on those to support. You’ll also carry out grant monitoring and reporting, and help promote our funding to potential recipients. You also manage some of our smaller lighter-touch funds.

We prefer you to have worked in funding before but we don’t require you to have a degree. You’ll have an understanding of the work of local charities and community organisations. You’ll believe in backing the brilliant work of small charities, and embracing equality and diversity.

Alongside an attractive salary and benefits package, we offer a great office environment, travel-to-work schemes and flexible/hybrid working opportunities.

Please note we are open to secondments for this role.

We embrace diversity and positively welcome applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

Deadline for applications: 9am on 17 August 2026

Download the application pack

Voluntary sector member trustee

We currently have a vacancy for a voluntary sector member to join our Board of trustees from October, and are inviting nominations from and of eligible candidates.

To be eligible, you must be a leader or manager (including a trustee) of a voluntary organisation which is currently a Community Foundation North East member, or which is willing to join. You don’t need to have been a trustee of a charity before, but you will need the time and flexibility to take up the role. Organisations that have applied for or received grants from us are welcome to nominate. Joining the Board doesn’t affect any current or future funding decisions.

We’re looking for someone in a current leadership role in a frontline charity or community organisation tackling poverty in our area. In addition, we’re ideally looking for someone who could bring wider networks in the region’s voluntary sector and/or connections in Gateshead, Sunderland or South Tyneside. In line with our diversity benchmarks, we particularly encourage nominations of: men, people from Black, Asian or other non-White ethnic backgrounds; disabled people; and lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

For more information about the role and how to nominate, please download the pack below.

The deadline for nominations is 12 noon on Thursday 3 September 2026.

Download application pack

Trustee Match and Skills Match

Trustee and Skills Match at the Community Foundation is a free service facilitating the recruitment and support of individuals wanting to offer their time, expertise, lived experience and fresh perspectives to local charities and community organisations in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland. Individuals can offer their time on a project by project basis or give a longer term commitment as a trustee. In particular we support individuals in their first trustee role.

Learn about Trustee Match and Skills Match

Volunteer panel members

Our panel members give their time and expertise by being part of groups that meet to advise us on where grants from some of our funds can best make a difference. Register an interest in becoming a Community Foundation panel member by emailing general@communityfoundation.org.uk