Head of Programmes and Partnerships - Collective Futures

Overview

Collective Futures is a new philanthropic foundation with a bold ambition: to improve lives by backing people and ideas that are too often overlooked. Established in 2024, we are building a fresh approach to philanthropy that focuses on areas with outsized potential to improve lives, but which are relatively under-resourced. We prioritise prevention over intervention, and we work in partnership with others to catalyse change. Our current focus is early childhood development in the UK, a period that shapes educational outcomes and lifelong wellbeing, and we also lead an emerging programme of social sector capacity building. In our first year we awarded unrestricted grants to grassroots charities, co-funded research, and sector-wide collaboration, and began laying the foundations for place-based systems change. We are expanding our lean team as momentum grows.We’re looking for a Head of Programmes and Partnerships who thrives on turning ideas into action. You’ll help design and deliver multi-year grant funding programmes, co-create solutions with local partners, and ensure our portfolio of charities and collaborators get the most from their relationship with us. You’ll also lead strategic projects, steward co-funders, and translate learning into insight that can shape our next steps.You’ll need to be equally comfortable with high-level strategy and hands-on delivery, able to move from a Board discussion to a site visit to a detailed budget review. You’ll be a natural problem-solver who can navigate ambiguity and bring clarity. Above all, you’ll share our values: thoughtful, collaborative, caring, humble, pragmatic and responsive.If you have a track record of delivering complex programmes and partnerships, and you’re motivated by the chance to shape a new foundation from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.For more information

Please download the Candidate Pack. If you have questions which are not answered by the pack, please email collectivefutures@cadencepartners.co.uk.Closing date

Closing date: midday, 26th September ..... full job details .....