PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH MANAGER

Salary: £35,000 per annum + benefits

Contract length: Permanent

Location: Stratford w/ flexibility

Closing date: Wednesday 21st April 2021, 23:55

Are you a self-motivated and sharp minded individual with strong research and analytical skills that can help us beat cancer?

Why we need you

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Partnership Research Manager. We need you to provide intelligence that enables us to maximise the potential of high value parternships through prospect research, collaboration and data driven insights.

What will I be doing?

Make an impact every day by…

• Providing intelligence to enable to development of prospects for the Partnerships department

• Contributing to the design and deliver of prospect management systems and processes

• Developing the management of information and intelligence of High Value contacts and networks across CRUK

• Delivering quality, detailed supporter profiles which aid prospect research approaches

• Maintaining a comprehensive overview of market trends to inform market research projects

• Communicating and presenting prospect research findings in a comprehensive manner to a number of stakeholders.

As the name suggests, the Partnerships, High Value Fundraising Events and Talent & Influencer Relations department ("Partnerships"), is made up of three different teams. Whilst what the individual teams do and deliver for CRUK is distinct, they are united by the similarities in how we manage our relationships and how the teams work together. All three teams collaborate with people or organisations (sometimes both) to create relationships that deliver value for both the charity and the supporter - whether they are a corporate partner, an event host or an artist or talent ambassador.

Specifically, the Partnerships team bring in, manage and grow a portfolio of high value partnerships with companies based in the UK and globally - focusing on increasing the reach of both organisations, generating funds and delivering CRUK's core purpose objectives

To view a full job description please click here:

What skills are you looking for?

You'll be able to bring to the role…

• Relevant experience of using analytical skills and resources to draw conclusions and develop recommendations

• Experience and understanding of the Data Protection Act and GDPR and their application

• Experience of successfully working with and influencing multiple stakeholders

• Excellent organisational skills - able to manage own workload and that of a number of individuals, motivating and tracking progress to ensure targets are met

• Innovation and always ready to take an initiative, solve problems and think laterally

• Good understanding of Partnership fundraising and the role that prospect research should play within it.

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, childcare vouchers and much more. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and develoment opportunities. And ultimately you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

We are looking for a Business Development Manager with significant experience in Trusts, Foundation and Statutory Income to join our thriving Business Development Unit and play a leading role in securing new income for our growing organisation.

We are a legal and environmental charity that uses the power of the law to fight against climate change and to protect nature and the environment. Our Development Department is responsible for raising funds that enable us to deliver our mission. The Development department is formed of several fundraising strands: an established Grants programme, securing funding from trusts, foundations and institutional donors; a newly formed Digital Fundraising stream, raising income from the public; and a Philanthropy team, working with a wide range of individuals and organisations to raise primarily unrestricted gifts to support ClientEarth’s work.

In this role, you will be working across our programme areas and geographies to cultivate new funder relationships, developing winning proposals, and ensuring a growing and diverse funder base.As a representative of ClientEarth, you will be liaising and building relationships with funders internationally and will be the primary point of contact and key relationship manager for new donors. You will also have line management responsibility, overseeing the work and professional development of a Business Development Officer who is expected to both support the Manager with their accounts and lead on their own portfolio.

Meet your Manager

In this role, you will be managed by Catherine Sweeney, our Head of Business Development. Catherine has over a decade of experience driving income generation from Trust, Foundation, and institutional/ statutory sources, most recently leading the income stream at the British Refugee Council. Catherine started her fundraising career at an environmental/ sustainability social enterprise and has gone on to work in a wide range of sectors including international development in Kenya and human rights in the UK before returning to the environmental movement with ClientEarth in December 2020.

