Northern Ireland

£32,136 pa plus excellent benefits

Remote some travel required

Full-time, 35 hours per week

The Development Manager will focus and lead on identifying opportunities to grow our reach through the rollout of RNID Near You services and recruiting, supporting, and retaining volunteers across the region.

You will be responsible for:

• Representing RNID in your locality through active engagement with communities and local partnerships.
• You will be responsible for:
• Recruiting and managing Community Volunteers to represent RNID in your region.
• Networking and prospecting to help open doors to opportunities in order to grow our services.
• Recruiting volunteers for the RNID Near You service.

You will:

• Identify local opportunities for development, improve the scope of our work and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders.
• Develop partnerships with the aim of business development.
• Collaborate and input on service development.
• Support the Head of Operations in the implementation of the strategy of growth.
• Work closely with the Head of Operations in producing reports and presenting at key meetings when required.
• Work flexibly across a digital organisation without limits to geography.

You will have experience of recruiting and working with volunteers. You have a thorough understanding of community engagement and how it fits to benefit the organisation. You keep up to date with funding opportunities and developments within National Health commissioning. You are able to develop and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders. You have a solution focused attitude to our challenges, and you select the appropriate methods to advance our strategy. You are responsible and take initiative for your own personal development.

RNID Near You is our national community-based service. People can get support in their local community from trained volunteers who can offer:

• a hearing check and information on how to book a full hearing test.
• basic hearing aid repairs, cleaning, and advice on using hearing aids.
• information on hearing aids, hearing loss, tinnitus, and related issues.
• emotional and practical peer support from people with lived experience.

RNID has been helping people with hearing loss for more than 100 years, and weve changed the lives of millions. We support organisations to become more confident working with people who are deaf and have hearing loss or tinnitus. Our online hearing check has now been taken by over 100,000 people and we campaign to challenge the discrimination faced by our communities in society.

We are externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated. Our values are at the heart of what we do. We strive to be and continue to be connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose.

RNID is a digital first, remote-working charity, providing information and support through our fully accessible contact centre and our ever-improving website. We recruit and deploy Community Volunteers across the UK to be ambassadors for RNID and bring a face-to-face approach to communities.

For further information and to apply, please click in the apply button below.

Closing date: 3 April 2026

Interviews: w/c 13 April 2026