Legacy Partnership Team Leader

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Job description

Legacy Partnerships Team Leader

Salary: £37 - 42000 per annum

Contract Length: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 35 hours per week (Part time 4 days per week/compressed hours considered)

Location: Home based - some national travel required, dependent on business need.
Closing date: Thursday 16h of December :59

Interview date: Interviews will be in January 2022

Application Method: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we are using Anonymous CVs through our recruitment portal. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the 'Work History' section of the application form and that you have answered the application questions. You will be asked to upload a CV, but we will not be using this as part of the shortlisting process, and it will therefore not be reviewed.

Are you an ambitious individual, with experience in developing and implementing an audience-led strategy and motivating a large team, looking to help us beat cancer?

Why we need you?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Legacy Giving Product Team, for a positive, resilient and ambitious individual to lead the development and implementation of our professional audiences strategy, supporting our vision to build sector leading partnerships.

What will I be doing?

As well as leading on the strategy for this specific area of Legacy Giving, you will also manage 7 Legacy Partnership Managers, who work divisionally across the country. These relationship managers work closely with professional audiences such as solicitors to ensure Legacy Giving for CRUK remains a focus and priority. You will manager, support and inspire the team to meet Legacy objectives and KPIs. You could already be working in a legacy focused role within another charity or work in a corporate environment as a Corporate Partnerships Manager.

Full job description (please contact us if you would like this in an accessible format):

Make an impact every day by:

Working collaboratively with legacy colleagues, develop, plan and oversee the delivery of the professional partnership engagement strategy

Support the Performance Manager in monitoring and reporting on the growth and engagement of our professional network

Work as part of cross-functional team to maintain our market share by developing a community of best practice.

Manage and motivate a team of Legacy Partnership Managers to enhance professional partner engagement activity and building on these relationships, where appropriate, to complement the legacy giving product strategies

Ensure close working relationships with other Legacy Professional Team Managers, sharing best practice, performance updates and reports

Encourage a culture of empowerment, building a community of best practice across the team

What skills are you looking for?

You'll be able to bring to the role:

Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to quickly get buy in and work collaboratively

Experience of managing and motivating a large team

Problem solving skills. Ability to overcome issues, propose solutions and make sound commercial decisions

A flexible approach, to comfortably manage ambiguity and changing environments/contexts

Excellent communication and relationship building skills, creating connections to make great things happen.

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, and much more. We want to ensure that you have the best work/life balance possible, so we actively encourage a flexible working culture for all of our roles wherever possible. For the majority of our office-based roles you'll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average.

You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.