Main Duties

• Prospect research and pipeline development, including identifying and establishing new funding contacts, undertaking prospect research and representing ClientEarth at high-level events.
• Business Development and Income generation, including leading on aligning our priorities and budgetary needs with funders’ interests and criteria and establishing and leading proposal development teams, steering input into fundraising activities by colleagues/stakeholders.
• Staff Management, including defining individual work priorities, assessing the performance of line-managed staff members, and supporting the professional development of your line-report. 
• Working with the Head of Business Development and other Business Development Managers to develop and implement the team’s strategy
• Systems and processes, including providing timely and accurate information on team performance metrics, and supporting the development and improvement of team systems and processes. 

Role requirements

• Significant and demonstrable experience of working in a fundraising or business development role for a charity, NGO, private or public entity
• Significant experience of drafting complex proposals for trusts, foundations and statutory institutions (including EU) and securing multi-year, six and seven-figure grants
• Experience of successfully managing the relationship development process with a new donor, from prospect identification through to cultivation encompassing both personal engagement with prospects and/or coordinating the input of colleagues from across the organisation
• Fluent (CEFR level C2) in English 
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, with ability to foster positive working relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including and especially with funders 
• Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills 

Further Information

Salary ranges as follows:

• London: £40,800-£43,350 depending on experience
• Berlin: €46 920 - €50 490 depending on experience
• Brussels: €48 960 - €51 510 depending on experience

Please note we are also currently recruiting for a Business Development Officer.

Flexible working: Post-covid, we are giving our staff the choice to decide where they want to work for 80% of their week, with the other 20% of their week being office-based. See our Benefits page for more.

ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK/Germany/Belgium.

TPP is currently partnering with a leading health and wellbeing charity to recruit for a Statutory Funding and Partnerships Manager focusing on Wales. The charity is well established and has been influential in breaking down stigma and providing quality care and support to service users. The role is permanent, paying £34,096 and you can work remotely anywhere in Wales with the option of working from hubs in Cardiff and Swansea.

The main focus of this role is to build relationships with key external stakeholders which include health boards, local authorities, trust funders and Public Health Wales. The aim of this is to strengthen existing services, identify new opportunities and develop income for the charity. From this, you will review funding streams available to increase services across Mid and North Wales. Finally, you will also manage two existing contracts with two health boards in Cardiff and Swansea.

To be successful in this role you will have experience and knowledge of statutory funding, including bid development and understanding of local government. You will have experience of building relationships with key external stakeholders such as those mentioned above, and you will be confident at networking and presenting information about sensitive health issues to a range of audiences. You will also possess sound interpersonal and communication skills. Finally, you will be based in Wales or on the outskirts such as Bristol.

How to Apply

Closing date - Recruiting on a rolling basis. Candidates are advised to apply asap.

If you are interested in this role or wish to register with TPP to hear about future posts, please call Patrick on 020 7198 6040 or send your CV to [email protected]

Please note the internal job title is: Partnerships and Development Manager

Salary: £36,000 + Competitive Benefits

Remote based: Post Covid-19 Travel across Wales will be required

About Volunteering Matters

Volunteering Matters is the UK’s leading volunteering charity that brings people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues though the power of volunteering. We engage over 20,000 volunteers every year through more than 100 programmes across England, Scotland, and Wales.

We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and ensuring young people can change.

Our local knowledge and energy is used to make action and progress, build stronger communities, and create a better future for all.  

Volunteering Matters, in conjunction with BAME Recruitment are seeking applicants for a newly created and critical role for a Partnerships Manager – Wales.

The Role:

As the Partnerships Manager - Wales, you will play a significant role in developing our placed based business development strategy across Wales.

Our places and volunteers are crucial to us. They know their communities best. You will support our local Delivery teams in Wales to build new partnerships and grow our places. The role will also platform the voices of our volunteers to lead the development of our services. The role will be a key component of the UK Business Development Team.

Your core responsibilities will consist of developing and growing our place-based relationships for Volunteering Matters in Wales, helping to build a systematic relationship approach to income generation across the organisation. Influencing local relationships and systems through the power of volunteer and community voice, ensuring the voice of our volunteers and young people are always represented in our relationships.

