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Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)
The job of a Save the Children’s UK Senior Partnerships Development Manager is exciting and fulfilling.
- Do you have significant experience of securing ambitious, multi-dimensional corporate partnerships?
- Can you demonstrate your ability to win partnerships of £500k or more?
- Are you a strong relationship builder?
- Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?
If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
Job Purpose
Reporting directly to the Head New Business Partnerships, the Senior Partnerships Development Manager will be responsible for securing strategic, multi-year corporate partnerships that align with Save the Children’s organisational objectives and our 2030 ambition.
This role sits in our Partnerships and Philanthropy team and the Senior Partner Development Manger will be tasked with identifying and securing new partnerships to meet ambitious financial and non-financial, value- add targets.
The Senior Partnerships Development Manager will also collaborate with colleagues across our Programmes and Advocacy teams to develop innovative propositions for business that respond to their areas of interest and maximise their skills and expertise.
This is a great opportunity to work with a well-established team that is well known for leading corporate partnerships with many well-known brands.
As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.
Main Accountabilities
The Senior Partnerships Development Manager’s key duties will be to:
- Contribute to annual team target of over £4m
- In addition to funding, identify and secure additional non-financial value that partners can bring to Save the Children
- Develop and implement ambitious sector strategies and produce tailored new partnership propositions that align to corporate challenges and opportunities
- Take personal responsibility and accountability for proactively generating leads, building networks, making contacts and bringing in new partnerships
- Demonstrate emphasis on external facing activity, meeting and engaging prospective partners and seeking and attending external events as an opportunity to generate leads
- Work cross-organisationally, identify when to engage experts across Programmes and Advocacy and senior staff in approaches and engagement
- Produce and deliver high quality, creative bespoke proposals
- Take a proactive role in feeding into the partnership development strategy, generating ideas, bringing external insight and taking a role in agreed areas of delivery
- Play a supportive role in developing a high performing new business culture, including mentoring peers, maintaining process and high standards, identifying opportunities for increased impact across Partnerships & Philanthropy and other departments within Save the Children
- Ensure Save the Children’s aims and objectives are met, legal and other guidelines adhered to and that new strategic partnerships align with Save the Children’s principles
Person Profile
Experience
- Significant experience of securing ambitious, multi-dimensional corporate partnerships in the private or third sector
- Demonstrable experience of the approach needed to win partnerships of £500k and above
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include face-to-face and on the phone, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences
Abilities
- Ability to think creatively and to develop tailor made proposals to meet corporate and Save the Children objectives
- Ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied workload in a pressured environment
- Ability to build relationships and influence others internally and externally
- Ability to think strategically, influence and bring others on a journey to inspire and deliver new partnerships
Aptitude
- A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
- A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity
Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Job title:Education Relationship Manager
Location: Remote working in the UK
Responsible to:Head of Engagement
Salary:£25,000 to £30,000
Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.
Although this role is based remotely, having knowledge of education relationships in the Northern Ireland.
Why us?
Speakers for Schools are a dynamic, swift-moving and fast-growing charity. We are on a mission to support a million young people across the UK annually by 2023. Having taken the first steps on the road to achieving this, our team has doubled in size in the past year. This has supported 278% growth in our Experience programme and 10% growth in our Inspiration programme during the past 12 months.
We want to level the playing field, making sure that all young people can access inspirational opportunities and experiences to fuel their ambition.
We are united and unique in our mission to transform lives through raising aspirations of millions of young people every year. Each year, 1,500 senior leaders, celebrities and industry experts deliver a difference to by sharing their story with students in schools and colleges in every corner of the UK. We connect employers such as Disney, The Bank of England, Spotify PwC and almost two hundred others to communities to provide access to the top opportunities for all across the UK. With us, you will be part of inspiring a generation to reach higher, broaden horizons and get equal access to the top.
To keep growing our charity and our impact, we need top talent and we are committed to treasuring, developing and supporting them to thrive within their roles.
Role Summary
To engage with education and training providers as well as local authorities in sharing out programme, onboarding and training in their usage. Taking on the views of educators and educational leaders in what we provide and need to provide and enabling us to more closely match local and national need with our programme. This role will also support the delivery team with the delivery of the programmes from marketing opportunities to schools/students work experience placements.
Key Duties / Responsibilities:-
- Recruit and onboard new educational establishments to working with us
- Training and supporting users to maximise the opportunity to their students accessing our programmes through our newly developed portal and app.
- Delivering training sessions to schools and colleges on our programmes and building on engagement in your defined region.
- Building partnerships with Multi-Academy Trusts, SEND and PRU provision within your region to maximise our impact
- Liaise with local government organisations to actively promote our programme to NEET young people in the region
- Developing long standing relationships with school and college contacts to access, support and maximise employer engagement relationships in your region
- Build a regional network of educational contacts, ensuring high level of customer service and reporting opportunities and issues to Head of Engagement
- Retain our registered schools and colleges in our network, and increase engagement levels in all programmes across the region
- To support on delivery of SEND and PRU programme opportunities in collaboration with Community Engagement Managers in the regional team
- Support our Delivery Partners to identify school contacts that can promote and support our programmes
- Support Fundraising Leads in region to embed school-based initiatives where appropriate
- Ensuring all data relating to school and college engagement is accurate, recorded and presented in reports when required
- Networking in the region with your regional team to collaboratively build brand awareness of Speakers for Schools across all partners and organisations working in the Education landscape.
