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Join us at a pivotal moment for the education sector.
ISBL is launching a major new initiative – the Centre for Education Operational Excellence – designed to transform how schools and trusts operate. We are seeking a proactive and strategic Business Development Lead to help shape, drive, and deliver this ambitious programme from inception.
About ISBL
ISBL has a 30‑year track record of supporting and developing a unique cadre of education professionals: school business leaders. Our work is underpinned by nationally endorsed professional standards and our OpEx for Education™ framework, placing us at the heart of sector improvement and operational excellence.
We serve a community of approximately 24,000 schools within a sector worth more than £80 billion, giving us significant reach, influence, and opportunity. Our core services span institute membership, professional development, research, events, sector innovation, and the sharing of best practice – creating a rich platform for partnership growth and impact.
Introducing the Centre for Education Operational Excellence
The Centre represents the next evolution of our work, extending ISBL’s focus from individual professional development to whole‑organisation operational excellence across schools and trusts.
It brings together three interconnected hubs:
Working alongside ISBL, these hubs form a powerful ecosystem that connects practice, research, and international learning – strengthening organisational performance and, ultimately, educational outcomes.
About the Role
As Business Development Lead, you will play a central role in shaping the Centre’s commercial strategy, building new partnerships, and driving sustainable growth. This is a rare opportunity to influence a nationally significant initiative.
Full role details are available in the attached job description.
Please submit:
• Your CV
• A covering letter (max two pages) addressed to Stephen Morales, CEO, ISBL, outlining your motivation, suitability, and addressing:
1. What do you understand to be the priorities for this new initiative?
2. Why are you the right person to deliver this?
You will be informed whether you have been shortlisted by 12:00 noon on Friday 24 April 2026.
First-round interviews are expected to take place via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 29 April 2026.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Hybrid working (primarily remote, with occasional travel for meetings)
Join a large, complex organisation with a highly commercial and fast-paced retail environment, where a key revenue-generating division plays a central role in overall performance. This is a senior, strategic finance business partnering role, offering the opportunity to influence decision-making at the highest level while supporting growth, transformation, and long-term sustainability.
What you’ll do
• Act as a senior finance business partner to divisional leadership, providing insight to drive strategic decision-making
• Lead financial modelling, investment appraisal, and business case development for key retail projects and initiatives
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning, including contribution-focused performance analysis
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor across the retail division
• Oversee financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities while supporting cost optimisation and growth
• Contribute to transformation projects, including systems improvements and new approaches to income generation
What you’ll need
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong commercial finance experience within a large, complex retail environment
• Proven ability to operate as a senior finance business partner, influencing senior stakeholders
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and investment appraisal experience
• Experience managing or supporting others within a finance function
• A flexible, proactive approach with strong communication skills and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment
Benefits and working pattern
• Primarily remote working with flexibility and occasional in-person meetings
• Senior, strategic role with high visibility across leadership teams
• Opportunity to work within a complex, multi-site retail environment
• Involvement in transformation and large-scale project work
• Competitive salary with potential flexibility for the right candidate
• Standard benefits package including pension and life assurance
If you’re looking for a senior finance business partnering role where you can influence strategy, work on high-impact projects, and operate in a commercially driven retail environment, apply now to be considered.
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We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who will be a first point of contact with our membership network.
You will proactively increase member engagement whilst nurturing existing relationships and demonstrating commitment to promoting the value of helplines.
This role is supporting the Partnership and Engagement manager to deliver a sustainable membership and partnership model that keeps pace in a constantly moving and diverse climate.
You will be central in supporting HLP’s sustainability and will help to progress continued growth and attract new and diverse collaborations.
You will ideally have experience of working within a fast-paced and proactive team. You will enjoy engaging with a wide range of diverse stakeholders.
The role is predominantly home-based with regular travel to meetings and events.
