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 Social Impact 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 our 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:
1. 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).
2. Identify and pursue opportunities to scale movement as medicine programmes and enable digital innovation.
3. Develop income pipelines for restricted/unrestricted funding, including paid research revenue, commercialisation of IP, data, and research interventions.
4. 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.
5. Represent Nuffield Health externally at networking events and meetings with potential partners, commissioners, and contractors.
6. Shape B2B collaborations to expand programme reach and co-fund innovation (e.g., digital tools, workforce training).
7. Translate evaluation into compelling propositions highlighting social value per participant and measurable health improvements.
8. Develop sector-specific narratives for ICBs, corporates, and health bodies to reduce adoption barriers and embed programmes into policy and pathways.
9. Maintain compliance and assurance frameworks for partnership agreements, ensuring adherence to Charity Commission guidance, GDPR, CQC, research ethics, and safeguarding.
10. 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:
11. Degree-level education or equivalent experience.
12. Proven success in charity fundraising (trusts & foundations, corporate partnerships, and/or public sector contracts), ideally within healthcare or public health.
13. Demonstrable experience forming and delivering multi-stakeholder partnerships with clear impact measures, preferably in health industry or academia.
14. Ability to craft investment cases grounded in health economics and social value.
15. Strong financial acumen with ability to analyse, manipulate, and present data effectively.
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.