Head of Partnerships

The role

Working in partnership with schools and peer organisations is integral to ensuring Khulisa can achieve its mission. Typically, we will work with over 10-15 schools a year, where we deliver intensive wellbeing programmes for young people and training for staff. We also partner with a further 20-30 organisations (including local authorities, youth offending teams and peer charities) to train parents, carers and professionals to become trauma-informed and more responsive to the needs of children in their care.

As we embark on a rapid period of growth, we are looking to recruit a senior manager into a new role, who will lead our relationships with all our external delivery partners. The Head of Partnerships will manage both national and regional partnerships and decide
which schools we work with, and why. You will ensure that the partnerships are operating well and are generating positive outcomes for the young people and adults who engage with our team. You will be ultimately responsible for designing and delivering our partnership growth strategy, ensuring that we can increase the number of schools we work with from 15 to 50 by 2025. You will work closely with the Head of Delivery, to provide line management supervision and support for the delivery team that is therapeutically informed. And together you will ensure that our team is meeting demand and delivering to a consistent standard and quality as we grow. This is a senior management role within the organisation, reporting directly to the Director of Partnerships and Programmes and working closely with the CEO. This role would be ideal for someone with a deep understanding of the education sector, and the ambition to take a leading role in our growth plans over the next 3-5 years.

About you

This person will lead on the whole partnership life cycle, from managing relationships with existing partners, responding to enquiries from prospective partners and seeking out new partnerships with like-minded organisations that will help us meet our shared goals. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of building and nurturing partnerships (ideally within the charity, education or youth
sectors). This is predominantly an operational role, with some strategic responsibility for reviewing how well we’re engaging with our partners, and suggesting ways we could improve. We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about young people and will be creative and innovative in their approach to bringing about transformational change. They will have experience working with complex and marginalised groups of people and will ideally have line managed staff delivering frontline services. For further information about the role, please join our drop in sessions on 11th or 16th August or contact the hiring manager, Jodie Wickers by email - jodie@khulisa.co.uk