You will have:

• A commitment to the values and mission of Volunteering Matters, especially platforming the voices of our volunteers and young people, as determinant to our work alongside and for communities.
• A pragmatism in understanding and working with the communities served by Volunteering Matters projects, and their respective local government and third sector services.
• An ability to influence local and national policy makers, by utilising the power of storytelling and advocating for the importance of youth voice, when lobbying for social change.

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a supporting statement. Your statement should be up to 2 pages long (no more than 900 words), answering the following questions:

1.What attracts you to work for Volunteering Matters and this specific role?

2.From what you know about the opportunity what experience and skills would you bring that would enable you to be successful in this role?

3.Could you share your best example in your career where you took on the responsibility of decision making and used your initiative to implement a significant change?

Diversity & Inclusion:

Volunteering Matters welcome all applicants and are keen to ensure their team to reflect the diversity of the UK and the communities they serve. They would like to encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments:

We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please provide evidence in your application, which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the “Experience/Skills and attributes” section of this job description. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process, please state this in your application.

Founders4Schools are delighted to announce this exciting opportunity to join our fundraising team. You will play a key role in implementing and continuing to shape our ambitious fundraising strategy, so we can help raise the aspirations of every young person across the UK. 

Founders4Schools is an award-winning educational-tech charity which connects young people with inspirational role models to raise their aspirations, to fulfil their potential and to prepare them for the rapidly changing world of work. We offer a simple, free-to-use digital platform which enables teachers all over the UK to connect their students with inspiring business role models (virtually or in-class). Our work aims to tackle inequality by providing equal access to the world of work, to support young people by aligning what they learn at school, with future careers and to provide young people with the confidence they need to take their first steps into the workplace. 

The successful candidate will ideally have at least 3 years of senior level fundraising experience, a proven, personal track record of winning and delivering corporate partnerships and experience in writing successful proposals for commercial partnerships and winning bids to trusts and foundations. 

We are looking for a confident, dynamic and resourceful, self-starter with excellent communication and presentation skills, and fluency in writing proposals. You will be experienced in identifying new income opportunities through research and networking, building pipelines in order to meet budgets, and managing internal and external stakeholders.

Our ideal candidate will be confident in managing a fast paced and conflicting workload, have a sales mentality, and be able to think laterally to identify income opportunities. Experience in cause related marketing, fundraising events, digital income streams and growing income strategically through social media are advantageous.

Main duties:  

• Manage and develop a pipeline of new funding opportunities
• Effectively account manage secured partnerships 
• Develop attractive proposals and a case for support to secure long-term corporate partnerships with multi-year commitments
• Develop effective stewardship plans and cultivate relationships to develop new and existing relationships to maximise future funding potential
• Support the organisation and management of donor engagement events and fundraising events
• Write compelling funding bids to secure five figure income levels from trusts and foundations 
• Report to and work with the Director of Fundraising to achieve quarterly targets against budgets
• Deliver other duties as required by the organisation 

Person Specification

Essential:

• Proven personal record of delivering an annual income in excess of £400,000
• Experience of identifying and building relationships with new fundraising prospects. 
• Extensive experience in building successful corporate partnerships and sponsorship packages
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Excellent social media knowledge 
• Convincing presentation and negotiation skills
• Experience in organising and managing events (fundraising and stewardship)
• Experience of using a database to manage pipelines and budgets
• Proven ability to work with colleagues from a range of disciplines
• Be passionate about raising the career aspirations of children and young people and supporting employability prospects 

Desirable:

• Good network of prospect funders and partners
• Experience of working on cause related marketing partnerships
• Experience of winning or managing ‘Charity of the Year’ partnerships
• Experience of developing successful fundraising bids and securing income from trusts, foundations or government bodies.

 
Benefits include:

• Home-based, flexible working 
• Professional and personal development
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 
• Summer and Christmas team celebrations
• Line management opportunities

Please apply online here with your CV and one page cover letter. Please explain why you want this role, what you would bring to the team and how your skills and experience would enhance our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status

For an informal discussion, please contact the recruiting manager, Laurena Robinson. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with interviews taking place online.

