Senior Partnerships Manager

Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Corporate Services Group works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The group is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Communications, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Private Office, Security, Estates and Information.

As a member of the Communications Directorate, you will be supporting our mission to deliver outstanding public services that work for everyone.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team with colleagues based across the UK, working together to deliver the Home Office’s communications strategy.

We believe a positive, open and supportive culture is essential to help everyone deliver their best work. We value diversity and provide an inclusive and encouraging environment for our team members. We nurture our talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities to help you fulfil your potential.

Job description

Launched in February 2024, Stop! Think Fraud is an innovative behaviour change campaign which has made a positive impact in the fight against fraud, by helping the public and small businesses to both identify potential fraudulent approaches and take action to protect themselves.

Partners are critical to the success of the campaign - ensuring people see our messages through multiple channels and credible voices they trust. Working with organisations we can ensure we use every opportunity to engage and influence our audiences.

As a Senior Partnerships Manager you will be responsible for developing, managing, and growing strategic partnerships with private, public and third sector partners to support the Stop! Think Fraud campaign objectives.

Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Refining and developing the campaign partnership strategy with the aim of increasing the sustainability, value and breadth of partnerships secured.
• Employing creative and effective relationship building and networking skills to enthuse and inspire partners to work with us. Nurturing a portfolio of existing partners, ensuring high levels of engagement and satisfaction, and identifying new partnership opportunities aligned with campaign priorities.
• Leading collaboration discussions and the design of partnership activity, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes and risk mitigation.
• Leading the development, delivery and evaluation of impactful campaigns with partners, collaborating with external and internal teams including insight, media, digital, marketing, external affairs and policy.
• Providing regular updates on the performance of partnership activity to Senior Civil Servants, Special Advisors and Ministers.
• Keeping up to date with best practice in partnership management and developing a network of peers across government to share best practice and learnings with.
• Supporting wider campaign activity as needed.

Working patterns

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.

Please also note that whilst the appointment is permanent, the position is expected to conclude after two years. Should the role cease to exist or organisational requirements change, you may be placed into the redeployment process in accordance with Home Office policy. In such circumstances, we will make every effort to identify a suitable alternative position; however, if no suitable role is available, the Restructuring, Redeployment and Redundancy (RRR) policy will apply.

Person specification

Essential criteria

You must be able to demonstrate experience of:

• Partnership management or stakeholder engagement, influencing internal and external stakeholders at all levels and building and managing productive relationships;
• Sourcing, analysing and prioritising relevant sources of data and insight to inform communications activity;
• Developing and delivering proposals and presentations;
• Leading the development, delivery and evaluation of partnership campaigns designed to drive behaviour change, including working collaboratively with internal and external communications teams; and
• Strong organisational and project management skills; able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Desirable criteria

• Familiarity with public communications in a large complex organisation.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Communications - Implementation
• Communications - Insight

Benefits

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
• Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
• See more of our benefits on our careers website.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that th