Partnerships Manager

Location

Hackney, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

Reports to : Head of Operations and People

Location : 3 days a week in our shared office space at SHED and two working days remote.

Hours : Normal working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm but we can be flexible.

Contract : 3-year contract subject to passing 6-month probation (depending on funding, this could be made a permanent post).

Holiday : 25 days per annum (rising to 28 days after 3 years) plus public holidays.

Benefits : Annual bonus scheme, season travel ticket loan, weekly therapy budget, annual personal training budget and wellness allowance (e.g. can be used on gym membership)

You Make It is an award-winning, progressive and caring organisation that has been running for 13 years. Over this time we have brought life changing results for more than 600 women (aged 18-30) who’ve accessed our holistic empowerment programmes. We’re recognised for our innovation in transforming the life chances of our participants who’ve got so much to offer, but who need some help to get there in life. 

Women on our programmes benefit from: 1-1 mentoring and therapy; as well as engaging Friday group learning sessions featuring seminars, workshops, debate clubs and guest talks. Participants also gain valuable work experience through short, expenses-paid work placements.

Our values as an organisation are critical to everything we do and we seek to recruit those onto our staff team that can demonstrate that they share them. These are: equality, creativity, authenticity, empowerment, dynamism, integrity, and a strong work ethic.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Working closely in a small and dedicated team, this is a critical position that will use proven and exceptional partnership building skills to ensure young women on our empowerment programmes are each able to access 1-1 mentoring, and short expenses/ paid work placements to help them get that much closer to securing longer term employment.

You are NOT going to be starting from scratch – YMI has been going for a while and has already established amazing partnerships with a great crop of employers including Nike Jordan! 

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The maintenance and establishment of new partnerships through meetings with businesses from which to recruit mentors for each of our women. 
• Recruit 25 mentors per programme, schedule their participation onto our fantastic mentor training programme and make mentee-mentor matches (our process here has been described as “pure alchemy” by former mentees and mentors)
• Conduct research to identify and secure meetings with employers to establish short expenses paid work experience placements for our young women. 
• Collaborate closely with our Programmes and Participation Manager to consult with women on sectors of interest (commonly these have been creative/ cultural but not exclusively so).
• Generate new ideas to create income streams including new brand partnerships that improve the sustainability of our work for young women and raise awareness of our profile.
• Maintain records of partnership agreements and ensure that progress against deliverables is provided to employers/ investors into our work.

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