Prospect Research Manager

About The Role

As Prospect Research Manager at Place2Be you will play a key role in driving income growth across a thriving Fundraising Team. Sitting within the Philanthropy & Special Events team, you will help build and monitor a strong pipeline of high value prospects that supports activity across the Philanthropy & Special Events, Corporate Partnerships and Trusts & Grants teams.

You will lead prospecting activity, produce high quality research profiles, conduct due diligence and provide insight that helps secure six and seven figure gifts. This is an exciting opportunity for a curious and collaborative researcher with excellent attention to detail and a strong understanding of high value fundraising.

You will shape and deliver our prospecting strategy, identify new opportunities and work closely with colleagues across the organisation to help secure over £10 million to support children's mental health in 2026/27.

Together we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma, allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.

For a career with purpose, this is your place.

Recruitment Process:

As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.

• Closing date for applications: Midnight on Sunday 15 March
• First interviews (in person) - Monday 23/Tuesday 24 March
• Second interviews (online) – Tuesday 31 March/Thursday 2 April

Our Benefits

When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.

Here’s just a few things we have on offer:

• Annual Leave that increases with service
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.

We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role.

If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email jobs@place2be.org.uk

We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.