InnovateHer
Head of New Business Development
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InnovateHer is on a mission to ‘get girls ready for the tech industry and the tech industry ready for girls.’ We’re looking for an experienced Head of New Business Development to join us for 12 months, taking ownership of new business development and keeping our growth momentum strong.
This is a senior role for someone who already knows how to open doors in the public sector and education space, and who wants to make a tangible impact on a growing social enterprise in a defined window of time. You’ll work alongside our Head of Growth and Partnerships, who continues to own our existing corporate partner relationships, upselling and social value work, your focus ownership of a new area of business development.
Your role in our team
This role is a great opportunity to shape InnovateHer’s commercial future, with the successful candidate taking ownership of a new area of business development. Working alongside our Head of Growth & Partnerships and the wider team, you’ll lead the growth of our education and public sector pipeline, helping schools, trusts and public sector organisations access our programmes and new digital learning platform. You’ll also work closely with our corporate partnerships, building on existing relationships and identifying opportunities where they can support and accelerate growth across the education sector.
- You’ll be trusted to manage your own pipeline and sales cycle, while staying closely aligned with both the Head of Growth and wider leadership team, ensuring our overall growth strategy stays joined up.
- You’ll also have the opportunity to support building out our sales function for our digital platform later in the role, once the platform is more established.
What you’ll do
- Lead the growth of InnovateHer’s education and public sector pipeline, securing new partnerships with schools, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), Combined Authorities and other public sector organisations.
- Build new partnerships with Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and schools, driving strategic partnerships and adoption of our digital platform.
- Lead on relevant bid opportunities, partnering with colleagues across the team depending on focus area.
- Build and manage a strong outbound sales pipeline, using tools such as Apollo to run efficient, automated cold and warm outreach across corporate and public sector audiences.
- Support international market expansion where relevant experience or contacts exist.
- Understand how social value and educational delivery are positioned within public sector and grant bid submissions, and bring that thinking into your pitches and proposals.
- Work closely with the Head of Growth, who retains ownership of existing corporate partner relationships, upselling and social value delivery, to keep our growth approach joined up.
- Support recruitment of a dedicated Sales team for the digital platform later in the contract.
- Represent InnovateHer confidently and strategically in senior conversations with combined authorities, MATs and corporate partners.
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About you
- A proven track record in the public sector, combined authority, or MAT sales/partnerships — ideally within education, social impact or a related sector.
- Confident and experienced using outbound sales tools and platforms (e.g. Apollo) to build and manage pipelines efficiently from day one.
- A self-starter, comfortable managing longer public sector sales cycles independently, without needing close day-to-day direction.
- A solid understanding of how social value and educational delivery are positioned within the public sector and grant bid submissions.
- Senior enough to operate strategically and represent InnovateHer with confidence at a senior level.
- Comfortable working flexibly and adapting your focus as priorities shift across a fixed-term contract.
- Passionate about our mission to get more young people, especially girls, into technology.
Nice to have
- Existing relationships or contacts within combined authorities or public sector education bodies.
- Experience or contacts supporting international market expansion.
- Experience mentoring or supporting more junior sales or partnerships colleagues.
- Knowledge of the education, social enterprise, or edtech sector.
- Knowledge of G-Suite tools (Drive, Docs, email) and collaborative tools (Trello, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet) — as a remote-first organisation, we rely heavily on these.
Location
We are a remote-first organisation, which means that you can work from home or any location in the UK. We also have an office based in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, at 12 Jordan Street, which you are welcome to work from. This role may involve some travel to meet partners, including areas outside city or town centres.
What we offer
This role is offered on a part-time basis of 24 hours per week, as a fixed-term contract for 12 months, as we build a new revenue stream.
- Salary: £62,000 FTE – Pro rata salary £40,000 (24 hours per week)
What else you’ll get from us
Our team works hard every day to make a difference to people’s lives, particularly the young girls we work with. In return, we are proud to provide a unique experience within a collaborative and inspiring culture. Benefits include:
- We are a flexible working organisation and operate a 30-hour full-time working week, with the option to condense hours — many of the team, including directors, choose to work this way 🏡
- We are a remote-first organisation and allow employees to work across the UK 🌍
- A great amount of annual leave (worked out in hours, because of our flexible way of working), your birthday off, plus a full office shutdown at Christmas (approx. 2 weeks) 🏝
- A laptop (Mac) and all the equipment needed to work remotely
- A learning budget, tailored to your personal development plan 📚
- Mental health support, webinars and access to funding for therapy services via our enhanced policy
- Home equipment budget, paid bi-annually 💻
- We meet face-to-face for 2 days every quarter, usually in Liverpool but sometimes around the country 🥰
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Equal Opportunities
InnovateHer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
All InnovateHer employees will undergo an enhanced DBS check because we work closely with young people. Having a criminal record will not necessarily stop you from being an employee at InnovateHer. However, any information contained on your Disclosure certificate would require further consideration before a recruitment decision could be made. All such cases are fully and fairly considered before a final decision is reached, and InnovateHer would normally provide you with the opportunity to discuss, in person, the circumstances of any information revealed.
We are operating a blind recruitment practice at stage one, which means we do not require your name or gender at this stage.
Timeline and what to expect
First stage
- Apply via CV/Application Form. Deadline for applications: [8th September, Midday]
Second stage – 10th – 16th September
- Virtual 30-minute interview with two members of the InnovateHer team. Applicants will be contacted to be invited to a second-stage interview.
Third stage – 29th – 30th September
- Virtual task-based interview with members of the InnovateHer team.
- Expected start date: as soon as possible, subject to notice period
Adjustments to the recruitment process
We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability, neurodiversity or any other protected characteristic. We want you to have every opportunity to thrive in our selection process. Do you need adjustments in relation to a disability, a neurodiverse condition (e.g. dyslexia), a medical condition or other individual need?
We’re committed to removing disability-related barriers, and are happy to discuss adjustments to our processes with you. Advise us in good time by emailing hello@innovateher.co.uk so that we can support you to perform at your best. Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.
Some examples of the adjustments we could make are: giving you extra time for presentations or within the interview itself, sending interview questions over in advance, allowing for breaks during the interview, providing a different format of the written task given, or communicating in a different way when arranging any interviews.
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