Head of Development and Partnerships

Head of Development and Partnerships

The McPin Foundation

Type: Permanent

Location:Head office, Borough SE1

Salary: Starting from £46,637 per annum FTE (point 22)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (with possibility of some flexibility if post holder wanted 30 hour position)

Do you want to help McPin grow and thrive for another 10 years?  Use your proven expertise in income generation to help develop our vital work in mental health research with lived experience expertise at its heart?

We are recruiting to a new senior leadership role within our organisation to build upon our 10 years of specialist research work.  We want to increase our influence and impact.  We want to extend the work we do with new partners both local and national.  We want to work with more people with lived experience of mental health issues and support their career development.  We are ambitious and are looking for someone committed to centring lived experience expertise in research to join us and help with our next 10 year journey.

The core focus of this role will include supporting our relationship development, both corporate and public sector; building on current networks and forging new organisational connections to enhance our influencing work and facilitate income generation.  It will include writing bids and funding proposals.  It will also involve managing a small team, coaching and empowering individuals to thrive and develop. 

This post would ideally suit someone with exceptional leadership skills and proven business development experience who is passionate about mental health and lived experience involvement in research.   The post holder will also need to be self-motivated, have strong interpersonal skills and be a confident communicator, with the ability to maintain and create strong, long-term, reciprocal relationships with many stakeholders that result in significant impact.

Our team is committed to transforming mental health research through collaboration, inclusion and a belief in equity and anti-oppressive behaviour.  We strongly encourage applications from Black people, People of Colour, people who are LGBTQIA+, those with a disability and those who identify themselves in marginalised groups, as well as people with lived experience of mental health issues.

We offer benefits including a competitive salary, hybrid/flexible working, a NEST Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, wellbeing support and mentoring scheme, an individual training budget and access to an Employee Assistance Programme and healthcare cash plan with Hospital Saturday Fund.  You can find out more about us at www.mcpin.org.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 20^th February 2024, 9 am

To apply please visit https://mcpin.org/about-mcpin/job-vacancies/ to download the job description and application form.

For any queries please contact Vanessa Pinfold, Research Director, at vanessapinfold@mcpin.org to discuss the post.