EQL Tech (frontier talent)
Head of Impact
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The Role
Our exclusive client runs a charitable fund alongside its core organisation - one that's already put real money behind disadvantaged young people, and is now looking for someone to take it from "well-run" to "genuinely ambitious." That's this role.
You'll set strategy directly with the CEO and the trustee board, then go and build the funding relationships - banks, consultancies, foundations, major donors - that make that strategy fundable. You'll also design what the impact actually looks like on the ground, including new AI-enabled delivery models for under-resourced schools. And underneath all of it, you're the person keeping governance and the books airtight enough that none of the above is at risk.
It's an unusual mix: part strategist, part fundraiser, part governance lead. Most people are strong at one of those. This role needs someone credible at all three.
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- Setting the Fund's strategy with the CEO and Trustees
- Designing how impact actually gets delivered, including new AI-enabled programmes
- Building and managing funder relationships - banks, consultancies, foundations, major donors
- Writing and pitching funding propositions that land real money
- Owning charity governance: trustee board packs, regulatory compliance, the lot
- Running financial controls, treasury, and audit prep
- Building and leading a small team
Where You'll Be
Central London, 3-5 days/week in the office.
Requirements
Who We're Looking For
Non-negotiable
- Currently based in the UK, with the right to work here without sponsorship - the in-office schedule makes this a hard requirement, not a preference
- Comfortable owning genuinely ambiguous work with no existing playbook
- Can build a relationship with a senior funder from a cold start
- Can write and pitch a funding proposition that actually gets money moving, not just a well-formatted deck
- Real strategic chops - you can build a theory of change, not just recite the phrase
- Governance and financial discipline - you won't let the ambition outrun the paperwork
- Real, hands-on fluency with AI tools, applied to actual problems rather than as a buzzword on a CV
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- Experience scaling partnerships from inside a tech company
- A corporate fundraising or partnerships background
- People management experience
- Startup-stage experience (roughly 20-100 people)
Benefits
- £50,000-£60,000, depending on experience
- Central London, hybrid (3-5 days/week in office)
- Direct strategic input into a fund that's already moving meaningful money to the people it's meant to help — not a junior seat several steps removed from the mission
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