Partnerships Intern

ARE YOU AGED LOOKING TO JOIN AN INSPIRATIONAL TEAM?

IF SO, FORCE OF NATURE HAVE AN AMAZING PAID

WORK OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU

Job Title: Operations Intern

Number of guaranteed hours per week: 35 hours (30 core hours alongside 5 hours of personal/professional development per week)

Hourly rate of pay: Real Living Wage (9.90 p/h)

Length of contract: 9 months

Work pattern: 4 day working week, hours TBC with line-manager.

JOB PLACEMENT SUMMARY

UK Year of Service is an employability support programme that supports People to secure paid work, which is also underpinned and complimented by additional training/development opportunities. The programme offers people the opportunity to put their skills and beliefs to work and the chance to make a difference to communities across the country.

This role has been created in partnership with Force of Nature and Catch22/UK Year of Service programme. Force of Nature have secured this paid employment opportunity to work for them and will be your host organisation.

WHO ARE FORCE OF NATURE?

Force of Nature started with a simple realisation: that the threat even greater than the climate crisis is how powerless we feel in the face of it. Strong emotions in the face of climate change are a normal, rational response to the crisis; but they can shut us down when we tip into despair and denialism.

We recognise a need for a global community of activated individuals, who aren’t scared to talk about how climate change makes them feel. Young people who are rewriting their climate stories to be ones of hope and resilience; and decision-makers giving us a seat at the table.

We called for a revolution in mindset. Now, a year in, we’re reflecting on the incredible journey we’ve taken - and all of the friends we’ve found along the way.

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

As Partnerships Intern you will work most closely with our Partnerships Director, Kat. You will be responsible for the administrative coordination of business partnerships at Force of Nature.

To fulfil this role, it’s important that you are detail-orientated and good at managing priorities to meet deadlines. As Partnerships Intern, you will support the partnerships team to ensure that opportunities are scheduled and delivered in a timely manner. For example, should a prospective client reach out to learn more about Force of Nature’s work, it would be your responsibility to:

- Ask clarifying questions to determine the needs of the client
- Write the partnership agreement (following a template); liaise with Kat on revisions
- Following client sign-off, work with our Community Manager, Aisha, to coordinate the correct Force of Nature representatives to deliver the engagement(s)
- Manage scheduling and admin for seamless delivery of the engagement(s)

As Force of Nature grows, the needs of this role may adapt. This is why we’re looking for someone keen to take on evolving responsibilities, who is self-directed and will thrive in our start-up culture. This role will enable Force of Nature to scale our programmes and impact; all paid-for business engagements directly fund our free and subsidised programmes with young people.

**Responsibilities**:
Partnerships Communication
- Support day-to-day administrative tasks in the partnerships team such as calendar management, scheduling and sending contracts
- Write & edit partnerships agreements to do with delivery of services and collaboration, managed via our CRM system, Hubspot
- Attend & take notes on partnership calls, with the vision of eventually taking initial client calls to explore collaboration opportunities before coordinating with the Partnerships Director.

Programme Coordination
- Coordinate programmes & services for businesses, working closely with our Community Manager to plug our youth advisors into opportunities
- Manage the sales & delivery tasks related to our work with businesses through our Hubspot system, including but not limited to: sending work contracts; setting up call links for programmes; creating briefing documents for programme facilitators; ensuring that the finance team sends invoices; etc.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

You must have the following attributes:

- Keen attention to detail
- Critical thinking & ability to make decisions quickly when needed
- Tech savvy, ability to learn new software
- Ability to prioritise and manage competing priorities, in order to deliver to deadlines
- Strong writing and editing skills

PERSONAL QUALITIES

You must have the following attributes:

- Keen attention to detail
- Critical thinking & problem-solving (you should love a process)
- Tech savvy, ability to learn new software
- Ability to prioritise and manage competing priorities, in order to deliver to deadlines
- A people-person; approachable and empathetic.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

This is an entry level role, and being an intern at Force of Nature means you will be welcomed with a helping hand while you develop your personal and professional ski