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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p>We’re looking for a highly motivated, well-organised individual to help us make a step change in our overall approach to collaborator and partner management. Working as an integral member of the Strategy Management Unit, you'll be responsible for making sure our cross-organisational external relationships activity is strategically fit-for-purpose. This new role offers the opportunity to work across every element of Trust’s areas of activity, playing a key role as part of a team that is helping to shape the next phase of our development, from 2025 and beyond.</p>
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<p>We protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive. We look after thousands of houses and close to a million objects, along with vast areas of coastline, countryside, and green spaces, for everyone’s benefit. With our staff, members, volunteers, and supporters, we’re the biggest conversation charity in Europe. Everyone can get involved, everyone can make a difference.</p>
<p><b>£55,000 - £60,000 full time permanent role.</b></p>
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<p>Reporting to the Strategy Management Director, you will be accountable for oversight of the full breadth of the organisation’s external relationships.</p>
<p>Critical tasks include:</p>
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<li>Developing a strategic collaborator/partner engagement plan, built on a good understanding of the organisation's strategy and interdependencies between areas of the organisational plan.</li>
<li>Looking ahead and identifying emerging and changing priorities for collaborator/partner prioritisation and engagement, responding to shifting policy and organisational priorities, and monitoring our operating environment to understand opportunities and risks.</li>
<li>Leading and championing an integrated approach to collaborator/partner engagement and developing our strategic approach, with a particular focus on senior directors and decision-makers.</li>
<li>Working closely with a broad range of senior colleagues to identify and develop opportunities for building strategic collaborator/partner relationships. This will include participating in all relevant senior level planning meetings and stimulating integration and collaboration where needed.</li>
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<p>We are looking for someone who is comfortable working at a strategic level with a broad variety of decision-makers and stakeholders.</p>
<p>We will shortlist for interview on the following minimum criteria for the role:</p>
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<li>Examples of your ability to work in a complicated organisation to facilitate collaborative working and intelligence sharing.</li>
<li>A track record of building programmes of work at a high level and across multiple business areas.</li>
<li>Operating as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, built on understanding of the strategic context and the practical realities of high quality collaborator/partner management, to deliver tangible organisational outcomes.</li>
<li>Excellent communication, problem solving and influencing skills and confident liaising with senior leaders to support and improve collaborator/partner relationships.</li>
<li>Experience of managing sophisticated internal and external collaborator/partner relationships including top level partners, influencers and decision-makers.</li>
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<p><b>1st Interviews will take place w/c 20th March</b></p>