Business Manager- King's Maudsley Partnership

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About Us

Fundraising and Supporter Development (F&SD) provides a fundraising and alumni engagement function in support of King's College London. We are proud to work with colleagues across the university and its health partners to help them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare. Our work also includes a partnership with the Maudsley Charity in support of children's mental health initiatives between the university's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.

We are a committed team that brings together fundraisers working across different channels, alongside colleagues who promote King's College London's engagement with its worldwide alumni community. Our work is underpinned and enhanced by a range of dedicated professionals in supporting areas covering proposition development, supporter engagement, supporter operations and business operations.

We have an impressive, well-established track record of success in securing support that allows the university and partners to deliver on their missions. This includes our global, award-winning World Questions: King's Answers campaign, which set the standard in the sector and enabled us to raise substantial funds to help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. Ambitious and innovative, the team has won awards such as a CASE Platinum Award for Fundraising and a CASE Gold Award for Donor Relations and Stewardship. We are strongly values-driven with a focus on sustaining an excellent and supportive culture, which we see as key to creating a successful team that can support the university and its partners in making a real and positive difference to the world we live in.

Our Partners

King's College London

King's College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through its commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, King's College London is creating positive change in its communities, both in London and on the world stage.

The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King's College London's 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:

• Educating the next generation of change-makers
• Challenging ideas and driving change through research
• Giving back to society through meaningful service
• Working with our local communities in London
• Fostering global citizens with an international perspective

King's Maudsley Partnership

The King's Maudsley Partnership will have its home at the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in south London, opening in early 2025. The partnership brings together clinical and academic excellence in a unique collaboration between the UK's largest NHS provider of specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), the leading child and adolescent mental health research team in Europe - with Maudsley Charity as its charity partner. Our mission is to find new ways to predict, prevent and treat mental health disorders for CYP and then maximise translation of research and evidence into improved services locally nationally and globally. The partnership is local, national and international in scale and ambition, serving a local population which is among the most ethnically, socially and economically diverse in the world.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional Business Manager to support our newly established King's Maudsley Partnership (KMP) fundraising team to secure significant long-term philanthropic investment for children and adolescent mental health research and treatment.

The Business Manager will provide high-level support to ensure the success of the newly established KMP and this fundraising team that sits within the partnership. The postholder will support on facilitating fundraising between three complex organisations at the beginning of the journey for their joint programme of fundraising. They will help, and sometimes lead on, the setting up and navigation of internal systems and processes. They will be able to identify and solve problems, assist with decision-making and sign off processes, and develop strong internal relationships to support and provide fundraisers with the best environment to deliver high performance fundraising. In the early stages of a complex three-way partnership, they must demonstrate a 'can do' attitude, with patience and resilience and an understanding of the intricacies involved in multiple stakeholder management.

There will be a focus on managing and co-ordinating key programmes of work; helping to monitor and track performance; and generally solving problems and being a source of advice and counsel to colleagues. Excellent working relationships will be core to this role, both within Fundraising & Supporter Development (F&SD) at King's, and Maudsley Charity. This will be vital to ensuring that ways of working are optimised to support our fundraising efforts, recognising the range of components and contributions that are required to give us the platform for success.

This role requires someone who can marry attention to detail with an ability to see the bigger picture. Someone who can co-ordinate and manage projects and processes, as well as build great relationships to help move things along. And someone who will embrace a busy role that requires a degree of autonomy, in the context of a team that prides itself on its open, friendly and supportive culture.

This is a hybrid role. However, you will be expected to spend at least two days per week onsite at the university or Maudsley Campus/Pears Maudsley Centre when the Centre opens in early 2025.

The new Pears Maudsley Centre for Children & Young People (CYP) opens in 2025 and brings together the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Maudsley Charity. Our mission is to find new ways to predict, prevent and treat mental health disorders for CYP and then maximise translation of research and evidence into improved services locally nationally and globally.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for one year. F&SD has a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of 40% of time in the office. Typically, this equates to two days per week, but we're very happy for colleagues to be in more frequently if they so wish.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Experience of working/ability to work in a complex set up and environment, and an enjoyment of and ability to manage a busy and varied workload. This includes an ability to work with high level instructions and some ambiguity in certain situations
2. Strong project management skills and knowledge of project management tools, and an ability to write accurately and persuasively, adapting this for different audiences and objectives
3. Great people skills and ability to build excellent working relationships, which ensure that perspectives are understood, and approaches adopted to ensure positive outcomes
4. Great people skills and ability to build excellent working relationships, which ensure that perspectives are understood, and approaches adopted to ensure positive outcomes
5. Ability to engage with stakeholders in a complex range of roles and settings, and to be able to adjust communication styles accordingly
6. Ability to manage and co-ordinate complex pieces of work, often involving multiple people and moving parts. Ability to conduct process reviews and implement improvements based on findings
7. Ability to engagement with strategy and to be able to understand how to translate this into activities and implementation
8. Desire to play a role in the success of philanthropy at King's, SLaM, and Maudsley Charity, recognising the impact this can deliver in terms of education, research and service to benefits this brings

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of working in fundraising

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. In F&SD we want to build a diverse team, which represents the communities served by the organisations we support.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements, including part-time, compressed hours and/or job shares, as appropriate.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit ' pages.

This roles with have two interview stages, a standard skills-based interview followed (for up to two appointable candidates) by a Core Values interview.

First stage interviews are due to be held on w/c 3rd February 2025. Core Values interviews are due to be held on w/c 10th February 2025.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.