Head of Strategic Income & Growth

At YMCA Chiltern Group were looking for an exceptional Head of Strategic Income & Growth to lead our approach to generating sustainable income strengthen our financial resilience and help us create even greater impact across the communities we serve. If you are a commercially minded creative and proactive leader who can spot opportunities build compelling propositions and turn promising ideas into viable plans then wed love to hear from you.

About the opportunity

This is a senior leadership role at the heart of our growing and ambitious charity. Youll lead our Strategic Income & Growth function bringing together contracts and tenders trusts and grants corporate relationships fundraising and enterprise into one connected approach. Working closely with colleagues across YMCA Chiltern Group youll set priorities direct resources manage performance and develop a diverse income portfolio aligned with our organisational strategy values and expertise. This is an opportunity to build on our already strong foundations develop a high-performing team and convert opportunities into sustainable growth and impact. What youll be doing You will provide strategic leadership for our Strategic Income & Growth team creating a culture of ambition accountability innovation and continuous improvement. Youll lead the identification assessment and pursuit of contracts commissioning and tender opportunities working across finance operations impact and other specialist teams to coordinate competitive evidence-based submissions. Youll oversee a proactive trusts grants and foundations programme ensuring applications agreements and funder reports are compelling accurate compliant and supported by clear outcomes and evidence. Youll set the direction for corporate relationships focused events and individual giving while developing enterprise and commercial opportunities that generate unrestricted income and align with our mission. Youll also strengthen forecasting pipeline management budget oversight and performance reporting using data to guide decisions focus resources and build a financially sustainable future.

What we are looking for

Significant senior leadership experience in income generation fundraising business development commissioning or a related field. Proven success in growing income managing budgets and pipelines and leading multidisciplinary teams across distinct but connected income streams. Strong strategic thinking commercial awareness and financial acumen with the ability to assess opportunity return deliverability risk and social value. Excellent communication influencing negotiation and relationship-building skills with the confidence to engage executive leaders trustees commissioners funders and partners. An ambitious resilient and values-led approach with the judgement to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery while promoting ethical and compliant income generation.

Why this role

This is a rare opportunity to shape how one of Europes largest YMCA organisations generates sustainable income and invests in future impact. Youll lead a talented team influence organisational strategy and build partnerships and income streams that strengthen our reach resilience and ability to serve communities. Most importantly youll help turn opportunity into sustainable growth ensuring YMCA Chiltern Group can continue helping people belong contribute and thrive in body mind and spirit.

Sound like you Wed love to hear from you. For an informal chat about the role please contact our Associate Director of Income Generation and Impact Tom. M: E:

We offer flexible hybrid working with colleagues typically spending around two days each week in the office to collaborate connect and contribute to team life.

This is a Permanent role.

Hours per week: 37.5

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday

Important information:

We do not provide visa sponsorship; you must be eligible to work in the UK. You must reside in the UK for the duration of your employment and provide Right to Work evidence.

As some of our roles involve working with vulnerable members of society this position may require a Basic or Enhanced Criminal Disclosure which will be conducted once a conditional offer is made

Previous Applications: We welcome applications from all qualified candidates. However if you have applied for a similar role within the last 6 months and were not successful please consider whether your experience has developed further before reapplying

Accessibility & Adjustments: We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and will strive to be as accommodating as possible. Please inform us in advance of any arrangements you may need to fully participate in the process.

We are an inclusive organisation and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent skills and potential. We do not discriminate on the basis of Age Disability Gender Reassignment Marriage/Civil Partnership Pregnancy/Maternity Race Religion/Belief Sex and/or Sexual Orientation. We encourage applications from all backgrounds communities and industries and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills experiences and abilities.

One YMCA and its subsidiaries the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do more and better together so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts Beds and Bucks that reach over 135000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
• Family support through a network of childrens and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire Luton and Hertfordshire
• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.