Strategic Partnerships Manager
As Strategic Partnerships Manager, you will help shape Catch22 's future growth by building influential relationships with commissioners, funders and strategic partners. You will lead our approach to stakeholder engagement, ensuring market intelligence, trusted relationships and early opportunity insight are translated into sustainable growth opportunities.
Working closely with senior leaders, you will raise Catch22 's profile across key markets, influence future services and funding opportunities, and play a pivotal role in securing the partnerships that enable us to deliver lasting impact for people and communities.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Developing and delivering a structured, agile stakeholder engagement strategy and delivery plan for Catch22 .
- Overseeing Catch22 's commissioner and funder engagement activity, coordinating and influencing engagement across senior colleagues to ensure activity is strategic, aligned and supports sustainable growth.
- Building and managing senior relationships across local government, strategic authorities, trusts, foundations and lottery funders, creating opportunities to understand, anticipate and respond to future commissioning and funding priorities.
- Leading Catch22 's place-based engagement approach, coordinating local engagement activity and strengthening relationships across priority markets and emerging devolved structures.
- Generating and sharing commissioner, funder and market intelligence, acting as a trusted advisor to operational and business development leaders and informing growth priorities, service development and pipeline decisions.
- Owning and continuously improving stakeholder engagement processes, systems and reporting, effectively using data and technology, while ensuring effective governance, compliance and risk management.
For full requirements, please read the Job Description and Person Specification.
We are looking for a credible and thoughtful relationship-builder who earns trust, navigates complexity with sound judgement and responds confidently and pragmatically to emerging opportunities and challenges.
You will bring to the role:
- A strong track record of building influential relationships with commissioners, funders, government departments, trusts, foundations, strategic partners and other senior stakeholders.
- Experience developing and delivering stakeholder engagement strategies that have supported organisational growth and strengthened market position.
- Exceptional influencing, negotiation and relationship-building skills, with credibility at executive, political and system-leader level, and experience aligning senior colleagues around a strategic approach to stakeholder engagement.
- Strong understanding of public sector commissioning, procurement and grant funding, including local government, integrated care systems and the evolving devolution landscape.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to influence diverse audiences and translate complex information into clear, compelling messages.
- Experience of stakeholder mapping, engagement planning and measuring relationship effectiveness.
- Digitally confident and data-driven, with experience using CRM systems and market intelligence tools to inform decision-making.
- Willingness to travel nationally, as required.
Salary: £45,000
Contract: Permanent, full-time (37-hours per week)
Flexibility: Fully remote role (UK based), or with access to our central London office
Application Deadline: Midnight on Wednesday 26th August
Interviews: Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However, due to the volume ofinterest we receive, we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us