Charity Operations Manager

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Cambridge is seeking an experienced Charity Operations Manager to oversee operational delivery of grant-funded projects. This leadership position involves ensuring robust governance and compliance, collaborating with clinical teams and stakeholders to drive the charity's strategic objectives. The successful candidate will actively contribute to impactful patient care innovations. Competitive compensation and a diverse working environment are part of the offering.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing operational processes and governance.
• Strong leadership skills to drive strategic objectives.
• Ability to work collaboratively with clinical teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee governance, compliance, and financial operations.
• Translate strategic priorities into impactful programmes.
• Ensure operational oversight across grant-funded projects.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to join our Charity as Charity Operations Manager. This is a leadership role responsible for the operational delivery of a diverse portfolio of grant-funded projects across the Trust, driving innovation in patient care and clinical excellence.

The postholder will oversee the charity's governance, compliance, and financial operations, ensuring robust systems are in place to support effective decision-making and strategic delivery. Working closely with clinical teams, senior managers, and external stakeholders, the Charity Operations Manager will play a central role in translating strategic priorities into impactful, well-governed programmes. The Charity Operations Manager will play a pivotal role in the delivery of the charity's strategic objectives, ensuring effective governance, operational oversight, and stakeholder engagement across a diverse portfolio of grant-funded hospital projects.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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