Public Practice | PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

• Permanent position (6-month probation)

• 30 or 37.5 hours per week

• £40,000 – £50,000 pro-rata FTE

• Starting April 2022

• Hybrid working from around the UK

• Apply by 14 February

ABOUT US

As a social enterprise, Public Practice's mission is to build the public sector's capacity to improve the quality, equality and sustainability of places. Public Practice runs a unique placement programme designed for built environment practitioners joining public sector organisations for 12-month paid placements. Just four years old, we have received widespread press coverage and are now seeking to scale our programme England wide.

ABOUT YOU

As our Partnerships Manager, you will be passionate about our values, play an essential role in our high performing small team of eight, and represent us to our most important external audience - local authority officers.

We are open to applicants who may have had a varied career background to date, but for this role, we will be looking for the following key attributes:

• Excellent communication: both the ability to write engaging written content and run inspiring pitches

• Strong relationship builder: able to forge meaningful authentic relationships with people from diverse contexts

• Confident account manager: enjoys using data and making use of CRM software to source and maintain excellent customer experience

• Strategic and process-driven thinker: ability to interpret industry insights and predict customer needs and translate them into tangible new partnerships

• Aligns with our values: in particular, inclusion, excellence and openness

• Attention to detail: comfortable working in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining high-level of quality outputs

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & ACCESS

Public Practice values the diversity of perspectives that people from different backgrounds bring to our work. We positively encourage applications from eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identification, ethnicity, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief or sexual orientation. We don’t accept CVs or Cover Letters and will be assessing applicants anonymously using a clear set of criteria for scoring.

If you feel that you have something to offer but are not sure whether you fulfil other aspects of the job description, we would strongly encourage you to contact us at work@publicpractice.org.uk or book a call here.