Partnership Manager – Development Banks At Save the Children UK

The job of a Save the Children’s UK Partnership Manager – Development Banks is varied and fulfilling.

  • Do you have extensive experience within and knowledge of official development partners and of ODA instruments and flows?
  • Do you have a strong external network/working relationship with key, and particularly senior staff within partners in global, regional and local contexts?
  • Do you have a strong record of accomplishment in strategic partnership management and engagement at a senior level and demonstrated leadership skills?
  • Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Please Note: The role is for a 12 month contract from mid-February 2023.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

We stand side by side with children in the toughest places to be a child. We do whatever it takes to make sure they survive, get protection when they’re in danger, and have the chance to learn.

The Partnership Development Teamis formed of partnership experts across a portfolio of government and multi-lateral partners. The team seeks to deliver exceptional global partnerships, optimising both funding and influence with existing and new partners. The value of contracts secured from our partners was around £200m in 2020. The team works closely with colleagues from across the Global Programmes and Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns Division, other Save the Children members and with Save the Children International (SCI) country and regional teams to deliver on our partnership objectives. The team is at the forefront of driving the institutional partnership agenda and approach for both Save the Children UK (SCUK) and the Save the Children global movement, ensuring Save the Children is the partner of choice

Job Purpose

As the Partnership Manager (Development Banks) you will lead SCUK’s partnership strategy for the World Bank Group and the regional development banks, to further our portfolio of programme partners and SCUK’s funding diversification funding ambition.

You will provide vision and strategic direction to SCUK and the wider movement to encourage engagement and collaboration between the development banks and their shareholder member states.

You’ll also provide guidance, standard setting and coordination to the global organisation on how development banks operate and where best to influence their direction in support of child rights and Save the Children’s programmes.

As a senior member of the PD Team you will influence a complex global network of external and internal stakeholders to optimise our engagement with our partners and strengthen, develop, and optimise both existing and new partnership opportunities, that positively impact on our Restricted Funding Strategy.

Key Accountabilities:

The Partnership Manager’s key duties will include:

External engagement and positioning of Save the Children as a key partner, including:

  • Establish and drive new partnership opportunities to maximise value for the movement, funding potential and influence.
  • Represent Save the Children in external events and key meetings with prospect partners to develop key partnership arrangements.
  • Coordinate across the movement to develop and package a strong offer that resonates with partner mutual interests and language.
  • Promote transformational partnerships by focusing on shared value and innovative programming opportunities, e.g. with private sector partners.
  • Hold oversight and leadership of SCUK’s overall engagement strategies and key moments (including CEO, Board level) across the portfolio and actively engage, representing Save the Children externally.
  • Personally, hold external relationships and networks within the sector, with both technical and managerial staff, at all levels of seniority, particularly at the most senior levels.
  • Ensure Save the Children’s ‘offer’ adds value beyond delivering programmes – leveraging impact through co-creation, evidence generation, convening and influencing.
  • Identify and develop ‘partnership making’ and ‘relationship building’ opportunities with the portfolio globally, regionally and locally by working closely with partner contacts, supporting, and facilitating engagement across SCUK and the partner, and working closely with other Save the Children teams.

Influence a complex global network of stakeholders, particularly those at the most senior level, to optimise our engagement within a portfolio of new partners, including:

  • Provide leadership in: 1) maximising synergies and leveraging expertise across all appropriate Save the Children divisions and SC members; 2) ensuring effective participation to existing/new co-ordination mechanisms that exist across SCUK’s full suite of thematic areas 3) use wider SC expertise at regional and country office levels to sustain new partnerships at field level.
  • Monitoring the value of the accounts/portfolio against set targets, as well as explaining/escalating variances.
  • Securing support and buy-in of critical stakeholders (which can include Business Development and Regional Portfolio teams, Humanitarian Department, technical experts, Compliance Manager, Advocacy (UK Government Relations), Media, Communications, Regional & Country Office teams) from across the organisation to contribute to our engagement with this portfolio and in meeting financial and non-financial targets.
  • Maintaining oversight, as required, ensuring the wider team is effectively horizon scanning and responding to potential partnership challenges & opportunities.

Other Accountabilities:

  • Provide support, challenge and coaching to wider PD team members to develop and embed our partnership and account management approach.
  • Provide leadership on your partners to increase the PD team profile and to optimise the benefit of the team’s work to the wider organisation and movement.
  • Lead on identified and priority cross-team initiatives, key focus areas of work and/or entities within the wider PD team portfolio.

Person Profile

Experience/Knowledge/Skills

  • Extensive experience within and knowledge of official development partners and of ODA instruments and flows.
  • A strong external network/working relationship with key, and particularly senior staff within partners in global, regional and local contexts.
  • Strong record of accomplishment in strategic partnership management and engagement at a senior level.
  • Experience of influencing and delivering results cross organisationally within a large complex organisation.
  • In depth experience and knowledge of current thinking and future trends and thorough understanding of contemporary development and child rights issues.
  • Strong and demonstrated team leadership skills.
  • Leadership skills, with an external orientation, situational agility, strategic vision and commitment to delivering results.
  • Excellent relationship building skills with the ability to network with and influence senior people both internally and externally to achieve a pre-defined outcome.
  • Strategic planning skills, in relation to positioning with donors, and in prioritising engagement focus.

Abilities

  • Insightful and analytic, with the ability to communicate, thinking clearly to both internal and external audiences.
  • A proven team player – someone who is open, ambitious, and who is able and willing to deliver beyond his or her personal brief.
  • Self-driven, with the ability to take a pro-active approach, work on own initiative, solve problems and think creatively in fluid or less structured environments.
  • Entrepreneurial, with the ability to identify opportunities and execute them strongly using novel approaches or techniques as appropriate.
  • Willingness and ability to travel.

Aptitude

  • A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
  • A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working – We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview**.**

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be “Free to Be Me”. We are mot looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences – of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability – help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

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