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Partnerships and Engagement Manager

As part of our ambition to reach more families and secure the long-term sustainability of services, we are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Partnerships and Engagement Manager to help expand our client’s profile, build meaningful partnerships, and create new opportunities for support across the South West.

This is a newly created and strategically important role focused on developing new relationships with businesses, community organisations, professional networks, and other stakeholders who share a commitment to improving outcomes for children with disabilities and additional needs.

Position: Partnerships and Engagement Manager

Location: Home-based with regular travel across the South West and attendance at the National Therapy Assessment Centre, Bridgwater.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £37,000 - £41,250 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 7th July 2026

About the Role

Through the evidence-based Therapy Programmes and National Therapy Assessment Centre in Bridgwater, the organisation delivers life-changing outcomes for families across the UK. Acting as a key ambassador, you will represent the charity across the region, identifying opportunities to raise awareness, build engagement, and develop partnerships that support this work.

You will help maximise the Therapy Assessment Centre as an engagement hub, encouraging prospective supporters and partners to visit, learn more about the services, and get involved meaningfully.

Working with fundraising, communications, retail, and service delivery teams, you will strengthen regional presence, generate support, increase awareness, and contribute to sustainable income growth through corporate partnerships, Charity of the Year relationships, community engagement, networking, and strategic introductions.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Regional Partnerships & Engagement
• Partnership Development
• Corporate Partnerships & Charity of the Year Opportunities
• Networking, Outreach & Profile Raising
• National Therapy Assessment Centre Engagement
• Income Generation & Opportunity Development
• Collaboration & Organisational Development
• Governance, Compliance & Reporting

You will spend significant time meeting supporters, partners, and stakeholders across the South West. Applicants should therefore be based within the region and comfortable with regular travel, including visits to Bridgwater, as well as attendance at networking, partnership, and engagement events.

About You

While experience within the charity sector or fundraising would be advantageous, it is not essential. We are equally interested in candidates with strong networking, business development, account management, partnership development, sales, marketing, or stakeholder engagement experience. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who enjoys meeting people, building relationships, identifying opportunities, and nurturing partnerships that deliver long-term value.

This role is ideally suited to someone who is self-motivated, confident in representing an organisation externally and passionate about creating connections that make a meaningful difference.

The role offers the opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of children and families whilst developing a rewarding career within an ambitious charity. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the charity’s future, building the relationships, partnerships and profile needed to ensure more children and families can access our life-changing support for years to come.

You will have experience of:

• Relationship development, business development, partnership management, stakeholder engagement, account management, sales, membership development, or income-generating activity.
• Developing new opportunities, partnerships, or strategic relationships.
• Influencing, and relationship-building
• Managing pipelines, opportunities, or stakeholder relationships through to successful outcomes.

You will need to have a full driving licence, access to a vehicle and willingness to travel extensively across the South West.

The charity is an equal opportunities employer and celebrates diversity, committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment for all employees.

Other roles you may have experience with could include Fundraising, Fundraiser, Fundraising Officer, Business Development Officer, Business Development Executive, Account Manager, Sales, Marketing Officer, Marketing Executive, Partnerships Officer, Engagement Officer.

Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People. #INDNFP

Member Relationship Manager

Location: Home or hybrid option

Hours: 4 or 5 days a week

Salary: £36,791 (full time equivalent)

Accountable to: Head of Strategic Communications

Responsible for: Membership Officer X1

DBS Eligibility: Basic DBS check

Closing Date: 28th June 2026

Interview Date: 7th July

About the role

Join a charity that’s passionate about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. If you want your work to have a real-world impact, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do:

You'll head up our Membership team, responsible for new and existing members. This is a front-line role where you’ll:

• Grow and develop membership by identifying, engaging and converting new member organisations, building a strong pipeline of opportunities and increasing membership income.
• Manage and strengthen member relationships to maximise engagement, retention and progression across Thirtyone:eight's tiered membership offering.
• Lead membership operations and performance through effective use of CRM data, reporting, budgeting, process improvement and line management of the Membership Officer.
• Champion the membership proposition by collaborating with internal teams, developing strategic partnerships and representing Thirtyone:eight at events, conferences and networking opportunities.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to combine relationship management, business development and strategic leadership to grow Thirtyone:eight’s membership community, strengthen engagement across churches and Christian organisations, and support the charity’s mission of creating safer environments for vulnerable people.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Purpose-driven work: Everything you do helps protect children and vulnerable adults.
• Flexible working options: Balance your life and work with hybrid arrangements.
• Professional growth: Opportunities to learn, innovate, and lead.
• Supportive culture: Join a friendly, collaborative team that values your ideas.

If you enjoy delivering excellent customer service, handling detailed processes, and contributing to work that makes a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

1.    Lead the active recruitment of new members with a particular focus on decision-makers and leaders.

2.    Build, manage and progress a membership pipeline, using proactive activity, referrals, events, partner networks and existing organisational data.

3.    Use Thirtyone:eight’s membership database to identify prospective organisations, map trends and growth opportunities aligned with our tiered membership model.

4.    Initiate and lead conversations with prospective members, articulating the value of membership clearly and confidently, responding to questions and handling objections appropriately.

5.    Manage relationships with existing member organisations, ensuring they understand and experience the value of their membership.

