Description

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.  

Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from The National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities. 

We are currently recruiting for a full time Data Manager on a fixed term contract (12 months) based in any of the Heritage Fund’s Offices in the UK, except London (Hybrid Working).

We are looking for someone with a strong interest in evidenceled working and a commitment to helping the Heritage Fund progress toward its ambition of becoming a learning organisation. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as we develop and improve our approach to impact reporting for the Heritage 2033 strategy.

You will work alongside our existing Data Manager to maintain and expand our suite of selfservice business intelligence and reporting products. Your work will increase the organisation’s ability to understand and demonstrate impact, measure performance, and embed evidenceled decision making. You will play a key role in delivering reliable, timely management and impact information for the Heritage Fund and our partners, drawing on grant data, survey data (from grantees and stakeholders), and relevant external datasets.

You will also support the development of the organisation’s Open Data processes, including publishing data to external grant systems, and manage a varied caseload of data requests from across the organisation.

A typical day in this role might involve analysing spreadsheets, meeting with colleagues to understand reporting needs, building Power BI dashboards, and more.

What we're looking for: 

• Strong analytical skills and experience of data management, analysis and reporting
• Advanced user of Excel and Power BI for data manipulation and visualisation.
• Project management experience, including managing external providers.
• Clear and confident communicator
• Highly organised, methodical and able to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Collaborative team member with a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.

Applications close on 27 April 2026 at 23:59.
Interviews are expected to take place on 11 May 2026.

Our Values

Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.

• Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
• Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
• Collaborative by working and learning together
• Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement
• Flexible Working

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.

Disability Confident Employer

We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for every vacancy. We always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments and special requirements can be discussed and arranged before an interview.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund pledges to provide an inclusive working and learning environment for our people which prioritises fairness, equality, diversity and inclusion as well as dignity and respect for all. We will create a workspace where intimidation, discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation are not tolerated and actively prevented and opposed.