Vacancy Type: Permanent/Full Time
Salary: £41,065 to £47,096 (London: £44,637 to £50,634, includes London Weighting) (R4)
Location: London or Manchester Office (Hybrid Working)
Application Deadline: Sunday, 23 November 2025
Job Summary
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is 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 Legal Adviser on a permanent contract based in our Manchester or London Office (Hybrid Working). The primary purpose of this post is to work with the legal team to support the continued development of a highly respected, professional legal service. The in‑house solicitors, legal adviser, paralegal and office coordinators support all grant‑giving, corporate, regulatory and governance activities.
This is an exciting role with opportunities to develop skills and experience by working under the supervision of the Director of Legal and Governance or one of the senior solicitors on more complex grant projects and larger more strategic projects.
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 23 November 2025.
* Interviews are expected to take place on 8 December 2025.
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.
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