Business Development Partner

  • Ambitious About Autism
  • Jul 21, 2022
Full time Executive

Job Description

Ambitious about Autism is looking for a Business Development Partner to join the team! Ambitious about Autism stand with autistic children, young people and their families to champion rights, campaign for change and create opportunities.

We started as one school and have become a movement for change. Our services include providing information and practical support and delivering specialist education and employment programmes.

As the Business Development Partner, you will be reporting to the Programme Director of Service Development, and will support the development of high quality, autism-specific education settings across London and the Southeast. With experience and expertise in Project Management, you will demonstrate strong leadership skills in galvanising individuals to achieve identified deliverables within agreed timescales and budgets. You will operate in line with legislation, policy and procedure and best practice.

We are looking for someone that has:

Relevant qualifications in Programme & Project Management or equivalent experience
Experience of effectively managing the end-to-end business development process, including tendering, mobilising new business and expansion of existing provisions, specifically within the Education/Health/Social Care/Third Sector
Excellent knowledge of key project processes such as high-level project mapping, design & time management principals

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact Stephen Vickers

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.