England Regional Partnerships Lead

Job summary

England Regional Partnerships Lead

£87000 per annum

Homeworking

18 month FTC

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our England Regional Partnerships Lead. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.

Job description

Why This Role Matters

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead our England Partnerships function, shaping how we use strategic relationships as a core route to market; drive engagement with our MoneyHelper guidance, tools, and services; and ensure we meaningfully reach the people and communities who need financial support the most. You’ll guide the work of Regional Partnership Managers, strengthen collaboration across England and the Devolved Nations, and play a central role in advancing major programmes including Pensions Dashboards effective regional delivery and insight-led reporting.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will lead a team of Regional Partnership Managers, taking responsibility for:

• Develop an overarching business plan for partnership delivery across major programmes and priorities, including the MoneyHelper Pensions Dashboard, MoneyHelper tools and services, community‑based debt commissioning, the Money Adviser Network, and Money Guiders.
• Work with Regional Partnership Managers and Devolved Nations Country Partnership Managers to create and implement tailored route to market plans, in line with the overarching priorities plan.
• Work with with marketing and communications teams to ensure Partnership Managers are equipped with high‑quality branded assets, corporate messaging, in their role as media spokepeople and to deliver campaigns such as Talk Money Week.
• Strengthen effective partnership working by improving syndication of MoneyHelper tools and guidance, exploring online partnerships, and shaping co‑branding opportunities.
• Become an expert on our partners including advising and leading work on how we reach those most in need of financial guidance. Ensure we have mechanisms in place for gathering stakeholder insight, in order to understand and validate what our stakeholders across England regions want from us.
• Work with policy, strategy, and UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing teams to ensure strong two‑way information flow and coordinated regional input.
• Oversee regional visits programmes, monitor engagement metrics, ensure accurate CRM usage, and lead, manage, and mentor a remote team.

Person specification

What You’ll Bring

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

Essential:

• A deep understanding of England devolution and particularly how it relates to MaPS’ priorities.
• Demonstrable experience of regional partnership working in order to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience in and managing multi-layer, external stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent people management, ideally including management of remote and hybrid teams.
• Experience of establishing and managing operational plans and budgets.
• Ability to analyse complex data, draw insight conclusions, produce reports and make recommendations to senior stakeholders and decision makers.
• Strong project delivery expertise, including risk management, reporting and financial controls

Desirable:

• Experience working on money, pensions, debt, financial wellbeing or other related areas.
• Experience working in the public sector or other regulated environment with a customer focus.
• Working in or leading marketing teams.

Benefits

About Us

MaPS is based in bright, modern offices in Bedford, and we’re here to help people across the UK feel more confident and informed about their money.

Our values guide how we work together:

• Caring – for colleagues and the communities we support
• Connecting – building supportive, positive relationships
• Transforming – creating impact that truly matters

We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

What We Offer

• 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension (2:1 matched contribution up to 10%)
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance
• EAP Assist & Life
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• 2 paid volunteering days
• Recognition scheme
• Retail discounts portal

Flexible Working

We believe work should fit around life. This Bedford‑based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family, and personal commitments. We come together for purposeful team collaboration to stay connected and drive great results.

Career Development
We love supporting internal growth and progression, while continuing to follow fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Our Recruitment Process

We keep things simple, fair, and transparent:

Stage 1: Application review – please submit a CV and covering letter outlining your motivation for applying for the role and highlighting suitability. Your application will be assessed by one of our Talent partners.

Stage 2: Telephone Interview (up to 30 mins)

Stage 3: Interview consisting of a presentation followed by competency and scenario-based questions.

Everything we do aligns with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

Important Information About Applying

• Please apply only via official MaPS links - we can’t accept applications via email or unauthorised sites.
• MaPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Reserve List: If you're successful at interview, we may place you on a reserve list for up to 6 months. If a similar role becomes available, you may be offered it without the need for another assessment.

If you believe your application hasn’t followed the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles, you can contact resourcing@maps.org.uk. If unresolved, you may then contact the Civil Service Commission.

Job Reference: MaPS01110

Close Date: 15/03/26

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Nick Heron
• Email : nicholas.heron@reed.com

Recruitment team

• Email : nicholas.heron@reed.com