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About the Role

The Senior Partnership Manager will drive the expansion of the Work Experience Finder by recruiting, onboarding, and managing strategic partners across the UK. This role involves extensive travel to build relationships, present the organization's offer to senior stakeholders, and secure long-term partnerships that generate sustainable income and employer engagement.

Responsibilities

Develop and manage strategic relationships with regional and national partners to secure new WEX Finder partnerships and deliver strategic growth.
Build, manage, and convert a strong partnership pipeline, working with the Director of Development to achieve targets.
Identify and secure new partnership opportunities to expand organizational reach.
Negotiate partnership agreements, contracts, and funding arrangements with prospective strategic partners.
Manage strategic partner relationships.
Represent Futures For All at regional and national events, conferences, and stakeholder meetings.
Work with partners to develop regional employer engagement strategies to increase employers offering high-quality work experience.
Deliver engaging presentations, demonstrations, and proposals to senior stakeholders.
Develop trusted relationships with Careers Hubs, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, Employer Representative Bodies, and Chambers of Commerce.
Collaborate with internal teams to ensure partnership opportunities are developed and implemented.
Drive employer engagement through partner networks to increase participation in work experience and careers programmes.
Act as a trusted adviser to partners, maintaining regular communication and identifying opportunities to strengthen relationships.
Represent Futures For All externally, promoting the organization's mission, impact, and services.
Lead the onboarding of new partners, ensuring a seamless transition from contract to delivery.
Monitor partnership performance against KPIs and produce regular reports.
Maintain accurate CRM records, partnership forecasts, and pipeline reporting.
Represent and work to organizational values, fostering a positive culture.
Ensure safeguarding best practice is embedded throughout all organizational activity.
Communicate Futures For All's mission, services, and impact through various channels.
Work closely with internal teams to ensure successful implementation and continuous improvement of partnerships.
Manage the ongoing operational relationship with strategic partners, ensuring contractual commitments and outcomes are achieved.

Requirements

Proven experience in partnership development, business development, account management, or stakeholder engagement.
Experience developing and managing strategic partnerships with public sector organizations, education providers, employers, or membership organizations.
Demonstrable experience of generating income, developing commercial opportunities, and achieving partnership or sales targets.
Excellent presentation, communication, and influencing skills, with confidence presenting to senior leaders and external stakeholders.
Experience negotiating contracts, partnership agreements, or funding arrangements.
Experience building, managing, and reporting on a sales or partnership pipeline using a CRM.
Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
Comfortable with regular (likely weekly) UK-wide travel and representing the organization at external meetings and events.
Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility at all levels.
Experience working within the education, employability, careers, or charity sector (desirable).
Knowledge of Careers Hubs, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, Employer Representative Bodies, and business networks (desirable).
Experience of employer engagement, workforce development, or partnership programmes (desirable).
Understanding of grant-funded programmes and partnership delivery (desirable).
Knowledge of work experience, careers education, or social mobility initiatives (desirable).
Right to work in the UK.
Appointees are subject to a DBS check.

Skills

Partnership development
Business development
Account management
Stakeholder engagement
Presentation skills
Communication skills
Influencing skills
Negotiation skills
CRM management
Organizational skills
Relationship management
Employer engagement
Workforce development

Location

Remote working in the UK
Travel across the UK

Work Type

Full Time
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

£42,400 rising to £45,900 after 1 year of service

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Morning of your birthday off
£500 a year professional development fund
Option to purchase additional annual leave yearly
'Winter shutdown' gifted
Early bank holiday finish (3:30pm on Fridays before bank holidays)
22.2 hours of volunteering days per year
Home office set up support
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced family friendly leave
Employee Assistance Programme

About the Company

Futures For All is the largest social mobility charity in the UK.
We help to level the playing field between state and independent schools by giving all young people access to the same prestigious networks available to the top fee-paying schools.
We believe that by inspiring young people to explore their ambitions through our speaker programme, facilitating access to multi-day experiences of the world of work, and supporting young people to successfully seize opportunities available to them, then we can make a profound difference to the lives of young people, their future happiness and prosperity.
By 2028, our ambition is that every young person in the UK has access to high quality work experience. Yet today, less than half of young people leave secondary school having had any work experience whatsoever.

Equal Opportunity

Futures For All is committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and encouraging equality and diversity among our workforces.
We acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to us via hr@futuresforall.org.
Futures For All is committed to safeguarding the young people we work with and expects all staff members to share this commitment.
Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.