Job vacancy: Network and Partner Relations Coordinator - United Kingdom - Taxjustice

Description

We're hiring again Details of the new Network and Partner Relations Coordinator role below, and job information pack to download here .

Key facts:

Application closing date: Sunday 2 June 2019
Start date: July/August 2019
Reports to: Director of Operations
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week), will consider part time or job share
Salary: £42,000 plus 12% pension contribution
Location: Home-based (anywhere in the world) with 10% overseas travel

The Network and PartnerRelations Coordinator role is a new post that has been created to lead onconsultation, collaboration and communication between the Tax Justice Networkand national and regional networks in the tax justice movement. The Tax JusticeNetwork has identified a need to take a more proactive leadership role on taxjustice research and policy, investing resources in consultation, collaborationand communication, and complementing the role of the Global Alliance for TaxJustice in leading and coordinating global civil society advocacy andcampaigning work on tax justice issues.

This role is about buildingand managing a set of key relationships that are fundamental to the continuedimpact of the global tax justice movement. We are looking for a confident and engagingnetworker who combines good political instincts with excellent interpersonalskills and emotional intelligence. We are not looking for a technical expert,but the postholder will need to have (or acquire rapidly) enough understandingof tax justice issues (and their relationship with inequalities, includinggender inequalities and related intersectionality) to be able to co-ordinateresearch, policy and advocacy positions on complex issues effectively andcredibly with partners and to be able to recognise or anticipate and thenrespond to any potential causes of conflict or disagreement related to them.

The role will involve areasonable amount of global travel (perhaps 10%) so that the postholder canrepresent the Tax Justice Network at international conferences and events andat one-to-one or group meetings with current and prospective partnerorganisations. However, we expect that the vast majority of these meetings willtake place virtually, in line with our aims to minimise our carbon footprint aswell as logistical and budgetary considerations. The postholder should bewilling to work flexibly, which will mean having considerable autonomy overworking hours and patterns while recognising the occasional need to workunusual hours, for example to participate in calls with other time zones or totravel at weekends (with time off in lieu afterwards). The postholder will beprepared and able to work effectively from home and will need a reliable andfast internet connection.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Tax Justice Network's board to define and agree the extentto which the Tax Justice Network should be proactively co-ordinating researchand policy work across the global tax justice movement
• Build and manage relationships with key partners in the tax justice movement, including the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, its regional groups, and individual member organisations around the world, including but not limited to organisations launched by or with the support of the Tax Justice Network, by, for example:
  • Developing, discussing, agreeing and monitoring memoranda of understanding with key partners, balancing the setting of basic requirements with realistic expectations on both sides
  • Taking steps to clarify the different identities, objectives and activities of tax justice organisations
    
  • Providing practical support and advice about the best ways for partners to meet resource needs
    
  • Providing guidance for new partner organisations on issues such as objectives, legal structures and funding
    
  • Co-ordinating proactively with partners on fundraising and project opportunities, and identifying and pursuing opportunities to collaborate with partners and to submit joint proposals to funders
    
  • Sharing updates about the Tax Justice Network's current and future priorities and activities, and collecting updates about partner priorities and activities to share internally
    
  • Proactively seeking requests for technical assistance and/or prioritisation of research, policy or advocacy efforts from partner organisations, and pursuing these requests internally
    
  • Managing and updating a contacts database of partners to facilitate communication and collaboration
• Support the Tax Justice Network team in managing relationships with otherpartners within the wider movement, including the Financial TransparencyCoalition and ICRICT
• Represent the Tax Justice Network at international conferences and eventsand at one-to-one or group meetings with current and prospective partnerorganisations, both in-person and virtually
• Lead on scoping and developing new partnership opportunities withorganisations and coalitions working beyond the tax justice movement, incollaboration with the Tax Justice Network's senior management team
• Lead on communication withthe Tax Justice Network's senior advisers, including the production of aquarterly update email and the coordination of internal requests for supportfrom senior advisers

Person specification

Experience

• Co-ordination / Experience of building and managing complex external relationships inan NGO, company, political party, think tank or similar organisation, ideallyin a global context
• Understanding / Some knowledge and understanding of economic justice issues (ideallyof tax justice issues)

Skills

• Team-working / Working with an autonomous team supportively and sensitively,balancing the need for co-ordination and clear decision-making with aconsensual and collaborative management style
• Relationships / Building and maintaining successful relationships with partners andother stakeholders, with strong diplomatic skills, good political antenna andhigh levels of emotional intelligence, as well as highly developedcross-cultural sensitivity and awareness
• Presentation / Communicating effectively, persuasively, accurately and succinctly,both in person and in writing
• Languages / Proficiency in at least one major global language in addition toEnglish, ideally French and/or Spanish
• Technology / Proficiency in using standard office software and cloud-basedcollaboration and communication software, and ideally also in managing onlinecontact management databases

Attributes

• Commitment / Being focused on achieving high standards in pursuit of TJN'sobjectives
• Adaptability /Finding ways of dealing with unexpected opportunities andchallenges
• Resourcefulness / Achieving results with limited financial and human resources
• Judgement / Managing relationships with partners sensitively but robustly asneeded
• Collaboration / Working supportively and effectively as part of an internal team andwith external partners
• Integrity / Choosing the right course of action when the alternative might beeasier
• Flexibility / Willingness to do what is needed to get the job done (including someirregular hours and travel)

How to apply

Please upload a CV (resume) and answer a series of questions, addressing the experience listed in the person specification as well as your motivation, at by Sunday 2 June at 23.59 GMT.

The author

Will is TJN's Director of Operations. He has 18 years of experience of management, delivery and innovation in the social and public sectors in the UK and overseas. Between 2011 and 2017 he designed and delivered a growth strategy for an evidence-based media/health NGO, raising $19m. In 2017 he set up Tax Justice UK, a sister organisation of TJN, before joining TJN as Head of Operations (leading on fundraising, finance and reporting, governance, human resources and systems) and more recently as Director of Operations and member of the TJN board.

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