Corporate Services Partnership Manager

Role: Partnership Manager

Salary: £40,000

Contract type : Permanent

Working hours: Full Time (37.5 hrs pw)

Location: Homebased

(Full, Current Driving licence and access to own Vehicle, Must be willing to travel nationally as required)

Standguide is an employee-owned organisation, which means our employees have a voice in the business and a shared interest in its long-term success.

Alongside a rewarding role where you can make a genuine difference, we offer:

• 33 days' paid annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing to 38 days after five full years' service

• An additional paid day off for your birthday

• Workplace pension scheme

• Company health plan following successful completion of probation

• Online GP access

• Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and wellbeing support

• Death in service cover

• Will-planning support and access to a secure digital vault

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Company sick pay, subject to eligibility

• A broad range of internal training and continuing professional development opportunities

• Access to employee-owner benefits, subject to eligibility and qualifying service

Make a difference through meaningful employment

As Partnership Manager, you will help shape future growth of Standguide by building and managing relationships with e.g. local government, mayoral and combined strategic authorities, employability and skills providers, VCSEs and other key stakeholders. You will support our approach to stakeholder engagement, ensuring market intelligence, trusted relationships and early opportunity insight are translated into sustainable growth opportunities. Reporting to Head of Partnerships you will raise Standguide's profile across key markets, influence future services and funding opportunities, and play a pivotal role in securing the partnerships that enable us to deliver lasting impact for people and communities.

About Standguide

For more than three decades, Standguide has supported individuals and employers across the UK.

We provide employment, skills and support services that help people overcome barriers, develop their potential and move towards sustainable employment.

As an employee-owned organisation, we're committed to investing in our people, delivering high-quality services and creating positive outcomes for the communities we support.

What you'll do

As a Partnership Manager, you'll:

• Developing and delivering a structured, agile stakeholder engagement strategy and delivery plan.
• Building and managing relationships with e.g. local government, mayoral and combined strategic authorities, employability and skills providers, VCSEs and support organisations.
• Supporting Standguide place-based engagement approach, coordinating local engagement activity and strengthening relationships across priority markets and emerging devolved structures.
• Generating and sharing commissioner, funder and market intelligence, acting as a trusted advisor to operational and business development leaders and informing growth priorities, service development and pipeline decisions.
• Owning and continuously improving stakeholder engagement processes, systems and reporting, effectively using data and technology, while ensuring effective governance, compliance and risk management.
• Provide local, regional, and national expertise and knowledge for Standguide bid submissions.
• Daily planning and organising workload to ensure all tasks completed on time and to the highest standard.
• Support key partner and stakeholder engagement for procurement and evaluation exercises e.g. constructing supply chain solutions and ensuring strategic partnership considerations.
• Complete contracts of interest forms when applying for Standguide Sub-Contract opportunities.

What you'll need

We're looking for someone who has: •

• 5+ years sector experience.
• GCSE or equivalent in English
• How Assessed – Application, presentation and interview.

Knowledge & Experience :

Essential –

• Experience building and maintaining strategic relationships with local, regional, and national stakeholders and key influencers to gather intelligence on future funded and business growth opportunities.
• Experience consistently establishing, building, and nurturing new partner relationships for strategic development.
• Experience of supporting
• Experience using a wide range of social media platforms including LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook for business purposes.
• Experience developing and delivering stakeholder engagement strategies that have supported organisational growth and strengthened market position.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and relationship-building skills, with credibility at regional/national level and experience aligning operational colleagues around a strategic approach to stakeholder engagement.
• Good understanding of public sector commissioning, procurement and grant funding, including local government, and the evolving devolution landscape.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to influence diverse audiences and translate complex information into clear, compelling messages.
• Experience of stakeholder mapping, engagement planning and measuring relationship effectiveness.

Overseas equivalent qualifications will be considered.
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We welcome applications from people with relevant lived experience and recognise the valuable insight this can bring to the role.

Equality and accessibility

Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our employees, applicants and customers.

We'll consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please contact recruitment_standguide_couk if you need the advert or application information in another format or require an adjustment at any stage.

All applicants will be assessed fairly against the published criteria for the role.

Pre-employment checks

Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, confirmation of the applicant's right to work in the UK and an Enhanced DBS check.

Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us. Any information disclosed will be considered fairly and individually, taking account of its relevance to the role and the circumstances involved. xwwtmva

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