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Salary: £42,600 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 5 July 2026 at 11pm
Interview date: w/c 13th July 2026
About CARE
CARE International is a global humanitarian organisation leading the fight to end poverty in the world’s most challenging situations. Women and girls are at the centre of our work, because we cannot overcome poverty and inequality until all people have equal rights and opportunities. We know that when a crisis erupts, women are often the first to pick up the pieces, so we work alongside women, so they have the power to make change where it’s needed most. Founded in 1945, CARE currently works in over 100 countries and last year alone reached 53.4 million people through nearly 1,500 projects.
Why work for CARE International UK?
At CARE International UK, you'll be part of a passionate and purpose-driven organisation working alongside women and their communities to improve lives and livelihoods, respond to crises, and create a more equal future for everyone. As we embark on an ambitious new three-year strategy, we're investing in the partnerships that make our work possible and creating exciting opportunities to increase our impact around the world.
This is your chance to play a key role in shaping how we engage, inspire and communicate with the businesses, trusts, foundations, and philanthropists who support our mission. You'll join a collaborative, values-led team where you will directly contribute to meaningful, lasting change.
About you
You are a talented communications professional with a passion for storytelling and relationship-building rooted in your experience of working with corporate partners, major donors, or other high-value external relationships. You know how to craft compelling content that resonates with different audiences and understand the important role communications play in strengthening partnerships and driving engagement.
A confident collaborator, you enjoy working across teams, building strong stakeholder relationships, and translating strategic objectives into impactful communications. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, bring a proactive and solutions-focused approach to your work, and are motivated by the opportunity to use your skills to support women and communities around the world.
About the role
As Senior Partnerships Communications Officer, you will be the communications lead for CARE’s growing portfolio of corporate, trust, foundation and philanthropic partnerships. Sitting within the Communications team and acting as a key business partner to the Partnerships & Philanthropy team, you will develop a deep understanding of partnership priorities and provide expert communications support that helps grow income, strengthen engagement and showcase impact.
You will create compelling content and stories that bring partnerships to life, ensuring donor audiences are effectively integrated into CARE’s communications and that partners feel valued, connected and inspired by the difference their support makes. This is a highly collaborative role with the opportunity to influence how we communicate with some of our most important supporters, helping to build stronger relationships and create greater impact for the women and communities we serve.
Right to Work in the UK
All applicants must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of appointment. Proof of right to work will be required as part of the recruitment process. For more information, please visit the UK Government's guidance on right to work.
Where you do not have current right to work in the UK, then this will be discussed with you as part of the recruitment process. Please note that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship and further information (should you require sponsorship to work in the UK) on eligibility can be found here.
Safeguarding
CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy (link here) and our Code of Conduct (link here). They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.
Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:
· Satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (link here). In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
· Appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check, link here).
By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to Equality and value Diversity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch by sending an email to the HR Team.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from people of underrepresented backgrounds, including those from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
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We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
We work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse. We want what you would want for your best friend. We listen to survivors, putting their voices at the heart of our thinking. We look at the whole picture for each individual and family to get the right help at the right time to make families everywhere safe and well. And we challenge perpetrators to change, asking ‘why doesn’t he stop?’ rather than ‘why doesn’t she leave?’ This applies whatever the gender of the victim or perpetrator and whatever the nature of their relationship.
Last year alone, nearly 13,500 professionals received our training. Over 70,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last four years, over 2,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
This is a broad and varied role across Policy, Public Affairs and Communications, with a specific focus on the Drive Project:
The Drive Project is the Drive Partnership’s flagship intervention for high-risk, high-harm and serial perpetrators of domestic abuse. The core mission of the Drive Project is to stop the cycle of domestic abuse and increase the immediate and long-term safety of adult and child victim-survivors. The Drive Project does this by partnering with agencies and local perpetrator services to disrupt, challenge, and change the behaviour of high-risk, high-harm and serial perpetrators, and working closely with IDVAs and victim-survivor services to always centre the safety and needs of victim-survivors, in line with the Respect Standard.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Communications
- Support the Drive Partnership’s communications and stakeholder engagement regarding the Drive Project.
- Lead central support on communications for Drive Project partners and build strong working relationships across network, ensuring both policy and communications expertise and input flows both ways.
- Work closely with internal and external partner colleagues to support the safe and effective roll-out of the Drive Project across England and Wales.
- Support the delivery of the Drive Partnership’s communications plan, including website content, social media, newsletters, and events.
- Develop and maintain communications and branding guidelines and support the Drive Partnership team and network of partners to use correctly.
- Support the Policy, Public Affairs and Communications Manager in developing media relations, including media enquiries, drafting press releases and responses.
- Ensure the website is fit for purpose and up to date with relevant information and news.
- Ensure victim-survivor voice guides our communications thinking and output - engaging in a compassionate, considerate and effective way with victim-survivors through Pioneer interaction, colleagues and any other interaction we have in our daily work.
- Ensure service user (perpetrator) input is collated and utilised in a responsible and safe way – always centring victim-survivors and considering their safety within this work.
- Project and promote our values – through considered language, inclusivity and equality in Drive Partnership communications.
Policy and Public Affairs
- Support the Policy, Public Affairs and Communications Manager to develop and promote policy positions, drawing on the expertise of the partnership.
- Lead and coordinate policy input into the Government’s strategic approach to perpetrators, particularly through influencing on the Drive Partnership’s key recommendations within its Call for Further Action.
- Identify and act on policy opportunities to promote best practice in perpetrator interventions – including both risk management and behaviour change, such as select committee enquiries, consultations, Bills, news developments.
- Build relationships with politicians, voluntary sector, civil servants and professional bodies, deputising for the Policy, Public Affairs and Communications Manager in key meetings where required.
- Support the coordination of sector and stakeholder forums to enhance collaboration towards a more strategic approach to perpetrators of domestic abuse.
Internal
- Play a role in the development of the team, nurturing and drawing on the talents of others.
- Maintain an accurate and secure audit trail of all relevant communication and ensure that all work is compliant with data protection law.
- Engage in a compassionate, considerate and effective way with all victim-survivors through Pioneer interaction, colleagues and any other interaction we have in our daily work.
- Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required.
Person Specification
Experience
Experience of communications planning and delivery:
- Digital communication and website management (E)
- Using data and evidence in communications (E)
- Experience in reactive and crisis communications (D)
- Experience of working with the media and journalists (D)
- Experience of developing a communications plan (D)
- Creative and innovative approach to presenting information across different formats and channels, for a range of audiences (D)
Experience of working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to influence policy:
- Experience of working in coalitions or partnerships (E)
- Experience of building and maintaining good relationships with a range of stakeholders (E)
- Experience working with policymakers/parliamentarians to influence policy (D)
- Experience of working with people with lived experience of the issue at hand (D)
Skills
- Creativity and fluency
- Organisational skills
Competencies
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Communication and relationship management
- Delivering quality
- Goal orientation
- Influence
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