Senior Community Investment Manager (Regional)

The Guinness Partnership



JOB DESCRIPTION

About the role

We have an opportunity for a Senior Community Investment Manager to join our team in London as we introduce a new approach for increasing and improving our social impact.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and launching a new social impact offer and working alongside key internal departments including our Customer Liaison Service, Estates Teams, Workspace and Assets to develop Neighbourhood Plans across London and Southern England. There will be a focus on this role developing services in the priority London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston and Richmond; and managing another member of staff working across priority areas including Milton Keynes, Gloucester, Havant and Exeter.

Creative and practical, you will apply your expertise to identify and analyse resident priorities to shape the local strategy and service offer, aligning with our nationwide community investment strategic approach and expected outcomes. As a convenor and co-ordinator of services, you will focus on building and maintaining effective partnerships at all levels - from grassroot organisations and charities to funders and Local Authorities.

What we are looking for

We are a resident-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. The successful Senior Community Investment Manager will need the drive and confidence to work independently whilst also being a genuine collaborator, committed to working closely and successfully with the wider Community Investment Team and a range of departments across the business.

You will have a breadth of experience across different thematic areas from supporting households with critical needs and enabling people to professionally progress, to developing and managing grant pots and supporting community mobilisation.

You will be highly motivated and comfortable navigating ambiguity with the tenacity to see projects through. You will also need to be both an analytical and strategic thinker. You will have a desire to innovate and experiment and to intentionally generate and learn from your results to improve services. You will have a client-first mindset and a demonstrable belief and commitment to equity.

You must be able to demonstrate the following:

Essential
  • Proven experience of successfully designing and delivering social impact projects and programmes.
  • Experience of data and impact analysis to inform the design and development of services
  • Proven experience of forging and maintaining successful operational and strategic partnerships
  • A high level of programme and project development and management expertise
  • Proven experience of successful contract and budget monitoring and management
  • Expertise and experience in supporting service users to participate in the design and delivery of services

Desirable
  • An understanding of social housing
  • A high level of creativity, and able to work innovatively to experiment, test and learn from service delivery and improve outcomes

To find out find out more about the key responsibilities of the role and to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the role profile.

Interested? We would love to hear from you. Please apply with a CV and covering statement. Your covering statement should detail how you meet each point of the essential criteria listed above, and if possible either or both of the desirable criteria . Please limit to no more than two pages overall.

First stage interviews to be held on MS Teams on 3 August 2026

Second stage interviews to be held in our Euston Road office in London on 6 August 2026

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