Reporting to the Head of Change, the Programme Manager will manage the Foundation’s strategic change portfolio of work. You will establish a trusted, secure, well‑governed programme of change. The role will be responsible for delivering the project assurance board, ensuring that all programmes of work deliver the organisational-wide change the charity requires.
This role is cross-organisational, with involvement with the Chief People Officer on the operating model, the Chief Finance Officer, and the Director of Transformation on planning and delivery.
The role will assist in delivering:
- A transformational, organisation-wide approach to change grounded in best practice.
- High-quality, consistent programme delivery through a strengthened PMO capability.
- Improved organisational readiness and staff confidence during periods of change.
- Clear, measurable outcomes across the Foundation’s strategic transformation priorities.
- A culture that embraces innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Data Leadership:
- Establish and maintain programme governance frameworks, controls, and reporting standards.
- Ensure the programme delivers measurable business value and ROI.
- Provide executive-level reporting to sponsors and other appropriate governance groups.
Portfolio & Delivery Oversight:
- Oversee multiple interdependent projects, managing the end‑to‑end delivery, from design through to implementation and evaluation.
- Manage the programme with clear plans, milestones, budgets, and risk management so that the Foundation is well informed about the programme’s performance.
- Drive delivery to time, cost, scope, and quality targets.
- Ensure benefits realisation planning and post-implementation reviews are held, and findings shared where appropriate.
Risk & Issue Management:
- Develop a programme-level risk management framework.
- Proactively identify cross-project risks and systemic issues, using data, evidence and learning to improve programme effectiveness
- Develop organisational-wide mitigation and contingency strategies.
- Ensure regulatory, compliance, and governance standards are met within Projects
Change & Transformation Leadership:
- Lead on large-scale organisational change initiatives.
- Embed change management and organisational adoption.
- Develop communication plans to support transformation.
- Embed new ways of working, processes, or systems.
Financial & Commercial Management:
- Support delivery leads with the development of business cases.
- Ensure financial performance and cost control are managed, an appropriate use of charitable funds and value for money
- Develop in Project vendor and third-party relationships and serve as an escalation point for delivery leads.
- Assist on procurement strategy where required.
Team & Capability Leadership:
- Lead and mentor more junior project managers and delivery leads so that project teams’ performance are consistent across the programme.
- Develop performance standards and accountability structures.
- Foster a culture of delivery excellence and continuous improvement.
Quality & Continuous Improvement:
- Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, programme design and delivery
- Implement programme assurance and quality control measures.
- Promote best practices in project and programme management.
- Conduct lessons-learned reviews and drive process improvement.
Role responsibilities are not exhaustive, and you would be reasonably expected to take on wider tasks that are commensurate with the level of your role.
Skills, abilities, and attributes:
- Self-starter who is adaptable, able to operate strategically and hands‑on in equal measure.
- Willing to learn and develop new skills, and help to develop the knowledge and skills of peers
- Committed to the principle of continuous improvement, with careful attention to detail and due process
- Committed to delivering consistent and high-quality customer service to both internal and external stakeholders
- Good interpersonal skills and able to influence and effectively liaise with both internal and external communities
- Confident in communicating well, both in writing and verbally, and exhibits listening and influencing skills, working with integrity, and exhibits the Foundation’s core values
- Skilled in working with agile methodologies
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
- Proven experience in advanced programme and portfolio management expertise, delivering large, complex, multi-stream programmes.
- Able to demonstrate good strategic thinking and commercial acumen, showing strong problem-solving and analytical capability.
- Good financial literacy (budget management, cost modelling, ROI analysis).
- Expertise in building business cases, development, and benefits realisation planning.
- Expertise in leading cultural organisational changes, bringing planning to life across an organisation.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for senior and non‑technical audiences.
- Track record of influencing at senior/executive levels
Desirable Qualifications:
- MSP, PgMP, PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent.
- Experience in fundraising and fundraising organisations (desirable)
Benefits:
- Contributory pension
- Annual personal development budget
- 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
Thank you!
Frimley Health Charity is ready for its next chapter. Join us to build visibility, unlock opportunity and create lasting impact across one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts.
Location: Frimley, Surrey (with travel across sites, including community sites), minimum 3 days on site
Applications close: 9 a.m. Wednesday 15th July 2026
Who we are
Frimley Health Charity is part of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, working in collaboration to enhance care, improve patient and staff experiences and support innovation across our hospitals and local communities.
While core services are funded through the NHS, the charity enables us to go further, funding projects, equipment, wellbeing initiatives and improvements that make a tangible difference to patients, families and staff.
We are now entering an exciting new chapter, with significant untapped potential. With a refreshed strategy and clear ambition for the future, we are now looking for a leader who can help us realise it. This is a rare opportunity to shape what comes next, building visibility, engagement and sustainable growth while making a lasting difference to patients, staff and communities.
About the role
As Director of Charity, you will lead the next phase of the charity's development. Working closely with the Trust's senior leadership teams, Board members and staff, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across fundraising, governance, charitable expenditure, partnerships and supporter engagement.
This is not simply a fundraising role. Success will depend on your ability to build relationships, raise the charity's profile, strengthen ways of working and create momentum across the organisation.
Leading a small and high-performing team, you will balance strategic leadership with hands-on delivery. You will be comfortable rolling up your sleeves to develop new processes, drive projects forward and support day-to-day operations, ensuring the charity is well run, highly visible and positioned for sustainable growth.
You will help shape future opportunities, develop new partnerships and ensure charitable funds are invested where they can make the greatest impact. This is a role for someone who enjoys building, influencing and making things happen.
