35 Partnerships manager jobs

About Spear

We launched the award-winning Spear Programme over 20 years ago, and there are now 20 Spear Centres across the country, equipping unemployed 16–24-year-olds facing barriers to employment with the skills and mindset they need to secure work and thrive in the workplace.

Spear operates a joint venture model with churches across the UK to run our Spear Centres. Some Centres operate in collaboration with independent charitable trusts, while others are run directly with the local church (both referred to below as ‘Spear Church Partners’ or ‘Church Partners’) As a result, the Senior Church Partnerships Fundraising Manager role requires raising funds for both churches and charitable trusts.

About the role

As Spear expands and opens new centres nationwide, you will play a pivotal role in equipping new and existing Church Partners to build sustainable, thriving Spear Centres that transform young people’s lives.

You will combine strategic insight, relationship-building and hands-on fundraising support to help Church Partners grow diverse and resilient fundraising streams. Working closely with Trustees, Church leaders and Spear’s Central teams, you will strengthen funding pipelines, unlock new opportunities and ensure partners are supported every step of the way. 

For more information please read through our Job Specification and our Work with us pack (see below) 

Key information

• Salary: from £42,000
• Contract: 3-5 days, fixed term, 12 months. With some out of hours work needed for events such as Spear Celebration. Ad hoc regional travel required to deliver training and support to partner churches.
• Annual leave: 28 days annual leave (including Christmas gift days) plus bank holidays.
• Closing Date: Friday 6th November (We interview on a rolling basis throughout the application period, and may close the role early if we find the right candidate).

If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.

Person Specification

• A practising Christian, passionate about personally representing the values and beliefs of Spear, and our mission to inspire and equip young people to overcome the barriers they’re facing to enter and sustain employment.
• Effective interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence, with the ability to relate confidently to a range of stakeholders both, internally and externally.
• Creative, self-motivated forward planner who exercises initiative, with the ability to prioritise workload, including working well under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in fundraising, Trust and/or community fundraising and good working knowledge of other fundraising streams is desirable but not essential.
• Strong quantitative skills including ability to work with and interpret impact data, fundraising pipelines and basic financial information.
• Good IT skills, with a working knowledge of Salesforce and Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.