NHS Blood and Transplant
Head of Organ Donation Partnerships
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Job Summary
Help shape the future of organ donation across the UK. This is a unique opportunity to lead high-profile partnerships that influence how millions of people engage with organ donation at key moments in their everyday lives. Working at the intersection of healthcare, digital innovation and public engagement, you'll build relationships that create lasting impact and help ensure more patients receive the life-saving transplants they need.
We're looking for a commercially minded and strategically focused leader who thrives on building influential partnerships and turning ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes. If you're experienced in navigating complex stakeholder environments, driving change through collaboration, and identifying innovative ways to reach large audiences, this role offers the chance to make a genuine national difference while leading a growing and important area of work within
Main duties of the job
The Head of Organ Donation Partnerships role is responsible for the leadership and delivery of Organ Donation partnerships within the Donor Experience directorate, with a primary focus on securing, implementing and optimising digital partnership opportunities that drive registrations to the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR) at scale. The role is accountable for ensuring that partnerships, particularly those embedded within national digital and government services, deliver measurable increases in registrations and contribute to improving consent rates to meet patients’ needs, now and in the future. As a senior member of the Partnerships management team, the post holder will lead the delivery of the Organ Donation Partnerships component of the wider partnerships strategy.
The post holder will lead the development and delivery of plans for Organ Donation partnerships, with a strong emphasis on embedding organ donation prompts into high-volume digital journeys and public services. This includes ensuring alignment to NHSBT’s Marketing, Communications and Engagement Strategy, and developing robust short, medium and long-term plans to maximise the impact of digital integrations, increase registration rates and support improved patient outcomes. The post holder will be accountable for ensuring partners deliver against agreed objectives and for optimising the performance of digital prompts within these services, working in collaboration with marketing, digital and campaign teams.
Working closely with the NHSBT Organ Donor Register Team, the post holder will be accountable for delivering a significant proportion of NHSBT ODR registrations through Organ Donation partnership channels, with a particular focus on high-impact digital platforms such as NHS App, DVLA, government digital services and emerging cross-government solutions, ensuring these partnerships maximise reach, conversion and long-term value.
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About You
Experience and Knowledge
- Significant experience of partnership development, stakeholder management or project/programme management within a public, NHS, commercial or digital environment
- Demonstrable experience of designing and delivering partnership activity or programmes that contribute to organisational objectives, including measurable outcomes and performance improvement.
- Experience of working within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, managing relationships across organisational and sector boundaries
- Demonstrable experience of working with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and securing agreement to deliver strategic objectives
- Experience of delivering programmes involving digital integration, service delivery, or platform-based engagement (e.g. working with digital services, systems or high-volume customer journeys). Experience of analysing performance data and producing reports to inform senior stakeholders and support decision-making
- Experience of managing budgets within a defined area and ensuring effective use of resources
- Demonstrable experience of implementing service improvements, innovation or change programmes
- Experience of working collaboratively across functions to deliver shared objectives
- Experience of managing or supporting the development of staff or teams.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of computer packages e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint etc
Qualifications And Training
- Significant demonstratable experience securing and delivering high level partnerships within a management role (equivalent to a master’s level qualification such as public sector management or marketing in a related specialism). Masters’ qualification or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrate commitment to own and direct reports Continued Professional Development (CPD).
- Willingness to work irregular hours and to travel to meetings, including overnight stays when required (with appropriate prior notice). Frequent national travel required.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work – and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
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You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
What We Offer
- Hybrid working arrangements – because NHSBT works nationally, we’re able to offer hybrid working options that give you more flexibility to balance work with life.
- Flexible working options – we promote flexible working where the role allows. We’re happy to discuss what flexibility might look like for you.
- Generous annual leave - 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- Inclusive pension scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-about-nhs-pensions
- Supportive learning culture - we’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
- Health and wellbeing support – we offer confidential services including occupational health, employee assistance programme, and wellbeing resources. Our support is available to all colleagues and we endeavour to provide tailored workplace adjustments where possible.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.
You can find more information about accessibility, our culture, and how we support applicants on the NHSBT Careers website:
- Read about our application process
- Learn more about our culture at NHSBT
To learn more, please see the job description and person specification. These can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
Next steps
This vacancy will close at 23:59pm on 16th September 2026.
The assessment process for this role may likely include a presentation assessment stage and an interview.
Interviews are anticipated to be held on 29th September 2026 at the NHSBT Birmingham New street site – subject to confirmation.
For informal enquiries please contact –
Name: Daniel Madzikanda
Job Title: Lead Recruiter
Contact Details: Email – daniel.madzikanda@nhsbt.nhs.uk
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