Chief of Staff

<h2>About Babyzone</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Babyzone is a UK early childhood charity. We run free, open-access community hubs for families with children aged 0–5 in areas of high deprivation — no booking or referral needed. Since launching in 2019, we've grown to 14 hubs across England, Wales and Scotland, welcomed more than 100,000 parent and child visits — over 70% from the most deprived communities — and we're on track to reach 20 hubs by the end of 2027.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Our hubs are evidence-informed spaces: programmes co-developed with families, practitioners and world-leading researchers, then rigorously evaluated and improved. More than 300 partner organisations — NHS teams, local authorities and specialist charities — co-locate in our hubs to create a joined-up local system for families.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">We are backed by significant multi-year philanthropic investment and are building the definitive evidence base for what works in the early years.</p> <h2>The Opportunity</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">This is a new, senior role at the heart of Babyzone, working as Chief of Staff to the CEO with primary responsibility for fundraising and external partnerships.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">As we grow from 14 hubs towards 20, our future depends on the funding and relationships that make each hub possible — major philanthropy, trusts and foundations, corporate partners, and the health, local authority and community partners who work alongside us.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">We are looking for someone who can be the CEO's right hand and a fundraiser and partnership-builder in their own right: opening doors, building trusted relationships with funders and partners, and turning the CEO's strategy into delivery across the organisation.</p> <h2>Purpose of the Role</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">As Chief of Staff, you will extend the CEO's capacity and lead the work that secures Babyzone's future.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Your primary focus will be fundraising and external partnerships: building and running the fundraising strategy and pipeline, stewarding our major funders, and developing the external relationships that underpin the hub network and our national influence.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Alongside this, you will run the office of the CEO — setting the operating rhythm, preparing the CEO for the conversations that matter, driving strategic priorities through to delivery, and representing the CEO internally and externally.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">It is a role for someone comfortable moving between a funder meeting, a board paper and a hub visit in the same week.</p> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <h3>Fundraising</h3> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Own and grow Babyzone's fundraising strategy and pipeline across major donors and philanthropy, trusts and foundations, and corporate partnerships.</li> <li>Steward existing funders, including our major multi-year philanthropic investment, with excellent, honest reporting and relationship management.</li> <li>Lead the development of compelling, credible bids and proposals, building the case for support around the mission and the evidence base.</li> <li>Work with the CEO and wider team to identify, cultivate and convert new funding opportunities as the network scales.</li> </ul> <h3>External Partnerships</h3> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Build and manage strategic relationships across health, local government, corporates, philanthropists, academia and the wider early years and policy community.</li> <li>Support hub-level partnership development as we open new hubs, helping local teams build the relationships that make a hub work.</li> <li>Represent Babyzone