University Partnerships Manager

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Fill Your Specialist Role Full time

The Opportunity

Our client is excited to be recruiting a University Partnerships Manager to join the University Partnerships team.

They will be comfortable building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. They will be up-to-date with the widening access and participation agenda and able to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the UK higher educationsector. This role will involve some travel across the UK to support the planning and delivery of events at their different university partners.

Person Specification

Time and Resource Management
- Experience of managing a heavy workload and prioritising effectively to deliver projects and events
- Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Ability to identify opportunities to save time/resource
- Helps others to develop the skills and behaviours to build good time and resource management External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management
- Experience of collaborating with external partners to run high-quality events
- Significant experience designing and delivering widening participation activities for school pupils with higher education providers
- Manages complex stakeholder relationships with confidence, adapting approach to meet different needs
- Coaches the team to identify issues and opportunities to better manage external stakeholder relationships

Role-Specific Knowledge and Skills
- Essential - knowledge of the education sector in the UK, in particular the access and participation agendas
- Essential - capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces. Excellent knowledge and confidence of using different IT platforms in particular CRM systems and Microsoft Office
- Essential - demonstrable openness to feedback and reflective practice in approach to work and team management
- Essential - experience of engaging with universities, to deliver events, projects or programmes
- Desirable - confident in using digital systems for delivery

Role-specific Experience and Qualifications
- Essential - extensive experience of working with or within education institutions
- Essential - previous experience of managing events
- Essential - experience of leading and delivering through others, in particular holding other accountable for delivery of successful work or projects
- Essential - understanding of the needs of teacher and pupils, particularly those who are less advantaged
- Essential - experience of external stakeholder management to deliver collaborative work
- Desirable - experience of line management and leading a team
- Desirable - experience of working with or in schools

Key Areas of Responsibility

The following areas of responsibility are the core of the role. However, the role is flexible and will vary according to the needs of the team, and the background and experience of the successful applicant. Leadership
- Lead members of the team who are involved with university event delivery and the maintenance of university relationships, including a University Partnerships Officer and the Universities Partnerships

Co-ordinator
- Provide leadership across the University Partnerships and The Scholars Programme Management team to ensure the delivery of high-quality university events for pupils, including the delivery of the efficiencies and enhancements to university events as partof the Join the Club strategy
- Maintain an oversight of any expenditure associated with the planning of university events, ensuring this remains in budget by liaising with the relevant budget holders

Stakeholder management
- Responsible for the maintenance of upwards of thirty university event planning relationships; in addition, support the University Partnership Officer to maintain positive relationships with their own sub-set of universities
- Develop strong working relationships with Widening Participation teams across the UK, leading event planning relationships to design and co-ordinate events for The Scholars Programme
- Support the Director of University Partnerships and Head of University Partnerships to build and maintain overall university partnerships across Our client's programmes, including identifying risks and emerging themes from university colleagues
- To develop and oversee the cycle of communication that is needed to manage strong partnerships and deliver effective events

Event and Project Management
- Lead on The Scholars Programme university experience for pupils through effective collaboration with university partners
- Provide event feedback and lead a cycle of continuous improvement for their events with university partners
- Lead the implementation of new systems and processes to improve university events, including identifying opportunities to reduce cost and staff time
- With support, develop the tracking and monitoring of university partnerships and events within their CRM system (Salesforce).
- Oversee the creation of bespoke, high quality Impact reports for partners Wider Support
- Support the charity’s wider activities, including data collection, reporting, and communications

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