The Partnerships Officer will support the smooth running of Partnership delivery by carrying out a range of administrative tasks. This role sits at the centre of a busy and friendly team and they have a key part to play in supporting their colleagues in reporting to deadlines, keeping CRM and other online systems are up to date, and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships through regular partner communications. With the opportunity to grow and develop first-hand experience in supporting project management, managing events and working across the organisation this is an ideal role for someone who is keen to join a team at a time of ambitious organisational growth.

Responsibilities include:

• Supports with Delivery Partner Salesforce systems administration
• Work on the Partner contracting system administration, including data entry and managing the use of the Docusign platform
• Leads on the administration of the Partner quality assurance framework including communications with Link Workers, Delivery Managers and Partners
• Support Head of Partnerships with quantitative and qualitative data required for reporting (schools, development, stakeholders)
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, including Impact and Link Work team on Partnership mobilisation and quality assurance
• Support the setting up of partner review meetings and in-school learning groups, minutes and actions
• Work with partners on reminders for attendance and monitoring data
• Support the administration of the “Evolve” online system for planning trips and visits
• Keep Partnerships Team written products up to date including the Partnership Handbook, Partner Summaries and WLZ website information
• Generate Partner communications, including newsletters and surveys
• Support the Partnerships Manager with organising community events and partner learning groups, including monitoring invitations and supporting with logistics
• Help with online research into possible new partnership opportunities based on key growth areas identified by the Head of Partnerships
• Other administrative tasks to support the effective delivery of the Partnership Team’s objectives

To apply, please complete and send the attached application form which you will also find on West London Zone’s website.

Applications received before:  11:30pm on Monday 19th April 2021 will be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 5:00pm, on Wednesday 21st April.

Interviews with West London Zone will be held on the 26th & 27th April 2021.

Interviews would either be face to face or via video call but will be in line with the most up-to-date government guidance.

Partnership Development Manager

£32,291pa

Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey

This is an amazing opportunity to use your experience in securing and managing corporate partnerships to forge new, high impact and long-term relationships with companies. We want you to work with business and partners, to catalyse action, change hearts and minds and create solutions in the fight for our world. Your role will be to build long term commitment and inspire partners to do more to save our planet, before it is too late.

As Partnership Development Manager, you will deliver corporate engagement strategies and develop new partnership approaches and proposals. You will manage a personal portfolio of major corporate prospects, engaging and building relationships across departments. You will make cold approaches and forge new relationships with suitable potential corporate partners too.

We will look to you to construct and deliver compelling pitches and proposals as well as negotiate strong partnership terms that meet both our and partner objectives. You will oversee the onboarding of new partnerships, allocate resources and implement account management structures as well as update colleagues as needed. You will also proactively develop relationships and use your understanding of our strategic priorities and the wider business agenda, to ensure key WWF issues and viewpoints can be expressed confidently at a senior level in meetings.

You must have a proven track record of securing corporate partnerships in a commercial or charity setting. Used to engaging and networking at a senior level, you will possess a strong network of corporate contacts. You will have a firm understanding of the corporate sustainability and purpose agenda too.

Naturally warm and enthusiastic, you will possess excellent networking, communication and presentation skills. Results driven, you will be the sort of person who is flexible and enjoys a collaborative working style. A background in corporate fundraising and experience of engaging with the finance, FMCG, food or tech sectors would be an advantage.

If you have the ability to maximise income, impact and influence opportunities for us through partnerships and are passionate about building a movement in defence of nature, we’d love to hear from you. Please visit our website to complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV with cover letter highlighting what makes you the perfect fit for us.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

This is a brand new position - an exciting opportunity to make your mark on a small dynamic charity with ambitious goals.

