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Senior Partnership Manager (DfID)

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London Vauxall
Salary
£42,000 - 47,000
Closing date
10 Nov 2019

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Through the performance management of Partnership Managers (DFID), the Senior Partnership Manager (DfID) will support the Senior Investment Partner: Government Funded Partnerships to ensure the effective management and delivery of co-funded initiatives with DfID and the grants within them.

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

  • Line manage Partnership Managers (DFID), setting clear KPIs and holding regular 1-1s to manage performance, creating a culture of collaboration and flexibility within the team.
  • Support Partnership Managers to lead on reporting, risk and partnership management and budget management for their respective initiatives co-funded with DfID.
  • Support Partnership Managers to address risk or concerns relating to their respective accounts, elevating risks or concerns to the Senior Investment Partner: Government Funded Partnerships as required.
  • Take personal responsibility for (part of) an initiative co-funded with DfID and for the grants within it, including taking the lead on reporting, risk and partnership management and budget management.
  • Work with Finance to ensure ongoing compliance across the portfolio with legal requirements, our grant conditions, DfID reporting requirements and best practice in international development.
  • Identify and internally champion stories of success and key learning points from your portfolio of grants, working with the Influence and Learning and Strategy teams.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to share learning from your portfolio across Comic Relief’s wider grant and investment portfolio.
  • Regularly travel (predominately internationally) to visit and meet with partners, supporting them as equals to deliver social change.
  • Be an ambassador for collaborative Cross-functional working both within the Impact and Investment department and across the wider organisation.

Essential Education and Skills

  • Track record of managing high performing teams.
  • Significant experience of making and/or managing large or complex grants.
  • Understanding of best practice and effective grant management.

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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