Partnerships and Campaigns Manager

Be Applied Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Cycle to work scheme

Free fruit

Job summary

Citizens UK, the UK’s largest and most diverse people-powered alliance, seeks a Partnerships & Campaigns Manager to build strategic relationships across private, public and voluntary sectors and drive Living Wage campaigns.

You will coordinate sectoral initiatives, develop participatory campaigns, manage stakeholder networks and oversee monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Hybrid London-based role with flexible working.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering campaigns or project plans with impact.
• Experience building relationships with senior stakeholders across sectors.
• Strong written and verbal communications with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate sectoral living wage campaigns and accreditation efforts.
• Develop creative, participative campaign opportunities and stakeholder engagement.
• Manage external relationships with strategic stakeholders and partners.
• Oversee monitoring, evaluation and reporting on campaign results.

Skills

Relationship management

Campaign management

Project management

Communications

Stakeholder engagement

Team collaboration

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Employment Type Full time 37.5 hours per week, permanent

Location Hybrid ·London, City of, UK London office/remote and flexible working arrangement available

Team Living Wage Foundation

Seniority Mid-level

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Cycle to work scheme

Free fruit

Candidate happiness

8.33 (1989)

Job Description

Citizens UK is the UK’s biggest, most diverse and most effective people-powered alliance. We bring communities and local organisations together to work on issues that matter; from campaigning for zebra crossings on dangerous roads, to reforming the immigration system, to the Living Wage campaign. We have a track record of winning change through hundreds of local and national campaigns. We know everyday people have the ability to shape the world around them. We believe that through developing local leaders, we can drive nationwide change and create community-led solutions to big and small problems.

Living Wage Foundation

The Living Wage movement began in 2001, after Citizens UK brought together communities in East London to discuss poverty and low pay. The campaign grew in momentum and soon required a mechanism to recognise employers who wanted to join the movement, which saw the establishment of the Living Wage Foundation in 2011.

Still part of Citizens UK today, the Living Wage is a movement of businesses, organisations and people who believe that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. The real Living Wage is an independently calculated hourly rate based on the cost of living and announced each October ahead of Living Wage Week, our annual celebration of a growing network of over 16,000 Living Wage Employers.

The Living Wage Foundation celebrates employers that voluntarily choose to pay the real Living Wage through an accreditation scheme that recognises a long-term commitment to fair pay and has secured pay rises for 500,000 low paid workers. Over recent years, the Living Wage Foundation has built on the success of the real Living Wage by creating new responsible employment standards – Living Hours and Living Pension – for those employers who want to go further and provide the security workers need now and in the future.

Our culture is driven by our six organisational values: Solidarity, Kindness, Courage, Integrity, Inclusion, and Relational. You can read morehere.

Citizens UK works with a broad base of institutions across the political spectrum. At the Living Wage Foundation, we take the same deliberately broad-based approach and accredit all organisations who pay the real Living Wage to their directly and indirectly employed staff and are committed to tackling in work poverty. As a team we work across a range of industries and sectors to achieve this mission. We seek pragmatic coalitions in order to progress specific campaigns, and partnership around a particular issue such as Living Wage, does not imply an endorsement of broader purpose and policies.

Purpose

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone with relationship management and/or campaigns experience to join our Partnerships & Campaigns team. We are looking for someone who is able to build strategic relationships across the private, public and voluntary sectors and who is highly organised and motivated to achieve results.

The Partnerships & Campaigns Manager will be responsible for managing key sectoral campaigns and initiatives. Initially, the role will focus on the Planning, Construction & Built Environment campaign as part of the Making London Work for All initiative, working to accredit developers and construction employers. As we develop our national campaigning approach, the role will also be expected to work with organisations and industries that we identify as priorities, such as Procurement. The Partnerships & Campaigns Manager will also coordinate the Supply Chain focus group, working with the Living Wage employer network to encourage their supply chain to accredit.

The ideal candidate would be someone who has managed relationships with senior individuals in the private, public or third sector and understands the importance of excellent relationship management and how to build and grow engagement through partnership working.

As we develop the campaigning remit of the Living Wage Foundation, we would also value applications from candidates who have a campaigns background and are able to think creatively about the levers and tactics required to develop and execute exciting and participatory campaigns.

The role will be expected to work collaboratively across the Living Wage Foundation and Citizens UK, collaborating with community organisers and engaging community leaders and workers in campaigns.

