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Partnership Manager - Fighting Malaria

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London Vauxall
Salary
£38000 - £43000
Closing date
17 Jul 2019

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The Partnership Manager – GSK Malaria Partnership, will take responsibility for delivering and managing this large and complex partnership and leading on grant-making and grant management

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

  • Lead on the delivery of the £22m partnerships with GSK, ensuring impact, learning and delivery are in line with partnership parameters, principles, Theory of Change and Comic Relief’s strategic goals.
  • Proactively manage the partnership account including leading on internal and external reporting, risk, partnership management, quality control panel/meeting papers and budget management.
  • Provide advisory support to Comic Relief and GSK senior leadership through Partnership Steering Group
  • Lead, coordinate and take responsibility for cross organisational relationships to ensure successful delivery of the Partnership including Comms, Influence and advocacy, Partnerships, LAST and Finance
  • Oversee effective and efficient grant making, including shortlisting and assessments of grant proposals. Use and maintain grant-related data in GEM and work with others to improve our systems and processes.
  • Manage the portfolio of up to 30 grants and undertake effective financial and programme monitoring to ensure all grants perform well. Provide considered feedback, advice and guidance to funding grantees.
  • Work with Finance to proactively manage partnership budgets, and assurance team to manage risk/fraud
  • Identify and internally champion stories of success and key learning points from the portfolio, working with advocacy and influence and LAST teams.
  • Monitor programme spend to ensure the programme remains on track.
  • Regularly visit and meet with grantees and partners, supporting them as equals to deliver social change
  • Maintain key relationships with GSK and other interested parties, as they relate to the programme. Be main point of contact with GSK from I&I, elevating to SIP when appropriate.
  • Represent and positively promote Comic Relief in appropriate fora, networks and consortia.
  • Regular international travel is required within this role.

Essential Education and Skills

  • Solid experience of working in international development
  • Experience of grant making or grant management is essential
  • Experience of partnership working is beneficial. Familiarity with a variety of project development and grant management tools including theory of change, MEL plans, and budgets

Key Competencies

  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and build excellent relationships.
  • A confident, collaborative, cross-functional professional that engages stakeholders to maximise effective outcomes.
  • Strong planner with outstanding attention to detail, time management and analytical skills.
  • Effective communication skills, written and oral.
  • A proactive, positive and fun professional with high resilience.

Comic Relief positively welcomes, and seeks to ensure we achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people and we will guarantee a first stage interview to all disabled applicants who sufficiently demonstrate in their application how they meet the essential criteria for the job as outlined on the person specification of the job description.

Registered charity 326568

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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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