Money and Pensions Service
Debt Advice Business Development Manager
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Job Summary
Debt Advice Business Development Manager
£63,000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working
Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Debt Advice Business Development Manager. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.
Why This Role Matters
This role sits within the Debt Advice Development function, reporting to the Senior Debt Advice Innovation Manager. The role will support the development and delivery of commissioning-ready service models by shaping external partnerships, market insight, and sector understanding across the debt advice system.
The role contributes to the development pipeline by identifying and securing new funding opportunities. This includes establishing and coordinating new co-funding arrangements to deepen the impact of MaPS funded services. The role holder will translate sector engagement, delivery insight, and emerging needs into evidence that informs service development, innovation activity, and commissioning priorities.
The role plays a key enabling function in supporting MaPS’s major commissioning programmes for both community based and national services, by ensuring that services are grounded in real-world delivery, market capacity, partner capability. Supporting the transition of service insights and delivery models from pilots and development activity into scalable and sustainable service provision.
About Us
MaPS is based in bright, modern offices in Bedford, and we’re here to help people across the UK feel more confident and informed about their money.
Our Values Guide How We Work Together
- Caring – for colleagues and the communities we support
- Connecting – building supportive, positive relationships
- Transforming – creating impact that truly matters
We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
Supporting Commissioning and Development
- Support the development of commissioning-ready service models by providing sector insight, market intelligence, and evidence on delivery feasibility, demand, and partner capability.
- Work alongside the Senior Debt Advice Innovation Manager and Commissioning colleagues to support MaPS major commissioning activity, including community based and nationally accessible services. Informing funding approaches, service specifications, and commissioning priorities.
- Contribute to the design and refinement of services by ensuring proposals reflect real-world delivery, sector capability, and system constraints alongside insights from the wider development team.
- Support the development of commissioning pipelines by identifying emerging needs, service gaps, and opportunities for improvement across the debt advice system.
Identifying and Developing funding opportunities
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with potential funders to be able to develop co-funding opportunities.
- Co-ordinate new funding opportunities to provide for pilot activities, increase development funding or new partnerships across sectors.
- Work with other government departments on funding opportunities including pilots and funding for new developments.
- Represent MaPS in external forums and engagement activity, contributing to discussions on debt advice delivery and funding arrangements.
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Supporting Innovation and Pipeline Development
- Work closely with innovation and service development teams to ensure sector and delivery insight is embedded into pilot activities.
- Support the transition of pilots and innovation activity into scalable services by contributing to funding and delivery models as well as implementation considerations.
- Identify funding barriers and enablers to new products and developments adoption across the sector to maximise effective roll-out and sustainability.
Supporting Sector Capacity and Adoption
- Support the development of sector capability by sharing insights, good practice, and learning from across the sector.
- Work with providers and partners to understand how services are delivered in practice and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support activity that strengthens sector readiness for new services, funding approaches, and commissioning requirements
Cross-Team Collaboration & Development
- Work within a matrix environment, collaborating with Innovation, Commissioning, Policy, Delivery, and Technology & Change.
- Provide regular insight on market conditions, partnerships, and sector dynamics to inform strategic discussions.
- Support alignment between development activity and commissioning priorities, ensuring a joined-up approach across MaPS.
Person specification
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
Essential
- Experience working within the debt advice sector or a related field, with a strong understanding of delivery models and sector dynamics.
- Experience supporting commissioning, funding, or service development activity within a complex or multi-stakeholder environment.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and partnership development skills, with the ability to build relationships across organisations and sectors.
- Ability to gather, interpret, and communicate market insight and sector intelligence to inform decision making.
- Experience working collaboratively across functions to deliver shared outcomes.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly.
Desirable
- Experience working alongside commissioning functions or supporting service specification and funding design.
- Experience generating new funding opportunities or establishing co-funding agreements
- Familiarity with innovation, pilot activity, or test-and-learn approaches and how these translate into scalable services.
- Experience engaging with delivery partners across voluntary, public, or regulated sectors.
- Understanding of how policy, funding, and delivery interact within public service systems.
Personal Attributes
- Purpose-Driven – Committed to improving outcomes for people experiencing financial difficulty.
- Collaborative and Relationship-Focused – Builds strong partnerships across teams and organisations to support shared outcome
- Insight-Driven and Curious – Seeks to understand sector dynamics, emerging trends, and system needs.
- Pragmatic and Solution-Oriented – Applies practical thinking to complex problems, balancing ambition with delivery realities.
- Adaptable and Responsive – Comfortable working in evolving environments and responding to change.
Benefits
- 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Pension contributions matched 2 to 1 (employer contribution up to 10% of your salary)
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
- Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
- Life assurance
- EAP Assist & Life
- Enhanced family and sick pay
- 2 paid volunteering days
- Recognition scheme
- Retail discounts portal
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Flexible Working
We believe work should fit around life. This Bedford‑based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family, and personal commitments. We come together for purposeful team collaboration to stay connected and drive great results.
Career Development
We love supporting internal growth and progression, while continuing to follow fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.
Important Information About Applying
Please apply only via official MaPS links - we can’t accept applications via email or unauthorised sites. MaPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship.
Reserve List: If you're successful at interview, we may place you on a reserve list for up to 6 months. If a similar role becomes available, you may be offered it without the need for another assessment.
If you believe your application hasn’t followed the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles, you can contact resourcing@maps.org.uk. If unresolved, you may then contact the Civil Service Commission.
Job Reference: MaPS01231
Close Date: 03/08/2026
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Selection process details
We Keep Things Simple, Fair, And Transparent
Step 1: Submit Your Application
Open: 20/07/2026, Deadline: 03/08/2026
To Apply, Please Submit The Following Document
- Your most up-to-date CV
Step 2: Telephone Interview
Between 20/07/2026 – 05/08/2026
If Your Application Is Shortlisted, You Will Be Invited To a Telephone Interview With One Of Our Recruiters. This Is An Opportunity To
- Discuss your experience in more detail
- Learn more about the role and our organisation
- Ask any questions you may have
Step 3: Final Stage Interview
Hosted on W/C 24/08/2026
Successful candidates from the telephone interview will be invited to attend a remote interview on Microsoft Teams
This Stage Will Consist Of
- A task of presentation that you will need to prepare before the interview
- A structured interview with competency based questions
We follow fair, open, and merit‑based recruitment in line with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of
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