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Partnership Manager

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£38,000 - 43,000
Closing date
9 Oct 2019

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Function
Fundraising, Business Development & Commercial, Corporate Fundraising, Supporter Development
Sector
International, Poverty Relief, Social Care & Welfare, Human Rights
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Contract
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Partnership Manager

3 Year Contract

£38,000 - 43,000

Team: Impact and Investment

London

The Partnership Manager – Levelling the Field, will make and manage grants centred on using sport for change approaches to empower women and girls in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda in partnership with The Scottish Government. You will take ownership of an existing portfolio of grants in the existing Levelling the Field portfolio as well as lead on grant making and management for the new Levelling the Field partnership with The Scottish Government.

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

  • Manage the existing Levelling the Field partnership with The Scottish Government, consisting of a portfolio of 11 grants totalling £2 million.
  • Lead on grant making and management of our new £1.5m Levelling the Field partnership with The Scottish Government.
  • Undertake effective monitoring to ensure that all grants perform well. Provide considered feedback, advice and guidance to funding partners (grantees).
  • Use and maintain grant-related data in the grant management system and work with others to evolve and improve our systems and processes.
  • Work with Finance and the Senior Partnership Manager to proactively manage partnership budgets and ensure the programme remains on track.
  • Manage the day to day relationship with The Scottish Government, including all reporting required.
  • Work with colleagues in Learning and Strategy to appoint an evaluator for the partnership and capacity building support for grantees.
  • Identify and champion stories of success and key learning points from within your portfolios, working cross-departmentally to share learning and inform external communications.
  • Work collaboratively and proactively with colleagues within Comic Relief including support on shortlisting and assessments for other areas of grant making
  • Represent and positively promote Comic Relief in appropriate fora, networks and consortia.
  • Some travel required (primarily to Zambia, Rwanda and Malawi) approximately 3 times a year.
  • You may also have the opportunity to manage a small UK portfolio to ensure consistency across the team.

Skills and Experience

  • Understanding of international development essential.
  • Familiarity with a variety of project development and grant management tools including theory of change, MEL plans, and budgets.
  • Experience of sport for change and/or women and girls programmes advantageous.
  • Experience of grant making and grant management.
  • Experience of partnership working.

Key Competencies

  • Strong relationship management skills across a range of stakeholders.
  • Strong organisational skills, effectively prioritising and managing workload.
  • Strong communication skills, both oral and written, across a range of audiences.
  • Committed to ensuring young people can unlock their full potential.
  • Strong monitoring, evaluation and learning skills.
  • Fun, innovative and proactive team player who remains solutions focused.
  • Good communication and relationship management skills – for dealing with external partners and staff members.

To apply, please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 9th Oct 2019 BST (Europe/London)

Interviews will take place on the 14th and 15th of October

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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