Money Guiders Relationship Manager

Job summary

Money Guiders Relationship Manager

£54000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Money Guiders Relationship Manager. 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.

Why This Role Matters

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build, support, and strengthen relationships with a diverse range of organisations across the UK, helping to grow and enhance the Money Guiders Partnership network. You’ll play a key role in improving the quality of money guidance delivered through others by bringing new partners on board, supporting existing ones, and ensuring they can access and benefit from our free professional development offer. Through this work, you’ll help shape initiatives that genuinely improve people’s financial wellbeing.

You’ll join a team that’s passionate, collaborative, and driven by the belief that financial confidence should be something everyone can access.

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

The Money Guiders Relationship Manager will report directly to Strategic Partnerships Lead and will be responsible for:

• Take key account management responsibility for an existing portfolio of Money Guiders partners, building strong and lasting relationships whilst also identifying and progressing opportunities for new partnerships.
• Provide long term consultative support to Money Guiders partners, helping them to develop and deliver sustainable money guidance services, and increasing the breadth, depth and quality of the guidance that they deliver.
• Attend partner meetings, conferences and events as appropriate to support relationship development, both in person and online.
• Contribute to the development the partner strand and ensure it progresses in line with strategic and scale up planning.
• Working closely with the UK Partnerships team at MaPS to engage with new potential partner organisations, and to manage ongoing relationships with Money Guiders partners
• Ensure partners are fully aware of all learning opportunities available to them, and championing the benefits of them aligned to partner needs.
• Capture and provide insight, intelligence and feedback from Money Guiders partners to inform the future development of the programme.
• Keep abreast of the complex and diverse systems within which the Money Guiders partner organisations and practitioners operate at a strategic, policy and practice level
• Work closely with our Programme Co-Ordinator to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of Money guiders partner practitioners’ induction sessions.

Person specification

What You’ll Bring

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

Essential

• Track record of developing strategic partnerships in sectors such as local authorities, charity and community organisations, housing, welfare support, youth services or financial inclusion.

• Deep understanding of the operational challenges faced by frontline practitioners supporting people with money-related issues.
• Ability to influence organisations to adopt professional development and quality improvement approaches.
• Strong relationship management experience with senior leaders through to frontline staff.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, able to translate the Money Guiders framework into practical organisational benefits.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder programme.
• Highly organised with strong planning and prioritisation skills.

Desirable

• Experience supporting services for children, families or young people.
• Experience working with, or developing partnerships within, local authorities.
• Knowledge of non‑regulated money guidance principles or related frameworks (e.g., financial capability, financial wellbeing, advice referral pathways).

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: Please submit your CV alongside a supporting statement of no more than 500 words highlighting your reason for applying for the role. This will be assessed by one of our Talent team.

Stage 2: If successful at Application review, you will be invited to book in for a Telephone Interview (up to 30 mins)

Stage 3: Final stage interview with the hiring panel consisting of a presentation followed by a competency based interview.

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: MaPS01118

Close Date: 15/03/26

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

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.co.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : nicholas.heron@reed.co.uk