Overview Join to apply for the
HBGI UK Associate, Projects & Growth
role at
Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI) .
Location: Home-based, within easy reach of London. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Healthy Brains Global Initiative UK (HBGI UK) and to deliver life-changing, life-saving impact.
About HBGI UK A registered UK charity, we work alongside HBGI Inc., our U.S. non-profit, to drive positive outcomes for vulnerable individuals by providing hands-on technical support across sectors. Our expertise lies in stronger performance management of services, contracting (with an emphasis on outcomes) and user-centred service design. Building from the bottom-up, our work optimises and expands mental health provision, shifting the emphasis towards achieving the outcomes as identified by service users themselves.
We focus on mental health services/systems, and our work spans multiple continents. Our biggest projects include homelessness and severe mental illness in California, maternal mental health in South Africa, teenage pregnancy in Kenya, and youth unemployment in Palestine. We have recently secured funding for our first HBGI UK project – an operational review of children’s and young people’s mental health services in the UK, focusing on performance and outcomes, identifying ways to maximise service efficiency and efficacy. The findings will create opportunities to impact service delivery at a national level across multiple services and systems.
We are building an exceptional team and are looking for a UK-based Associate (London, home-based) to join us.
Key responsibilities
Support delivery of the above review, including contributing to research, analysis, gathering stakeholder insights, drafting reports and presentations.
Analyse and synthesise evidence (qualitative and quantitative) to inform the review recommendations and present findings meaningfully.
Support coordination of project activities, including preparing materials, organisation of stakeholder engagements and events, including with service users themselves, and tracking project progress and planning.
Produce clear and concise written outputs, including summaries, communications and contributions to the report itself.
Build positive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to support collaboration, including on the review and across HBGI UK more widely.
Contribute to the growth of HBGI UK, working with the Chief of Staff to support new business development, enhance our team and organisational processes, and represent HBGI UK at wider relevant events.
We envisage that this role will support the review for around 75% of the time and work with the Chief of Staff for the remaining 25%.
Candidate profile We are looking for a candidate with 3–5 years’ relevant professional experience, who is proactive, agile and eager to take on a role with many opportunities for learning and development, and hungry to make a tangible difference. We are looking for the below skills and experience.
At least a Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of relevant (full-time) post-university professional experience.
Adept at handling (sometimes imperfect) data (qualitative & quantitative) and able to relate this analysis to delivery/performance of frontline services targeting vulnerable people. Candidates should be comfortable with Excel-based analysis, survey data and dashboards.
Strong communication skills, including verbal, written (such as reports, presentations, stakeholder correspondence), and visual communication (such as to effectively present data analysis).
Exceptional interpersonal skills, able to build respectful relationships across a range of internal and external stakeholders, and supporting and challenging as required.
Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, able to manage multiple priorities, coordinate workstreams, and meet deadlines, working proactively and with agility.
Excited to work in the non-profit sector supporting mental health initiatives and the growth of HBGI UK. We value candidates with a willingness to learn and who show intellectual curiosity, including an openness to learn more about outcomes contracting and performance management.
Experience of working with services targeting vulnerable communities.
Experience in policy, research, consulting, or non-profit/charity settings.
We don’t expect you to be the finished article; we will support your development journey, guiding your learning and growth. But we do want you to have high levels of energy and be self-driven and proactive, and motivated to grow into roles of greater responsibility. We are looking to change millions of life chances, and in the process, show the world that there is a better way to manage programs like this. We love what we do and we have lots of fun doing it, but everything we do is about maximizing performance and we set the bar high.
We approach our work collaboratively and with humility, respecting everyone around us and their wellbeing. We actively seek out diversity across our team because it makes us – and our own performance – stronger. Many of our current team and Board have lived experience of mental health conditions and our Lived Experience Council is an integral part of HBGI. We are committed to recruiting the best, most diverse HBGI team. We do not tolerate any form of negative discrimination, abuse, office politics or bullying.
Terms of Employment Reporting to:
Chief of Staff
Location:
Home-based, ideally within easy access of London. You must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Salary, pension & health insurance:
£45,000 per annum FTE. HBGI will contribute up to 10% to a pension, matched against your contribution. We also pay for health insurance.
Work life:
To participate actively in our largely virtual business, you will need to organise your own technology, including a laptop, internet connection and telephone.
Hours:
Our normal full-time working week is 40 hours. You can plan these hours to suit you within the working week (Monday-Friday) but must be available for meetings when needed. You must inform your team and line manager of your plans.
Wellbeing:
We keep Fridays free of internal meetings so you can end your week on a positive note, with your to-do list clear.
Holidays:
The full-time paid, annual holiday allowance is 33 days. This total is inclusive of all bank holidays.
How to apply Please send: a) an up-to-date resume (no more than 2 pages), explaining any gaps, and b) a covering letter (no more than 2 pages) addressing:
Who are you? (Have fun with this! Give us a non-resume answer.)
Why do you want this role?
How does your past experience set you up for success in this role?
An example when you carried out and communicated analysis that led to improved performance.
An example of proactively engaging stakeholders to overcome a barrier to project delivery.
Your view on some of the areas for improvement across children & young people’s mental health services in the UK.
Given the very high volume of applications, we greatly regret that we cannot provide individual feedback and will only follow-up with short-listed candidates. Please ensure you have provided all the detail requested for us to consider your application. Applications written with AI or that copy sections from mental health content from Google will not be considered. We request personal responses.
Please email your application to opportunities@hbgi.org with
Associates (UK)
in the subject line. The closing date is
14th September 2025
at 23.59 BST.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
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