Community Partnership Manager

The Guinness Partnership; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

About the role
We have a new opportunity for a Community Partnership Manager to join our Community Investment team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The successful candidate will work across the South of England including the Home Counties, South-East, South Coast, and the South-West.

This is an exciting time to join our team as we introduce a new approach for increasing and improving our social impact.

As a Community Partnership Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the design and launch of a range of services to achieve our social purpose of improving people’s lives and creating possibilities for them.

Creative and practical, you will apply your expertise to work with colleagues to map activity and identify and analyse resident priorities and to use this information to shape local strategies and service offers.

As a convenor and co-ordinator of services rather than directly delivering support, you will focus on building and maintaining effective operational partnerships whilst working strategically to achieve genuine impact and improve services.

What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focused organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. The successful Community Partnership Manager will need the drive and confidence to work independently, whilst also being an experienced collaborator, committed to working closely and successfully with the wider Community Investment Team and a range of different departments.

You will have a breadth of experience across different thematic areas from supporting households with critical needs and enabling people to professionally progress, to managing grant pots and supporting community mobilisation.

You will be highly motivated and comfortable navigating ambiguity with the tenacity to see projects through. You will also need to have a high level of attention to detail and also be able to operate within and understand the bigger picture. You will have a desire to innovate and learn from your results to improve services. You must also have a client-first mindset and a demonstrable belief and commitment to equity.

You must also be willing and able to travel extensively when required to build required relationships and understanding across broad geographical areas.

You must be able to demonstrate the following:

Essential

• Proven experience of successfully supporting and delivering social impact projects and programmes
• Understanding of how to effectively capture and monitor outcomes and impact
• Programme and project development and management expertise
• Understanding of contract and budget management
• Expertise and experience in supporting service users to participate in the design and delivery of services

Desirable

• An understanding of social housing
• A high level of creativity and appetite to work innovatively to experiment, test and learn from service delivery and improve outcomes

Please apply with a CV and covering statement. Your covering statement should detail how you meet each point of the essential criteria listed above, and if possible either or both of the desirable criteria. Please limit to no more than two pages overall.

If the successful candidate is based in our London office, they will receive a local job supplement of £4000 in addition to their salary.

First stage interviews to be held on MS Teams on 13^th & 14^th May.

Second stage interviews to be held in our London office on 20th May.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.