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Senior Partnership Manager - Funder Alliances

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£45,000-48,000pa
Closing date
13 Feb 2019

Job Details

Senior Partnership Manager - Funder Alliances

2 Year Fixed Term Contract

£45,000-48,000pa

London

The Senior Partnership Manager – Funder Alliances will oversee, innovate and maximise impact from all partner funded accounts under their direct and indirect responsibility, sharing learning and ensuring successful delivery.

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

·         Oversee the delivery of partner funded accounts managed by direct reports, ensuring impact, learning and delivery are in line with partner restrictions and Comic Relief’s strategic goals.

·         Support direct reports to effectively account manage partners specifically in relation to reporting and storytelling.

·         Respond to risks or concerns escalated by direct reports as required, further escalating these as appropriate.

·         Work with colleagues across the organisation to ensure ongoing compliance across the portfolio with legal requirements, our grant conditions, partner reporting requirements and best practice in international development.

·         Work with Finance to proactively manage partnership budgets, including those managed by direct reports.

·         Personally manage and take responsibility for co-funded initiatives as required, and for the grants within these initiatives. Proactively manage these partnership accounts including taking the lead on reporting, risk and partnership management and budget management

·         Identify and internally champion stories of success and key learning points from within your portfolio of grants and those of your direct reports, working with the Advocacy and Influence and Learning and Strategy teams.

·         Be an ambassador for collaborative cross-functional working both within the Impact and Investment department and across the wider organisation.

·         Represent and positively promote Comic Relief in appropriate fora, networks and consortia.

·         Support, lead and manage direct reports through regular one-to-one’s and clear performance objectives and KPI’s whilst ensuring consistency of approach across a disparate portfolio.

·         Work with the Senior Investment Partner – Funder Alliances to build a supportive team culture, ensuring learning and best practice is shared across accounts, filling in where necessary to lead team meetings.

·         Regular travel (including international) is required within this role.

Essential Education and Skills

·         Proven leadership and management of high performing teams.

·         Significant experience of developing, implementing and evaluating investment strategies.

·         Experience of managing high value/risk/profile social change programmes; co-funded programmes a plus.

·         Key Competencies

·         Strategic thinker that can create, evaluate and develop ambitions into success by connecting the dots.

·         Effective relationship builder with strong emotional intelligence and political awareness to proactively challenge and persuade senior stakeholders and partners.

·         Dynamic, confident and fun professional that can effectively lead and foster teams through collaborative and cross-functional working.

·         Decisive problem solver with high resilience and a positive and solution orientated approach.

·         Strong communicator with a flexible, engaging and inspirational style.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 13th Feb 2019 GMT

Company

Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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