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Role: Grants and Commissioning Officer

Location: Chorley

Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

Salary: £31,537 - £33,699

Closing Date: 11 January 2026

Do you want to play a key role in building stronger, healthier, and more cohesive and connected communities? If you are enthusiastic about supporting communities, residents and creating opportunities, this could be the perfect role for you.

We are seeking a Grants and Funding Officer to join the Community Partnerships Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with voluntary groups and partner organisations to strengthen support for Chorley residents and deliver local initiatives.

In this role you will play a key part in the delivery and oversight of grants and funding programmes managed by the service. You will engage and collaborate with voluntary, community, and faith sector organisations across Chorley. You will support the development of local processes, and you will build strong relationships with partners to deliver our council aims. You will assist with designing and implementing fair and transparent bidding, commissioning, and procurement processes to ensure local community groups receive appropriate funding to deliver projects.

We are looking for someone who has a degree or equivalent experience in community development, working with the voluntary sector, or a related field. You will need strong interpersonal and communication skills, excellent organisational abilities, and the confidence to work independently as well as part of a team.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
• Hybrid/agile working from day one
• Local Government pension
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
• Volunteering days
• Free parking

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the “Contact Us” page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.