Contracts & Compliance Manager

Hybrid/London (Camberwell) with occasional travel

Ref: TCG-261

We are looking for a skilled and values-driven Contracts & Compliance Manager to join our Corporate Resources team. This is a key role providing oversight of contracts, compliance, and procurement across St Giles.

About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About the Role
You will ensure the organisation maintains robust management of all funding and supplier contracts, meets its contractual and reporting obligations, and operates strong, compliant procurement processes. Acting as a vital link between fundraising, service delivery, and finance, you will support colleagues across the organisation to manage risk, ensure compliance, and achieve best value.

This role is part-time, with flexibility to work 3 or 4 days per week, and will be mostly hybrid, with Camberwell as the base location.

Key Responsibilities

• Review all new funding contracts prior to signing, identifying key terms, risks, and obligations
• Support Fundraising and Services teams to assess bid conditions and identify contractual or compliance risks
• Manage the contract approval and signing process, including trustee approvals where required
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date databases of all funding and supplier contracts, including variations and extensions
• Act as a key point of contact for fundraising and services teams on funder reporting requirements and deadlines
• Work with the Fundraising team to maximise the use of CRM systems to support effective contract management
• Review supplier contracts for goods and services prior to signing
• Own and oversee the organisation’s procurement processes
• Support service delivery and finance teams to ensure procurement procedures are followed
• Support tender processes to ensure best practice, value for money, and compliance
• Ensure confidentiality and information security in line with data protection and IT policies
• Promote sustainable working practices and reduce the environmental impact of St Giles’ operations
• Demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and St Giles’ lived experience approach

About You
You will be an organised, collaborative professional with strong experience in contract management and compliance, ideally within the charity, public, or not-for-profit sector. You will be confident working across teams, managing competing priorities, and improving processes.

You will bring:

• Proven experience drafting, reviewing, and managing funding and supplier contracts
• Significant experience managing statutory funding contracts and funder reporting requirements
• Experience maintaining contract registers or databases with a high level of accuracy
• Strong understanding of contract law, compliance obligations, and risk management
• Experience establishing or improving procurement processes and supporting tender activity
• Ability to work effectively with fundraising, finance, and service delivery teams
• Understanding of governance requirements, including delegated authorities and trustee approvals
• Knowledge of CRM systems and their use in contract or funding management

Our Values

We are looking for someone who reflects and lives our values:

• Empowering and enabling others
• Supportive and persistent
• Creative and flexible
• Empathic and proactive
• Inclusive and collaborative
• Clear and open in communication

Recruitment Timeline
Closing date: 21st January 2026. Interviews will take place on: 28 January 2026
Candidates should ensure availability on this date when applying.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion-confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.