Head of Impact

EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)

Head of Impact advancing a charitable fund for disadvantaged young people. Setting strategy, building funder relationships, leading AI-enabled programmes, and owning governance and financial controls.

Posted 9/8/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLead💰 £50,000 - £60,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in strategic fundraising, governance, and financial management, with a strong ability to build relationships with senior funders and deliver impactful AI-enabled programs. Proven experience in team leadership and navigating ambiguous environments is essential.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Strategic FundraisingGovernance and Financial DisciplineAI Tools FluencyPeople ManagementBuilding Relationships with Funders

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Hard Skills

Funding Proposition WritingTheory of Change DevelopmentFinancial ControlsAudit PreparationRegulatory Compliance

Soft Skills

Relationship BuildingAmbiguity ManagementTeam Leadership

Tools & Technologies

AI Tools

Industry Keywords

Corporate FundraisingPartnershipsStartup Experience

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the Fund's strategy with the CEO and Trustees
Design how impact gets delivered, including new AI-enabled programmes
Build and manage funder relationships with banks, consultancies, foundations, and major donors
Write and pitch funding propositions
Own charity governance, including trustee board packs and regulatory compliance
Run financial controls, treasury, and audit preparation
Build and lead a small team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Currently based in the UK, with the right to work here without sponsorship
Comfortable owning genuinely ambiguous work with no existing playbook
Can build a relationship with a senior funder from a cold start
Can write and pitch a funding proposition that actually gets money moving
Can build a theory of change
Governance and financial discipline
Real, hands-on fluency with AI tools, applied to actual problems
Experience scaling partnerships from inside a tech company (strong signal, not a requirement)
Corporate fundraising or partnerships background (strong signal, not a requirement)
People management experience (strong signal, not a requirement)
Startup-stage experience, roughly 20-100 people (strong signal, not a requirement)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Central London, hybrid (3-5 days/week in office)
Direct strategic input into a fund that's already moving meaningful money to the people it's meant to help — not a junior seat several steps removed from the mission