We offer attractive staff benefits including 25 days’ annual leave rising with length of service, a company pension scheme, free life assurance and an employee assistance programme. HLP is committed to equality of opportunity.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a warm, organised and proactive Membership and Individual Giving Manager to help us deepen relationships with our members and supporters. This role is central to building a sustainable income base that allows EDS UK to continue providing vital support, information and advocacy for people living with EDS and HSD.
As part of a small team, you’ll enjoy a varied role that blends hands-on delivery with strategic thinking. You’ll lead our membership scheme, grow regular giving, and ensure every supporter feels valued, understood and connected to our mission. You’ll bring empathy, clarity and creativity to supporter communications, recognising the diverse needs of our community.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to make a tangible difference every day and help shape the future of EDS UK’s supporter experience.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Self-Employed Chartered Surveyors Sought
Based in the Midlands and North of England
Flexible, Project-Based Consultancy Making a Difference
Are you an experienced Chartered Surveyor, seeking meaningful work on a flexible basis? Do you want to use your skills to help amazing organisations doing good in the world?
The Ethical Property Foundation is the UK’s only dedicated property advice charity serving the voluntary sector. (Registered Charity Number 1101812) Each year, we provide over 900 organisations with expert, independent property advice and education. We are now looking for one or more self-employed Chartered Surveyors - general practice surveyors and building surveyors to join our team and help deliver affordable consultancy services to the voluntary sector.
About the Role
This is a self-employed, project-based opportunity. Assignments typically require 4-5 days of work (not full-time) and include:
· Lease renewals and rent review advice
· Development of client property strategies
· Options appraisals
· Property acquisition advice
· Property disposal advice
You may also have opportunities to design and deliver property-related webinar training.
Our Associate Property Advisers work flexibly from home, with occasional client site visits across England, Wales, and Scotland.
What we’re looking for
We’re seeking Chartered Surveyors (or equivalent) with:
You’ll need excellent communication skills to engage and empower our clients—many of whom support vulnerable people in challenging circumstances—and the ability to investigate, analyse, and propose practical property solutions.
Why join us?
Our clients support a diverse range of causes and manage every type of property imaginable. In the past year, we’ve advised on office buildings, church premises, oast houses, former schools, libraries, theatres, fields, industrial units, and more.
You’ll be part of a team of extraordinary senior property professionals who share a passion for making a positive impact.
Key details
Start date
By mutual agreement.
Interested in using your property expertise to make a difference?
Mission To deliver high quality education and support, enabling voluntary organisations in England and Wales to manage their premises sustainably.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Please Note: You will not be eligible to apply unless you hold the L2 Award in Instructing Cycle Training and have worked for 5 years in cycle training. If you do not hold this qualification your application will automatically rejected.
We expect to hold interviews on either 10th or 13th April but we may do rolling interviews.
Equipping more than five million children with the skills and confidence to cycle on today’s roads
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Key information
Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 depending on experience (plus benefits)
Contract: Full time, 12-month fixed term contract, with potential for extension (part-time considered for the right candidate).
Location: UK based (remote); occasional UK travel for team meetings and events
Reports to: CEO
Closing date: Tuesday 31 March 5pm
Right to work in the UK required
About FutureDotNow
FutureDotNow is a charity uniting business to close the UK workforce’s essential digital skills gap. We are the leading authority on workforce essential digital skills, with hundreds of organisations signed up to the Workforce Digital Skills Charter and direct reach to more than 2 million people. Yet over 22 million working-age adults still lack at least some digital basics. Closing that gap requires coordinated, high-quality delivery at scale.
FutureDotNow is bringing focus to the digital upskilling needs of working age adults, raising awareness and bringing specificity to the action required whatever sector or role people might work in. We work with business and government to surface and solve systemic issues and provide scalable solutions every organisation can use.
This new senior role sits at the intersection of marketing, communications and commercial development, owning the propositions, pipelines and channels through which we engage and support businesses. You’ll work closely with our CEO and COO and play a significant role shaping and delivering the organisation’s business model and financial sustainability.
