Business Development Manager

Salary GBP55,000 per annum

Location South East London

Contract type Permanent

Weekly hours Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00 (35 hours per week)

The vacancy

What we re looking for:

Do you have a housing, charitable or not for profit background?

Do you have a proven track record of stakeholder management with the ability to sustain high value relationships?

Are you a business development professional?

Are you experienced in developing bids and proposals that have well researched business cases?

Can you work collaboratively with partners to create key partnerships?

Do you have exceptional written, analytical, verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to write compelling cases for support?

Are you highly effective at influencing to ensure successful outcomes and work creatively and collaboratively to develop proposals?

Do you have knowledge of the community and voluntary sector and an understanding of the socio-economic challenges faced by our residents?

Do you have a high level of literacy and numeracy as well as being able to confidently work with MS Office packages?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Business Development Manager on a Permanent basis.

A bit about the role:

As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team focused on adding value to and evidencing the impact of our community work at Peabody Community Foundation (PCF).

You will play a lead role in the implementation and delivery of our community investment priorities through building and maintaining strong partnerships, leveraging income through a broad range of funders including statutory, trusts and foundations as well as supply chain and corporate partners.

Some of the key results for the role include:

You will collaborate across the Peabody Group as well as with external stakeholders to ensure that the Foundation s strategic aims and objectives are delivered with responsibility to meet fundraising targets in an externally challenging and competitive environment.

You will lead and facilitate funding bids and proposals, building a strong case for external investment in our community programmes and activities. Developing and maintaining relationships with strategic partners and funders, you will identify innovative ways to channel funding, skills, and resources into Peabody communities.

You will oversee PCF s own grant-making activities ensuring that adequate processes are in place so that funding is available for grass roots community organisations delivering activities that benefit our customers.

You will ensure that PCF maintains an impact measurement and reporting system that regularly reports on the value of PCF s work to internal and external stakeholders.

A minimum of 1 to 2 days working in the Waterloo office is required.

A bit about us:

160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.

The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here are just a few of the benefits of working at Peabody:

Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role)

Up to 30 days annual holiday plus bank holidays

Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates?

Two additional paid volunteering days each year?

Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal?

Are you ready to apply?

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position of Business Development Manager, please click on the? Apply Now ?button?and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.?