This pivotal role will suit an experienced relational fundraiser who excels at inspiring people to catch a vision and contribute through their donations. Read about SEED’s vision, mission, and pilot community resilience model in our strategy in the attachments. As the prime driver of income generation for SEED, you will proactively secure multi-year relationships with individuals, small businesses, trusts and foundations. You will also oversee all SEED’s other fundraising and communications, including fundraising appeals like the Big Give Christmas Challenge, newsletter, social media and website.

Initially the only employee of SEED in the UK, you will report directly to a Trustee, oversee our small group of committed volunteers, and liaise closely with our delivery team in Zimbabwe. Before long, we’re sure your efforts will create the need and funding to grow the UK team. Working in a very small charity, you will enjoy a varied, interesting role with opportunities to get involved in wider organisational priorities and effect change with minimal bureaucracy.

You will work from home, even after lockdown ends (SEED doesn’t have an office), with occasional travel to meet donors or trustees. Trustees are in London / Cambridge, but video calls would be considered if the best candidate was located further away. 

We will consider 2-3 days a week, and we support flexible working, so this role could fit around other commitments.

To apply, please prepare a tailored and concise covering letter explaining what attracts you to The SEED Project in general and to this role in particular, how you fit the person specification, and why you are confident you can help us to grow our funding base.Please submit this along with your CV.

We are looking to recruit a Partnership Fundraising Officer to secure long-term, high value, mutually beneficial corporate and non-corporate partners across a range of disciplines, including Charity of the Year, cause-related marketing and sponsorship.

You will also be responsible for researching key prospective sectors and companies, sector activities and the business marketplace, to compile lists of key targets, as agreed with the Head of Fundraising.  You will develop and manage an ongoing pipeline of prospects, that have a clearly defined target outcome and value.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate experience in corporate fundraising new business or a sales experience within the voluntary and/or commercial sector.

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

The Strategic Writing Executive is part of the Resource Hub team at UNICEF UK.  By providing analysis, insight, case creation, proposal and report writing, prospect research and departmental administrative support, the Resource Hub is critical to the organisation’s success in maximising the value of our most critical partnerships.

Your role will be to lead the proposition and impact report development process for high value supporters–including philanthropists, corporate partners and trusts and foundations–up to a value of £250,000, by drafting donor-centric propositions, impact reports and investment cases in support of a broad range of UNICEF’s programmes, initiatives and strategic goals.

To succeed, you will need to have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to work to tight deadlines, manage conflicting priorities and build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders.

Senior Communications Manager (Partnerships)

£37,679pa

Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey

If you are skilled at developing and executing high profile communications strategies, this is an incredible opportunity to use your expertise to save our world. It is not too late to act, and you can play a pivotal role by sharing your communications expertise as part of the team at WWF UK.

We need to work in partnership with businesses in order to achieve our mission of building a future where people and nature thrive. Collaborating with some of the biggest brands we are accelerating sustainable business practices and engage new audiences in the fight for our world. As Senior Communications Manager, you will lead the communications for a portfolio of WWF's corporate partnerships, with a particular focus on one of our higher-profile partners.

Leading the development of integrated communications activities, you will ensure work achieves joint WWF and partner objectives including consumer engagement, fundraising and business-to-business communications, with a rigorous focus on achieving partnership communications objectives. You will liaise with colleagues to make sure the wider organisation understands portfolio’s communications priorities and how they contribute to wider organisational objectives as well as coordinate with other WWF network offices to deliver effective communications activities for global or multi-territory partnerships. Important, will be the ability to evaluate and report on the success as well as make recommendations to enhance future performance. You will also provide expert communications support and advice to other WWF teams as required, particularly around corporate partnerships and business engagement.

You must have experience of developing and executing high profile communications strategies and significant, demonstrable experience in delivering large scale communications campaigns within a complex stakeholder landscape. You must be comfortable managing corporate or political relationships within communications and possess a solid understanding of media and digital engagement landscapes and of how digital communications can be employed to achieve advocacy objectives. Expertise in a broad range of communications delivery, from PR and media to events and marketing will be needed in this role.

