Senior Partnership Development Manager

Development and Partnership Manager

£45,000 - £50,000 + benefits

Permanent

35 hours per week (with flexible and working)

Wimbledon (hybrid working)

About us

CIPD has been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. The CIPD Trust was set up in Spring 2022 to amplify the work of the CIPD by helping those who need it most to overcome barriers to getting into or back into work. We deliver and champion social change through the power of the people profession to create better work and a fairer and more prosperous society.

It’s a fantastic time to join the team to help build and grow this exciting new venture. We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.

The role

This newly created role will focus on building partnerships for the CIPD Trust to help us tackle key societal issues to further develop our impact. As Partnership and Development Manager, you will have a strong focus on partnership and fundraising to support the expansion of our programmes and reach. You will also support on delivering robust impact measurement and reporting for the Trust and share outcomes with key stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing

• Building effective partnerships which contributes to deliver of the overall CIPD Trust strategy.
• Partnering with third sector and corporates or other relevant organisations.
• Developing strong external presence and building impactful advocacy programmes.
• Creating a fundraising pipeline, generating and following up on leads, prospecting and profiling, and networking.
• Managing key funded and non-funded partnerships working with colleagues across the CIPD and external delivery partners to ensure all deliverables are met and impact is maximised.
• Working with partners, develop and activate new programmes to support the Trust’s objectives building advocacy throughout the programmes.
• Be a key contributor to the Trust’s Advocacy workstream including designing events such as roundtables and other advocacy-centered activities with support from the Trust team.
• Collaborating with Policy and Research team, keeping up to date with economic and market trends and relevant topics such as: reducing re-offending, cost of living crisis, refugees, ageing workforce, etc.
• Creating and maintaining a bank of ‘talking points’ to validate the Trust’s work. Fasilitaing discussions and delivering public speaking on relevant topics.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Networking, partnering and relationship building experience.
• Experience identifying leads and potential partners, converting conversations into tangible long term partnership.
• Experience of working independently to drive and deliver multiple partnerships.
• Good working knowledge of the fundraising landscape.
• Experience of fundraising and attracting matched funding.
• Experience delivering impactful and successful campaigns or programmes.
• Good working knowledge of impact frameworks, theory of change and project management.
• Keen interest in understanding the impact of activities and analysis of results to identify learnings and drive ongoing improvement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Experience of working with range of stakeholders internally and externally.

Please note, this advert is due to close on Monday 12 February 2024. Interviews will be held in person in our Wimbledon office.

Download the job profile for more details and if this role describes you and your career aspirations, then click APPLY. 

CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual! The CIPD define diversity as the differences in colour, ethnicity, abilities, age, gender, beliefs, interests, socioeconomic status(class), marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, geographic, academic/professional backgrounds, opinions, backgrounds, thinking, experiences, and many other personal characteristics. There is a growing body of research that shows that diverse workforce can be beneficial for decision making, innovation and problem solving as people bring a diverse range of skills and lived experiences with them. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.