Head of Income Generation & Communications
As a local mental health charity Buckinghamshire Mind has been working for 110 years to stand up for better mental health in Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire. We are an independent charity, proud to be affiliated with national Mind and play our part in the Mind federation.
Our vision is to ensure everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets the support and respect they deserve.
With 70 colleagues and over 500 volunteers of all ages, we provide wide-ranging mental health services in the heart of local communities to over 11,000 people per year. We’re passionate about meeting the needs we see and expanding our service provision. We’re continuously innovating how and where we support people by and partnering with other providers and using impact data to make informed decisions.
The newly created post of Head of Income Generation & Communications will be an integral part of the Senior Management Team, managing the development and strategic direction of our charity as agreed with the Board of Trustees.
You will create an income generation strategy and be responsible for its implementation, using your creativity and resourcefulness to maximise development opportunities. Our current sources of funding are grants, foundations, community fundraising, individual giving and corporates.
In addition, you will oversee all elements of the organisation’s communications strategy to ensure the charity provides good quality information to help people access local mental health services as well as generating income from marketing campaigns.
You’ll lead a small team and ensure that they are engaged and produce high-quality and inspiring work.
We want to appoint someone who is passionate about raising the profile of Buckinghamshire Mind as a leading mental health charity and is confident in creating more opportunities to expand and develop our support for people in Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire.
Job title: Head of Income Generation & Communications
Location: hybrid working/High Wycombe
Salary: £50,000 pa (full time)
Hours: 30 hours per week over 4 days
flexible working options available
Accountable to: CEO
A full job description is provided.
Buckinghamshire Mind offer a friendly working environment and are committed to staff wellbeing. We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion both internally and externally and have just rolled out EDI training and workshops to all Trustees and staff. We share an ambition to create a fairer, safer, accessible and inclusive community where everyone feels they belong, has a voice and an equal opportunity to succeed and thrive. We offer a range of employee benefits including:
Generous holiday entitlement (25 days, 2 wellbeing days, plus 8 bank holidays) – pro-rata for part-time
Development and training
Flexible working including: hybrid working, part time hours
Employee Assistance Programme (access to health and wellbeing support, including counselling)
To find out more information about benefits please visit our website.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 23rd June 2024
1st Interviews: 3 and 4 July 2024
2nd interviews: 8 and 11 July 2024
To apply please send your CV and application form.
Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities and inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you meet all the essential criteria we welcome your application as training and development can be provided to give you further skills. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.