Income Generation and Development Lead
Do you have experience of securing income across multiple streams?
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and lead a new phase of income generation and organisational sustainability within a growing and ambitious mental health charity.
Help shape the future of mental health support in Surrey
Position: Income Generation & Development Lead
Location: Surrey/Hybrid
Hours: Part-time, 3 days per week (0.6 FTE)
Salary: £55,000-£60,000 pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 5% Pension Employer Contribution, Paid Sick Leave, Blue Light Card Scheme, Staff Social Events, Staff Social & Wellbeing Committee, Celebration Day (in addition to annual leave entitlement)
Closing Date: 28 June 2026, interviews will be scheduled for the beginning of July 2026.
The Role
The charity is investing in this role because they believe the organisation can significantly strengthen and diversify its income, increase unrestricted funding, and build new strategic partnerships and opportunities that support long-term impact across Surrey.
You will establish and lead a high-performing income generation function, bringing strategy, structure and momentum to activity that is currently fragmented and underdeveloped.
This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on delivery.
You will work closely with senior leadership at both the charity and Catalyst Support on selected partnership initiatives and collaborative opportunities that strengthen mental health support across Surrey. There is a clear expectation that the role will contribute significantly to improving the organisation’s financial resilience and move towards generating net financial contribution over time.
This is a rare opportunity to:
- Build an income generation function from the ground up
- Shape organisational strategy and sustainability
- Develop high-value partnerships and collaborative opportunities
- Work across innovation, community mental health and system partnerships
- Help position the charity as a key partner in improving mental health support across Surrey.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and lead an income generation strategy
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of funding opportunities
- Secure income from trusts, statutory and partnership sources
- Strengthen the case for support and external positioning
- Develop strategic partnerships and collaborative opportunities
- Establish systems, structure and focus across income generation activity.
The role will also contribute to selected partnership initiatives and joint funding opportunities with Catalyst Support as part of strengthening collaboration across the county.
About You
We are looking for someone who can build pipeline, secure funding, develop partnerships and create the systems and relationships needed for sustainable growth.
You will also:
- Have a strong track record of securing income across multiple streams
- Have built and converted funding pipelines into secured income
- Understand the UK charity and/or commissioning landscape
- Be able to work strategically while remaining hands-on and delivery-focused
- Be comfortable operating autonomously in a growing and evolving environment
- Bring energy, credibility and relationship-building strength.
You will have experience of:
- Securing income across multiple streams (trusts & foundations, statutory funding, corporate or major donors)
- Record of building and converting income pipelines into secured funding
- Developing and delivering income generation strategies
- Working within the UK charity and/or commissioning environment
- Translating organisational priorities and relationships into income opportunities
- Leading or significantly contributing to successful funding bids.
This role is not suited to someone looking to learn income generation in post. We need someone who can bring experience, momentum and delivery from the outset.
When you click to apply you will be asked to upload your CV and covering letter (in which you’ll explain how you feel your experience is suitable for the role). Please ensure you upload your documents in order to be considered for this role.
About the Organisation
The charity is a mental health and emotional wellbeing charity, supporting Surrey residents since 1994 in Banstead, Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell and Mole Valley.
Offering a variety of face-to-face and online services, available to adults (aged 16+) living in Surrey who would like to restore and/or maintain their mental and emotional wellbeing (no diagnosis needed). The services are free of charge, with no waiting list and no time limit.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, and the successful completion of a probationary period.
You may also have experience in areas such as Income Generation and Development, Trusts Fundraiser, Foundations Fundraiser, Funding, Corporate Fundraiser, Major Donor Fundraiser, Fundraising, Fundraising Lead, Fundraising Manger, Income Generation Manager. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Lead a trusted community development charity and bring partners and businesses together to deliver long-term environmental, social and economic benefits across West Wales.
Applications close at 9 a.m. Tuesday 16th June.
Location: Pembrokeshire (office-based, with travel across West Wales)
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000
Who we are
PLANED is a long-established community development charity that now works across Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. For decades, we have supported communities to improve their quality of life by harnessing local potential, strengthening social infrastructure and helping people turn ideas into sustainable action.
Our work, regionally, brings together communities, public services, third sector partners and local businesses to deliver long-term environmental, social and economic benefit across West Wales.
A defining feature of PLANED is our asset-based approach. We own and manage a growing portfolio of buildings and assets, including our home site, the Old School in Pembrokeshire, which combines our office and conferencing space, with an additional range of tenanted spaces for local businesses.
We also lead the management of the Carmarthenshire Living Well Centre, a multi-use community facility hosting health, well-being, advice and support services. The Living Well Centre brings together a wide range of charities and statutory partners under one roof, creating a genuinely collaborative, free-to-access, local hub supporting 700 clients per month, which is increasingly seen as a model of best practice.
Most of PLANED’s work is delivered through multiple live projects funded by a mix of Welsh Government, NHS, National Lottery, National Grid, BT and other sources. We have a healthy financial position, but much of this funding is short to medium term, requiring continuous bid writing, relationship management and adaptation. The CEO role is therefore both externally facing and highly hands-on.
About the role
We are seeking a CEO to lead our next exciting chapter. This will include developing a new and updated organisational strategy, continuing to secure sustainable funding, overseeing project delivery and ensuring the organisation remains financially resilient while continuing to grow its impact and influence.
The organisation has a strong, inclusive and supportive culture that is bilingual. The team is community-rooted, collaborative and delivery-focused, with a clear ethos of shared responsibility and mutual support. We have a team of around 18 people, the majority of whom are project funded, supported by a small core team, including the CEO.
The role requires on-site presence; given our reach across West Wales, there is also regular travel required.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for someone who will be comfortable in a village hall as they are in a meeting with national and local politicians, senior civil servants, charity or business leaders. You will be confident working across rural and coastal communities, and able to build trust quickly and authentically.
Our CEO leads a significant part of our fundraising activities, and experience in securing income and developing sustainable funding models will be important.
We are open to leaders who might be seeking their first CEO role, and are open to considering what support we can put in place to help a new CEO thrive.
Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Tuesday 16th June.
For further information about the role and to register your interest, please visit the Peridot Partners page and contact our advising consultants:.