Grants and Cohort Manager

  • Contract
  • London

Afield Environemntal


  • Job Title: Grants and Cohort Manager
  • Salary: £40k-£50k
    (pro-rata)
  • Hours:
    Part time
  • Artform: Combined arts
  • Role: Technical & Production
  • Contract: Permanent
  • Closing date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026

  • Location:

    London

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to help a new charity responding to environmental injustice, working with the two co-founders to establish and run its grants and cohort programmes.

Job Description

Introduction

Afield Environmental is a brand new charity responding to environmental injustice. We do this by working with communities to re-wild disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods; and by supporting artists to undertake ecological research. This exciting and demanding role will be right at the heart of making everything happen!

Objectives

You will work alongside Afield’s two co-founders to define and run the urban wilding and arts grants programmes, including managing the cohort of grantees. We are looking for dynamism, energy and experience of grant management to help us launch the first round of grants and a support programme.

Compensation and benefits

  • 4 days per week, for which the salary is £34,500 (FTE: £43,000). 8 hours per day or 32 hours / week.
  • 21 company holiday days (increasing with the length of service) in addition to 8 bank holidays plus discretionary Christmas closure days each year
  • 20 days fully paid company sick leave
  • Flexible working hours and location. We are ideally looking for someone who is happy working remotely and willing to regularly meet in person in London (work space provided if required)
  • Family friendly practices, such as enhanced maternity and paternity leave

More about Afield

Afield was co-founded by Liz Orton and Mike Saunders in autumn 2025. Its core funding is through a family legacy, which supports a small organisation, the goal of which is to challenge environmental injustice The first round cohort will be small, supporting about 6 people with a programme that will include mentoring, peer learning and specialist support.

As a new organisation, we have invested in developing our organisation values, which are to be:

  • Bold: we embrace risk-taking and learning
  • Just: we contribute to social & environmental equity
  • Imaginative: we support and take creative action
  • Caring: we prioritise personal and collective needs and wellbeing

Afield will be publicly launching including its website and programmes in Spring 2026.

Job Requirements

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • Empathetic, has a positive attitude and a desire to help grantees
  • Energetic with a can-do, self-sufficient attitude, and with the ability to independently manage a busy workload, multiple deadlines and priorities
  • Confident in their ability whilst self-aware and committed to ongoing development
  • Interested (and perhaps experienced) in nature, ecology or the environment

We would also like to work with someone who has:

  • Experience of running a grants or funded cohort programme (ideally in either arts grants or a pioneer-style programme)
  • Ability and comfort in creating structure out of ambiguity; identifying challenges and opportunities; and expressing clear proposals for change
  • Exceptional communication abilities, both verbal and written
  • Good analytical and project management skills, and strong competency in setting up and using technology such as an application management platform
  • Experience of line management is an advantage but not essential

How to Apply

Please send your CV and covering letter of not more than 2 sides of A4, to [email protected] before 6pm on 28th February.

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