Executive Director of Strategy & Partnerships

The Executive Director for Strategy and Partnerships is the second most senior role in NASP, with a remit for leadership across the organisation and responsibility to deputise for the CEO. The core purpose of the role is to form strong relationships and partnerships with leaders from diverse sectors and co-produce strategies and programme plans for joint work. Existing formal partnerships include agreements with national 'arm's length' bodies such as Sport England and Natural England, and charities such as Independent Age. It includes line management responsibilities for staff seconded by partners or employed directly by NASP, to deliver partnership plans and priorities. The role includes the strategic leadership of multi million-pound programmes reporting to government departments (for example working closely with DEFRA to lead the Treasury-funded 'Tackling and preventing mental ill health through green social prescribing' programme). Therefore, a focus on delivery and achieving outputs and outcomes is just as important as strategic vision. NASP also works internationally and there will be opportunities to travel regularly, for example supporting our network of global contacts with events (most recently the Canadian International Social Prescribing Conference)., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

We are seeking an experienced senior leader, an optimist with strategic vision and a high degree of intellect who can collaborate with other leaders to design and deliver solutions to our most pressing problems in health and wellbeing. The postholder will navigate highly complex systems and networks and need to be very politically astute, diplomatic and excel at building relationships with trust and integrity., The ideal candidate will be highly articulate, a persuasive public speaker, with a proven track record of delivering complex high impact partnerships which make a measurable impact. You will need to be comfortable advocating for social prescribing at the highest level; to government ministers and officials, CEOs of large organisations and global partners such as Movember, Amazon and the World Health Organization.

NASP is a highly ambitious charity, founded by government and working across diverse sectors to improve healthcare in England and across the world through the development of social prescribing. This is a senior leadership role to shape our future strategy and develop existing and new partnerships with government departments, national agencies, charities, business, the NHS and others to deliver this.

Location: Hybrid - attendance at the NASP office at London's Royal Festival Hall will be required up to 2 days per week, as well as travel for site visits, staff days, and external meetings as required. NASP offer a range of core benefits for staff on payroll, including:

• 30 days paid annual leave per annum, plus Bank Holidays
• An additional day of paid leave per year on your birthday
• Opportunities for Volunteering & CPD days each year
• Opportunity to request flexible working arrangements, including compressed hours
• Contribution to annual eye test, eyeglass purchase, and flu vaccination