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The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation
Director of Growth and Development
Salary: £80,000–£90,000 Location: London (with UK and international travel)
Seventy years after its foundation, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award achieves one million participants annually across 120+ countries and territories. Today, the organisation is embarking on its most visionary period, aiming to reach four million participants by 2030—magnifying the life-transforming impact of the Award across the globe.
To accelerate this growth, an evolutionarily impactful role has been created: Director of Growth and Development.
About the Role
This is not a traditional ‘growth’ role—it’s about scaling impact at an unprecedented international level.
As Head of the new, soon-to-be-established Department of Growth and Development, you’ll:
- Transform the global network of National Award Operators—ensuring that their growth remains sustainable, high-quality and aligned with the Award’s legendary integrity and reputation.
- identify untapped opportunities for scaling participation, and develop bespoke support to help them strengthen their:
- leadership
- strategy & governance
- financial sustainability
- operational capacity
- oversee funding, partnerships, and strategic investments—leveraging data and regional insights to enhance impact.
- foster a culture of learning, collaboration and continuous improvement across the Award family.
Key Responsibilities
Building & Sustaining Growth Across a Global Network
- Lead the creation of a cohesive strategy that balances magnitude with organisation quality across diverse cultural contexts.
- Work alongside National Award Operators to ensure their readiness for organic, sustainable expansion.
- Drive operational excellence—upgrading administrative, technological and people-resourcing capacities to support progress.
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Strategic Collaborations & Investments
- Develop and manage a high-impact funding and partnership pipeline, including grants and strategic alliances.
- Use data-driven analytics to inform funding decisions, prioritise underserved regions and identify emerging growth levers.
- Shape multi-organisational agreements, ensuring collective progress without diluting standards.
Organisational Capability & Culture
- Elevate the capacity of the Award community—from local leadership teams to international partnerships—by instilling a mindset of adaptive efficiency, agile measurement and peer-driven learning.
- Champion spirited collaboration, ensuring healthy co-creation across cultures and societies.
- Inspire and mobilise cross-functional internal alignment: aligning efforts across program delivery, brand, research and communications to support scaling.
Ambition Drop-created Role
- Shape a function from scratch: You’ll build its guiding principles, structures and logistics.
- Contribute to strategic thinking on innovation, technology use, and yield enhancements.
- Be an influential thought leader, guiding the Award’s resourcing and structure as demand increases.
What We’re Looking For
You’re a high-calibre strategist with a proven ability to grow organisations at scale while enhancing their integrity. Examples of relevant backgrounds:
- Management Consultancy (helping organisations operationalise ambitious visions)
- Organisational Development (elevating internal and external partnerships)
- International Relations & Youth Development
- Charity/Social Enterprise Leadership (driving mission-aligned expansion)
- Public Sector Reform & Scaling Public Engagement (leveraging large-scale change)
- Membership Organisations (strengthening distributions across diverse hubs)
- Technology or Education Transformation (applied to enhancing efficiency/growth).
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But ultimately, we seek someone who demonstrates a unique synthesis of:
- Future-driven strategy—melding ambitious visions with concrete trajectories.
- Capability-building skills—building leadership pipelines, governance, and resilience within collaborators/clients.
- Expertise in scaling with insight—navigating attention to quality, fiscal health, and operational scalability.
Key Traits
- Ability to work across cultures, languages and governance structures—with empathy and adaptability buttering interactions.
- Confident in data-based decision-making—able to dig out nuggets of intelligence from complex datasets.
- Gifted at researching new opportunities, tapping unexplored demographics/regions.
- Charismatic, principled, and passionate about future-readiness in young people, motivating people of varied leadership styles.
- Principled pragmatist—a blend of vision and keep-it-real execution.
We Offer
- Reflective work with global impact: The chance to shape a movement for underprivileged & at-risk young people worldwide.
- Freedom to innovate: Ownership over designing a new function and piloting bold ideas.
- Collective heartbeat: Joining an exciting, ever-effort fully committed team—dedicated to unlocking potential in millions.
- Varied & dynamic focus: A role that merges operational need with forward-thinking strategy and big-picture vision.
Closing date: Friday, 10th July 2026
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