Strategic Partnership Manager

About the role

This is an opportunity to lead the next phase of the National Lottery‑funded Survivors at the Centre Programme, working in a strategic role with a purpose‑led organisation that makes a real impact.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for an ambitious regional programme designed to improve access, strengthen first contact and navigation, and reduce fragmented pathways.
• Lead partnership delivery, governance, performance monitoring, risk management and shared learning across six specialist sexual violence and abuse organisations.
• Develop key regional infrastructure, including a Single Point of Contact and a shared regional dataset.
• Build trusted relationships and influence across organisational boundaries to keep sexual violence and abuse visible and central within wider regional systems and decision‑making.
• Support the long‑term sustainability of specialist services across the region.

Required profile

• Experienced partnership leader with a proven track record of coordinating complex, multi‑site programmes.
• Ability to combine strategic thinking with strong programme delivery and evidence‑based influence.
• Use of survivor experience and data to drive change and improve outcomes.
• Values‑led, inclusive approach with a focus on reducing postcode‑based inequality.
• Strong relationship‑building and influencing skills across organisational boundaries.

What we offer

• Generous 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Company sick pay.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Access to SERICC’s workplace pension and salary‑exchange pension scheme.
• Opportunity to lead a significant regional programme improving outcomes for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse.