Head Office
Fundraising & Partnerships Manager
Fundraising and Partnerships Manager
Barbican, London | Hybrid Working with National Travel | Social Impact & Sustainability | Permanent | Full Time
Competitive salary available, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning fitness and wellbeing centres to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s health. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.
The Nuffield Health Social Impact and Sustainability Unit exists to multiply impact by delivering clinically evidenced outcomes, robust evaluation, and prescribed movement programmes at scale.
As Fundraising and Partnerships Manager, you will secure and steward patient demand and funding for Social Impact programmes through strategic partnerships that enable measurable health, social, and environmental impact. With a clear focus on movement as medicine, this role supports the mission to reach thousands of patients annually and position Nuffield Health as a leader in this space.
As our Fundraising and Partnerships Manager you will:
Build and deliver a multi-year fundraising and scale plan across grants, commissioners, corporate partnerships, and co-funded research, with cases for support grounded in Social Return on Investment (SROI).
Identify and pursue opportunities to scale movement as medicine programmes and enable digital innovation.
Develop income pipelines for restricted/unrestricted funding, including paid research revenue, commercialisation of IP, data, and research interventions.
Create and deliver a partner acquisition plan targeting NHS Trusts, ICBs, Cancer Alliances, universities, corporates, and charities; craft MoUs and agreements for co-delivery, workforce development, and patient demand.
Represent Nuffield Health externally at networking events and meetings with potential partners, commissioners, and contractors.
Shape B2B collaborations to expand programme reach and co-fund innovation (e.g., digital tools, workforce training).
Translate evaluation into compelling propositions highlighting social value per participant and measurable health improvements.
Develop sector-specific narratives for ICBs, corporates, and health bodies to reduce adoption barriers and embed programmes into policy and pathways.
Maintain compliance and assurance frameworks for partnership agreements, ensuring adherence to Charity Commission guidance, GDPR, CQC, research ethics, and safeguarding.
Collaborate internally with Research & Outcomes, Evidence & Analytics, and Operational Development to align funding narratives, capacity planning, and workforce training.
To succeed as a Fundraising and Partnerships Manager we’re looking for:
Degree-level education or equivalent experience.
Proven success in charity fundraising (trusts & foundations, corporate partnerships, and/or public sector contracts), ideally within healthcare or public health.
Demonstrable experience forming and delivering multi-stakeholder partnerships with clear impact measures, preferably in health industry or academia.
Ability to craft investment cases grounded in health economics and social value.
Strong financial acumen with ability to analyse, manipulate, and present data effectively.
Join us to drive partnerships and funding that scale life-changing programmes, embedding movement into healthcare and delivering measurable impact nationwide.
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Apply today… It starts with you.
Rewards & Benefits
Helping you be and feel your best.
Annual Leave
25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.
Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan
Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.
*eligibility criteria applies.
Financial Wellbeing
A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.
Gym Membership
Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.
Online GP
Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.
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Managing futures
To complement our Leadership & Talent programmes, we also have a number of management modules. Our online Nuffield Health Academy provides you with the skills to be a successful manager with Nuffield Health, through modules including HR, influencing and recruitment.
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Hints & Tips
Help with your application.
Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.
Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.
CV
Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.
Covering email
Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..
Video interview
The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.
DBS Checks
Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.
Documents
You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.
Your current studies
If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com
Feedback on applications
Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.