Age UK
City, London
Please note : This role is called Business Development Manager Local Statutory Commissioners internally. Age UK is looking for an experienced statutory funding professional play a vital role in supporting local Age UK federation partners to sustain and grow statutory income - including leading/supporting collaborative bids to regional/combined commissioners; creating and maintaining statutory commissioning knowledge hubs - with shared tools and knowledge; enabling access to quality third party support; providing 'critical friend' and other opportunity specific support through clear pathways and Service Level Agreements. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys enabling others to succeed, navigating complex commissioning environments, and turning collective effort into lasting impact for older people. This role is one of two newly created Business Development Manager positions. While each post will have a distinct focus - one on local/regional commissioners and the other on national commissioners - the two managers will work closely to ensure strategic alignment and balanced workload across the portfolio. This is a 24-month fixed term contract . There is potential for the role to become permanent depending on a review of business needs. We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office - currently once a week on a Thursday and may involve occasional travel for meetings and cultivation events. Travel costs to the London office are the responsibility of the postholder and are not covered by the charity. Age UK internal grade: 5L Last date for applications Monday 25th May 2026. Must haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Experience leading or supporting securing six and seven figure statutory contracts for charities . A, I Experience of managing or supporting relationships with key individuals from public sector bodies. A, I Skills and knowledge Understanding of statutory funding processes, including commissioning and procurement. A, I Strong communication skills, both written and oral - with the social skills and presence to communicate complex issues to a variety of audiences. I, T High levels of gravitas and influencing skills: credible and confident with senior level contacts internally and externally. I Excellent levels of financial management and numeracy. A, I Ability to distil complex information and convey it powerfully to a variety of different people, including distilling complex issues to understandable and actionable items. I, T Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment, ensuring our prospects and donors are at the heart of our fundraising. A, I Sound administration skills, including a good working knowledge of MS Office products. I Personal attributes A passion to join Age UK in supporting older people and a belief the support from statutory fundraising is critical to achieving our strategic goals. A, I Takes ownership of responsibility - able to identify and deliver the key activities - whilst collaborating and challenging others - that ultimately provide the best pathway for the organisation to realise statutory funding opportunities . I Makes things happen, links with others, thinks outside the box, spots where new approaches can achieve desired results, and then delivers at pace. I Thrives on collaboration - linking with others with a friendly and engaging approach that enables close working cross-organisationally, two-way challenging conversations and the ability to work confidently and effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. A, I Is resilient to change -flexible, pragmatic, and able to quickly adapt plans in alignment with organisational priorities. I Great to haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Experience with framework agreements and call offs. A, I Experience with shared learning and knowledge management (e.g. bid libraries, support tools, sharing of good practice) A, I Experience creating or supporting partnership brokering/consortia bids A, I Skills and knowledge : Understanding of trends in local/regional commissioning. I Please look at the attached job description for more information on the role responsibilities. What we offer in return Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Health cashback plan and EAP Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free Blue Light Card Scheme You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250 Many additional benefits Additional Information Supporting statements and anonymisation Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected. Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview. Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. Reasonable adjustments Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions. Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time. Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. For a full list of benefits please visit our website.
Please note : This role is called Business Development Manager Local Statutory Commissioners internally. Age UK is looking for an experienced statutory funding professional play a vital role in supporting local Age UK federation partners to sustain and grow statutory income - including leading/supporting collaborative bids to regional/combined commissioners; creating and maintaining statutory commissioning knowledge hubs - with shared tools and knowledge; enabling access to quality third party support; providing 'critical friend' and other opportunity specific support through clear pathways and Service Level Agreements. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys enabling others to succeed, navigating complex commissioning environments, and turning collective effort into lasting impact for older people. This role is one of two newly created Business Development Manager positions. While each post will have a distinct focus - one on local/regional commissioners and the other on national commissioners - the two managers will work closely to ensure strategic alignment and balanced workload across the portfolio. This is a 24-month fixed term contract . There is potential for the role to become permanent depending on a review of business needs. We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office - currently once a week on a Thursday and may involve occasional travel for meetings and cultivation events. Travel costs to the London office are the responsibility of the postholder and are not covered by the charity. Age UK internal grade: 5L Last date for applications Monday 25th May 2026. Must haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Experience leading or supporting securing six and seven figure statutory contracts for charities . A, I Experience of managing or supporting relationships with key individuals from public sector bodies. A, I Skills and knowledge Understanding of statutory funding processes, including commissioning and procurement. A, I Strong communication skills, both written and oral - with the social skills and presence to communicate complex issues to a variety of audiences. I, T High levels of gravitas and influencing skills: credible and confident with senior level contacts internally and externally. I Excellent levels of financial management and numeracy. A, I Ability to distil complex information and convey it powerfully to a variety of different people, including distilling complex issues to understandable and actionable items. I, T Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment, ensuring our prospects and donors are at the heart of our fundraising. A, I Sound administration skills, including a good working knowledge of MS Office products. I Personal attributes A passion to join Age UK in supporting older people and a belief the support from statutory fundraising is critical to achieving our strategic goals. A, I Takes ownership of responsibility - able to identify and deliver the key activities - whilst collaborating and challenging others - that ultimately provide the best pathway for the organisation to realise statutory funding opportunities . I Makes things happen, links with others, thinks outside the box, spots where new approaches can achieve desired results, and then delivers at pace. I Thrives on collaboration - linking with others with a friendly and engaging approach that enables close working cross-organisationally, two-way challenging conversations and the ability to work confidently and effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. A, I Is resilient to change -flexible, pragmatic, and able to quickly adapt plans in alignment with organisational priorities. I Great to haves: The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P Experience Experience with framework agreements and call offs. A, I Experience with shared learning and knowledge management (e.g. bid libraries, support tools, sharing of good practice) A, I Experience creating or supporting partnership brokering/consortia bids A, I Skills and knowledge : Understanding of trends in local/regional commissioning. I Please look at the attached job description for more information on the role responsibilities. What we offer in return Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Health cashback plan and EAP Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free Blue Light Card Scheme You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250 Many additional benefits Additional Information Supporting statements and anonymisation Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected. Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview. Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. Reasonable adjustments Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions. Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time. Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. For a full list of benefits please visit our website.
