Partnerships Manager

Job title:

Partnerships Manager

Company

Apolitical

Job description

OverviewStart date: As soon as possibleTeam: PartnershipsReporting to: Senior Partnerships ManagerVisa sponsorship: Not available. You must have the right to work in the UKBackground checks: Due to the nature of the work we do with global governments and partners, all employees are required to passRoleWe’re looking for someone to join our Partnerships team who is excited to play a key role in delivering some of Apolitical’s flagship initiatives, including:The Government AI CampusThe Digital Excellence ProgrammeDelivery on Government Campus (UK)Your role is to contribute to the Partnerships team’s work – working alongside Senior Partnerships Managers in particular – by helping manage and deliver these complex projects to world class and exceptional standards.Key AimsWork with the Partnerships team to ensure world-class and exceptional standards of delivery for partnersEnsure high satisfaction among Apolitical’s government, academic and philanthropic partnersRole breakdownProgramme management/deliveryExecute tasks and ringlead across teams: You will coordinate with various teams to deliver project components for multiple government partners. You will work with Senior Partnership Managers to ensure effective communication and coordination.Help with the management of relationships with government, academic and philanthropic partners to achieve high satisfaction scores, often with a Senior Partnerships Manager.Contribute to the gathering and collating of qualitative and quantitative data from internal and external stakeholders.Governance and Compliance:Ensure that the training programme adheres to all relevant legal, ethical, and regulatory standards, particularly concerning the use of AI in government, in all modes of delivery.About youThis is a great fit if you…Are proactive, agile and adaptable. Our company moves quickly and you will constantly be doing new things. You will also need to work in line with external stakeholders’ expectations, needs and communication styles.Are highly organised, allowing you to keep track of details. You have to be able to handle multiple customers, deadlines and priorities, and not drop the small things that might matter to clients.Have sound judgement and high emotional intelligence. You have a good instinct for how to react to situations and handle people – internally and externally – to achieve the best outcome.This won’t be the right role if you…Prefer a predictable, pre-defined workflow. This role necessitates agile work and being alert to the needs of clients.Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Apolitical is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.Application ProcessApolitical uses Applied in our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV alone, we’ll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The answers are then anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team.The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application. No one at Apolitical sees the answers to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.Stages in our hiring process:Culture interview [45m on Google Meet]. We ask you questions on fundamental skills and behaviours for working at Apolitical. This call is about finding candidates who will add to our culture. It’s an opportunity to get to know you and for you to get to know us as an organisation, so we make time at the end for you to ask us questions about how we work.Work sample [async]. We use work samples to see how you approach problems and give you a sense of the type of work you would be doing in the role. We use them because they’re reliable in assessing and predicting performance in a role. Our work samples are designed to take less than 2 hours to complete.Team interview [45 on Google Meet]. We ask you questions on fundamental skills and behaviours for the role. It’s an opportunity to meet some of the people you might end up working with, so we make time at the end for you to ask us questions about the team and role.Chief Executive interview [30m on Google Meet]. We build on conversations you’ve had with other team members to learn about your motivations and drivers at work and within the Apolitical context.

Expected salary

£45000 – 60000 per year

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:12:22 GMT

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