An excellent communicator, you will be effective at networking and influencing others. Results driven, you will possess strong project management and problem solving skills.

If you have the skills to help us achieve our mission, please visit our website via the link to complete the online registration and submit a copy of your CV with cover letter highlighting why this role is for you.

At WWF-UK we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits to encourage a work life balance.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who share our determination to make it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

BVSC has an exciting opportunity available for a Strategic Partnership Manager to join the team based in Birmingham. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive starting salary of £35,444 per annum.

Birmingham City Council and BVSC have formed a strategic partnership that will improve the opportunities for developing joined-up approaches to work between the local authority and civil society. The programme will drive change through a new integrated programme of strategic engagement and sector support that will be led by BVSC.

BVSC is a committed, values-based employer. Our company culture is based on making a positive difference through passion and innovation, with a real focus on connecting people through a collaborative approach. We are passionately about inclusivity and value our integrity in everything we do to make a difference.

We are looking for candidates that demonstrate the following BVSC organisational values:

COMMITMENT: Making a positive difference through passion, innovation and social action.
COLLABORATION: Connecting people and organisations to work together to improve lives.
INCLUSION: Empowering and involving everyone in creating a fair and equitable Birmingham.
INTEGRITY: Building trust through delivering excellent outcomes.

The Strategic Partnership Manager role:

As Strategic Partnership Manager you will play a key role in delivering the vision of the Birmingham City Council and BVSC strategic partnership. You will be developing opportunities through a joined-up approach between the local authority and civil society.

The work you do will be citizen-focused, improving services and outcomes for the people of Birmingham. You will be supporting and improving public and voluntary collaboration in order to deliver excellent services.

As Strategic Partnership Manager you will be supporting the implementation of focused sector support and development, targeting support on the organisations and in the communities where it is most needed. This will focus on rebuilding civic pride, community capability, resilience, and cohesion, Sector skills, fundraising and strategic investment.

Key responsibilities of our Strategic Partnership Manager:

• Lead BVSCs work to establish a new VCS forum for Birmingham called ‘Engage for Good’
• Facilitate and co-ordinate the new forum, convening meetings, enabling self-directed meetings/events, organising hosting (venue, facilities)
• Support the development of categorised databases offering access to designated senior staff/leaders
• Working with members of the Engage for Good forum to support capacity-building activity that responds to identified priority needs and issues
• Working with partners to develop a new programme of place/locality-based infrastructure support especially for smaller and grassroots organisations
• Implement a programme of community capacity-building that offers targeted assistance to grassroots groups specifically involved in activities that promote community cohesion, resilience, and engagement
• Implement a programme of higher-level consultancy support for established VCOs offering specialised and more complex support specifically regarding innovation, crisis, service improvement, new business/delivery models
• Identify and establish new opportunities to utilise private sector CSR efforts including Board volunteering and organisational mentoring
• Support the work of the Strategic Funding Manager and related work undertaken through the strategic partnership

What we’re looking for in our Strategic Partnership Manager:

• Experience of working as part of a management team to achieve organisational goals
• Experience of developing business and work plans that deliver positive change
• Experience of managing relationships and contracts with funding bodies
• Experience of working within civil society
• Degree level or equivalent experience
• Computer literate with excellent MS Office skills
• Excellent written skills including accurate and high-level document presentation skills
• Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent research, writing and checking skills, with close attention to detail
• Ability to handle pressure and to work to deadlines
• Ability to work at the same time independently and collegially
• Excellent organisational and time management skills – planning, prioritising and managing workload with the ability to meet deadlines
• Project management skills

Closing Date - Monday 26 April 2021 at 10 am
Interviews will be conducted via Zoom

The Youth Endowment Fund  

Head of Evaluation and Partnerships (Targeted Projects) 

Reports to:  Director of Impact

Salary:  £60,000 

Location: Central London 

About the Youth Endowment Fund 

The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent young people and children from becoming involved in violence.  

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them. 

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. Many organisations have this calling. Our unique role is to identify what works best and spread the good news. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas. 