Main Responsibilities

Working as thePartnerships & Campaigns Managerfor Citizens UK,reportingto a Senior Partnerships & Campaigns Manager,your main responsibilities will include:

Citizens UK and LWF Project strategy

Support the delivery of Citizens and LWF’s business plans, working across teams to organise work effectively.

Demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to the purpose of the project and the core mission of CUK.

Reliably implement CUK’s policies, procedures & values in the delivery of projects.

Project and Campaigns Management

Coordinate sectoral initiatives, initially in Planning, Construction and the Built Environment that drive accreditations and increase awareness and understanding around the Living Wage.

Develop creative, participative campaign opportunities that promote the Living Wage and our key messages, influence public opinion, champion Living Wage Employers and encourage accreditation.

Capture and share learning from successful Living Wage campaigns to motivate and enable further campaign energy and effective partnerships.

Produce detailed analysis and evaluation of campaign results, understand and respond to performance data, run tests and put results and lessons into practice.

Implement project management tools to ensure effective delivery.

Ensure effective monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to measure our progress and impact against agreed milestones, including data collection systems and producing reports for various stakeholders.

External Relationship Management

Manage existing relationships with strategic stakeholders and influential advocates that drive engagement and accreditation across our different initiatives.

Coordinate project advisory groups, engaging business leaders in the design and delivery of projects and campaigns.

Identify, manage and develop relationships, partnerships and alliances to further our sector campaigns, including identifying pragmatic solutions to support employers to pay the Living Wage.

• Identify, manage and develop strategic relationships with key stakeholders, policy makers, Living Wage Employers, campaign partners and business networks to use their power and influence to encourage payment of the Living Wage.

Internal relationship management

Collaborate with community organisers to create opportunities to engage community leaders and workers in our work to raise awareness and make the case for the Living Wage and help steer our future direction.

• Work with the communications team, designers and content managers to develop campaign resources which enable our networks of workers, leaders, employers and campaigners to take action to secure the Living Wage.

Communications

Support the development of workers to tell stories and testimony to make the case for the Living Wage and feed into our communications plans.

Oversee research and consultation projects to make the case and gather supporting evidence for paying the Living Wage and lifting workers out of in-work poverty.

Keep up to date on the latest low pay and poverty policy issues and support communications to our network to ensure that the LWF is responsive to the needs of employees and employers.

Represent the organisation effectively to external audiences in meetings, at events and in the media to promote and grow the work of LWF.

Learning & Expertise

Design and deliver training and resources to the wider teams to support the execution of projects.

Demonstrate commitment to personal professional development by identifying development areas and opportunities for training.

Income generation and financial management

• Contribute to the budgeting process, the management of income and participate in the development of funding proposals.

Personal Specification

Experience

• Campaigns and/or project management experience; evidence of having developed and delivered a campaign or project plan and achieving impact (E)

• Relationship management experience; evidence of managing relationships with senior stakeholders in the private, public and/or third sector to engage them in a campaign or project (E)

• Experience of delivering a range of high-quality communications materials, including websites, reports, newsletters (D)

• Experience of using Salesforce or similar databases (D)

Key skills and knowledge

• Excellent project management skills with the ability to juggle a wide range of competing demands (E)

• Strong interpersonal skills for building effective relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders (E)

• Ability to take in and interpret information and present in a succinct manner(E)

• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written, with strong attention to detail, combined with the ability to liaise with senior stakeholders (E)

• Understanding of the policy and campaign landscape in the UK (D)

• A self-starter with ability to take initiative and work independently as well as in a team (E)

• A proactive approach to all areas of work with a ‘can do’ attitude and a flexible approach to work demands (E)

• A strong commitment to the Living Wage campaign and principles of Citizens UK (E)

About the application process

We work within diverse communities bringing people together. In line with our Inclusion value, we would love to see applications from LGBTQIA+ people, people from racialised communities, people living with disabilities and people of faith, all to better represent the communities we work in. We want our employees to have the working conditions that allows them to fully participate, be able to be their best authentic selves and thrive doing so, and we have employee networks to support staff. Even if you don’t quite meet all the required criteria still consider applying, as we invest in our employees and support them to develop the skills and knowledge required to deliver their role.

For questions and reasonable adjustments regarding your application including information in a different format, or our recruitment process, please email [e-mail] .