Partnership & Impact Director

Peckham Palms is a dedicated home for Black women entrepreneurs in hair, beauty and wellbeing. We are a social landlord: we bring independent businesses together under one roof and offer space on terms designed to help them thrive.

That model exists for a reason. As parts of Peckham change and rents rise, too many of the businesses and people who give this area its culture are being pushed out. Peckham Palms is a deliberate counterweight to that: a place that keeps Black women-run enterprise rooted, visible and growing in the heart of Peckham. Our success is measured not in occupancy alone, but in the livelihoods built, the skills developed, and the culture sustained across our tenant community and the wider neighbourhood.

We are proud of what we have built, and we are ambitious about what comes next. This is a chance to help lead that next chapter.

Peckham Palms is in a strong and stable position, and our focus now is on building from that base. Over the next three years we want to grow the organisation's reach and resilience by securing new commercial relationships, projects, sponsorship and funding that put us on a firm long-term footing. From there, we want to grow our impact in three ways:

• Deepening our support to existing tenants
  , helping the businesses already at the Palms to grow and succeed.
• Building a stronger programme of community events
  , reaching and supporting more entrepreneurs through the Palms.
• Expanding beyond Peckham Palms
  , taking our pioneering social shops model to new spaces, starting with a second site in Peckham.

The Partnership & Impact Director is central to realising this. You will help translate that ambition into the partnerships, funding and income streams that make it real, and in doing so help shape the journey itself.

This is a senior, outward-facing role for someone who can turn ideas into funded, delivered projects. You will identify, design and secure the partnerships and impact funding that align with our ambitions, then lead delivery of the work you bring in, strengthening the impact Peckham Palms has on our existing tenants and on the community beyond our walls.

Peckham Palms is not a charity. We are a social business, and that shapes how we fund our work. Partnerships with family offices and corporates, alongside commercial projects and sponsorship, are at the heart of the fundraising strategy this role will build and deliver. You will need to look well beyond the usual grant funding pathways, and to be as comfortable in commercial conversations as in philanthropic ones.

A core part of the job is strategy, not just execution: taking the Palms' organisational vision and shaping it into a clear partnerships and funding strategy, working out which partners, funders and income streams best fit where we want to go, and then going out and building them.

You will help to hold some of our existing funder relationships, but this role is primarily about making and delivering on new ones. We want to be clear that we have funding in place to secure our current work: you would be joining a stable, established organisation with room to build.

You will also help tell the story of the Palms. Working with the founder-Directors and freelance support, you will develop compelling narratives and assets that bring our mission to life for a broad cross-section of audiences and potential partners.

You will work alongside two experienced Directors who together co-founded Peckham Palms. They are fractional, part-time Directors: they will be your sounding board for key decisions and will offer support, but this is a role for an independent worker and leader. You will need to focus, motivate yourself and achieve a great deal without active day-to-day management. For the right entrepreneurial person, this is an unusually empowering and trusting role.

You will also work closely with our General Manager, who can support the delivery of the activations, projects and activities linked to your fundraising, helping to turn what you secure into events and work on the ground.

Beyond that, this is a standalone role: you will not have colleagues working below you. You will deliver projects by drawing on freelance and contract resources, which you will scope, cost and build into the funding you raise. The ability to budget for and manage that freelance resource is central to the job.

• Develop a clear partnerships and funding strategy that translates the Palms'…