Jobs at SSE

national partnerships lead

• Salary: From £43,116 per annum pro-rata + 5% pension
• Hours:  1FTE (35 hours per week)
• Contract: Permanent
• Location: Flexible, UK based
• Deadline to apply: 5pm on Monday 24^th August 2026

The School for Social Entrepreneurs backs people with purpose — entrepreneurs building organisations that change their communities. We’re looking for a National Partnerships Lead to work directly with our CEO, driving high-priority national funding partnerships, diversifying our income, and building the relationships that fund our impact.

You’ll identify major funding opportunities, negotiate with trusts, corporates and government partners, and lead complex proposals from first conversation through to a signed agreement — including the budgets, risk assessments and value propositions behind them. You’ll also act as a sounding board for the CEO, pressure-testing ideas and sharpening how we tell our story to funders.

We’re looking for sustained experience supporting a CEO or senior leader, a track record of leading multi-million-pound funding initiatives end-to-end, and the versatile writing skills to move between board papers and detailed funder tenders without losing accuracy under pressure. Sharp budgeting and numeracy matter for this role, alongside real comfort building trust with senior external stakeholders.

This position is for someone who thrives on ambiguity, enjoys solving complex problems, and wants their work to directly fund entrepreneurs changing their communities.

Interviews: Friday 11th September 2026 (online)

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Grants Manager

• Salary: From £43,116 (pro-rata) + 5% pension
• Hours: 0.8 – 1FTE (28hrs to 35hrs per week), with agreed core hours, some flexibility on working patterns
• Annual leave: 25 days per annum per annum pro rata + bank holidays
• Contract: Permanent
• Flexibility: 25 days per annum per annum pro rata + bank holidays
• Location: Flexible – Candidates must be based in the UK but can work remotely
• Deadline to apply: 9:00am on Wednesday 2nd September

This is a new and exciting role at a significant time of growth for the School for Social Entrepreneurs. In the coming year. We are developing new programmes, working with leaders who are developing small community led social and environmental projects as well as leading larger charities and social businesses developing social investment and housing solutions.

You will work with our Grants Team, Project Co-ordinators and Assessment Lead to develop and support grant management across a range of programmes. Your role will be to lead on specific programmes, including supporting assessment, onboarding and grant management. You will ensure that grantees are fully supported to manage their grants and ensure that grant management is compliant, auditable, efficient, and timely. You will support the development of grant policies and processes, writing grant paperwork and documentation, overseeing payments, and reporting to the wider Programmes Team and others about our work.

Interviews: Friday 18th and Friday 25th September (online)

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learning manager

Salary: From £38,333 per annum (pro-rata) 

Hours: 21 – 35 hours a week, depending on your availability (FTE is 35 hours).

Contract: Permanent

Location: Flexible, UK based

The purpose of this role is to lead the design and delivery of learning programmes that help social entrepreneurs create lasting impact. You’ll take direct responsibility for facilitating cohorts as well as leading 1-2-1 coaching and diagnostics, and delivering Action Learning Sets, SSE’s long-standing peer-coaching method (training provided). You’ll hold accountability for the quality of programmes allocated to you. You’ll work alongside our learning facilitators and our learning and enterprise development managers to ensure every programme stays true to our action learning approach.

As SSE deepens its focus on commercial acumen and scale-up support, you’ll help make sure that direction reaches every cohort you work with — keeping your programmes as sharp, practical and impactful as everything else we do. You’ll bring your own commercial awareness to how you facilitate, and build relationships with contributors, speakers and specialists who can bring real-world commercial expertise into the room for your cohorts.

You’ll succeed in this role if you believe in what social entrepreneurship can achieve and want to support social ventures to grow and create more impact in their communities and beyond.

Deadline to apply: 9am, 8^th September

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learning & enterprise development manager

Salary: From £43,116 per annum pro-rata + 5% pension

Hours:  21 – 35 hours a week, depending on your availability (FTE is 35 hours)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Flexible, UK based

Social entrepreneurs scaling their ventures face a specific set of challenges including income generation, hiring, governance, hard calls about growth and risk, all alongside scaling their social impact. We’re recruiting learning and enterprise development managers who’ve lived that journey themselves, to bring first-hand credibility and challenge directly to the entrepreneurs on our scale-up and scale-up-plus programmes.

You’ll hold ownership of SSE’s scale-up approach, shaping our learning content on strategy, profitability and the systems that hold a growing venture together – grounded in what actually works, not just what’s written down. Facilitation sits at the heart of this role. You’ll design and deliver learning programmes and group sessions for cohorts of entrepreneurs as well as leading 1-2-1 coaching and diagnostics, and delivering Action Learning Sets, SSE’s long-standing peer-coaching method (training provided).

We’re looking for people who’ve founded or led a VCSE with an annual turnover of £100,000 or more and held financial accountability such as statutory reporting to the Charity Commission and, where relevant, Companies House, reporting to a board or funders, and making hard calls about growth, income and risk.

You’ll succeed in this role if you believe in what social entrepreneurship can achieve and want to turn your experience into supporting social ventures to scale and create more impact in their communities and beyond.

Deadline to apply: 9am, 8^th September

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