Business Director

Please email hr@allchild.org with a one page covering letter and CV.

This is an exciting time for AllChild as we embark on an ambitious 5-year plan to broaden our reach, deepen our impact, share our learnings and drive a movement for change. This new leadership role will help us to achieve this plan by identifying, securing and delivering significant new partnerships with funders, charity partners and at all levels of government, including maintaining a pipeline of potential new places. With experience of managing complex cross-sector and cross-organisational projects and maintaining stakeholder engagement, you will work collaboratively and creatively with external partners and internal colleagues to secure partnerships aligned to our goals. If you are ambitious for children and young people and excited by the opportunity to work in a high-profile, growing organisation, please get in contact.

The Opportunity

Earlier this year we announced our intention to broaden our reach, deepen our impact, build our evidence base, share our learning and drive a movement for a new way of investing in children’s futures. We are now embarking on an ambitious 5-year growth plan to work in 10 places in 5 years, develop a dynamic blueprint for our way of working and drive a national movement for change.

In July the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a new Better Futures Fund. It is a £500m fund aiming to secure a further £500m in co-commissioning from national, regional and local public sector commissioners, as well as strategic philanthropy and social investment, to improve children’s outcomes. AllChild’s delivery, impact and funding model aligns with this proposed fund structure. We hosted the Chancellor when the Fund was announced and are preparing a significant proposal aligned to our 5-year plan.

We are looking for a New Business Director to work collaboratively with external partners and internal colleagues to secure the strategic support that we need to deliver the model that will underpin our bid and to pave the way for the successful achievement of our 5-year growth plan.

The Role

The New Business Director is a new role which will help us to achieve our 5-year growth plan by identifying, securing and delivering significant new partnerships with national and local funders, charity partners and at all levels of government, including maintaining a pipeline of potential new places. In time the New Business Director will also play an important role in the development of our blueprint encouraging others to adopt our model.

Reporting to the COO, the New Business Director will ensure collaboration is at the heart of AllChild’s growth in new places and new business opportunities. you will work closely and creatively with colleagues to ensure these strategic partnerships are aligned to our organisational goals and project managed effectively to deliver their objectives.

You will be:

• compelling in describing our ambition for a new way of investing in children’s futures and our vision for local transformation in the support and opportunities available to children.
• confident engaging with children services leaders, headteachers, public and philanthropic funders and social investors and building relationships with voluntary and community sector organisations.
• comfortable working closely with colleagues to build out our social outcomes partnership model both in new places and at an organisational level.

Key responsibilities

• Secure the strategic public and private sector support required to delivery our 5-year plan (with a focus on outcomes-based opportunities, charity partnerships and corporate support) ensuring alignment of shared outcomes across stakeholders.
• Build and keep warm a pipeline of potential new places, bringing together commissioners, school heads, community leaders and philanthropists to deliver new AllChild social outcomes partnerships (and/or steering new places to adopt our model based on our developing blueprint).
• Project manage the listening and co-design process in new places with the support of the expert colleagues ensuring seamless internal collaboration and the effective handover of relationships and start-up activities to a Regional Director and local AllChild delivery team.
• Develop the organisation’s long-term financial models and project plans that support the successful conversion of new strategic opportunities and planned projects that underpin our growth.
• Work closely with the Development Team to create and deliver plans to maximise multi-year corporate, trust and foundation support to achieve our organisational goals.
• Develop key processes and documentation for our activities and project management – sharing and up-skilling collaborative working across the organisation as we grow.

During the 2025/26 academic year, we expect that you will:

• Secure new multi-year public and private partnerships (with local authorities, charities, companies, funders) that support the delivery of our 5-year plan.
• Work with the Partnerships Director to develop the best possible proposal for Government outcomes funding, including securing supporting public and private funding commitments.
• Deliver two new social outcomes partnerships in new places, including securing funding and delivery contracts and project managing the listening and co-designing process with LAs, schools, community groups, philanthropists and stakeholders (prior to handover to the Regional Director).
• Maintain an engaged pipeline of potential new places for 2026/27 onwards.
• Document the key elements of the identification, engagement, contracting and co-designing phases of our new places process to support the scaling up of our activities.
• Develop a partnership and project management process and approach for wider adoption across the organisation.

Personal Specification

We are looking for someone who:

• Has more than 10 years experience of developing and delivering complex cross-sector and cross-organisational projects and maintaining stakeholder engagement.
• Has a combination of commercial and not for profit experience, ideally with experience of local government and/or children’s services.
• Is a collaborative leader who listens, thrives on building relationships and is confident working to bring together stakeholders with different priorities effectively.
• Is comfortable navigating complexity, working through ambiguity, able to adapt with purpose.
• Is values driven and believes in equity of opportunity, inclusion and participation.
• Is deeply committed to improving outcomes for children and young people.