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Head of Funding
The Talent Set are delighted to be partnering with Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation to recruit a new Head of Funding, joining their Funding & Impact team as a key senior leader responsible for shaping and delivering the Foundation’s funding strategy.
About the Role
Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation is an independent charitable foundation working to build a healthier society. Through funding, partnerships, research and innovation, the Foundation tackles some of the most pressing health challenges facing communities, with a particular focus on reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes.
The Foundation combines grant-making with strategic influence and long-term investment to create lasting social impact, supporting innovative projects and programmes that improve health and healthcare outcomes for communities now and into the future.
Role Overview:
As Head of Funding, you will lead the delivery and development of the Foundation’s funding portfolio, overseeing significant funding activity and ensuring resources are invested effectively to maximise impact. Working closely with the Director of Funding & Impact, you will help shape strategic priorities, build influential partnerships and lead a high-performing team responsible for delivering funding programmes from opportunity identification through to evaluation and learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development and implementation of the Foundation’s funding strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and impact goals.
- Lead and manage the Funding Team, overseeing funding activity and ensuring delivery against strategic objectives.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with healthcare, research, academic and charitable sector partners.
- Oversee funding assessment, decision-making and governance processes, ensuring robust and effective grant-making practice.
- Lead funding committees and advisory processes, preparing high-quality recommendations and reports for decision-makers.
- Drive continuous improvement across funding policies, systems and ways of working to enhance effectiveness and impact.
- Work collaboratively with internal colleagues to support financial planning, reporting, evaluation and portfolio management activities.
- Represent the Foundation externally, promoting its funding and impact work and identifying opportunities for collaboration and influence.
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Person Specification:
- Significant experience leading funding, grant-making or investment programmes within a charity, healthcare, academic or funding environment.
- Strong understanding of the healthcare, research or scientific sectors and the opportunities and challenges they present.
- Experience managing funding committees, advisory groups, peer review processes or board-level decision-making activities.
- Demonstrable ability to develop strategy and translate this into effective operational delivery.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with a proven track record of managing complex stakeholder relationships and partnerships.
- Strategic leadership experience, including leading, motivating and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to communicate complex information clearly to a range of audiences.
- Highly organised and analytical, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and make informed decisions in a complex environment.
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What's on Offer:
- £70,000 - £74,000
- London with hybrid working (2 days per week on site)
How to Apply:
To express an initial interest, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the 'apply now' button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.
Commitment to Diversity:
The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
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