Partnerships Manager - Full Time
Hours: Full-time working to broadly office hours Monday to Friday
Location: West Midlands based, with hybrid working across Birmingham, London, Stratford upon Avon and some home working supported
Our client is now a place-based funder, with donations focussed on the West Midlands. Support is prioritised for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds aged between eleven years and twenty-five years, and on evidence-based charity programs that enable young people to succeed in education and have the best chance of securing meaningful employment. The Executive Director is in the process of establishing the Foundation's 'Inspiring Futures' program, that will include 9 secondary schools and one FE college in Birmingham and 11 specially selected charity partners.
Prospectus is delighted to be working with The Rigby Foundation to recruit a Partnerships Manager. This exciting new post will play a crucial role in ensuring that Inspiring Futures and other Foundation funded programs enable the best possible outcomes for young people in the West Midlands.
The role:
The principal role of the Partnerships Manger will be to support the development, launch and management of The Rigby Foundation's Inspiring Futures program. This will include managing relationships with Foundation partners, leading on impact measurement for all partnerships, preparing regular partnership reports, being responsible for inspirational communications that raise the profile of the Foundation's work, representing the Foundation at internal and external events and deputising for the Executive Director as appropriate.
The person:
To succeed in this role, you will need to:
- Have substantial experience in developing and managing effective partnerships within the not-for-profit sector
- Demonstrate experience of leading on impact measurement
- Develop engaging project reports
- Support employee engagement in charity programs
- Demonstrate experience of developing impactful communications including - websites, case studies, award submissions and social media coverage
- Be a passionate self-starter committed to supporting young people
- Take ownership of programmes and be able to work on your own initiative
- Work collaboratively in a small team
- Be a confident public speaker able to engage a variety of audiences
- Represent the Foundation professionally internally and externally
- See this role as a fantastic opportunity to be part of making a real sustainable difference to the lives of young people in the region.
Ideally this person will be based in Birmingham or the surrounding areas in the West Midlands. This is a place-based funding role in which local knowledge and understanding of regional issues will be very important.