Partnerships Development Manager

National Deaf Children's Society

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

National Deaf Children's Society is the leading charity for deaf children. We give expert support on childhood deafness, raise awareness, and campaign for deaf children's rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else. The National Deaf Children’s Society is a charity for deaf children with any level of hearing loss.

We’re here for deaf children and everyone who cares about them. Whatever the question or challenge, we help find a way through. We empower families to connect and drive change in their communities, and we campaign to make sure deaf children get the support they need. We lead the way, sharing insight and knowledge in the UK and internationally.

About the role

We are looking for a Partnerships Development Manager to develop our approach to, and implement a comprehensive partnership development plan, aligning with our longer-term strategic aims. You’ll collaborate across the organisation to understand business aims and objectives, and with one eye on the external market, you’ll help to find solutions through seeking new opportunities and, in turn, developing key new relationships with organisations.

You will be skilled in research and prospecting for new business development opportunities, performing the due diligence required, and developing mutually beneficial relationships with key partners, which will enable us to deliver for our audiences and achieve our long-term plans.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the charity to understand key business aims and objectives.
• Having an open mind and a solution-focused approach to barriers to help solve problems and challenge the status quo.
• Scanning the external landscape to identify strategic partnership opportunities that strengthen service delivery, influence systems, and improve outcomes for deaf children and their families.
• Prospecting both warm and cold relationships for potential partners to help us achieve our goals.
• Using your keen research skills to perform due diligence to ensure potential partners are compatible with our aims and our values.
• Making strong decisions regarding which partnerships to take forward and which to not progress based on insight.
• Developing mutually beneficial relationships with new and existing partners to enable NDCS to deliver against strategic plans.
• Communicate clearly with key stakeholders, chapter members, and squad members.
• Reflect on progress and performance - always looking to improve and keep momentum.
• Sharing wisdom, experience, and knowledge to upskill colleagues within the chapter.
• Work in squads and on operational tasks as well as contributing to an evolving ‘centre of excellence’ for your skill set. 

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Essential Criteria:

• Proven experience in developing and managing strategic partnerships that deliver agreed outcomes, support service delivery, and create tangible benefits for beneficiaries and the organisation.
• Strong research and insight-gathering skills with a demonstrable ability to perform and present due diligence to ensure partners are aligned with NDCS values.
• Proven ability to develop an approach to and implement a new business development plan, in order to meet strategic aims, taking account of market activity, to deliver strategic partnerships while managing risk effectively
• Experience in maintaining and developing both warm and cold relationships and partnerships to ensure mutually beneficial outcomes that meet strategic aims and objectives.
• Experience of working with partnership agreements or contracts in a service delivery or charitable context, ensuring clarity of expectations, effective governance, and focus on outcomes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to manage up.
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment (sound understanding of agile values and principles).
• Passionate about working as part of a team and sharing and developing your skills, knowledge, and expertise in a collaborative environment.
• Can-do attitude and are focused on achieving outcomes 
• Open mindset and embrace new concepts and ideas 

Desirable Criteria:

• BSL Level 1 or above, a good level of deaf awareness, and working towards BSL Level 1 or above. Understanding and experience of deafness and British Sign Language skills, and a willingness to learn.

Compensation & Benefits

• 25 days holiday - plus an additional 3 days at Christmas (& bank holidays).
• Pension (5.5% employer contribution).
• Healthcare Cashplan.
• Annual performance-based salary increase.
• Employee Assistance & Wellbeing Programmes.

Working locations

• Home-based

How to apply

• Apply to our website
• Please contact us at [email protected] with any accessibility or reasonable adjustment enquiries.

Policies

As part of our commitment to creating a safe and trusted environment for the children, young people and families we support, all offers of employment are subject to background checks. These include Right to Work verification, Criminal Record Disclosure, and ID and address verification.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification. As part of our commitment to creating a safe and trusted environment for the children, young people, and families we support, all offers of employment are subject to background checks. These include Right to Work verification, Criminal Record Disclosure, and ID and address verification.

To complete an online Right to Work check, you will need a valid UK or Irish passport, or a government share code if you are not a British citizen. If an online check is not possible, we’ll need to verify your documents in person at our London office. Please be aware that travel time and expenses for this appointment cannot be reimbursed.

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