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About the Role

As the Programme Manager, you will own and drive the planning, governance, and delivery of major cross-charity fundraising appeals, including a significant capital appeal that forms a key part of the Charities’ long-term fundraising ambitions. You will be accountable for the effective governance and delivery of these programmes across multiple teams, ensuring clear priorities, managed dependencies, addressed risks, and timely decision-making.

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, governance, and successful delivery of major fundraising appeals, ensuring clear milestones, ownership, risk management, and cross-team collaboration.
Design and embed tools and ways of working that enable effective decision-making and governance across appeal delivery.
Work with teams across the Charity and the Trust to translate programme objectives into clear plans, priorities, and actions that support successful delivery.
Identify, assess, and manage programme risks, issues, and interdependencies, intervening where necessary to maintain momentum and protect delivery.
Maintain strategic oversight of the major appeals funding pipeline, ensuring opportunities are effectively tracked, prioritised, and progressed across teams.
Use data, insight, and horizon scanning to identify emerging risks and opportunities, bringing forward recommendations that support long-term fundraising growth.
Act as the primary liaison between the Charities Directorate and the Trust, ensuring strategic alignment, effective decision-making, and management of critical programme dependencies.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the Charity and the Trust, providing constructive challenge, influencing decisions, and securing alignment around programme priorities and delivery.
Provide programme leadership through chairing appeal boards and senior governance forums, ensuring strategic decisions are made, owned, and acted upon.
Lead cross-functional working groups that co-ordinate delivery across teams, resolve challenges, and maintain progress against programme objectives.
Use judgement and insight to bring the most important strategic issues, risks, and opportunities to the right forum at the right time, enabling leaders to make informed decisions and stay ahead of emerging challenges.
Lead stakeholder engagement that builds understanding, confidence, and commitment to the major appeals programme, ensuring all stakeholders remain aligned on priorities, decisions, and progress.
Design and embed a project management toolkit that empowers teams to lead consistent and high-quality projects in their own business areas.
Build project and programme management capability across teams by coaching, influencing, and challenging colleagues to adopt effective approaches and ways of working.
Partner with the Strategy and Planning Manager to shape business planning tools, processes, and mechanisms that drive collaboration, enable iteration, and strengthen delivery across the directorate.
Work in a hot desk environment, at least two days a week in the Charity’s office, hospital and hospital offices.
Be responsible for the input and maintenance of databases and files relevant to the post requirements.
Occasionally attend events in the evening and at weekends (e.g., board meetings, launch events).
Take on wider tasks that are commensurate with the level of the role.

Requirements

Significant experience leading complex programmes or projects involving multiple stakeholders, workstreams, and dependencies.
Track record of successfully leading the delivery of high-profile programmes or initiatives in complex, fast-moving environments.
Experience designing and embedding governance, reporting, and ways of working that improve delivery, accountability, and decision-making.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, including those more senior, in a matrix or hierarchical environment.
Experience leading delivery across cross-functional teams and managing complex interdependencies without direct line management responsibility.

Skills

Strategic thinking
Translating organisational priorities into co-ordinated programme delivery
Balancing immediate delivery requirements with longer-term opportunities
Designing practical governance and ways of working
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Influencing, challenging, and building alignment with senior stakeholders
Proactive and decisive
Confidence and judgement to intervene when delivery is at risk
Leading governance forums
Facilitating discussions that translate strategy into clear decisions, actions, and accountability
Leading through complexity and ambiguity
Managing risk and interdependencies across multiple strategic projects and teams
Holding others to account without direct line management responsibility
Championing robust project management while remaining flexible and pragmatic
Using data, insight, and evidence to inform decisions, test hypotheses, and drive continuous improvement
Openness to change
Ability to deliver despite uncertainty
Collaborative and communicative
Ability to appeal to hearts as well as minds
Committed to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion
Committed to continuous learning
Knowledge of fundraising, ideally both high value and mass market, and ideally in an NHS or health context.

Location

London, Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced programme leader

Salary/Compensations

£60,000 / year

Benefits

Contributory Pension
Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
Shower facilities and bike lock area.
Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
Subsidies for glasses
Employee Assistance Programme