Learning and Knowledge Lead

Salary: £49,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid – London office (Holland Park) 3 days per week

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Hours: 35 hours per week

Applications close: 9am, Monday 28th April 2025

About us

Tudor Trust is a grant-making organisation with £230 million assets and a 70-year history of supporting voluntary organisations and community groups driving positive social change across the UK.

We recognise that philanthropy has traditionally held power in ways that reinforce injustice through its investments, programmatic priorities and funding allocations. We believe this form of exercising “power over” should be rebalanced by fostering “power with” and “power within”. This means placing communities and individuals at the heart of our work, providing resources to support their collective ambitions for transformative change in society.

To address the power imbalances within philanthropy, Tudor undertook a transformative shift to reshape every aspect of our work which led to the creation of the ‘Change We Seek’ strategy, and our commitment to advance racial justice by resourcing power within communities.

About the role

The Learning and Knowledge Lead is a pivotal role in a period of organisational transformation, we need someone that is willing to come on this journey with us as things shift and change along the way.

Through our learning we want to:

• Continue to shift and develop how we operate as an organisation.
• Make bold funding and investment choices.
• Move closer to the change we seek in line with our mission.

This role requires someone with an inquisitive, brave, and collaborative mindset who is comfortable working with complexity and thrives in iterative environments. You will have excellent relationship-building skills, working closely with our grantee partners, programmes team, senior leadership team and the CEO, as well as with peers from other organisations to share and capture learning. We have a strong learning culture and a committed and passionate team who want to make a difference in the philanthropy sector, so we’re looking for someone who can build on our learning and insights, hold us to account, challenge our thinking and amplify the voices of our grantee partners. This role is vital in consolidating our learning and helping us ensure that the ‘Change We Seek’ strategy is embedded into everything we do.

The ability to communicate learning, insights and Tudor’s messaging in different mediums, to connect and collaborate with different people and the ability to create safe, meaningful and trusting spaces where people can learn, reflect and share is essential.

The role is a blend of traditional knowledge sharing and evaluation alongside entrepreneurial and creative problem solving, working with complexity and turning it into tangible action. This is a real opportunity for someone to help us navigate our way through change by sharpening our own workstreams and strategies.

As we continue to develop as an organisation, we will support individual team members to further develop their skills accordingly. We are therefore looking for people who are multidisciplinary in their skill set; collaborative and curious in aptitude; and can combine identity and passion with strategic thinking.

Please download and view the Recruitment Pack below for full details.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At Tudor Trust, we value and celebrate the differences that make us who we are. We respect the unique differences that each individual brings to the table, whether it’s age, cultural heritage, disability and mental health, ethnicity, race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, or social economic background.

Tudor Trust is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we are particularly interested in applications from people from all backgrounds.

How to apply

If you would like to apply for this role, please submit a CV and response to the following questions to resources@tudortrust.org.uk:

• Given this is a new role, what aspects of your skills and experience would you bring to developing this role, and why?
• Share with us your approach to relationship-building and working collaboratively with different stakeholders, paying attention to our behaviours.
• Through your own experience in the field, how do you understand the relationship between racial justice, knowledge, and learning?

The questions can be responded to in one of four different ways:

• Written A4 (max 1000 words)
• PowerPoint (No more than 5 slides)
• Audio recording (No more than 5 mins)
• Video Recording (No more than 5 mins)

Applications close: 9am Monday 28th April 2025

Interview schedule

• 8th and 9th May 2025: First stage interview (virtual)
• 14th May 2025: Second stage interview and task (in person at our office in Holland Park, London)

If you have specific questions about the role, or if there’s anything you’d like some clarity on, please email elisestpalmer@tudortrust.org.uk.

Please note: Only applicants with right to work in the UK will be considered