Participation & Partnerships Operations Manager

Save The Children; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruit3 is seeking a Participation & Partnerships Operations Manager to drive delivery of funded programs in Wales. Based in Cardiff with home-based flexibility, you will translate strategy into practical plans, budgets, and risk management to keep complex work moving and funding delivering real impact.

Reporting to the Head of Participation & Partnerships, you will oversee portfolio-wide delivery, challenge decisions, and coordinate teams across partners.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, build effective working relationships and bring people together to achieve shared goals.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to identify potential operational issues, assess risks and escalation concerns appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into strong delivery by aligning people, plans, budgets, partnerships, risks and resources to move complex work forward and ensure funding delivers meaningful impact.
• Provide portfolio-wide oversight, challenge and coordination to deliver well, spot issues early and enable colleagues to lead their own work with autonomy and accountability.

Skills

Relationship building

Analytical thinking

Job description

Participation & Partnerships Operations Manager £39,000 pa Cardiff (Wales)/Home-based

About the role

This is a key operational role at the heart of a portfolio of funded work designed to help end child poverty and reduce its impact on children and families in Wales. The two streams of work focus on poverty and money, and poverty and climate change and the environment.

You will make sure strategy translates into strong delivery bringing together people, plans, budgets, partnerships, risks and resources to keep complex work moving and ensure funding delivers meaningful impact.

Working closely with the Head of Participation & Partnerships, you will provide the portfolio-wide oversight, challenge and coordination needed to deliver well, spot issues early and make good decisions. You will have real scope to shape how the portfolio operates, while enabling colleagues to lead their own work with autonomy and accountability.

Skills and experience needed for this role

• Relationship Building & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, build effective working relationships and bring people together to achieve shared goals.
• Analytical Thinking & Problem-Solving: A proactive and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to identify potential operational issues, assess risks and escalation concerns appropriately.