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Partnerships & Development Manager
Location: Yorkshire and the North East
Home/Office/Remote based
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000
Contract: Permanent
Closes on: Wednesday 28 April 2021
PeoplePlus is a leading provider working across the adult skills, apprenticeships, employability, and prison education sectors. It is a purpose-led organisation with a commitment to making a direct difference to the lives of one million people by 2022.
We focus on helping people into sustainable work, building a skilled workforce and supporting individuals to develop their careers. Through our front-line services we help people live more independently and we support ex-offenders through our transformative prison education services.
About the role
This is a great opportunity for an inspirational individual to join us as our Partnerships & Development Manager. This is a role that will ensure PeoplePlus makes a real impact across Yorkshire and the North East, through the development of strategic and operational partnerships. We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated to take responsibility for creating and delivering PeoplePlus’ partner and stakeholder engagement programmes that showcase the very best of our organisation.
A key aspect of this role involves supporting business development and bid activity. The successful candidate will be collaborative, adept at building and maintaining positive relationships with external stakeholders. They will be a real team player, sharing information and market insights with colleagues and senior management, helping to ensure we use local insights to inform continuous improvement in our service design and delivery.
Have you got what it takes?
You will need to be proactive with high ethical standards and take personal accountability for everything you do. You must always look to be the best and be a brand ambassador for PeoplePlus. You will have experience working in a partnership role within the Employability, Skills, Enterprise or Justice & Communities sectors and, ideally, a good grasp of the relevant funding streams.
This role requires excellent communication and organisational skills with an ability to prioritise a demanding workload, meet deadlines and make clear decisions.
Ideally, you will have had experience in a business development team, supporting the development of bids.
What’s in it for you?
We are on a journey to be an Employer of Choice and already have a One Star accreditation from Best Companies. At PeoplePlus reward means far more than just pay. Your total reward package also includes a variety of different benefits as well as incentive and recognition schemes for our colleagues.
Our generous and competitive benefits package includes our full support with obtaining coaching or teaching qualifications; enhanced annual leave plus bank holidays, a paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year, a paid Volunteering Day each year, a Pension, Life Insurance, an Employee Assistance Programme to access help and support 24 hours a day every day of the year, the opportunity to buy shares in the company through our Sharesave scheme, Refer a Friend reward scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and access to our employee benefits portal Additions which gives you discounts on hundreds of products, services, shops and entertainment. We also have our “Simply Dreams Come True” offering any member of staff the opportunity to turn the dreams into reality making the possibilities endless for our employees.
For further information and to complete the application please click on the link below:
Partnerships & Development Manager - PeoplePlus (current-vacancies.com)
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