Partnerships and Communities Manager - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Cooperatives UK

Description

Partnerships and Communities Manager

Location:
South Yorkshire

Contract:
Full time, Fixed Term Contract
Salary £43,974

Hours 35 hours per week

Benefits Flexible working | Competitive pension scheme | Wellbeing programme

Closing date

We are delighted to share this new and unique opportunity for a Partnerships and Communities Manager to join our dynamic and growing organisation's Policy and Development team.

As the voice of the UK's co-operative movement, we empower and support co-operative enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the co-operative economy and create a fairer society.

From football clubs and farms, to convenience stores andpubs, there are more than 7,000 co-operatives in the UK, each owned and controlled by their members and based on a set of shared principles and values.

By promoting shared wealth through member ownership, we are committed to enable anyone in the UK to form,or join, thriving and sustainable co-ops.

You will be responsible for managing Co-operatives UK's participation in and contributions to the exciting new Regional Action Plan programme in South Yorkshire.

The Regional Action Plan (RAP) is a new five year, multi-million pound partnership with four other national organisations (New Economics Foundation, Centre for Local Economic Strategies, Centre for Thriving Places, Employee Ownership Association) and threemayoral combined authorities (South Yorkshire, West Midlands, North of Tyne).

In each city-region the RAP will combine and embed interventions for community-led economic development, democratic business and community wealth building.

Over five years the RAPwill demonstrate how a significant, long-term commitment to this approach can address economic, social and environmental challenges and build a high-wellbeing and low-carbon economy.

This role is certainly catered to an individual with good critical judgement who can build and manage relationships with diverse partners.

Not only will you will draw upon your coalition building and organising skills to help communities participate in theRAP, but you will also ensure our expertise and insights on co-operatives and employee ownership informs the work of the partnership as well.

You will also find synergies between our programmes and services and RAP activities. And you will use your analyticaland influencing skills to help inform the development of local economic policy and strategy.


Core responsibilities

• We invite all interested parties to learn more about the role and our organisation within the recruitment pack, which can be downloaded from the recruitment documents section.
• Manage strategic partnerships with local and national institutions working for a fairer economy and society. Primarily by managing Cooperatives UK's participation in and contributions to the Regional Action Plan (RAP) progragramme, a new partnership betweenCooperatives UK, South Yorkshire Combined Authority (SYMCA), West Midlands Combined Authority, North of Tyne Combined Authority, the Employee Ownership Association (EOA), New Economics Foundation, Centre for Local Economic Strategies and the Centre for ThrivingPlaces
• National management the Ownership Hub programme, our partnership with the EOA to promote and support employee and worker ownership, and its integration into the RAP
• Supporting and coordinating the activities of the RAP programme in South Yorkshire, including building a community partnership to drive change and facilitating the cocreation of an action plan to drive local economic transformation, while also strategicallybuilding relationships influencing within SYMCA and wider local economic governance
• Contributing to policy analysis and the creation of strategies, business cases and the design of local programmes for community wealth building, with a particular focus on the role of employee ownership and cooperatives
• Ensure the learning, evidence and insight generated through the RAP informs the work of the Ownership Hub, the EOA and Cooperatives UK

Essential Knowledge

• Community empowerment
• The economic, social and environmental challenges experienced by urban communities in England
• How businesses can contribute to fairer, more inclusive and more sustainable local economies
• Local economic policy and governance in England

Essential Skills

• Building and managing relationships at multiple levels with diverse partners
• Coalition building
• Passionate and effective communication to diverse audiences including community leaders and local policymakers
• Facilitation of complex partnerships
• Strategic analysis and influencing in a policy and/or complex corporate context
• Diplomacy and the ability to help diverse partners with sometimes competing priorities and asymmetrical needs work together effectively
• Programme and project management, including portfolio management, planning, report writing and budget management
• Creative problem solving
• Entrepreneurial skills and able to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits
At Co-operatives UK we are a mindful, inclusive and equal opportunities employer.

As an organisation that is owned and controlled by its members, we put our people at the forefront of all that we do.

We offer:

• Flexible working options
• Pension scheme
• Discounted travel to work schemes
• Employee wellbeing assistance programme including free eye tests
• Personal and professional growth and development, including coaching
• Trade union

Application deadline:
Midnight 23rd February 2023.

Interviews:
Week commencing 6th March 2023. Interviews will be held in Manchester.


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