What we are looking for
We are looking for an experienced and values-led leader who combines strategic thinking with practical delivery. You will bring experience of leading people, developing income, partnerships or services, and working confidently with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be comfortable operating in a complex environment and able to balance long-term ambition with day-to-day delivery.
You will be an excellent relationship builder, capable of engaging clinicians, staff, volunteers, donors, trustees and community partners. Commercial awareness, sound judgement and the ability to identify opportunities for growth will be important.
Most importantly, you will combine confidence with humility. You will be collaborative, emotionally intelligent and able to bring people with you while creating positive change.
Experience within healthcare or NHS charities would be beneficial, but we are equally interested in hearing from candidates who can demonstrate the leadership, relationship-building and organisational development skills needed to succeed in this unique role.
Please click on the link to be redirected to the Peridot Partners website, where you will find further information and details of how to apply.
Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Wednesday 15th July 2026.
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The work of Frimley Health Charity helps to improve lives across all our hospitals for patients, staff, and visitors.
Thank you!
Charity People is delighted to be partnering once again with Maudsley Charity to recruit an External Affairs and Influencing Manager.
A hugely exciting new role within the Communications team at the charity, the postholder will work across media, external affairs and influencing to engage with key stakeholders, boost the charity's profile, and promote learning and adoption of the solutions the organisation funds. You will be responsible for sharing evidence and learning in order to influence the people who fund, adopt and commission mental health care and services, and will work closely with the CEO to increase engagement with policy work which the Maudsley Charity undertakes through it's work in coalitions.
External Affairs and Influencing Manager
Contract: Full time, permanent role
Salary: £48,000 per annum
Location: Hybrid role between home and London office, with two days per week in the Denmark Hill office
Closing date for applications: 9am on Tuesday 28th July
First round interviews will be held remotely on: Thursday 13th August
Second round interviews will be held in person on: Thursday 20th and Friday 21st August
About Maudsley Charity
Maudsley Charity funds and supports clinical, academic, and community partners to ensure that everyone experiencing mental illness can access the right care, while using insights from their work to drive wider improvements across the UK.
Recognising the profound impact of mental illness and the inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes - particularly those linked to social deprivation and racism - the organisation focusses on addressing gaps in care.
With an approach that combines evidence, lived experience, and a commitment to equity, the organisation backs impactful, evidence-based solutions, ensuring services are shaped by real-world insight, and prioritising support for those most underserved to drive improvements that benefit all.
About the role
This is a core role within the organisation's influencing strategy, and your primary responsibilities will include:
External Affairs & Influencing:
- Develop and deliver influencing plans to promote adoption of effective mental health care initiatives being funded by the charity
- Develop productive relationships with key stakeholders (journalists, NHS trust leaders, ICBs, ICSs, VCSE orgs) to gather intelligence and shape strategy to inform the charity's positioning
- Lead the charity's thought leadership development providing strategic advice to senior leadership on political, NHS and mental health policy developments
- Strengthen the charity's role in mental health policy and advocacy coalitions, by contributing to collaborative advocacy, media and communications outputs
- Lead the charity's response to government mental health care consultations and calls for evidence
- Monitor funder sector trends and conversations, and actively seek out opportunities for the charity to strategically engage and influence by sharing learning from its grant making practice
Media management
- Develop and implement integrated external affairs campaigns that support the charity's influencing work
- Create persuasive materials, including press releases, op-eds, spokespeople briefings, comment pieces, and digital content and pitch to relevant outlets
- Maintain and grow relationships with journalists, broadcasters and sector media to secure relevant high-quality coverage of the charity's activities, grant holders and their projects
- Act as first point of contact for media enquiries, managing proactive and reactive press activity
- This role is expected to grow and develop and the postholder will be fully supported from across the organisation as the position evolves, within an organisation that offers a friendly, values led culture.
We would love to hear from individuals with the following skills and experience:
- Demonstrable track record of developing and implementing successful influencing strategies in the mental health sector
- Experience of stakeholder management within mental health care, including NHS Trust leaders, Integrated Care Boards, commissioners and senior clinicians, and with academics and researchers
- Strong experience in media relations, including briefing senior spokespeople, drafting press releases, media handling, and securing media coverage with a good understanding of the needs and expectations of different outlets and publications
- Keen understanding of the NHS, mental health policy landscape, and the related environment, key stakeholders and sector drivers
- Understanding of the key components and considerations of successful external affairs media and influencing
- Understanding of the sensitivities around mental illness, including working in an empathetic manner with people with lived experience
- Understanding of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles and a commitment to apply them in your work and as an organisation
- Influencing skills including confidence and credibility in working with stakeholders,
- Communication skills and the ability to produce clear and effective communications and the ability to confidently and accurately represent the organisation externally
- Written and editorial skills including the ability to craft narratives for different external audiences and communicate the charity's work in press releases, articles, policy briefs
How to apply
Maudsley Charity is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and strongly encourages applications from underrepresented backgrounds. We welcome applications from non-graduates.
Applications are managed via Charity People and involve a structured, anonymised process focusing on your experience and potential. Please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance.
Please see full job pack and job description attached.
There is also an optional 'Ask Us Anything' Webinar via Zoom on Thursday 16th July at 12.30pm where the Maudsley staff will answer questions. Please get in touch with Reception at Charity People if you'd like to register for this and they will send you the link. Please submit questions in advance to reception at Charity People before 9am on Wednesday 15th July 2026 in order that we can ensure all of your queries are answered.
Equal Opportunities monitoring
We ask that applicants complete our DEI monitoring form when submitting their CV for this role.
Maudsley Charity is an equal opportunities employer, and makes no discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex. Specifically, we will also oppose unfair discrimination of those with mental health issues.
Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.
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