6.    Identify opportunities to grow value within existing accounts, including movement between membership tiers or increased engagement with services.

7.    Work with the Head of Membership and Finance & Business Manager to develop systems and processes that support effective relationship management and growth.

8.    Contribute to the ongoing review and development of Thirtyone:eight’s membership offer, ensuring it remains relevant, clearly articulated and aligned with member need.

9.    Collaborate with internal teams to ensure a joined-up member journey from first contact through to ongoing engagement. 

10.    Ensure staff and volunteers across the organisation are well equipped and confident to promote the benefits of membership.

11.    Represent Thirtyone:eight, its Christian ethos and safeguarding mission at external events, exhibitions, networks and conferences. 

Specific Responsibilities

1. Line manage the Membership Officer, providing supervision, support and clear objectives aligned to recruitment and relationship management priorities.
2. Work with the Membership Officer to embed an effective membership account management structure that develops member relationships at the appropriate level with key clients.
3. Work closely with the Communications Manager to shape and deliver member communications that support recruitment, retention and progression across membership tiers.
4. Produce regular, insightful reporting on member recruitment,retention and churn, pipeline health and activity, and performance against agreed targets.
5. Ensure staff and volunteers across the organisation are properly equipped to promote the benefits of membership.
6. Work collaboratively as part of Thirtyone:eight’s management team to support the delivery of the organisation’s strategic objectives.
7. Identify and develop opportunities to work with partners and networks that can support membership growth and visibility.
8. With the head of department and finance team to set the annual membership budget and ensure all spend is within budget, appropriately accounted for, and that maximum return on investment is achieved. 

Person Specification

A) Essential Personal Characteristics and Qualities:

• Humility - Having a modest view of your own importance.
• Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
• Openness - Acceptance of, or receptiveness to change or new ideas. 
• Collaborative - Involving two or more parties working together. 
• Solution-focused - Concentration in problem solving or dealing with a difficult situation.
• Learning - Knowledge acquired through study, experience, or being taught.
• Creative - Having good imagination, thinking differently, or having original ideas.
• Fair - Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination. 
• Committed - Dedicated to a certain course, cause or policy.
• Passionate - Having or showing strong feelings or beliefs. 

B) Essential Experience:

• Sales and marketing experience with good relationship/account management experience.

• Experience of using a CRM system to manage and analyses data and record activities. (Knowledge of MS Dynamics desirable).

• Relevant experience of managing and developing relationships with churches, Christian faith-based organisations, or charities, to increase engagement. 

• Experience in developing and embedding of processes and procedures to ensure high levels of customer service are monitored and maintained across an organisation.

• Experience of line managing a team of staff and volunteers as well as working with external agencies.

• Comfortable working to targets and being accountable for outcomes.

C) Essential Abilities, Knowledge & Motivation:

These are the skills we regard as essential for the role:

• A strong working knowledge of churches, Christian faith organisations and charities.

• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively at all levels of an organisation.

• Motivated to continually improve on past success and to challenge the status quo.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage an audience.

• Self-motivated, resilient and outward-looking

• Ability to build strong, professional relationships with contacts of the charity. 

• Ability to work as a team member with colleagues and across departments.

• Good IT skills (MS Office applications as a minimum) with analytical capability.

• An ability to travel independently; both regionally and nationally as required.

• Knowledge and understanding of Equal Opportunity and Anti-discriminatory practice. 

• Willingness to promote and participate in relevant training and CPD. 
• Ability to identify with and accept the aims and objectives of the charity and statutory and other professional guidance as appropriate.

Community Fundraising Assistant - North 

Are you ready to take on a new challenge with a leading charity making a real difference in brain tumour research?

Brain Tumour Research is an exciting, innovative, and ambitious charity. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through the establishment of dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence around the UK.​

After a successful 2025, we’re building on our momentum and looking ahead with ambition. As our work continues to expand, so does our impact. We are now looking for passionate people to join us on the next stage of our journey!

It is a fantastic time to be joining us and we are keen to share this with likeminded and talented individuals. We currently have an opening for a Community Fundraising Assistant - North, to join our Community and Digital Fundraising team.

• Do you want to make a difference in one of the most innovative and exciting medical research fundraising charities in the UK?
• Are you able to provide friendly and professional support to fundraisers and supporters?   
• Do you have experience in supporting events or community activities?
• Do you live in either Scotland, North East England, North West England or the East Midlands? 

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Have you answered Yes to these questions?

Does this sound like the opportunity to really take the next step in your career?

Excited to learn more about this position? Then please take a read through our recruitment pack which is included within this advert.​​​

If you have the skills and ambition that we are looking for we are excited to receive your application.  We are really looking forward to welcoming a new member to our team!​

We are asking for a CV as the first step but applicants may be asked to provide a targeted covering letter as part of the selection process.  Interviews will be conducted during the application window as appropriate, and will consist of a first interview via MS Teams, progressing, if successful to a face to face second interview, held at our offices in Milton Keynes.

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We reserve the right to close the application window early and advise candidates to apply in good time to avoid disappointment.​

We are looking for people who share our passion for finding a cure for brain tumours and who have the skills and experience to make a difference. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and ages. We believe that diversity enriches our organisation and helps us achieve our mission. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone can be themselves and contribute to our vision.

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