Head of Business Development

Location

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom

Job description

CamSight is a respected charity that supports local people of all ages living with low vision and blindness to live the lives they choose. The charity offers an holistic service ensuring any person with a vision impairment gets the support they need, when they need it.

We are looking to recruit a Head of Business Development to devise, deliver and lead a fundraising strategy to actively diversify and increase the charity’s income working across all areas of fundraising. By joining our committed and passionate team, you will play an instrumental role in enabling the charity to extend its reach and support people of all ages living with sight loss across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The Head of Business Development is a key role in CamSight’s Senior Leadership Team and is responsible for driving the organisation’s plans for sustainability, diversifying existing funding streams and developing new business opportunities. The Head of Business Development will build a new fundraising and marketing team, and lead on service strategy development and implementation. 

The successful candidate will be someone who passionately believes in and aligns with our values. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be jointly responsible for developing and directing our mission, in collaboration with the supervisory Board of Trustees and our service users. You will demonstrate excellent strategic and commercial acumen developed in the charity or commercial world. We are looking for an innovative thinker to lead sustainable growth and galvanise our stakeholders in support of our vision to provide a first-class service.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and believe the best organisations are those that reflect the stakeholders and communities they serve and therefore applications from all backgrounds are welcomed.

Please include specific details of any relevant past experience of employment or advisory roles in, or relating to, the charity sector.

If you are keen on joining our forward looking, successful and thriving organisation and taking the next step in your career, then apply now.

Please send your CV and a covering letter (of no more than 2 sides of A4) providing details of how you match our Person Specification.

The timeline for the recruitment process is:-

Application deadline Monday 11 March, 9am. 

Interview date: Friday 15 March, 2024.

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Salary

£49.59k - £51.63k per annum