Vacancy: Partnerships Manager

As an experienced Partnerships Manager, you will have a flair for identifying and nurturing corporate and community partnerships. You will have the confidence and drive to work independently as well as within a team, collaborating with a wide range of departments. You will have proven experience of forging and maintaining successful strategic partnerships that drive business growth, expand reach and support our mission. 

The Partnerships Manager plays a key role in strengthening our brand presence and credibility. You will be able to negotiate partnership agreements including terms, goals and ensuring alignment with Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) and partner priorities.  The ideal candidate is a proactive, creative thinker, who is outcomes-focused and enjoys working in a small close-knit team. 

We encourage you to apply if you like a challenge and will thrive on being given the responsibility to work autonomously to cultivate and oversee transformational relationships. RCUK Communications and Engagement Department delivers creative communications and authentic engagement activities that support the organisation’s Vision to 2030, which is to ensure that everyone in the UK has the skills they need to save a life and receive appropriate resuscitation.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Esther Kuku: esther.kuku@resus.org.uk 

Partnership Management

• Responsible for coordinating, managing and supporting RCUK’s collaborative activity with community and corporate partner organisations in the UK
• Act as the central link between partner organisations, and our patient and public voice group
• Manage relationships with both corporate and community partnerships developing strong new relationships and strengthening existing relationships, liaising with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Take leadership for all operational aspects of our community and corporate partnerships, including the quality of partnership bid documents and correspondence received by the partner, and any day-to-day matters
• Work closely with the Media and Campaigns and Policy and Public Affairs departments on campaigns and parliamentary engagement opportunities. Jointly working with the Media and Campaigns Manager to align the right partner/s with campaigning activities
• Writing press releases to announce new partnership relationships and promote partnership events locally
• Work closely with teams in RCUK to identify and develop growth opportunities for new and existing partnerships
• Ensure RCUK discharges its responsibilities in relation to involvement/consultation with our patient and public voice group. Implementing and developing community and commercial strategic relationships with organisations, in accordance with Resuscitation Council UK’s overarching, objectives and goals.

Strategy and Planning

• Lead on the implementation of a new partnership strategy for RCUK working closely with the Director of Communications and Engagement and key internal stakeholders, ensuring it remains relevant and develops across the life of our partnership activity
• Lead on developing bespoke individual plans for each partner relationship
• Lead on proactively researching and developing a pipeline of new partners whose values and mission aligns with the RCUK vision, presenting progress in monthly stakeholder meetings
• Develop compelling partnership propositions and presentations for corporate prospects, ensuring alignment with our values
• Chair a monthly partnership forward planning meeting with internal stakeholders and key members of the Senior Leadership Team
• Look for specific income generating partnerships that will help fund our campaigning activity
• Continually monitor and evaluate each partnership to ensure objectives are being met in line with both RCUK and the partners expectations
• Setting KPIs for each of our corporate and community partnerships
• Effective corporate account management - managing multiple and high value partners

Relationships

• Effectively manage the relationships with partners at all levels including internal stakeholders

Other

• This role will occasionally involve regional travel to meet with corporate or community partners. This will include working outside standard hours and involve occasional weeknight/weekend work.
• This role will involve external face to face meetings to initially establish new relationships, it will also involve supporting in-person community and corporate partners campaign events
• This list is not exhaustive. In addition to the duties outlined above, the role may also include any other duties reasonably requested by their line manager.
• It is a requirement of all RCUK staff to take an active participative interest in their own continuing professional development.

At Resuscitation Council UK, we offer competitive salaries, generous annual leave, and opportunities for professional development. All staff benefit from flexible working hours, and ensuring staff are able to balance their work and personal life is important to us. 

We pride ourselves on our inclusive, friendly staff team, who use their compassion and expertise to support each other. Teamwork and partnership working is at the centre of our mission to save lives. 

When you apply to a job with us, we aim to provide appropriate support every step of the way. Here are some of the ways we can support applicants and potential staff members: 

• Working location: We always seek to balance business needs with a flexible approach to working styles and preferences. We have adopted hybrid working arrangements, allowing staff to balance home and office working. The successful applicant will be required to come into the office for a minimum of 1 day per week. Reasonable adjustments will be made for the successful candidate where this is required.
• Access to work: If you would like to make an Access to Work application for a grant to pay for support tailored to your individual needs, such as a support worker, adaptations to the equipment you use, special equipment, taxi fares to and from work if public transport is not accessible to you, we will support you in this process. 
• Alternative application processes: We are asking for CVs and covering letters so you can tell us how your skills and experience can support and add value to Resuscitation Council UK. However, if an alternative method of applying – such as sending us a video or audio clip about yourself – works better for you, we welcome your application. We want our applicants to shine, so we’re flexible to your needs. 
• Equity for all applicants: when we receive applications, those who shortlist candidates for each role will not have access to your name, age or date of birth. In addition, we ask you to submit a diversity monitoring form. We won’t use the information in the diversity monitoring forms during the recruitment process itself, but the information we receive will help us to understand whether our job advertisements are successfully attracting a diverse range of applicants.

Please email your CV, covering letter and equality & diversity monitoring form to recruitment@resus.org.uk with 'Partnerships Manager' in the subject line.

We welcome and will accept applications using an alternative process (such as video or audio applications). Please contact us by email to discuss this prior to submitting your application. 

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 17:00, Wednesday 9 April 2025.

Interviews will be held in person on Wednesday 23 April 2025.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early if enough suitable applicants apply.