Head of Regional Growth

Salary: £50k - £60k Car Allowance

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic wellbeing. Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life. In the past five years, we’ve supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We’re part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

Your Role

The Head of Regional Growth will be expected to have exceptional regional connections, possessing an in-depth understanding or experience of working within specific areas of Fedcap's delivery footprint: South Central, South West, North West, Tees Valley, West Midlands, Wales and Scotland. You will demonstrate a nuanced understanding of employability, health, justice and education markets alongside expertise in building and maintaining executive level strategic relationships with pertinent and influential stakeholders including within Local Authorities, Integrated Care Boards and VCSE partners. 

You will play a key role in influencing regional and national growth strategies, identifying, pursuing and securing new opportunities, help win bids, and ensure that Fedcap’s influence is felt not just through services delivered but through a genuine presence and engagement that drives sustainable social and economic impact. 

Your Responsibilities 

• Strategic Growth: Drive complex, high-value growth opportunities across regions, executing regional strategies aligned with national priorities. 
• Stakeholder Influencing: Engage, influence and advocate for high-profile stakeholders across regions and sectors to create opportunity and innovation aligned to practice areas (Health, Employability, Education, Economic Development). 
• Business Development: Source and utilise data and intelligence to unlock new markets for Fedcap’s practice areas and or initiate complex, cross-region partnerships, inclusive of Corporate relationships.
• Generate, own and deliver a pipeline of high revenue opportunities; collaborating with Head of Bids, Commercial team colleagues and wider Fedcap Subject Matter Experts to execute winning tenders
• Leadership: Support and mentor Strategic Partnerships Managers by sharing best practices, advising on approaches to influencing stakeholders, and tackling complex challenges.

Your Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in partnership development, relationship management, or business development in a comparable sector
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify creative solutions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Knowledge of local and national agendas in relation some or all of the following: employment, health, welfare, education, justice, veterans, and economic development.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to travel extensively across national geographies 
• Experience of writing and or pitching proposals to new audiences virtually and in person
• Experience of driving winning central/regional governmental tender responses

Your Benefits

As well as receiving dedicated health and wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme for you and your family, we’ll provide you with very clear stages of accredited development and learning. Not only that, we offer a wide range of benefits including: 

• Minimum 33 days’ holiday entitlement and a pension contribution up to 5% 
• £5k Car Allowance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Monthly benefits scheme worth up to an additional £500 
• Free life assurance cover, totalling four times your annual salary 
• And much more 

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

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Salary : $50,000 - $60,000