- Supporting the wider UK Education Strategy for Speakers for Schools
Delivery Team support:-
- Support our Delivery Partners to identify school contacts that can promote and support our programmes
- Processing new user registrations on our portal
- Helping with technical delivery processes using both our in-house software
- Data Management and CRM
- Inputting new data, maintaining existing records and generating reports
- Other duties as required, within the scope of the role.
Key skills and experience:
Essential: -
- Experience in a similar environment working with a variety of stakeholders
- Clear and concise communicator, capable of producing written content to a professional quality
- Confident liaising with and managing relationships particularly with stakeholders from all levels
- Comfort and experience in working with technology and data management
- Proven capability of working through high volumes of work and securing targets across varying objectives within delivery.
Desirable: -
- Previous experience working with HR/Recruitment/CSR/Educational Providers/Youth/Engagement teams an advantage
- Knowledge of SEND and PRU education establishments and NEET students
- An understanding of the UK Education System and a familiarity with careers provision and social mobility challenges within UK schools and colleges
- Proficient use of the Salesforce CRM, to track relationships and ensure proper data management.
We are looking forward to holding video interviews through October 2021 and appointing our Education Relationship Manager swiftly so we can start delivering a difference in October and beyond. You must have the right to work in the UK without visa restrictions to be considered.
Benefits offered at Speakers for Schools:
- Flexible working
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Morning of your birthday off
- Pension scheme
- CharlieHR perks
- Perkbox
- £500 a year training allowance
Diversity at our core
At Speakers for Schools, we are committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
We welcome applications from all, including those where employment has been affected by Covid19 and those seeking to change careers. Diversity if at our core, join us.
How to apply:
Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.
Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.
Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.
The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:
Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received, before the closing date, and will take place over Microsoft Teams. We may appoint before this date depending on applications.
The closing date for this role will be on or before Friday 29th October.
Our new team member will start ASAP.
If you have not heard from us two weeks after the closing date, please presume your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
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The Royal College of Podiatry are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced individual with experience of contributing to policy and the ability to communicate our position in Northern Ireland to a wide range of audiences and increase our profile.
This is a fantastic role, over 2.5 days per week, for someone who understands the political and policy environment in Northern Ireland, who is outcome-focused and delivers tangible results. A skilled communicator, with a good understanding of the policy making process, you’ll join a high performing, team to develop high impact policy and public affairs strategies.
Job purpose:
- To support policy development in Northern Ireland in line with the Royal College’s strategic plan
- To raise the profile of the Royal College and establish the Royal College’s position with key stakeholders as the primary authority in relation to podiatry and foot health
- To identify examples of best practice in podiatry and promote this to internal and external stakeholders
Key responsibilities of the role:
Under the direction of the Head of Policy and Public Affairs and accountable to the relevant committees, to be responsible for:
- Developing evidence-based policy positions to influence policy at local and national levels
- Building effective relations with Ministers, MLAs, the Chief AHP Officer, Arm’s Length Bodies and Civil Servants, ensuring that opinion formers are fully briefed on the impact of podiatry interventions
- Scanning the political horizon to identify areas of policy relevant to the Royal College in Northern Ireland and developing responses to external consultations
- Developing and maintaining effective, coordinated, working relations with political parties, healthcare professional bodies, charities and patient bodies
- Managing the Royal College’s public affairs presence at external events and representing the Royal College at external meetings as required
- Representing the Royal College and providing policy and public affairs support to the Northern Ireland Managers’ group
- To work from home self-directed to enable regular travel to meet members which may include regular overnight stays within travel policy
- To have regular complex and challenging conversations with internal and external stakeholders
- To contribute to corporate communications including, the members’ magazine, e-newsletters, and website
- To deputise for the Head of Policy when required
- Updating members on the Royal College’s policy and public affairs work by attending branch meetings and disseminating regular newsletters
- Using social media to promote the Royal College’s policy and public affairs work to stakeholders
- To be an effective advocate and represent the organisation and podiatry profession externally
- To take a coordinated approach with the wider Policy and Public Affairs team, identifying common themes and strategies, making best use of limited resources
- To conduct continual gap analysis on the organisation’s strategy and direction in Northern Ireland
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of government and health department processes
- Robust understanding of health policy and related issues
- Ability to work diplomatically across a range of stakeholders
- Experience of influencing and campaigning within a membership organisation or similar
- Ability to map, evaluate and implement national policy and its implications for the Royal College
- Ability to work independently and prioritise effectively, often to tight deadlines
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team
- Excellent written, IT, presentation and verbal communication skills
To Apply please forward your CV and supporting statement.
Closing Date: 12 November 2021 noon
Interview Date: 26 November 2021