Partnership Manager – France (JOB TITLE MAY CHANGE) (7385)

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Save the Children France are looking for someone to join them as a Partnership Officer for up to four months, providing maternity and parental leave cover.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our partnerships, funding and advocacy work, supporting engagement with French government, institutional and private sector stakeholders. As part of a small, collaborative team, you'll work closely with colleagues across the wider Save the Children movement to help deliver meaningful impact for children.

About Us

We are Save the Children. Together, we fight for children every single day so that they can make their mark on the world and build a better future.

We stand side by side with children in the toughest places to be a child. We do whatever it takes to make sure they survive, get protection when they're in danger, and have the chance to learn.

About the Team

Save the Children has long recognised the strategic importance of France on the international stage, for its leadership and influence, as well as its contribution to funding and policy for development and humanitarian work.

Save the Children France was incorporated and registered in 2022 with the support of the wider Save the Children movement.

As part of our global strategy, Save the Children now aims to further strengthen its programming and advocacy partnerships in France.

Save the Children France currently consists of a 2-person team in France, with dotted line support from an extended functional team across the wider Save the Children movement.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Save the Children France, you'll provide day-to-day support across Save the Children France's partnerships, funding and advocacy activities in France. You'll help maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the French development and humanitarian sectors, monitor policy and funding developments, support project development and partner engagement, and represent Save the Children at meetings and events where appropriate.

You'll also help keep key plans, stakeholder information and monitoring tools up to date, coordinate communications for partners, and work closely with colleagues across Save the Children to ensure the smooth continuation of activities during this maternity cover. This is a varied role that would suit someone who enjoys building relationships, coordinating multiple priorities and working in an international environment.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy and direction

• Provide intelligence and analysis on partner-related and general market trends, priorities, and challenges that contribute to ensuring an alignment of funding and advocacy with French government priorities across Save the Children
• Contribute and maintain key working tools – workplan, indicator tracking, stakeholder mapping and contact lists etc.

Institutional engagement and influence

• Maintain working-level relationships in the French development and humanitarian sectors to further Save the Children's global funding and advocacy objectives.
• Advocacy and policy engagement across the French institutional landscape, in line with Save the Children's strategy, priority thematic areas and countries.
• Support Save the Children Members' International influence with French government for multilateral purposes (e.g. UN, EU). Proactively contribute to and participate in daily engagement with French Government at technical and working level to enhance SC's influence and ensure the stakeholder mapping remains up to date.
• Represent Save the Children at relevant French government sponsored events and meetings.
• Contribute to enhancing Save the Children's visibility with the French Government by sharing information and materials about its work among key stakeholders.

Funding and programmes

• Analysis of French institutional donor funding instruments and allocations.
• Working with Save the Children members, country offices and the Director, position Save the Children for funding through regular interactions with French institutional donors.
• Work with Save the Children Members and country offices on project development.
• Support Director's engagement with corporate partners and stakeholders.

Private Sector Partner Engagement and Strategic Analysis

• Draft thematic and contextual updates for Save the Children's private sector partners, in close coordination with relationship private partnership teams and in support of the Director, ensuring tailored, timely and high-quality communications aligned with partners' interests and strategic priorities.
• Contribute to mapping and analysis of private sector partners' priorities, funding strategies and engagement approaches.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with France based counterparts in NGOs, UN agencies and peer collectives/influence groups.
• Represent Save the Children at peer agency sponsored events and meetings.

About You

• Fluency in French and English
• Experience in the development/humanitarian sector, preferably at headquarters in France.
• Good understanding of France's institutional funding mechanisms.
• Good understanding of French development/humanitarian stakeholders (institutional and civil society)
• Experience in advocacy, education in emergencies, child protection and/or international humanitarian law (Desirable)
• Experience in corporate/philanthropic partnerships (Desirable)

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

What we offer you

We promote flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing both at work and beyond, and offer a wide range of benefits designed to reward your hard work and inspire you to help improve the lives of children every day.

Some of the benefits you can expect include:

• Generous Annual Leave – Starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual 'Save the Children Day'.
• Family Leave – Up to 39 weeks of maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).
• Special Leave – Up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.
• Volunteer Leave – Up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back.
• Pension & Life Assurance – Helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions.
• Employee Discounts – Access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.
• Health & Wellbeing Support – Including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations.

Location & Ways of Working

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2–4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.

Flexible Working

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce, and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where structural inequality is actively addressed, and all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can thrive.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and are especially interested in hearing from people with diverse and intersecting identities such as lived experience of poverty, people of faith, people of colour, people with disabilities, with experience of migration and/or refugee status, care-experienced people, the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals with experience living in diverse families.

We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. We know that different voices working together will enable us to do our work better, improving the lives of children around the world.

Salary Structure

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children | Careers

Interview Expenses

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• A satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• Receipt of satisfactory references – As a committed member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, as part of our onboarding process, Save the Children UK will undertake a minimum of 2 references, and any additional references required to collectively cover the last 5 years of your employment history.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

Fixed Term Contract / Internal Secondment

Full / Part Time

Full time (flexible working options available)