At the heart of this is cutting-edge evaluation. Our mission is to find what works and then build a movement to put this into practice. That means that we are building a team that includes people who are brilliant evaluators and people who are brilliant at winning people over. In this role, we are looking for someone who is brilliant at both. This makes this a unique role – perfect for the right person. 

We’ll fund great initiatives in three ways: 

• Theme rounds. We’ll focus much of our funding on a series of themed rounds, one or two at any one time. 

• Place-based. We’ll focus on specific areas where violent crime is high. We’ll build partnerships with local people and organisations through our Neighbourhood Fund to create and test approaches aimed at addressing local challenges. And we’ll help local agencies to share power and information, through a dedicated Agency Collaboration Fund. 

• Targeted projects. If we identify programmes that don’t fit into the themed rounds or place-based funding but are widely used or promising with the potential to scale, we will provide the resources to fund, evaluate and learn from them. 

You will lead on our targeted projects work. This is likely to involve the design and delivery of strategically important and/or large-scale and innovative projects working with key partners and government. We estimate projects in this pipeline will be worth at least c.£10m a year. 

Key responsibilities 

You will be responsible for overseeing our targeted projects programme to identify and scale interventions and approaches that could make a significant dent in the problem of youth violence. You will have two main areas of responsibility: 

1. Designing, commissioning and managing complex and rigorous impact evaluations with experts in the field. You will:

• Make sure we maximise what we can learn from all targeted projects.

• Lead the design and delivery of our targeted projects evaluation work to ensure it produces quality learning about what works to prevent youth violence, including:

• Tendering evaluations;

• Assessing the feasibility, technical quality and deliverability of applications; 

• Make expert recommendations on which opportunities we pursue.

• Making appointments;

• Providing ongoing monitoring and quality assurance;

• Ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest quality. 

• Overseeing the publication of all reports. 

• Work with our wider evaluation team to ensure the approach is consistent with YEF’s overall evaluation strategy.

• Attend leadership meetings and governance meetings, making sure we make the best decisions as a Fund. 

• Make sure the evidence we produce is communicated in a clear and accessible way which will drive sustainable change. This is critical to everything we do at the Youth Endowment Fund.  

1. Identifying, building and managing great partnerships. You will:  

• Identify programmes or approaches that are either common and widely used to prevent children becoming involved in violence, or which are promising with the potential to scale.

• Build and nurture strong relationships with the organisations developing and delivering these programmes and approaches across England and Wales, making sure they are ready to apply for our funding. 

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with which give us the greatest opportunity to learn and make change happen whilst maximising match funding.

• Provide ongoing management and support to funded partners and evaluators, ensuring targeted projects are delivered to the highest standards and generate valuable evidence. 

• Support YEF’s supplementary funding targets by ensuring targeted projects brings in at least £6M a year in match funding.

About you 

You are this sort of person: 

• You are committed to tackling youth crime:You are passionate about the impact prevention and early intervention has. You don't want your days to pass without making a difference.

• You are experienced in evaluation and research: You have at least 5 years’ experience working in a senior research and evidence role in a related sector and a strong knowledge and technical expertise in evaluation methodologies. This includes the ability to critically appraise the design of more than one area of evaluation (e.g. randomised control trials, quasi experimental designs, evaluations of public health approaches, evaluations of complex multi-component evaluations, etc).You have significant experience of carrying out or commissioning large scale research and evaluation and have experience carrying out applied research methods including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. 

• You have a post-graduate (Masters or PhD) qualification. This is in a relevant field such social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant quantitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to a Masters qualification. 
   

• You are experienced in building partnerships. You have significant experience in building partnerships and can show how these have been effective in delivering change. Ideally these partnerships will have involved securing funding, either through cash or in kind support.

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.

• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player. 

• You are happy to help out where needed:You understand that working in a new organisation, leading on a new piece of work, sometimes means helping out with wherever it is needed.