Why this role matters
This is an exciting time for FutureDotNow as we enter a new phase of growth and delivery. We’re a small but mighty organisation with a reputation for making a difference. Our 5-year strategy is called Routes to 20 million for good reason. That’s the number of people of working age in the UK that don’t currently have all the essential digital skills and we are working to reach them at scale through their employers and other routes.
This new role will own and deliver FutureDotNow’s growth programme, increasing membership numbers, expanding Charter signatories and building a stronger, more diverse funding base. Ultimately, it’s all about action designed to increase the number of business helping people build their essential digital skills.
You’ll design and deliver strategies to raise awareness of what we call ‘the hidden middle’ among businesses and organisations in the UK. You’ll help businesses see the relevance, inspire them to want to help people of working age build the digital essentials, sell the benefits of being part of the FutureDotNow coalition and provide them with solutions that make doing that as easy as possible.
Key responsibilities
This role’s primary focus is developing our member value proposition and driving growth in both membership and Workforce Digital Skills Charter signatories.
Charter & Membership Growth. You will design and execute strategies to significantly grow the number of companies who are signatories to the Workforce Digital Skills Charter and / or FutureDotNow members, alongside strategies that retain and engage the existing community.
Membership management. You’ll own and manage the membership pipeline end-to-end, from inbound interest through to conversion, onboarding and retention. You will drive self-service into our processes so it’s easy for organisations to see the value and sign up as members and charter signatories, minimising the need for calls and meetings. For some organisations that extra bit of hand holding to get them over the line will be necessary and, in these circumstances, you’ll act as the front face of FutureDotNow.
Member Value Proposition. You will shape and refine our value proposition to members, bringing the features and benefits to life in new and compelling ways that talk to the needs of business in their language. Effectively, you’ll be responsible for ‘productising’ our bank of reports and other resources into tools and solutions and identifying value that may have been overlooked. As part of this, you’ll maintain and develop the FutureDotNow’s training directory so it’s easy for employers to find high-quality training content that already exists.
Organisational Maturity Framework Mapping. You’ll lead our work to position the Organisational Maturity Framework as a new way for businesses to understand the journey they may be on and position against peers (ideally creating FOMO along the way). You’ll own the first mapping of existing FutureDotNow tools and solutions to the Organisational Maturity Framework, prioritising quick wins that unlock member action, and developing this into a BAU process.
Members Area. You will lead the strategy and delivery of our Members’ Area on the FutureDotNow website, defining the information architecture and content governance. You’ll use WordPress to add new content and keep existing content up-to-date and relevant. You’ll work closely with our Communications and Campaigns Manager to improve both the UX and value offer of the Member’s Area on our website, working with a third-party web development agency when required.
Digital Strategies & Campaigns. You will be responsible for setting digital strategies to engage existing members and grow the pipeline of new members and Charter signatories. You’ll create and deliver digital content and campaigns (website, social, email etc.) that drive membership engagement and growth, working with our Communications and Campaigns Manager.
Partner Engagement & Storytelling. You will establish efficient ways to engage with partner businesses and key stakeholders. You will work closely with our Communications and Campaigns Manager to create and deliver content that showcases what works and raises the profile of members, including case studies and other compelling content.
Data, Insight & CRM. You’ll own our CRM (HubSpot). You’ll use our CRM data, website analytics and member feedback to manage and enhance our value proposition, track engagement, segment the audience, and drive continuous improvement. This will include setting KPIs and monitoring campaign performance and reporting.
Empowering others. We have a significant community of influential organisations and individuals, and you’ll be responsible for developing and delivering content that enables us to work through them, making it easy for them to be advocates and encourage their peers to be part of the FutureDotNow coalition.
Skills, experience & attributes
We don’t have big budgets to play with, but we do have creative licence, huge energy for our mission and a powerful community of leading businesses on which to draw. So, we’re looking for an experienced growth-minded marketer, a self-starter with bundles of energy, who thinks strategically and can make things happen.
