Partnerships Manager

**Location** Home based/remote working
**Contract Type**: Full time, Permanent
**Salary**: band 3 - £40,000 to £45,000 PA

**Benefits**: Competitive
The National Youth Agency is excited to be recruiting for a Partnerships Manager
What we do
All young people deserve a productive, fulfilling future. Society needs the spark and energy of young people to make it tick, yet somehow thousands of young people feel blocked by the complex, sometimes disheartening challenges the modern world throws at them.
Youth work is the best methodology to unlock young people’s potential by providing high quality support and opportunities. Skilled youth workers build relationships that support young people to explore their personal, social, and educational development. Youthwork enables young people to develop their voice, influence, and place within society.
As the national body for youth work, NYA has a dual function. We are the professional, statutory, and regulatory body (PSRB) responsible for qualifications, quality standards and safeguarding for youth work and services in England. In line with our charitymission and aims, we also champion youth work through research, advocacy, campaigns, and programmes.
About the Role
The NYA aspires to be the leading youth sector infrastructure body to guide and support the sector to meet the needs of young people and communities. Our Partnerships Manager will work as part of the Growth Directorate to identify and develop partnership opportunitiesthat support the delivery of the NYA strategy.
You will thrive in a swiftly changing charity using your experience, initiative, and technical skills to help develop and deliver NYA’s Stakeholder Engagement Strategy.
You will use your experience skills and expertise to identify and develop powerful partnerships that promote the work of the NYA, help us to secure income, and increase our influence on national policy. The partnerships that you build will go beyond the youthwork sector, engaging constructive partnerships with providers and other stakeholders in the education, employability, and health sectors. Working closely with the Director of Growth, and the wider Senior Leadership Team, you will ensure that these partnershipsdeliver effective engagement with the sector, that will allow NYA to inform and influence national policy and drive change to improve the provision of youth work, and the life chances of young people.
You will also work with the senior leadership team to provide information and insight into the priorities of the wider sector, that will guide the team to deliver future projects and services that support NYA’s wider strategy.
You will champion and lead an effective approach to stakeholder engagement across the organisation, engaging and supporting colleagues, to embed this approach into organisational development and our work programmes.
You will:
Act as the strategic lead for partner engagement for NYA
Grow and manage a network of partners to support the mission of the NYA
Work with the senior leadership team to develop and deliver NYA’s Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Embed a culture of effective partnership working throughout the organisation
This role sits within our Growth Directorate, and you will report to the Director of Growth.
To hear more about the role, download our applicant pack
How to apply
A detailed CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements in line with the person specification in the About You section.
Please provide details of two professional referees together with a brief statement of their relationship to you and over what period they have known you. Referees will not be contacted without your prior consent.
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