Partnerships Manager

Youth Futures Foundation; Birmingham, Leeds, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A non-profit organization in the UK is seeking a Partnerships Manager to deliver on its Employer Strategy. This role is vital in influencing employer behavior, embedding evidence-based practices to improve recruitment, development, and retention of young people. The ideal candidate will have skills in organizational change and partnerships, with a strong interest in youth employment and diversity issues. The position offers a hybrid working model, with bases in Birmingham, Leeds, or London.

Qualifications

• Skilled at influencing organizational or systems-level change.
• Able to translate research and evidence into practical action.
• Experienced in working through partnerships to achieve scale.
• Passion for tackling youth unemployment and equity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Influence employer behaviour to improve young people's access to good work.
• Work with various organizations and networks to shape decision-making.
• Engage with systems actors to enhance employer practices.
• Ensuring Youth Futures’ evidence shapes decision-making, practice and investment.

Skills

Influencing organisational change

Translating research into practical action

Working through partnerships and networks

Passion for tackling youth unemployment

Interest in equity, diversity, and inclusion

Job description

Overview

The Partnerships Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering Youth Futures Foundation’s Employer Strategy.

You will embed and scale evidence-based practice across employer networks to create systemic change in how employers recruit, develop and retain young people.

This role focuses on influencing employer behaviour at scale – using evidence, partnerships and networks to embed the evidence of what works across organisations, sectors and places. It does not involve delivering employability support or 1:1 services to employers or young people.

Responsibilities

You will be skilled at:

• Influencing organisational or systems-level change
• Translating research and evidence into practical action
• Working through partnerships, intermediaries and networks to achieve scale.

You will work with employer organisations, networks, sector bodies and system actors to ensure that Youth Futures’ evidence shapes decision-making, practice and investment – improving young people’s access to good work over the long term.

You will have a passion for tackling youth unemployment and a strong interest in equity, diversity and inclusion issues.

This role can be based at our Birmingham, Leeds or London hub. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 1 February 2026 at 23:59.

For more information on this role, please download our recruitment pack.

Due to receiving high volumes of interest in our opportunities, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised deadline. To ensure your application is considered, please submit it as soon as possible.