• You really know what makes great research and quality evidence:  You can design and draft high-quality research proposals including the sample, measurement and analysis. You are confident in assessing the quality of evidence that underpins interventions and can guide decisions on grant applications.

• You are an excellent communicator:  You can produce technical documents that accurately report methodological and statistical information. You will combine this with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible format to non-experts. 

• You are responsible, motivated and thrive in a fast-paced environment:  You take personal responsibility for critical decisions and have experience working in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment. You are extremely motivated and have a track record of delivery highly technical research and evidence work on time, on budget and to a high quality. 
   

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values. 

You may have, but they are not essential: 
 

• Good knowledge and understanding of crime, serious violence or other relevant areas: This could include areas such as child development, parenting or children’s mental health from fields such as psychology, neuroscience or education research. You know the facts, the risk and protective factors that impact youth criminality, understand the issues, know the key people and can discuss the theories. You are knowledgeable on this topic and very at ease discussing it with experts.  

• Great quantitative analysis skills: This includes experience of using advanced analytical software such as R, Stata or SPSS. Experience of using this software in the context of quasi-experimental evaluations would also be an advantage.

• Knowledge and experience of evidence synthesis: You know the different approaches and have carried out your own evidence synthesis projects.

• An understanding of the public policy and delivery context of youth crime and early intervention 

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence. 

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. 

To apply 

To apply, please send a CV, cover letter and the monitoring form through our application page by 25th April 2021.  

Please ensure your cover letter explains your motivation for applying for the role and how you meeting the essential and desirable criteria

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage. Interviews are due to take place in mid to late May.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area. 
 

Want to use your skills in business development, donor management, and consortia building to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Partnerships Manager, Institutional Funding to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you'll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The Institutional Funding and Partnerships (IFP) Team act as a custodian of WaterAid's International Programme's Restricted Programme Funding Strategy, and is responsible for supporting WaterAid to secure and manage sustainable restricted funding to deliver on its programme ambition through:

* Cultivating and securing income from WaterAid's Institutional Donors for all WaterAid Federation programmes
* Supporting the effective design of restricted funding programmes/bids (esp. on strategic, high value and/or complex opportunities) across all income streams
* Ensuring the enabling environment is in place for the effective management of all restricted income

The Business Development & Partnerships functional area sits within IFP, and leads on developing relationships with key institutional donors, scoping and creating funding opportunities, and positioning and partnership development.

As the Partnerships Manager, Institutional Funding you will be critical in building the profile of WaterAid with key institutional donors, identifying and creating funding opportunities, and working across the whole federation and with key suppliers / contractors to position WaterAid to be the partner of choice for WASH.

We are looking for a strategic networker with the ability to identify and transform opportunities into tangible results. With a strong business development and partnership development background, you will have significant expertise and knowledge in the ways of working of key donors such as the FCDO, EU, SDC, World Bank, and other bilateral and multilateral institutional donors.

This is a 12-month, full time fixed term maternity cover, with possibility of extension. The post holder should be located in the UK or in a country where WaterAid has a presence (WaterAid programme countries) with a reasonable overlap in working hours with the UK.

Salary:

The UK-based salary for this role is c.£46,000 with excellent benefits. Salaries for different countries will vary in line with WaterAid's country salary scales.

WaterAid pay and benefits vary depending on the country of the successful candidates. For UK-based posts this includes:

• 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangements
• Season Ticket Loan
• Free annual eye tests
• Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

How to Apply:

To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into the same document in either Word Document or PDF format. Please name the file with your full name.

Applications will close 23:59 on 28 April 2021. Shortlisting and interviews will take place on a rolling basis and the application process will close if suitable candidates are found prior to the advertised closing date. Early application is strongly encouraged.

Additional Information:

WaterAid is currently located at Canary Wharf, London. Due to current restrictions on office capacity the majority of our staff are working from home. All aspects of this including how we are supporting homeworking and the office transition will be discussed at the interview stage with you.We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post.

In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the country you indicate in your application.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.