Consultants must be appropriately qualified and experienced, willing to engage with applicants and grantees to guide them towards achieving best practice.

Consultants must demonstrate continuous professional development through membership of an appropriate professional body and experience of working with clients from a range of different sectors.

We are seeking to recruit up to 50 individuals who can work across the UK.

Their experience should cover the following:

— Governance — Includes strategic organisational change; environmental sustainability (non-capital elements e.g. new policy on greening)

— Financial planning and management — Includes business planning; investment readiness (social investment)

— Asset transfer — Includes Community businesses

— Income generation — Includes fundraising from private sources; Marketing and PR; Trading and Licensing; Catering and venue hire.

In order to provide maximum flexibility we intend to procure specialists, entitled Consultants, who must be available to assist in projects across the whole of the UK.

Consultants may be deployed across all of the key steps of our grant development, assessment and monitoring phases as noted below:

— Development,

— First and/or second round application,

— Delivery,

— Post completion evaluation and review.

Roles

The Consultants role on any individual case will be defined at the time of commissioning and will involve one or more of the following functions:

(a) Mentoring Projects;

(b) Monitoring Projects;

(c) Expert advice.