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Apr
2024

The Reader Organisation – Business Development Manager

Posts available: 1.
Contract: Permanent.
Term: Full Time.
Salary: £29,870.
Hours per week: 35 hours.
Days per week: 5 days.
Reporting to: Director of Development and Communications.
Location: The Reader, Mansion House, Calderstones Park, Liverpool L18 3JB.

Employer Bio

The Reader is a national charity that wants to bring about a Reading Revolution so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which they believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well. By reading with school groups, families, adults, looked after children, older people in care homes, adults with physical and / or mental health conditions, people coping with or recovering from addiction and individuals in the criminal justice system, their work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities.

Job Overview

The Business Development Manager sits in the Development Team, which is responsible for delivering income to sustain and grow The Reader’s work and developing relationships that can help make that work happen.

The Business Development Manager will be responsible for all commissioned income secured from NHS bodies, the criminal justice sector and from Local Authorities. These commissions may be to deliver Shared Reading in mental health settings or services, to read with those living in prison or probation settings or to deliver their Reading Heroes programme enabling them to read 1-2-1 with care experienced children.

The post holder will hold a strategic overview within this area, ensuring a coherent and joined up approach to fundraising from within the public sector. Partnership working will be instrumental in the role, progressing key relationships, seeking potential new fruitful partnership opportunities, and working collaboratively across teams.

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

Deadline: 9 AM at Monday 22 April 2024.

Contact Details: laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk.

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