Savills
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Role Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Building Surveyor to join our Architecture & Building Surveying (ABS) team.You'll be based out of our Cirencester office, and your focus will be in the following areas: • Contract administration and project monitoring• Building surveys and report writing• Schedules of Condition and planned preventative maintenance programmes• Preparing tenders and contract documents• Advising on appointing contractors, designers and procurement routes• Preparing scheme designs and specifications of works• Preparing schedules of dilapidations• Advising on the preservation/conservation of historic buildings• Full understanding of CDM2015 duties• Preparation of Building regulations applications• Demonstrating a genuine understanding of Professional building surveying• Working to a high standard with strong client care and managing existing clients• Holds own client or client agent relationships on a day-to-day basis and becomes first point of contact for a client and with minimal oversight by others.• Has the confidence of their manager/director to take the lead on managing a client relationship.• Demonstrates effective time management to deliver instructions to deadlines and meets PowerBi KPI measures.• At a level where you are able to lead and develop others, have a full understanding of the relevant standards associated with the technical work.• Input into the development of the service line standard and undertake the role of skills leader effectively.• Demonstrating an awareness of all RICS guidelines and best practices relating to Party Wall Act, project management, Employers Agent and Reinstatement Cost Assessments. Click here to download the full job specification. Please ensure you read this before applying. What we offer you: Career and Professional Development 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade Life Assurance Private Medical Scheme Virtual GP Global Mobility Scheme Rewards Platform Company Pension Scheme Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave Find out more about Savills offer Team Overview Savills ABS team provides advice on architecture and building consultancy, and works closely alongside colleagues in rural planning, estate management, forestry, professional consultancy (tax, valuation, expert witness), farms and estate sales and purchasing, food and farming, renewable energy, energy brokerage, mapping and strategic projects. Our clients range from private individuals, rural estates, companies as well as institutions and charities. The wider Rural division operates across the UK, with a network of 37 offices and a number of estate offices from Inverness in the North to Truro in the South-West. Recruitment agencies Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
Role Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Building Surveyor to join our Architecture & Building Surveying (ABS) team.You'll be based out of our Cirencester office, and your focus will be in the following areas: • Contract administration and project monitoring• Building surveys and report writing• Schedules of Condition and planned preventative maintenance programmes• Preparing tenders and contract documents• Advising on appointing contractors, designers and procurement routes• Preparing scheme designs and specifications of works• Preparing schedules of dilapidations• Advising on the preservation/conservation of historic buildings• Full understanding of CDM2015 duties• Preparation of Building regulations applications• Demonstrating a genuine understanding of Professional building surveying• Working to a high standard with strong client care and managing existing clients• Holds own client or client agent relationships on a day-to-day basis and becomes first point of contact for a client and with minimal oversight by others.• Has the confidence of their manager/director to take the lead on managing a client relationship.• Demonstrates effective time management to deliver instructions to deadlines and meets PowerBi KPI measures.• At a level where you are able to lead and develop others, have a full understanding of the relevant standards associated with the technical work.• Input into the development of the service line standard and undertake the role of skills leader effectively.• Demonstrating an awareness of all RICS guidelines and best practices relating to Party Wall Act, project management, Employers Agent and Reinstatement Cost Assessments. Click here to download the full job specification. Please ensure you read this before applying. What we offer you: Career and Professional Development 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade Life Assurance Private Medical Scheme Virtual GP Global Mobility Scheme Rewards Platform Company Pension Scheme Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave Find out more about Savills offer Team Overview Savills ABS team provides advice on architecture and building consultancy, and works closely alongside colleagues in rural planning, estate management, forestry, professional consultancy (tax, valuation, expert witness), farms and estate sales and purchasing, food and farming, renewable energy, energy brokerage, mapping and strategic projects. Our clients range from private individuals, rural estates, companies as well as institutions and charities. The wider Rural division operates across the UK, with a network of 37 offices and a number of estate offices from Inverness in the North to Truro in the South-West. Recruitment agencies Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