In return, we’ll offer you a brilliant platform to make a huge impact on a mission of national importance, with your work directly shaping national progress on digital skills.
Essential
Strong marketing and sales skills, gained in an environment where success was measured by growth, uptake or revenue, not just outputs, (ideally in a coalition, charity, or industry body).
Proven ability building acquisition and retention programmes. You’ll love getting to grips with all the content we have available, translating it into user journeys for our members, slicing and dicing it in new ways that speak to business challenges, and using it to create compelling messaging and campaigns.
Strong stakeholder management skills including experience owning commercial conversations, influencing decisionmakers and converting interest into commitment.
Strong CRM skills - ideally Hubspot as that’s the platform we use - and you’ll be comfortable using web and other analytics to drive improvement.
Confident using a content management system (CMS), ideally WordPress to add and maintain website content.
Strong end-to-end project delivery skills, including planning and reporting. You’ll be very organised and methodical, able to balance competing priorities and multiple streams of activity.
You’ll be a clear communicator, adept at turning complex ideas into clear, motivating messages in line with brand voice.
Experience working with senior leaders from a variety of industries and sectors.
And of course you’ll have strong digital capabilities!
Desirable
Experience of HubSpot and WordPress.
Experience curating or product managing a content directory or learning catalogue.
Knowledge of UK digital skills policy and employer led upskilling.
Mindset & values
A self-starter; someone that drives for impact and results at pace.
Enjoy working in a small, fast-paced organisation, with evolving priorities. Ambiguity won’t phase you. And because we don’t have big budgets (unless you really knock it out of the park and grow our member numbers even faster than we hope!) you’ll like getting stuck in and making a little go a very long way.
Collaborative and purpose driven, relentlessly focused on practical action that drives FutureDotNow’s mission forward and helps employers make progress now.
Equality, diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the UK workforce and to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. If you’re excited by this role but don’t meet 100% of the criteria, we’d still love to hear from you.
Application Process
Our application process is designed to be straightforward and proportionate, while giving candidates a clear opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Stage 1: Submit a CV and short cover note outlining your interest in the role and relevant experience.
Stage 2: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a short initial interview.
Stage 3: Candidates progressing from the first interview will be asked to complete a short practical task, reflecting the type of work involved in the role.
Stage 4: A final shortlist will be invited to a final interview.
We aim to keep the process clear, fair and respectful of candidates’ time.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Events and Community Coordinator - Remote (UK based) – 0.8FTE
The Engineers and Scientists in Business Fellowship (ESBF) is a UK charity with a clear mission: to champion the impact of business education for engineers and scientists.
Through our flagship Sainsbury Management Fellows programme, we award £50,000 MBA scholarships to outstanding individuals, supporting them to study at leading global business schools. Our Fellows go on to lead organisations, build companies, and drive innovation across sectors.
We also support entrepreneurship across more than 50 UK universities by sponsoring enterprise competitions for engineering and science students, helping them develop entrepreneurial skills early and turn ideas into ventures with real-world potential.
Founded by Lord David Sainsbury and delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Physical Laboratory, our work sits at the intersection of science, business, and leadership.
The Role
This is a role for someone who enjoys making things happen and bringing people together.
As our Events and Community Coordinator, you will deliver a high-quality events programme while building strong, lasting relationships across a network of 400+ Fellows. You will play a central role in shaping how our community connects, contributes, and grows.
You will also lead on our CRM system, helping us use data more effectively to strengthen engagement and support alumni philanthropy.
Working in a small, collaborative team, you will have real scope to shape the role, particularly as we build towards our 40th anniversary in 2027.
Key Responsibilities
About You
You are organised, proactive, and people-focused, with a natural ability to build relationships and keep multiple priorities moving.
You will bring experience in events delivery and community or stakeholder engagement, along with strong communication skills and attention to detail. Experience managing CRM systems is important and previous experience in higher education, charity, fellowship or scholarship management would be a bonus.
Why Join Us?
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.