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About the Role
The Strategy & Planning Manager owns the design and delivery of strategic planning and performance management processes to enable effective planning, prioritization, and delivery within the Charities Directorate. This role collaborates with the leadership team to develop and align strategic priorities, translating them into actionable plans and utilizing metrics to drive discussions, accountability, and decision-making. The role also leads workshops, represents the directorate on strategic projects, and supports strategic innovation.
Responsibilities
- Develop, align, and socialize strategic priorities with the Charities Leadership Team.
- Translate high-level strategy into actionable plans that connect with day-to-day operations.
- Own the planning, coordination, and delivery of annual and quarterly business plans.
- Design tools, processes, and mechanisms to drive collaboration and iteration in planning.
- Facilitate strategic decision-making with the Charities Leadership Team.
- Represent the directorate on cross-charity and foundation strategic projects.
- Develop and deliver tools and processes for measuring progress against plans.
- Develop meaningful progress metrics with the Charities Leadership Team.
- Identify and monitor risks, issues, and interdependencies, escalating when required.
- Facilitate performance discussions using shared metrics to drive decision-making and accountability.
- Design and facilitate high-impact workshops, meetings, away days, and all-staff sessions.
- Facilitate cross-functional working groups to translate plans into implementation.
- Support strategically important projects to ensure milestones and outcomes are achieved.
- Lead internal communications on strategic priorities and business plans.
- Input and maintain databases and files relevant to the post requirements.
- Attend events in the evening and at weekends as required.
Requirements
- Experience in strategic planning or project management.
- Track record of designing and embedding tools, processes, and governance structures.
- Experienced in facilitating workshops and discussions that lead to decision making.
- Understanding of performance management approaches including OKRs, KPIs and financial forecasting.
- Knowledge of fundraising, ideally both high value and mass market, and ideally in an NHS or health context.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional attention to detail and high standard of delivery.
- Ability to work on numerous projects simultaneously.
- Strategic thinker capable of translating high-level strategy into actionable plans.
- Skilled facilitator who designs and leads workshops and discussions.
- Excellent stakeholder manager, able to build strong relationships, influence, and motivate.
- Confident managing complexity, risk, and interdependencies.
- Champions robust planning and performance management while remaining flexible.
- Uses data and insight to inform decisions, test hypotheses, and drive continuous improvement.
- Open to change and able to deliver despite uncertainty.
- Committed to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Committed to continuous learning.
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Performance Management
- Project Management
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Data Analysis
- Communication
Location
- London, Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- £56,000 / year
Benefits
- Contributory pension
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay
- Health and wellbeing programme with optional free yearly health check-ups
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities
- Agile working
- Flexible hours
- Supportive IT kit
- Shower facilities
- Bike lock area
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
About the Company
- The Charities Directorate operates within a larger organization, focusing on fundraising and strategic projects.