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The National Youth Agency is excited to be recruiting for a Partnerships Manager (Commercial)

Contract: Permanent, Full-time (37 hours per week)

Salary: Band 4 £30,858.80 - £40,777.70 dependent on experience

Location: Home based/Remote working - NYA has its home in Leicester which is available for staff to work or host meetings.

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. Youth work 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 charity mission and aims, we also champion youth work through research, advocacy, campaigns, and programmes.

About the Role

NYA is on a mission to catalyse and support the youth work sector to improve standards, access resources and to effectively support young people to achieve their potential. We know that to achieve this, we need to work in collaboration with delivery organisations, funders, stakeholders, and policy makers, to facilitate and coordinate partnerships, and to influence and guide the sector’s path forward.

As we continue to expand our successful Growth team, in this brand-new role, you will work closely alongside the Business Development Manager, to both develop and deliver the Partner Engagement Strategy.

The team is spearheading an ambitious programme of growth to position the NYA as the ‘go to’ organisation for collaboration across the youth sector.

This role sits within our Growth Directorate, and you will report to the Director of Growth.

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. The collaborations that you build will go beyond the youth work 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 partnerships deliver effective engagement with the sector, enabling NYA 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 partner engagement, encouraging and supporting colleagues, to embed this approach into organisational development and our work programmes.

As our Partnerships Manager you will also:

• Act as the strategic lead for partner engagement for the Growth Team
• Identify commercial opportunities to generate income with the Business Development Manager.
• Work with the Business Development Manager to write powerful proposals.
• Grow and manage a network of partners to support the mission of the NYA.
• Embed a culture of effective partnership working throughout the organisation.

Please download our applicant pack to find out more about the role and requirements,

How to apply

If you wish to apply for this position, please use our online application process to submit the following by 23:59 on 23rd May 2023:

• 
  A detailed CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements in line with the person specification in the 'About You' section.
• A covering letter (maximum two sides) highlighting your suitability for the role and how you meet the person specification. Please note that the covering letter is an important part of the application and we will not accept CV’s without one.
• Please provide details of two professional referees in your CV or Covering letter, 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.
• Diversity monitoring information – your data will be stored separately from your applications and will at no time be connected to you or your application.

We encourage you to apply without delay as we may close the recruitment process early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

More about us

Discover more about the National Youth Agency and our work at: nya.org.uk